South India, the Best Place for Children to Live In
By siliconindia   |   Tuesday, 15 November 2011, 03:20 IST   |    1 Comments
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Not so surprisingly, all the worst performing states are the north-eastern states - Sikkim, Meghalaya, Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh. Sadly, of the five states that fall in the not so well performing category, three are once again north-eastern states. They are performing badly in almost all indicators. This is a clear indication that despite the promised attention to North-East and separate budget allocations, they have among the lowest GDP ranks, and children's status in those states needs urgent attention. The study suggests that there is an ethnic composition to the poor state of child rights and health as it's shown that a significant proportion of the population of the states performing badly in education are tribals - Jharkhand and Arunachal Pradesh, are essentially tribal states with tribals constituting 26.3 percent and 64.2 percent of the population respectively. And when it comes to health of children, the five worst performing states are Assam, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh, where tribals account for a significant portion of population in many of these states.

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