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Did this even really happen? That would be brutal.

This also shows that a leader with a futuristic vision like Emperor Meiji would have been useful around India’s independence times. Instead we got sickular Nehuru . Tragedy.

It is not about stunting per se but does stunting affect basic intelligence and productively participate in economic growth? The answer IMO is a no. There is an agenda behind this incessant focus on stunting and wasting because companies like Monsanto might want to introduce GM crops and good...

Are they just applying a uniform India growth rate to current base PCI of states and not a state wise expected growth rate? If that is the case, the projections are wrong. I expect UP to grow at double the rate of other states as we are implementing an authoritarian economy and will forcibly...

Yes. People need to stop blindly quoting these rankings. Many of them are created by poorly paid interns sitting in a basement. These NGOs do such rankings so they can collect donations. It has nothing to do with reality. There is significant amount of fraud in western NGO operations. The CEO of...

This has got nothing to do with stunting. It has everything to do with lack of infrastructure, teachers being absent or vacancies, not teaching a learning outcome based curriculum etc. It also to do with poor college enrollment ratios. Many kids drop out of school in high school reducing the...

Not really. These links are not proven at all. And certainly not mental disability. That is an extreme statement to make. Many students in IIT come from poor backgrounds in Bihar and grew up stunted by the way. You can see that the average height of Biharis is less. This does not mean they...

Government has set up Poshan Abhiyaan just for this purpose. And it is monitored apparently at aanganwadi levels. Our U5MR is around 26 I think which has decreased quite a lot. And will fall further as health sector is getting strengthened in poorer states. Now the nutrition thing is a different...

All these changes are happening but not as fast it can be. In UP, teacher attendance in rural schools is being worked on through digitization efforts. But school buildings, inside classroom infrastructure, good toilets, latest education equipment, good teacher salaries (teachers make less than...

Chinese data is unreliable. I don’t know how many times we have to remind people of this.

One thing could be we are still too reliant on rural agriculture whose employment contribution is at or below 10% in urbanized nations. We still have a lot of arable land which makes agriculture lucrative unlike other countries. Our rural people simply don’t have the urge to get developed as...

Here is a better source. The “not able to read” is related to rural students not able to read in English. The Economist as usual has posted a trope article...

How was this “literacy rate” measured? Is reading a full sentence in their native language or English? I doubt very much that only 40% of Indian women born after 1990s can read a full sentence in their native language especially when access to basic education has only increased and not...

Yes. We have to accept that school education in India is not up to standards. Simply going to school so kids can eat the free meals won’t be enough. Hopefully the NEP which focuses more on skills based education will fix that. But you also have to admit that states like Gujarat with only...

Here is A good survey done to assess which states generate the most industrial output. https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/data-stories/data-focus/tamil-nadu-has-the-highest-number-of-factories-but-lags-in-industrial-output-gujarat-leads-the-pack/article67946705.ece

Private towns in India may get there but not government cities. No plans for massive investments in urban areas and nearby industrial parks have been announced like at the scale of railway and highways budget. Only Dholera appears to be the only modern manufacturing city attracting some...

Why though? What does Malaysia have that Intel could not find in India? Talent, reliable power supply, water, logistics, export location, established supply chain? Whatever the gaps are, need to identify them and fix them asap. We have to vigorously compete with ASEAN for business. That is the...

This would put non-industrial states as bad. Most GST comes from industrial activity. See the difference between Punjab and Haryana. Or the low number from Kerala , Andhra or Waste Bengal. All non-industrial states. Of course the traditionally poor states are poor on GST per capita basis as well.

That is what high per capita GDP means unless you are one of the commodity boom countries full of oligarchs. I said this because people need to understand what high per capita means. In Amreeka for example porn stars can earn in millions and ordinary prostitutes can earn average wages. You can...

But GDP is defined as material consumption. And developed nation means all citizens have access to all basic services including education and health. In the western world, a multi millionaire and a regular person pretty much have access to the same resources like water, electricity, health...