India own poverty index & holds the “Bimaru states” mirror for us & has surprises, good & bad

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[@sommyaruproy8405]

Please stop using tfr as percentages .

[@kantonyjoseyahoocom]

Good presentation. Kerala is on top inspite of low industrialisation. Kudos to keralites.

[@rishabhaggarwal1738]

TFR is not in percentage. You have been repeatedly saying it wrong.

[@arkatalukdar1986]

West Bengal doing better than "BIMARU" states, that's a very wrong way to see it. It is a "miracle" for a state with such fertile land, sitting close to mineral belt, access to plentiful water and having it's own ports, to rank bellow average. We also had the head start in rail infra, education and heavy industry sector prior to independence. Our state has 2 major agro exports, tea and jute. Abundance of skilled and unskilled labour and raw materials nearby. Yet due to the constrains of our politics we are relegated to the bottom half of the table. Bangladesh has 15% more gdp per capita than WB. That shows the real rot. WB is punching way bellow it's weight class.

[@thebuddhasmiles]

How have political constraints impacted Bengal's progress? I'm unaware about the correlation between the two.

[@suryavenkatesan9998]

I agree. But we can also be optimistic about the potential it has. If the UP and purvanchal becomes the textile hub then all those garments require ports to be exported. The entire east coast is a f*ing goldmine we are sitting on! Only if we play our cards right.

[@SudeeptaChakraborty]

Bengal was lost on the ground of industrialization mostly because of Freight Equilization policy. As industries moved westwards, migrant population sky rocketed in mid 60s and unemployment increased, a fertile ground for communist ideologies developed. In another decade we ended up with a government which hardly had any focus of industrial growth. I see people blaming CPM for all the ills which is only partially correct. The rot set in from 1911 actually, and increased from the partition onwards - we lost water resources, sea ports to the East and "gained" 2.5 crore people in exchange over 3 decades, we lost political clout at the center and industries to the western India which had better access to the Western World. The government that followed was the final blow after a long sequence of unmitigated disasters. Regards

[@SudeeptaChakraborty]

@@suryavenkatesan9998 It's good to be optimistic, but the East coast opens up in the Bay of Bengal and geographically closer destinations are not importing powerhouses. Western Coast on the other hand provides direct access to ME Asia and Europe. If I am an exporter from UP, for me Kandla and Haldia are equidistant, but not equivalent. My buyers are less likely to be from Vietnam or Cambodia. No?

[@ArpanMukhopadhyay93]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@akashdobhal3054]

My state Uttrakhand was carved out of U.P. in 2000 and i am not saying that it has become rich like Sikkim and Goa but still it is easy to manage and govern. I don't know why people in U.P. take it as offense when someone talk about bifurcation of the state. It's for there own good.

[@badalism]

Being from UP, I can insure that majority of us would be happy to see UP split in 4 regions.

[@JitzyJT]

@@badalism But do you think the mindset of the people will change?

[@badalism]

@@JitzyJT I don't think mindset will change. But new state closer to Delhi will benefit immensely. Lucknow region will also be better off. Rest two will suffer. Mindset get changed with economic progress. My parent no longer discriminate on caste lines as my family got richer.

[@rahulmalik1083]

@@badalism majority of us , or majority of West upites ?

[@badalism]

​@@rahulmalik1083 It's majority of us. There was no major opposition when UK was saparated from UP and Chhattisgarh from MP. Maharastra is pride of Maratha, Tamil Nadu is pride of tamilians etc. But people living in UP and MP don't assisiate there cultural identity with there state and hence no pride got hurt in previous division. There are so many Hindi speaking states to assosiate our pride with one state.

[@minku2008]

Kottayam in kerala is the only district in india with no poor people -Proud to be a kottayam guy 😊🙏Well we were also the first 100 percent literate district in india long back 😎.

[@minku2008]

@SRIVATSAN sir If anyone wants to call anything ,let them do that ,let them continue with name calling and such racial comments as usual ,statics shows the outcome and they don’t know they are wasting their time looking at others and being narrow minded .

[@adarshk5636]

👏👏👏👏

[@sra1354]

Surely thats a proud thing but also please help other districts as well. Well done kerala

[@bipindaskg4470]

ഫ്രം കോട്ടയം 😅

[@keralanaturelover196]

@@sra1354 kottayam highest nri remittance from usa like netapp owner and Google cloud ceo and oracle founder and dubai like gems group varkey group then exporter like mrf ust. Second printing press and college in India after mumbdi and kolkota. They are migrating and muslims replacing kottayam.

[@bhavesh6528]

This is probably the best cut off clutter ever. This is how journalism should be , no biased sides , just data and breakdown of data , let people understand what their local leaders are doing for them .

[@deliciousredmango]

Not only the people from UP and Bihar, but people from the entire country should demand that these two states be broken down into smaller states. The progress of these states is crucial and will expedite the progress of the entire nation.

[@Atheist-Libertarian]

True. Particularly UP. If UP was a country, it would be 5th most populated country. It has 23crore population. It's almost impossible for any government to rule effectively because it defies de-centralisation.

[@smartlearning6390]

@@biologywiththanosthanos5785 data shows that it is poor, don’t judge only patna

[@binaysenapati]

You can atleast make 4 states out of Bihar and UP. And still they will have a huge population comapred to other states.

[@RahulKumar-py1fm]

YES 😎😎

[@anand_gedam]

Yes, unfortunately a mere name being taken of both states usually give an impression of backwardness and negligence. A bifurcation,concentrated good efforts along with good governance of these two states can really help in reinforcing them both eventually. It would be wonderful if the nation looks at both of them differently in future.

[@sanjayh1599]

Kudos to Niti Ayog. Thanks to print media for sharing this report.

[@jigargupta8731]

@Marxist Me So he should refer to 2011 census ? . By the way bimaru state still worst .

[@10jaideepg]

For Haryana, I know we keep throwing the richest state bogey. Remove Gurgaon’s numbers from Haryana and you will get a true reflection of overall situation in Haryana. One mega city and warehouses along highway do little for the overall state.

[@moinakbhattacharya878]

Very good point. In fact such data should be available for top 3 cities in each state to check the amount of impact and contribution to state level data.

[@japanijadu9092]

But why remove Gurgaon? Isn't that part of Haryana.

[@japanijadu9092]

@@Kafkaesque1965 So if that is the case remove Mumbai and Pune from Maharashtra. Remove Banglore from Karnataka. Remove Hyderabad from Telangana. Remove Chennai from Tamil Nadu. Remove Vadodara and Gandhinagar from Gujarat. Just for Comparison😀

[@moinakbhattacharya878]

@@japanijadu9092 that's not the point. Here we are trying to find out the median, statistically speaking.like, in a class of few students only a handful score 80, 90 rest score 40. And we still say the class did well because average is 60. That's not a good statistics.

[@japanijadu9092]

These are the main cities and whole state functions in some or the other way from these cities no matter even if you Have some plants in other small cities of that state the Goods pass from the city.

[@rohanindra6401]

We always talk about the need for reform but sometimes good data itself is as impactful. Thanks Shekhar for covering this interesting report. One of the features of a sophisticated country is one that can collect proper and useful data on its citizens, along with tax collecting powers and a monopoly on law and order. India should revamp its data collecting abilities starting with census, ASI and reaching into village level. Modern tech allows dashboard based reporting like has happened with Covid figures - lets scale that across other indicators. While land, labour and power reform may be seen as the need of the hour. Changes to soft structures like the judiciary and data collection agencies are as important.

[@ThePrintIndia]

That’s an excellent point, Rudra. This is the reason I spent so much time poring over it. It is fascinating data..tks for writing in..shekhar

[@libshastra]

@@ThePrintIndia there's plenty of data and dashboard. But it's piecemeal and unconsolidated.

[@kamleshnageshwar5311]

@@ThePrintIndia do you think data collector should be an official govt job rather than teachers and others doing those.

