What Modi is Not Telling You?
By siliconindia   |   Wednesday, 26 October 2011, 22:25 IST   |    37 Comments
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Bangalore: The U.S. think tank might have praised him for taking Gujarat along the path of growth and development, but Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi now has reasons to worry. The finding of Indian Human Development Report 2011 released by the Centre sees Gujarat lacking in major developmental indexes including hunger levels. The report is bound to mar some of Gujarat's growth story which had come in for praise from U. S Congress senators last month, "Perhaps India's best example of effective governance and impressive development is found in Gujarat (population 60 million), where controversial Chief Minister Narendra Modi has streamlined economic processes, removing red tape and curtailing corruption in ways that have made the state a key driver of national economic growth," a congress report had said. Coming to the bad news for Gujarat, 44.6 percent of children below the age of five in Gujarat suffer from malnutrition while 70 percent children suffer from anemia. The results are worse than states like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar who have fared better on malnutrition levels. Gujarat is placed 13th among the major states in hunger index, even below Orissa, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Assam. Moreover, Gujarat fared lower in overall HDI (Human Development Index), compared to many smaller states like Kerala, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir. However, Gujarat is sixth in the overall state list, which means that it has done well enough in other frontiers.

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