India cannot grow, if states like UP, WB, Bihar lags behind.

[Abir]

WB lags behind TN in HDI. Even ur map says so.

http://www.undp.org/content/dam/india/docs/inequality_adjusted_human_development_index_for_indias_state1.pdf

I cant think how TN with better literacy, better urbanization, better industrialization, better access to basic facilities, less hungry can lag behind WB.

Must have confused TN with Andhra, but it still is ahead of Karnataka. The difference in HDI of TN and WB is not very wide, 6.6 as opposed to 6.4 when we are bombered with Bangladeshis and immigrants from neighboring states all of which have HDI of +- 0.5.

 

[Abir]

better literacy, better urbanization, better industrialization, better access to basic facilities, less hungry

Comparable literacy - 80% vs 77%

West Bengal more urbanized, will cite study if you want.

TN is more industrialized.

Better access to basic facilities/less hungry - have no idea.

 

[blank_quest]

TN vs WB

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[Abir]

Partition has nothing to do with the economic lagging of states like WB. 32 years of communist rule is to be blamed. Actually the current dispensation is not any good either. Bengal is stuck between the devil and deep sea and will continue to stagnate.

And Punjab is not where it is because of the Khalistan movement. But because of their adoption of the Green revolution and their hardwork.

Partition had off course played it's role along with communism, we lost our natural hinterland and had to accommodate millions of refugees(no offence to them, my grand parent were one). Communism ripe best in social disorder, why do you think Bengal which had been historically Congress stronghold and always had an array of bourgeois become communist all of sudden?

Green revolution doesn't come cheap, you have to build an world class irrigation network, just check out the amount GOI invested to make green revolution a realty. Yes I agree mentioning Khalistan was bit theatrical.

 

[blank_quest]

Now, compare HDI with Industrialization!

how much does industrialization affects HDI..??

 

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Now compare Literacy Rate with HDI

 

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we can see a real positive correlation between HDI and Literacy rate!

 

[Oracle]

Wow! Assam's literacy rate is among the highest.

 

[Oracle]

we can see a real positive correlation between HDI and Literacy rate!

Nope. Compare both the things for Assam.

 

[blank_quest]

Wow! Assam's literacy rate is among the highest.

its great! around ~73% but below national average of ~74%! need to work up like most North Indian States~:thumb:
( actually I thought of A.P)

 

[Abir]

how much does industrialization affects HDI..??

HDI -> life expectancy + income + literacy

more industry - > more income

 

[Oracle]

Actually, the title of the thread is unfair. We need to add the whole North East to that list.

 

[blank_quest]

hdi ... ...

 

[Tronic]

Don't you think you are getting bit ahead of yourself with your new found wealth? Ganges valley has historically been the anchor group in subcontinent, it's just that South and West India didn't have to bear the burden of partition and weren't lucky enough as Punjab who's in full attention of GOI because of Khalistan movement. Let North and East India heel from injury inflicted by partition, they will surely do justice to their potential.

Khalistan movement actually bankrupted Punjab and left it economically stagnant for 2 decades. It is because of the Green Revolution in Punjab in the 1970s which saw Punjab prosper. Nothing to do with GoI or Khalistan movement.

 

[Tronic]

Green revolution doesn't come cheap, you have to build an world class irrigation network, just check out the amount GOI invested to make green revolution a realty. Yes I agree mentioning Khalistan was bit theatrical.

It was not the irrigation network which spurred the Green revolution but the introduction of Pesticides, Herbicides and other chemicals. It was largely a chemical revolution.

 

[roma]

allow tax-revenues collected from business profits and salaries to be confined to each state - ( plus a certain percentage allocated to national expenditures such as defence )

then each state funds itself - requiring the citizens to benefit only from their own state's productivity

then let us see what happens - my prediction is that the laggards will wake up !!!

sure there are other considerations to be taken into account - but this method basically works - it allocates expenditure according to revenues with a certain poercentage to the national interest ( defence )

 

[SLASH]

allow tax-revenues collected from business profits and salaries to be confined to each state - ( plus a certain percentage allocated to national expenditures such as defence )

then each state funds itself - requiring the citizens to benefit only from their own state's productivity

then let us see what happens - my prediction is that the laggards will wake up !!!

sure there are other considerations to be taken into account - but this method basically works - it allocates expenditure according to revenues with a certain poercentage to the national interest ( defence )

Although it sounds good it cannot be implemented. The states of UP and Bihar have major political clout in the parliament. They will never allow this to happen.