Income And Other Criteria
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Income And Other Criteria
Development of Class 10
- Apart from income people require basic services like health and education facilities.
- High income alone cannot guarantee these basic services. These services are to be provided by the government then only Human development is possible.
- For example Punjab has a highest per capita income out of three states Kerala is at the bottom has very low (11) infant mortality rate as compared to Punjab (49).
- In Kerala literacy rate is 91% which is only 70% in Punjab.
SOME COMPARATIVE DATA ON PUNJAB, KERALA AND BIHAR:
|
State |
Infant Mortality Rate per 1,000 (2003) |
Literacy Rate (%) (2001) |
Net Attendance Ratio for Class I-V (1995-96) |
|
Punjab Kerala Bihar |
49 11 60 |
70 91 47 |
81 91 41 |
Explanation of some of the terms used in this table:
Infant Mortality Rate (or IMR) indicates the number of children that die before the age years as a proportion of 1000 live children born in that particular year.
Literacy Rate measure the proportion of literate population in the 7 and above age group
Net Attendance Ratio is the total number of children of age group 6-10 attending school as a percentage of total number of children in the same age group.
Punjab
Kerala
Bihar
