Figures show what Bihar can learn from Gujarat When Gujarat chief minister and the BJPs prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi was in Patna to address a rally, the president of the Congress Bihar unit attacked the Gujarat model of development and made a few claims to play down Modis achievements. So here are a few statistical facts: - According to figures from the Planning Commission of India and NSSO, in 2004-05, 33% of Gujarats population fell under the category of belowpoverty-line families. - The figure fell around 15% to 17% in 2011-12. This means the number of poor people in the state fell by 70.8 lakh from 1.71 crore in 2004-05 to 1.02 crore in 2011-12. - In contrast, according to official figures, Bihar still has 3.58 crore people living in abject poverty. - Gujarat is the only state in the country to have provided uninterrupted, quality electricity to more than 18,000 villages. - Gujarats literacy rate is 79.3%. - During 1991-2001, the improvement in overall literacy was 12.6% for the whole of India compared with 7.5% in Gujarat. - During 2001-11, the improvement in overall literacy nationwide was 9.2% compared with 10.2% in Gujarat. - The improvement in literacy in Gujarat was 7.5% between 1991 and 2001, and 10.2% between 2001 and 2011. - Critics argue that 55% of Gujarats women suffer from anaemia. - - The truth is: nobody denies past failures in Gujarat, especially when the Congress was in power. But under Modi, Gujarat has become the best performer in slashing malnutrition figures by nearly 50% during 2005-11. - The Bihar Congress chief reels out more fiction: that Gujarat ranks 16th among all Indian states as an employment provider. This is farcical. - Gujarat ranks No. 1 in providing employment. According to the Report on Second Annual Employment and Unemployment Survey (2011-12), published by the governments Labour Bureau, Chandigarh, on May 29, 2012, the unemployment rate is the lowest in Gujarat, with only 10 per 1,000 persons. - According to the NSSO data, Patna tops the list of cities in unemployment. According to the Labour Bureau, the unemployment rate in Bihar exceeds even the national unemployment average of 38 per 1,000 people. - While Gujarats per-capita income has more than tripled under Modi and stands at Rs 57,208 in 2011-12, Bihars per-capita income has risen only marginally and stands at just Rs 15,268, way below the national average. Read full article here: bit.ly/1chSmFl
Posted on: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 11:30:00 +0000
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