[@muraldemp9966]

yes let us spend mor time and money on academics rather than spend it on the needful. you dont need study to know that all villages need schools, teachers, electricity, water, toilet. So you need statistics for that. if i have one crore rupees i would rather bulid 2 schools with teachers than spend it to see which person in mumbai is riding in taxi while who is taking the train. idiot india will never improve.

[@harisundar8698]

Data is so revealing. Hope the study continues consistently.

[@vinaymehta8200]

Data is always what you ask and the questions may be wrong so data then sets one on a wrong direction kzbin.info/www/bejne/laXadI14f7-paZY

[@PurnenduSabar]

Odisha was one of the poorest States. If I'm not wrong it was 2nd or 3rd most poorest States after Bihar. After 20 years of Naveen Patnaik Govt ruling.I think it has performed well. Where As MP and Chhattisgarh couldn't performed well even after long stable governments.

[@alooreza2170]

Yes

[@homosapien5140]

Odisha is still a poor state it's GDP percapita same as madhya pradesh. But social indicators comparable good.

[@DhsA]

@SRIVATSAN exactly

[@ishiable]

I am from MP, and it has done great, You see 20 years ago, congress, especially digvijay singh had made MP a mess, which NDA had to clean.. They have done great in first 10 years. Now they have slowed down.

[@palakkothari7095]

@@funduclasses3211 He is right though, I'm from Indore and during 2019 UPA came into power and what we faced more than 4 hours of blackout, Water problems and whatnot in for one year until it falls within one year. Again NDA came into power and now things are different and better.

[@prasnair72]

Dear Shekhar, it is a very good analysis. In my humble opinion, it is important to split UP, Bihar, MP and Rajasthan into smaller states for better governance as some of their districts have more population than a few countries. Also, access to sea routes for the landlocked states and access to the sea via Bangladesh for the North Eastern states should be thought about.

[@shahrazahmed9406]

Completely agree and I had the same thought as MP, UP, Bihar should be turned into smaller State, as an example we can take my State Telangana which is doing good in most of the parameters, and this will surely Help india to grow further and this will lead to urbanisation in these states which can provide better opportunities.. Hope niti ayog reports will be considered by GOI.. 🙌

[@virajshah8826]

It’s easy to say split it. But ther could be consequences regarding water sharing. This guys sitting in studio say many things. Impact on env is first and foremost needs to be accessed before doing anything. Otherwise splitting would result in ground water depletion over use of lands which could easily be shared if it’s one state

[@parthapratimdas597]

Up bihar is not only a burden for them, also for the whole country.

[@virajshah8826]

@P Pierre I m not saying we should not split. Just saying it should not split based on studios.

[@virajshah8826]

@P Pierre and water is just one example

[@thechosenone1533]

It would be interesting to see Delhi compared with other Indian metros like Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and Banglore. The only reason Delhi is here is because it's a union territory. If Delhi's figures are indicative of our metros as a whole then that could be a bad sign.

[@thechosenone1533]

@@tony-pc4kd In Mumbai yes, Banglore no. But it's not about population. Even if there are states with lesser people, you still can't compare a city like Delhi to a state like Meghalaya. That's comparing apples to oranges.

[@kushal4956]

@@thechosenone1533 all individual factors are not shown but you can find the percentage of people who are multidimensionally poor for all metros under the district breakdown of each state

[@TheLargeoldshoe]

Delhi is getting a free ride because it's the capital with most of the investment being bourn by the center. Otherwise it too would be bimaru

[@tharunreddy24]

Please Include Hyderabad in that wishlist too!! I would also want to see the comparison of living standards and other social indicators in major cities of India. That can give an indication of how newer cities should grow and what models to adopt.

[@TheLargeoldshoe]

@@tony-pc4kd how much has center put into delhi you moron? Delhi was and is nothing but a puddle of shit otherwise.

[@destinyissomething]

As the saying goes about India. "The south feeds, while the North Breeds".

[@aryanhassan4659]

😠😠😒

[@deshdunya6961]

India's strength has always been about vibrant opposition & transparency. Even lord Ram won't be able to save us if media & civil society continue to speak language of those in power. India never had a weaker opposition to check and balance a powerful govt. If we are to make government and bureaucracy accountable, its high time that every Indian speak truth to the power & flag out wrong things happening around them.

[@palakkothari7095]

I agreed though, but don't you think your comment at the beginning itself is biased??? No offence but today Media is not only leaning towards the one who is in power but also towards destructive criticism. Blaming only one side isn't a balanced opinion.

[@littleboy96]

If you want strong opposition in the parliament, shall we try putting BJP in the opposition role next time? They are very strong.

[@bidenssniffingnostrils5300]

Living standards worse than sub Saharan Africa people sleep on footpaths but but but atleast there is shouting, houlwling in parliament muh Democuckcy 🤓

[@shivhulikere1768]

Fantastic data compilation by govt. Surprisingly. My compliments to team Nitiayog. Thanks print for bringing that to us. Wishing all CM & DM reading this.

[@Users_291w]

Being from Bihar, I think division of state will be destined for development of the people and districts. The population is getting out of hand. Nitish Kumar is the Chief Minister since 2005. But the only city developed during his regime is Patna that too is below par as compared to other cities in India. The hospitals, transportation, airports , industries are nowhere to be found apart from Patna which none can go during the rainiy season.

[@JitzyJT]

but Bihar has a good chunk of civil service officers. What are they doing about this?

[@Users_291w]

@@JitzyJT They work for their personal development not for the society. You know what I mean

[@SONUKUMAR-jb8tx]

I would request the print team to do the same episode in Hindi as well. The ones who need to see this the most sadly will never get to know about these data points. The reach of these videos must b expanded, especially in states of UP, Bihar, Jharkhand, MP. We must introspect wht kind of governance we have been getting for our valuable votes.

[@Go-ah-oold]

Is the English knowledge in India low enough for it to be necessary?

[@SONUKUMAR-jb8tx]

@@Go-ah-oold English is a "luxury" in these states. Going by the poverty index in these states,you can estimate how many can understand English.

[@its_swrj]

Kerala is performing on another level, out of this league

[@keshavanveeraragava7690]

Because of gulf money

[@srihariselvaraj5115]

Yeah tamil Nadu is doing good but should catch up with kerla , come on tamilnadu

[@ms4848]

@@keshavanveeraragava7690 ഉണ്ട 🤣

[@sgn9754]

@@keshavanveeraragava7690 Haryana , Punjab and Goa and Gujarat far richer than kerala. It all comes to governance. Saudi might be richer than most of Europe, but does not have the quality of life of Europe.

[@inquisitor1906]

Kerala has highest unemployment rate among graduates. TN may not be the best, but its an all rounder in every parameter.

[@ichandranath]

It’s 😄 funny when politicians from the worst performing states come around and try to sell their worst performing state’s model to better performing states.

[@user-dr2fi2cn8c]

Sad reality of Democratic majority...

[@abijithp92]

Who is that?

[@harshchaturvedi9507]

@@tony-pc4kd Dude ,do you even know about Noida and greater noida,howany. MNC's are present here

[@vivekyadav1]

@@harshchaturvedi9507 , people like you claim West UP is Noida, Ghaziabad and Greater Noida. Actual West UP is Meerut, Muzaffarnagar, Kairana, Deoband, Saharanpur, Bijnor, Shamli....all of them are in a shambles, to say the least. Definitely Bimaru.

[@vivekyadav1]

@@tony-pc4kd Yeah, seen that. And a major lack of professionalism even in the IT companies that exist. The subservience to heirarchy which you see in public sector exists in the private sector too.

[@vickichumuk]

Brilliant analysis. Like corporate performance appraisals..every MLA/MP needs to be given quarterly and yearly targets for Key performance indicators improvement. Should they not meet..one should first receive pay cuts for year 1 and the fired from their position by Year 2.

[@pardeeptandon]

The Hindi heartland where caste politics and Manu Smriti prevails and religion play an important role in politics are the poorest states. For how long will the rest o India carry this burden?

[@singhhimanshu0022]

I'm from eastern UP...caste system is almost done here...I m from OBC... Intercaste marriages are spreading on large scale between General,OBC and SC..

[@UnivesalMan]

​@@singhhimanshu0022 it is not about intercaste marriages what I observed in Hindi states level of disparity in education n economy status between upper castes n lower castes r wide compared to south india unless u fill the gaps they would continue to struggle

[@rohitbasak8293]

Wow, the bureaucracy is actually doing something.

[@thechosenone1533]

@@epochal1224 I think corruption is reducing because of digitization. Now the money is transferred directly into their accounts so officials can't take a cut in between. And they require Aadhar card with biometric data so they have to prove that the people they are passing benefits to actually exist.

[@MrSaviour]

I believe It's also in some part thanks to Modi. Not to take anything away from the brilliant work of these officers but the government has to be willing to provide an environment for such study!

[@manh9105]

@@epochal1224 its leadership, dude

[@abhaybhandari5138]

@@epochal1224 Yup I think the same. UPSC also has improved its selection process. Earlier so called Rattus were easily able to clear the exam due to high weightage of optional. But the exam is a lot more dynamic and from a memorising exam it has become a thinking exam.

[@ayushjain2628]

Excellent👍. This is the type of journalism we need.

[@ddc7226]

When shekhar gupta says maths is complex to me, i relate, you’re not alone Mr. Gupta

[@sathya6691]

Please vote for development for all Get away from caste and religion politics. India's wealth share must reach everyone equally 😊

[@sabugeet]

I'm from Kerala and I see Kerala topping lot of parameters in Niti Ayog ratings. But, I have believed that the other states performing badly has just helped us to stay at the top. I agree we are way ahead but way behind the potential. Especially our human resource. We should not be competing or comparing ourselves with other states. Moreover with small countries like Sri Lanka in many aspects like Tourism. Estonia in improving our digital growth etc. As of now Kerala comparing itself to any state from Bhimaru category is kind of pointless. It would only lead to Kerala letting go of this advantage within 3 decades.

[@bloodwargaming3662]

Cpim needs to attract fdi and Businesses big time

[@sabugeet]

@@bloodwargaming3662 Please tell me which sector do you want Kerala to attract FDI. Industries are very hard to establish here for a plethora of reasons. Land availability, high cost of land if at all it is available, high labour charges (highest in the sub continent), environmental issues. Recent continuous floods has shown us that our environment is very delicate. I do agree more FDI in tourism or health industry. IT etc is possible, more technology parks. Farming is one sector. Kerala can't have giga factories, development of the available human resource should be the priority. Even if 1 crore keralites go abroad. The population density of Kerala would be still high.

[@gtmashok]

@@sabugeet What about knowledge based industries?

[@sabugeet]

@@gtmashok Yes, I would classify it under IT industry. Some sectors I feel we produce more people than required. Like for example nurses. I don't think we build another 100 hospitals we would be employ all of them. I

[@ruhanmuzaffar2012]

can we appreciate how good Jammu And Kashmir's indexes are, despite of all the mess!

[@ssm7593]

Just google how much money centre pours in that state

[@uzochiokeke4328]

because our taxpayer money is thrown at kashmir for security and integration purposes

[@darshan7267]

14:45 ok, im seeing SG saying total fertility rate as percentage, its wrong, national avg 2.0 is children born per woman, and bihat 3.0 is again same, its not percentage, this is simple math.

[@ThePrintIndia]

Sorry if I said %. Must have been a slip. It is children produced by a woman on an average in her reproductive age. Tks for pointing out…bet wishes…shekhar

[@AbhishekSingh-oh3gi]

district wise colour coding made me realise that districts nearby Nepal, flood affected area & naxalites affected districts are backward along with few districts from Saurashtra.

[@Valkyri3Z]

The are Naxalites affected because they are poor , not the other way. Bengal was birthplace of Naxalbari movement btw.

[@IndolentIndie]

Causality seems flipped.

[@SudeeptaChakraborty]

When you say naxal affected districts are backwards, makes me think that you are confusing between cause and effect. Regards

[@atyanthdutt6632]

Well, ppl join the naxal movement cos they are poor.

[@anshumansatpathy9598]

Correct. Naxalism has affected the economic development heavily. Lot of government assistance and development projects do not reach in the far flung areas of Naxal affected districts. Industrialists and business people do not feel safe to operate their business in Naxal areas. Students in these districts also suffer because of political bandhs Naxals call. Most top brass Naxal leaders are not native to the districts they have been operating from. At the end local people suffer.

[@RupeshPatilrsp1993]

Thank You Shekhar Sir, for fixing the issue, and not putting content behind the pay wall... It's A Useful & informative news from The Print for us

[@vinaymehta8200]

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[@bijupanickerinok3457]

One state which has made remarkable progress is Tamilnadu which you have failed to mention. About 15-20 years before in Kerala we could see many Tamilian coming for casual labour. Now they don’t come. I suppose the credit goes both parties of Tamilnadu who despite fighting internally but were always never acted anything against Tamilnadu interest as a whole. Jayalalitha also brought remarkable improvement. Tamilnadu model could be used by other big states, Kerala model cannot be used elsewhere as its a Remittance Economy. It’s this same remittance that helped Punjab to do much better than Haryana on many accounts

[@SG-to4mf]

I am a bengali, born in one of the "bimaru" states, i.e. Jharkhand. I think of myself as a Jharkhandi more than a bengali and it breaks my heart everyday, when I see that this is the state that broke apart from Bihar promising welfare for its Adivasis, it has has Adivasis as CMs ever since, and yet it is still the Adivasis who are absolutely impoverished here. I wish things change for the better, and the beautiful tribal culture of Jharkhand doesnt have to die out in miserable poverty.

[@SG-to4mf]

@@TheInvisibleLady-2 Bengal my friend, is beyond recovery. It seems even BJP has given up serious attempts to save it

[@TapanSarkar100]

Thanks

[@ThePrintIndia]

Thank you for believing in us Tapan!

[@4kams]

Someone once said that ‘Data is the new Oil/Gold’ I think in the context for India ‘Data is new Dana’. I hope this amazing report & insight helps leaders/policy makers act to uplift the country. We’ve enormous potential, it’s just trapped due to miss management. Kudos to The Print team for research & shining light on this topic.

[@jimeshpaul]

Nice to see Kerala stand out as a model state...

[@Ram78979]

I disagree. If you add “family life” as one of the indicators, Kerela would be not performing well. Lots of married men/women work outside of Kerela leaving their families at home.

[@mr.l2993]

@@Ram78979 what kind of dumb parameter is that?

[@liveframes9291]

@@Ram78979 haha.. this is the stupidest comment on this video!! 😄

[@keralanaturelover196]

@@Ram78979 kerala except muslims are best people highest nri remittance and best nris and world ceos

[@amandeep9930]

Kerela is an absolute paradise.

[@gauravrangnekar]

While living in Indore you don't get to see how bad the rest of the MP is doing. It's a shame.

[@nikhilchaudhary9123]

true . I am from Mp. chambal areas and vindhyanchal areas are really backward without any industries. Indore is still better than other areas.

[@gauravrangnekar]

@@nikhilchaudhary9123 That's what Indore is in Top 10 living index, and Indore alone has more than 10 percent of MPs GDP alone. You don't see extream poverty in Indore. The MP government should focus on other areas.

[@sparshmittal2738]

@@gauravrangnekar In MP Bhopal and Indore are the only cities contributing, Eastern part in not that developed.

[@ayaskpandey]

@@sparshmittal2738 gwalior is also a major city

[@sparshmittal2738]

@@ayaskpandey still Gwalior needs massive improvements

[@pushpindersingh1819]

Simple conclusion. Keeping people poor and handing out dole will the biggest political party in power forever. 215 out of 280 poor region seats won by BJP seals the deal.

[@1008apocalypse1008]

Haryana and Punjab have been biggest recipients of 'doles' in form of MSP. Punjab is Bihar with MSP.

[@avialhungary4539]

Kerala do have a free and independent press. (Should be considered)

[@dinil5566]

Yeah but they are mostly misusing that freedom these days.

[@Sunil13593]

UP and Bihar are dragging India down in every world ranking

[@buny169]

Shekar ji, In the foreword section of report, Dr Rajiv Kumar mentioned it as a baseline report based on NFHS-4 2015-16 dataset and they will be updating it once NFHS-5 data is published. I think you might have to re-visit this report once again when they update this report NFHS-5 data for comparison.

[@ThePrintIndia]

Yes, some provisional data from NFHS 5 is available. But tread line is the same. Tks for writing in…

[@Karthik-wt7di]

The best in business when it comes to explaining reports. Great job SG.

[@hobitton]

One of the less discussed part is the cultural and economic disparity within UP itself. For long western UP has faired well but has to be categorized down because it is part of this larger bulky state. Also, the cultural differences are too significant. The bahiya ji identity of Eastern UP is stigmatized to the people in west UP as well, when no one even remotely identify with it. With almost double per capita GDP and realtively better socioeconomic conditions than the Eastern UP, there is no rational reason these two regions are tagged along.

[@Kafkaesque1965]

True

[@uzochiokeke4328]

western UP is an islamic state

[@suryanshsingh4533]

Not true, awadh is the poorest region in UP

[@palakkothari7095]

Belonging from Indore, I must say that many parts of my state are so backward. Along with Indore and Bhopal, only Gwalior and Jabalpur are contributing to the state's growth l. Government really needs to pay attention here.

[@satgubi]

It makes perfect sense that more poor states have maximum representation in the parliament. Redistribution of power and resources is what politics and economics is all about, but rarely happens in a democracy.

[@badbad-cat]

States with population explosion, aka poor performers, being given more seats is not wise. Population control is an achievement and states who did well should be incentivised and those who did bad should be penalized

[@existensistrubczthentruscatt]

@P Pierre truth, the game of us and they/them will come to play..Hard times ahead for india.

[@rajValath]

How about downscaling the number of poor by removing the feudalism? Some other type of redistribution would be needed which will be implausible in those states where upper castes and rich have muscle power.

[@deepakkr4343]

Why should we tamilians be punished by having our seats reduced for doing something good to accommodate development for BIMARU?

[@rahulmalik1083]

It deincentivises good governance , and that's absolutely shit

[@SpeckInTheUniverseMihirSemwal]

The poorest in our nation select their representatives, time and again, it's a vicious cycle.Sad!!!

[@abhishekdas2352]

The whole of India thinks that West Bengal is ruled by evil people and most Bengalis are dirt poor. Being a Bengali I sometimes wonder why so many Bihari, Rajasthani, Oria, Assamese, Tripurans and other Indians from other states come to study In Bengali colleges and universities. I have many friends who come from other states and They are getting Jobs here. We Bengalis are not that impoverished as others might think. Yes, We have problems our economic policies are largely focused on the agro sector and welfare schemes but We are growing like the rest of India. Maybe at slower rate than South and West India. But We are catching up.

[@mdaalishanraza3928]

Bengal private colleges charges less from richer states.

[@ayushpanda8896]

Haha odisha has 7 colleges in top 100 nirf ranking bengal has 2 , go to KIIT you'll get a real picture of who's where

[@rodgerbloor6680]

Kerala as usual tops the index. As expected. Just always. Sharma ji ke beta- Kerala 🤣

[@M----S]

Modi to yogi 🤣🤣

[@mralwyngeorge]

Who's Sharma ji ?

[@uzochiokeke4328]

low population, easily accessible fertile strip of land, plenty of rainfall, large coast and gulf money. This is why kerala is doing well, its not because of the effort of the local govt or the people. If we separated the konkan coast from the rest of inland Maharashtra, it would be the most developed and literate state in India. UP/Bihar are big states with huge population, dependent on seasonal rains, no coast or gulf money. It is very stupid to compare kerala with big states having large population.

[@Meowie765]

Uttar Pradesh and Bihar have per capita incomes lower than Uganda. Let that sink in .. and Uganda got independence much later after India .

[@sasikiranr]

Sekhar gupta sir, very fascinating analysis and also thanks for advising the Andhra chief minister on building a solid self funding capital. God please save Andhra!

[@nilanjansarkar100]

Thanks Shekhar Ji for wonderfully summarizing this amazing (albeit long) report in just 30 min.

[@Morpheus2020]

1 major reason assam at no 6 is because of illegal Bangladeshi immigration. You can see that the districts bordering bangladesh are poor as fak. Same case for meghalaya. By no means assam is a rich state but it doesn't deserve to be at no 6 in poverty. If you tour assam you will understand what i m trying to say.

[@राहुलपांडेय्-ड2र]

Assamese people are rich and open minded..they are far away from poverty but Bangladeshi people made it poor

[@thomasdutta2701]

@@damiendehorn6350 top reasons such as religious freedom, standard of living, health facilities. GDP per capita doesn't have anything to do with immigration

[@sps6]

Good work done at his age shekar gupta is doing great work which journalists half his age unable to...it's good to see him enjoy the online journalism platform

[@zaidshaikh1855]

Arent these Hindi Heartland States/BIMARU States who get a lot of help from the center? This data is eye-opening. I am from Kerala so I guess we don't experience that kind of poverty or deprivation hence never saw it from that lens. But this data is worrying. And the fact the voters there really dont care it seems. If this is the data, that means a huge chunk of people in these BIMAAR states are feeling the pinch and still not doing anything about it. Why that is and what could be the reason behind it, I guess is more complex then just calling them - Ignorant. Kerala is no surprise - its always been way ahead.

[@rohanindra6401]

Yes they do but they’re coming from a very low base. So there has been some strong improvement in recent years but the absolute numbers in themselves are still bottom of the table. Also depends what help they receive. If it is unproductive expenditure like agricultural price supports, loan waivers etc then any amount of help will be marginal. I think UP will improve with lots of highway funding, and we saw that in the LEADS report Shekhar Ji covered. I don’t see anything that Bihar is doing to improve its condition.

[@zaidshaikh1855]

@@rohanindra6401 Yes they are coming from a very low base. But they have received a lot of support from the Center always. These states get a lot of the taxpayers money. Infact South States are neglected when it comes to tax payouts. And its also about the voters right. What do they want? What are they looking for? And if they haven't done anything about it then it clearly means there is a much larger issue then just communalism and caste system. You will improve on social indicators when you have policies or outlook that's non-discriminatory. IDK man, if UP and these BIMARU states improve, imagine how much we will progress. Now they seem to be like an Anchor but not in a positive way. They are really dead weight right now. And in Kerala for Examples these caste issues and all were taken care way back. Otherwise during the time of the Royals - Kerala was notoriously casteist.

[@rohanindra6401]

@@zaidshaikh1855 again i would say support in itself doesn’t mean anything if not utilised properly. Your state Kerala invested a lot in health and education which is why the indicators are the way they are. Societally women are also more empowered. Im from Karnataka so can perfectly sympathise with this feeling of resource capture by the north. I think until money is used for basic human services like health and education in the north rather than agricultural and middle class subsidies than they will not improve. Maybe centre should make funds conditional on end use. I think they need to be broken up too. A state of 200 million like UP cant be a singular entity under any circumstance.

[@rohanindra6401]

@@zaidshaikh1855 in terms of voters the issue comes down to a lack of options. And i think caste does play a big factor. Economic reform is not a vote winner. So you get socialist parties like SP or caste based parties like BSP that ran on identity politics and redistribution. If these parties are your options and you are incredibly poor that subsidies improve your life even if it doesn’t help in the long run what choice do they have? Maybe because they are in such a bad position they are conditioned to accept bad outcomes regardless and don’t believe change is possible.

[@zaidshaikh1855]

@@rohanindra6401 //Maybe because they are in such a bad position they are conditioned to accept bad outcomes regardless and don’t believe change is possible.// I agree with this. Those people are so used to this shit they think this is gold.

[@Bhaiyya7463]

SG picks always my favorite topics to explain. Thank you so much 👍

[@ManishGupta-rf4gx]

You should have mentioned J&K too. It's doing surprisingly well in most (all?) of parameters?

[@pulastyochattopadhyay889]

Shehzaad Poonawaala once provided dada points on the issue some time back. A hell lot of money from rest of the country is put an altar there

[@ChoCoMoCo69]

J&k has better HDI thn states like Andhra or Karnataka.

[@kpkdhar3674]

it is doing well even before removal of article 370, do u think after removal the development has done. go and check old data, JK is not poor performing state. BJP also confused with current situation in JK. They thought they did something, now they don't know what they did. Modi giving clean chit to China, nobody entered and occupied india, so they are doing it smoothly.

[@ManishGupta-rf4gx]

@@kpkdhar3674 You assumed a lot of stuff bud. I never said J&K is doing well after 2019. I was just surprised after looking at its data since a flourishing J&K isn't usually portrayed. But I guess it's understandable too, because center pumps a lot of money into it, and only few districts are hit by insurgencies, rest is largely peaceful. Call it my ignorance if you must. Anyway, while I think BJP has done nothing but bungling up after 2017, I think abrogation of article 370 was a fine move.

[@sumib6986]

@@ManishGupta-rf4gx yes, u r right. Whenever we see J&K in news we think about terrorist attack. But none of the news media talks about the +ve side of J&K.

[@abishekravichendar4512]

I always wonder how Kerala beats Tamilnadu is all the indicators, even though Tamilnadu is much industrialized than Kerala.

[@thesparkplug3561]

Bcoz of the head start in education they had. Kerala was one of the highly literate states after independence. We had to start from very low base. Matriarchial system also helped them. But the gap is narrowing steadily. ✌🏼

[@tyrantfox7801]

Resource allocation

[@truthseeker79]

TN has a much more robust and sustainable economic model . They are the "Detroit of India" for a reason . In the long run it will fizz out Kerala without a doubt . Infact most malaylis come looking for a job/employment to TN and my state of Karnataka itself . A large chunk goes to their fav escape destination of Gulf !!! 😄 TN already has fizzed out Maharashtra ,which is one of the biggest economy ( state) in India.

[@manjulashanmugasundaram706]

Social indicators are not due to industrialisation. This is more about social reforms. Periyar did a great job. EMS Nambudri Pad and that bunch was something else. Land reforms in Kerala are unparalleled. Guru Nanak Dev is the reason why Punjab is socially far ahead of Haryana while Haryana has a much higher per capita GDP than Punjab. But the greatest reformer of all time Dr. B. R. Ambedkar's hard work was partially neutralised by the enforcers of Manusmriti from Nagpur.

[@1008apocalypse1008]

@@manjulashanmugasundaram706 They are not mutually exclusive either. 25% of Kerala households have at least one member working in gulf. The proximity to Bangalore also benefited them immensely. Literacy rate of Kerala was 43% as per 1951 census more than double the national average of 18%. The communists brought financial ruin to the east while socialist did that (Lalu + Mulayam) in the North. Bengal's share in industrial output fell from 25% to 5%. Maoist insurgency was not helpful either.

[@mittaltk]

Dear Shekhar, many thanks for sharing the analysis and your fair views on this very important topic. However, I differ on your opinion on the need to have more cities and urbanisation of our rural areas. I have lived in UK for last 25 years and find an excellent quality of life in rural areas with good education, health care, etc. People only migrate to cities to seek jobs if required. In fact, a lot of people prefer to live in villages. As good agriculture is the backbone of any country, I feel the need is to invest more in rural areas and respect for our farmers who toll to produce our food. And whatever cities we have need to clean and better managed. The problem with India is not lack of resources but that of governance, a sense of responsibility to our jobs and the country.

[@Gnanavel_123]

Sir, I too agree that village can provide better quality if life if we improve our governance there. But still I bat for urbanisation because of the "caste complexities" which can be reduced atleast if people adapt to cosmopolitan culture.....yes its a probability and possibility not an assurance but in a right way. Cities all over the world provide better livelihood but in India its livelihood + Dignity. I prefer my future India as filled with cities over village any day. Tks.

[@baghyasrib6929]

Please stop with this village fetish. India grew so much after 1991 liberalisation only because of cities. Innovations and technology come from cities. Discrimination reduces drastically in cities as exposure increases. All that we need in villages are just good education and healthcare and road infrastructure. India should start building more tier 2 and 3 cities so the burden on tier 1 cities is reduced. People must migrate to towns so that governance becomes easy. In UK u can try living in villages because the cities pay most of the tax that helps in developing villages. Try living in country with only villages and less cities, u will just see 1947 India.

[@Gnanavel_123]

@@baghyasrib6929 I completely agree with you.

[@rajValath]

Right. It is great that Britain never had a revolution like its rival France to have a progressive social set up. Several reasons which I am not listing lest it gets big. America never needed a revolution as the british white immigrants were well off with abundance of land. The end of slavery as well later. India has a still a rotten structure with 54% of farm related people as workers WITH NO LAND ( mazdoor) .In UP, the wage a labourer gets is 400 maximum a day. Add it with fact that in last four years, the people who get less than 1.99dollar/ day has increased from 7 crores to 15 crores, a huge majority in Hindi belt. So can't compare in any way even with poor European countries or even many poor latin american countries, let alone UK or US. We need drastic decentralised village oriented measures much much more than you said. What I undestand that it is nearly impossible for land distribution there in those poor states with feudalism and casteism reigning as it was decades ago. Pretty bleak.

[@prashanthb6521]

Agreed with you sir, But urban centers bring economies of scale, its an advantage.

[@surooz]

I disagree with your comment that urbanisation can decrease poverty.It can be one of the factor but in case of kerala that is not the factor.what I consider is the development of villages in to small towns with better connectivity,Internet facility,schools,and sanitation so that new businesses can thrive in a lean ,sustainable and qualitative manner compared to their city counterparts.

[@rajValath]

Absolutely.

[@rajValath]

@Shireen Iam quoting from a site " The Union territory of Puducherry has the highest unemployment rate in the country in June, according to the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE). The territory's unemployment rate stood at 47.1% against the national average of 9.2% last month. Haryana (27.9%) finished the distant second followed by Rajasthan (26.2%), West Bengal (22.1%), Goa (17.7%), Himachal Pradesh (16.3%) and Kerala (15.8%). Kerala is the only southern state with a rate in double digits." kerala about 48 lakhs out of 3.5 crores are overseas with about 35 lakhs in middle east. A little more than punjabis overseas.So don't come up with the gulf money cliche. If going to other states, is the yardstick, then over 40 lakh Bengali, Assamese and other North indian labourers are working in kerala. None of keralite labourers can go to your mother state or any other state as wages are WAY BELOW THAT OF KERALA. Every indians have the right to work in any state in the constitution written by our freedom fighters who were not apology seekers. Yea. Kerala doesn't produce employment like Tamil nadu and maharashtra. Reasons are many including 1) a small state about 1/3 rd tamil nadu size. With more than 40% gone as western ghats and forrests. 2) Thick population density with the thrd densityvafter bihar and Wbengal making accute shortage of land. 3) the left leaning environment friendly attitude of people where they oppose many industry like the nuclear power plant proposed near kannur in 1990s . 4) the highest labour wages in the country. 5) The not so friendly attitude of kerala govts in allowing tax free zones to private. Heard about the story of fox and sour grapes? 😎 PS: Always produce facts with links or quotations than writing your shakha or whatsapp gossip and Indian cliches.

[@rajValath]

@Shireen All cliches not worth dust on my floor. The following video clearly statesvwith ample news paper cuttings that kerala was poor in 1950. kzbin.info/www/bejne/e5XdqZaid7h7qNk I can understand your grudge as the grapes are sour. BTW i am not any specific party voter. Just have a pathological hatred towards fascists. Switch my votes between both parties. Would try AAP if they come.

[@rajValath]

@Shireen bring up some facts with links mo ron.

[@rajValath]

@Shireen RSS, hindu sabha gang does not play by rules of game. They have a long history of cheating. Their founder Hedgevar had gone to jail along with congress men. His aim was to spread his propaganda and recruit men from congress to RSS. Savarkar and Hindu sabha joined hands with separatist Jinnah's muslim league to rule provinces in 1939 when congress men resigned their posts on Gandhi's advise. During world war, they exhorted Hindus to work with the british army and in a way is responsible for killing Subhash Bose's INA army. Now also they try to represent Subhash bose which is only to belittle Nehru. They are absolute cowards. There ancestors had their knees shiver multiple times to british to free him from andaman jail. They also sabotaged the freedom struggle. Then they killed unarmed gandhi. Now also they kill unarmed intellectuals like Gauri lankesh, govind pansare, kalburgi, dhabholkar etc. They have even killed sadhus in Ayodhya who wanted a peaceful settlement of babri masjid issue. Take the latest examples. PM cares fund deducted one months of salary of government, public sector employees mandatorily and now says it is not under RTI. Low level scums. PS: ഉപ്പാനെ ഊക്ക് പഠിപ്പിക്കല്ലേടാ മോനെ.

[@0609Bhuwan]

India's BIMARU state map looks exactly like the Map of the Mughal Empire !!!

[@rishabhraj8233]

@@funduclasses3211 rajasthan jharkhand are not part of the bjp empire🤔

[@rishabhraj8233]

@@funduclasses3211 also the data is of 2015 16 most of the states were not bjp ruled

[@ajaymore1987]

Hello, thank you for your continuous hard work, I really appreciate it. I can understand how hard it must be to churn an episodes every single day in addition to National Interest on the weekend. I thoroughly enjoyed today's show and it actually inspired me to use my GIS skills to make maps and derive insights from the data put forth by NITI Aayog. Happy share my maps with The Print, if needed. I just have a small complain about Shekhar Ji falling for a logical fallacy in today's episode - correlation doesn't mean causation. People living in cities are less poor than rural areas and that is why we should build more cities is probably not logically correct. Although it is true that people living in urban areas earn more but it is primarily because people who can't afford to live in the city don't live in it and that pushes up the average money that a household makes in a city. I also had another complain about number of kid per women in % where as it is a number but I see you have already addressed that in another comment. Thanks, Ajay

[@newbegining7046]

Mr.Shekar why is it so difficult to even mention some credit for TN, despite being a large state they have performed so well and only states ahead of them are smaller states KL, Sikkim and Goa.

[@Nklkak]

not depend on the area. check the population density. kerala more than TN. in TN population density less and larger area and resources. so governance is easy. but kerala os different. so kerala is always way better than TN. if you want know you travel keralas north to south and compare with TN . or you can travel each village of kerala and compare with TN. i have travelled through TN so many times. i felt like same as some areas of TN with Northern states

[@isatokyeptho4102]

Sir im always impressed by your explaining skills . Makes my quality of life more easy😇... Please continue uploading

[@JosephStalin-io5fp]

15.26 And they want hindi national language 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@bobohorns1730]

Finally! I was upset with WB on socioeconomic parameters, with 25Y of left rule and 10Y of TMC, turns out I was comparing with wrong states (most from South), I should've compared them to UP, Bihar, Rajasthan, MP and tiny Assam. Phew, thanks SG and Well done WB ❤🧡

[@kushal4956]

I think you should compare yourself to the south. we should compare ourselves with the ones who are better than us, so that we can strive to get there. Also, Bengal had a better base to build on due to Kolkata being a major city than other states like Bihar n UP

[@severusnapeprince]

I mean bengal is what today because of Kolkata, simple rest bengal is isn't any better than bimaru states to be honest , if Kolkata wasn't there in bengal , bengal would've been in similar position like Assam and Odisha, and then try comparing to our southern states, to us Biharis Bengalis aren't different because both flock to our states

[@zaidshaikh1855]

No, your comparison was with the right states. If we compare ourselves to people better than us, that's when we push ourselves. So no, keep doing that. And it was never in doubt that WB is doing way way better than these BIMARU States

[@akilkudil]

@@severusnapeprince Please understand the survey data points before you comment. In many parameters the whole population is involved and one or two city cannot push up are pull down the avg. score. But west bengal should have done better. It is closer to Gujarat. Gujarat and Haryana are bad models.

[@scienceaffairs2919]

Everyone is talking about bengal but what about gujrat?? Does anyone see their score.

[@oops262686]

Thanks to Lalu Bihar is always at the top in many of such lists... and when I see standard of education and exams in Bihar, I am asaures the future is even brighter for the state.

[@oops262686]

@@ephemeral.793 nobody deserves anything, one gotta earn

[@ravikumarmaddu1799]

It was a really good episode, thank you shekar ji. And good work The print.

[@theriam6281]

I would personally want bihar to be broken down into three states mainly: Mithila, Magadh and Bhojpur (combining bhojpuri speaking discticts of UP)

[@arabindochandra5338]

Print is doing a great work ... True journalism...100% unbiased... Right topic... excellent analysis... Most of the news papers and news channels are biased...even many well known and reputed News papers and news channels have become a supporter of one of the political party....I am from kolkata...I am very sorry to say that the reputed and old news paper "Ananda Bazar Patrika" has become blind supporter of Ruling party of West Bengal...Bengali news channels are just horrible....I lost interest in news...but after watching your program I just feel better.... Thanks .....🙏🙏👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️

[@venkag]

If southern states form a country, this imagined country would be comparable with Asean countries (ex Singapore, China and Taiwan).

[@homosapien6414]

and northern states will compete with poor sub-Saharan African countries.

[@Kafkaesque1965]

@@homosapien6414 Please in your northern states, Don't include punjab, haryana and himachal We are different from other states like bihar, up, rajasthan, mp, jharkhand and chattisgarh

[@venkag]

@Mayukh Bose I pity West Bengal, having produced some of the best minds the state is trailing. Before 1972, bulk of Indian industry was in WB. Thanks to communists and Didi, they did not allow industry to flourish. North has never focused on education and population control. Today, north is dragging down per capita making India a poor state

[@Kafkaesque1965]

@@venkag Don't include haryana, punjab and himachal in north

[@parnamsingh1716]

This is Gujrat Model🤣🤣

[@TheRishijoesanu]

Kerala has no poverty, wow

[@allenpradhan2063]

This study proves that most of the social programs of central or state governments have been an utter failure. Governments need to answer why even after spending trillions of dollars not even rupees we have 25% of our population living in Multidimensional poverty. This report is also a lesson that we need to implement universal basic income instead of social programs that fill the pockets of government officials and politicians instead of actually helping the poor and vulnerable.

[@allenpradhan2063]

@@vamsix369 even though when the next data comes out the poverty will be lower that question is why was it too high even in 2014-15. Wasn’t the government spending somewhere around 300-400 billion dollars on social programs?? Current government along with previous governments are answerable to the people. Where did our trillions of dollars of taxpayer money go? Certainly not to the people

[@heatengine9283]

Something something about teaching a man to fish vs giving the man a fish.

[@allenpradhan2063]

@@heatengine9283 Universal basic income is much better than social Programs because it gives the citizen the liberty to anything he wants with the money. Research and studies have shown that giving people stipends makes them more productive and increases quality of life any more times than just handing them a few kilos of rice

[@allenpradhan2063]

@vsk9d I guess we are not living in china but in india and as a democracy we have to ask these questions.

[@heatengine9283]

@@allenpradhan2063 UBI ? pfft. How about we actually invest that money in primary education and teach our children what it actually means to be a decent human and a Hindu ?

[@naresh9515]

Bihar ko koi gold medal 🏅🏅🏅 dho..... This state is doing hard work for staying top in MPI, well done Bihar keep it up and hamara desh kaa naam aur unchha Karo in MPI.It's shame for all indian and Indian politics.

[@chinammadath]

Then how come our PM called kerala as Somalia??? And is it surprising fact that the so called model state, Gujarat is staying along with the BIMARU states in all categories?

[@Kafkaesque1965]

Those all gobar bhakt people who day night abuse kerala and punjab, to them, sleep peacefully

[@pam4840]

Dude... Kerala is still living on the past laurel and great work.done by old politician. As other state catch up Kerala will start lagging. Kerala has stagnated..nothing new be it jobs or development happen here remittance create job in this state.

[@uzochiokeke4328]

low population, easily accessible fertile strip of land, plenty of rainfall, large coast and gulf money. This is why kerala is doing well, its not because of the effort of the local govt or the people. If we separated the konkan coast from the rest of inland Maharashtra, it would be the most developed and literate state in India. UP/Bihar are big states with huge population, dependent on seasonal rains, no coast or gulf money. It is very stupid to compare kerala with big states having large population.

[@premdasdutta8125]

Thank you sanjukta samaddar and your team for your marvellous effort. District wise breakup up further to highlight where we require to put more effort in order to development.

[@superabadtalkies2157]

if not breaking the states at least they should form new districts(eg: Rajasthan has 33 districts whereas Tamil Nadu has 38).

[@crazyfriendist]

Rajastan has a big ass desert that covers almost half of the state, which is the reason for bigger districts

[@superabadtalkies2157]

@@crazyfriendist district are separated because of population not landmass . Both tamil nadu and rajasthan have similar population .

[@taka-taktak]

Lack of industrialisation and manufacturing sector is our main problem. We need manufacturing like China and Vietnam to provide employment to less educated labour in UP/Bihar/W. Bengal. These states have a lot of young people who need jobs. Our economy is entirely service based which will not do. To develop like China we need to develop in manufacturing.

[@anshul9462]

Bihar and UP are becoming Burden on India. And these people dont learn, still enjoying hindu muslim and castist politics. Time has come to post efficient South Indian beauracrats to UP and Bihar and kick all paan chewing babus of Bihar.

[@तरबुज_खाने_वाला_राक्षस]

Nuke them and make it environment reserve.

[@KVRaju2011]

This analytical post generated wide interest and by & large healthy discussion on very important topic. Thank you Shekarji🙏

[@achalkhare3962]

Most of these Bimaru states for years had been ruled by parties which had made them all Bimaru that's why most of them now hv chosen BJP. For eg: Entire North east was ignored for decades by left and congress so they all hv now chosen BJP and are now seeing speedy development. Same for my state Uttarakhand, Congress ruled here since 2001 but again not much development or very slow development so the state chose BJP and seeing good results.

[@PurnenduSabar]

After 20 years BJD rules in Odisha it is performing well then why not MP Chhatisgarh after 15 years of rule

[@Estherlhungdim]

I think nothing change much in Manipur development except the city..

[@alooreza2170]

@@PurnenduSabar not that well it's still around 10th rank in every field

[@atharvagorle8754]

@@Estherlhungdim are you north east indian?

[@samadevan5443]

If Kerala model is so good in improving indices, isn't it time we think about creating a development plan based on their plans with proper adjustments and improvement on their short comings. I have many keralite friends and irrespective of political ideology they are never satisfied with their government. What is this phenomenon. Isn't time we stop considering Kerala's achievements simply as a derivative of their education and actually look at the schemes and plans they have implemented?

[@homosapien5140]

Kerala is good at social & health indicators. Kerala is developed state during the time of British also. But kerala GDP percapita is low compare to Tamilnadu & Karnataka. They search for jobs & education in Karnataka, Tamilnadu & Arab nations.

[@samadevan5443]

@@homosapien5140precisely unemployment and industry are their weakpoints. But why can't we create a plan based of the social advancement that they had, while course correcting the mistakes they have done. And the social situation in Kerala during the British was so bad that Swami Vivekananda called the "Mad House". While the royals have started some infrastructure in the state, basing their current performance on just them isn't a good read of history. Their system has a lot of shortcomings but why can't we adopt the good things.

[@homosapien5140]

@@samadevan5443 For good social development also we need good economy,investment's jobs etc.kerala model is just Cuban model. Where cubans become educated in their country, due to the poor status of their country search for jobs in America & immigrate to America.

[@keshavanveeraragava7690]

Sure, if you can find another set of gulf countries for every state in India

[@zaidshaikh1855]

Never being satisfied and we keep pushing the envelope. Do good work or get out. And also no communal shit. If a good scheme is bought in, then all benefit.

[@ArpanMukhopadhyay93]

"politicians are smart" I don't think so . NDA will increase weightage of bimaru states because that would give them more power in next govt. We see what they did during farm protests

[@Atheist-Libertarian]

I don't think so. That can lead to National security issues. Non - Bimaru states will begin to think of themselves as an colony of Bimaru states as they would have very small say in National politics.

[@psatyaharish]

UP election result can definitely help there.

[@nandi7772]

Population will be multiplied with human development index so states with good human capital will get more percentage for less population. They will come with this kind of solution.

[@ArpanMukhopadhyay93]

@@Atheist-Libertarian politicians aren't smart enough. All they see is power

[@detectivesroy]

Matlb?

[@varunnavaneeth6053]

Can we take a moment to appreciate the paid subscribers who make videos like this possible!

[@shantanudeepak7313]

13:42 "India cannot provide facilities to Rural India" . . Reasons why I completely disagree with this notion :- (i) Index talks about Health/Education as basic parameter of poverty and its shame that we can't provide even these basic Fundamental Rights to citizens which consists of 68.8% of India's population. (ii) If govt. isn't able to provide basic needs to Rural people better they make plans accordingly instead of Urbanisaing. Urbanisation causes loss of culture, identity and basic spirit of life for people of Rural India. (iii) Villages cannot be expected to get urbanised just for a Basic Needs instead they should be supplied with it by help of proper planning and development.. . . Thank You.

[@GururajBN]

Mr. SG, Many thanks for painstakingly collating the massive information for the benefit of your viewers. You cannot hide your love for Kerala when it comes to social indices, hunger index, poverty index etc.Your adulation for Kerala shows. Had it been a right wing State, would you have so openly admired it? Tell us why Kerala is the State in the South from which maximum people migrate to rest of India and other countries? Inspite of best possible indices, Keralites cannot see much future there. You probably have to look at political atmosphere, law and order judt to suggest to such areas. This topic deserves a CTC for itself.

[@Kafkaesque1965]

The political atmosphere has much to do Communism is very strong in kerala, congress also is a bit socialist in kerala While lately cpm is trying to move to social democracy, but pandemic came Also it becomes a social thing like in punjab In punjab, it is for Canada, New Zealand and Australia but in kerala it is for gulf It comes a thing which seems to be a normal thing

[@sujithkumar2041]

Nonsense from typical right wing. By the way there are around 30million guest workers in Kerala mostly are from Hindian states, earning around 1000 a day. And dont worry we take better care of them. To answer your question, the difference is skilled and unskilled job. And for former, gvt need to invest where it matters.

[@Kafkaesque1965]

@@sujithkumar2041 True, sujith we also have a lot of people from cow belt, we give them respect and everything in punjab, you have never heard them getting beaten in punjab

[@sujithkumar2041]

@@Kafkaesque1965 yes. But these sanghis complain as if they don't want foreign remittance or they don't want to go out and earn high. I tell them, to go out one need visa. For that you need basic degree. Then then would say that Mallus go Gulf to do menial job, forgetting their own 35 million back in Kerala. After all what's the false pride in working hard and earn, whatever the job that may be. But the truth is new gen mallus are into skilled jobs and most of Gulf unskilled job is taken up by UP and Biharis. Then then they would say, most isis are from Kerala (replace khalistani for Punjab). I say, even isis look for quality, education and return for money. And they give excuse as if they don't want to get educated because of fear of joining isis. In fact many of sisi recruits are from wealthy European countries. Many from Kerala get exposed to such ideologies as they go out and are in demand. Another boogie is south india never affected by invasion and partition as if that made them poor. Though the Punjab's case demolish thier false excuse, Kerala was one of the most backward state at the initial years of last century. Rampant untouchability, illiteracy, castism, and majority of landless poor. Life expectancy was as low as 27. Vivekananda called Kerala a mental asylum. Everything Kerala achieved are after independence and all through mass struggles, nothing came in platter. Everything due to the politics of the state, just like any other state. But sanghis life still remain to complain, give excuse and spread hatred.

[@hashmarker4994]

Because Kerala is more of a social Democracy than a communist or capitalist state. It prioritises Human Development and worker rights over wealth generation. Keralites are also pretty brutal when it comes to voting. They change parties on a whim based on how they perform and are pretty aware of policies and are big readers of news media, coupled with better literacy they are more critical of politicians that they don't vote based on which religion or any other demarcation separates individuals. The High wealth BUT with great income divide societies in the north are because they focused more on wealth generation and individual discrimination along certain lines of identity. States like Tamil Nadu are probably a much better case when it comes to developmental potential. They are pretty highly developed in the domain of HDI and are pretty much an industrial state with a great business ecosystem brewing.

[@Dipps]

We have reached a point where we will never be able to get rid of the poverty. So going forward we will have lots of millionaire's and lots and lots of extremely poor people. Only people who will suffer more and more is the middle class because they will keep sliding down towards poverty year after year. That's the sad economic policy we have accepted and this government is no good to fix this issue.

[@heatengine9283]

What's the definition of never in your dictionary ? 10 years ?

[@vinaymehta8200]

@@heatengine9283 Never is never because Capitalism does not work it is a mirage kzbin.info/aero/PLmzTTTNK_JNiC8DE_pONhGY7a_KAWIizX

[@heatengine9283]

@@vinaymehta8200 It worked out well for Korea.

[@arunhuddar]

The ‘poor’ states elect the government irrespective whether it’s UPA or NDA. That’s how our system is structured

[@hariharansatish]

Not a single mention about tamil nadu. Think TN is also done well consistently as kerala

[@logeswaran1823]

Yes, even in niti aayog he didn't gave enough time to tamilnadu.

[@logeswaran1823]

@@yavanshi well tamilnadu topped in poverty reduction. Its ok tamilnadu doesn't need any special attention it already has too many negative attention.

[@arjunraj823]

We keralites know TN will and the only one that will overtake us in many indicators. It is always a happy thing to see Indian states grow.

[@everhigher8040]

If you read his articles in the 1980s you will realise his bias against TN. His opinion doesnt matter and he is not alone. TN has made significant progress in both economic and human development indicators since independence inspite of having close to 8 Crore population.

[@jamesgoveas3164]

Shekarji.... I so appreciate your using the term Quality of Life... Bravo 👏🏾 👏🏾 👏🏾 Love the positivity of the context👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@jaswindersinghnarula4379]

Some of the movies in recent times have been million times boring than your show. Shekhar Ji.. LOL! Seeing this I think UP should be divided into 4 and Bihar into 2 states respectively for better governance. Or India can remove itself from these 2 states seeing that the ones who get away from these states do well... LOL! That was joke if anyone didnt got it.

[@balajialagurajan243]

🚨In my opinion, the word Shekar Gupta trying to avoid in the entire video is "Tamil Nadu". He could digest to utter Kerala and Telangana a few times but not Tamilnadu. Well, just once he said "Tamilnadu, Very good!". Tamilnadu is number 1 in overall index. It's not a small feat as it is one of the most populated States unlike small states like Kerala or Assam. Why then Shekar Gupta is avoiding it like a plague? I have two theories: Theory 1: (Dangerous one, indeed)Tamilnadu does not matter at all. The Print does not have any Tamilnadu presence, perhaps. That's ok. That even justifies this rant on 'Bhimaru' states. But if it is about his political aversion for Liberalism and social justice policies and politics, then that would be a travesty. Theory 2: Praising Tamilnadu, Kerala or West Bengal could spur Right Wing online warriors and that could lead to hashtags.

[@user-jj7yh4vb3j]

I mean why would someone talk about something which is in its good shape. Everybody focuses on their weak points and that's why he focuses more on bimaru states. I think Kerela is number 1 in overall index. And kerela isn't a small state like Goa either.

[@aideaide8623]

Bruh thamil Nadu is incredibly dirty

[@everhigher8040]

He and his likes Tarun Vijay are biased against the Tamils since the 1980s. But, thats not for us to bother. The Sun, moon and the truth cant be hidden for long said Buddha. These people will have to talk about TN and its achievements very soon inspite of their careful downplay now. India today has started recognising TN as the best overall performer amongst the large states.

[@bangguyraj]

So Kerala, the non BJP-existant state, is the true champion of India, the only developed first world spot on India's huge map!!!

[@thegod-1614]

Devloped is far off But doing best 👍

[@nirajsrivastava7922]

I agree with you , in UP most of time (almost 95%) Congress ,SP and BSP have ruled and are responsible for these pathetic state.BJP rule has improved the indices.So people of UP should never vote to congress ,SP and BSP.

[@premdasdutta8125]

Thank you to those who had done such herculean effort to map out where we stand.from here we can redesign our effort and move forward.

[@dhruboroy9784]

Kerala was always leaps and bounds ahead of the rest of the subcontinent in social indicators even during British raj due to the social welfare policies launched in 19th and 20th century Credit for Kerala should go the Tranvancore Royal family before anyone else

[@samadevan5443]

I can only agree with u upto an extent. The travancore royals had done a lot of infrastructure works under the British. But they had a backward look in social scene. Kerala had one of the most notorious caste systems. That social segregation was promoted by the royals. Many of the social reformations happened due to popular outrage against inequality. And the British resident attempting change with the help of moderate activists. Travancore family had put a lot of social reformers in jail including Vaikunda swamilkal. Kerala was called "MAD HOUSE" BY SWAMI VIVEKANANDA due to the social conditions that existed during the time. The social change came through due to the sacrifice and dedication of a lot of great personalities. A lot of institutions were started by the royals in 1930s and 40's that helped in creating infrastructure. That should be lauded. But the first credit doesn't belong to them. My humble opinion

[@sgn9754]

Credit to this has to go to people of Kerala who elected the various governments and made them work.

[@tvpuram]

the credit goes to the Christian missionaries hands down. Travancore kingdom hardly covers half of Kerala, the rest of the area known as Malabar was under Madras province(direct British rule)

[@log4john]

Sad part is, these Bimaru states elect the PM of India. So our PM also to great extent reflects these poor states.

[@vipendrasingh5608]

Only one learning from this: BREAK UTTAR PRADESH INTO TWO OR THREE SMALL STATES.

[@mralwyngeorge]

Kerala is not in India, It's somewhere in western Europe. And btw, Kottayam district ( My district) has zero poverty according to the report. And I can feel the difference.

[@Rahul-bq6qy]

western europeans dont travel to gulf for doing labour

[@Rahul-bq6qy]

@ahs pm up biharis don't migrate to western Europe for labour. Therefore, kerala is not in western Europe. Thank you for helping me realise it.

[@MR-sf2nk]

lol

[@arjunraj823]

@@Rahul-bq6qy unskilled labourers in bihar and up migrate to Kerala to do jobs which keralites consider as low income. So people go to arab countries to get more income. So basically everyone is working for their families. But Kerala as a state and its governance is top notch.

[@Rahul-bq6qy]

​@@arjunraj823 Agreed. But that doesn't mean they aren't indian. Inspite of being the best state in governance, there are still aspects where it can learn and benefit from other indian states just like it can teach other states.