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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Report on human development: State undertakes district-wise survey by Adam Halliday

Report on human development: State undertakes district-wise survey by Adam Halliday

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published Published on Nov 22, 2010   modified Modified on Nov 22, 2010

Six years after a Human Development Report on Gujarat was published, the state government has embarked on another survey for a similar report, albeit district-wise, whose publication date is yet to be decided.

So far, study reports on five districts — Surendranagar, Jamnagar, Sabarkantha, Dangs and Surat — have been submitted whose drafts have been reviewed and sent back to the authors for consideration.

G K Vyas, Director, Human Development, said that study in five other districts — Bharuch, Tapi, Banaskantha, Panchmahals and Kheda — is underway. He added they plan to take up study of five districts each year until all districts are covered. Study of each district is being allotted to various departments under different universities who “came forward to undertake the study”, Vyas said. According to sources, some of the institutes involved in the project include departments under Vidyanagar University, Surat University and Rajkot University.

Asked if there were plans to publish another state-wide report on the lines of or a follow-up of the 2004 report, Vyas said they might wait for the data of 2011 Census as currently there is no up to date demographic data available. “But after the district-wise studies, a complete picture of the state would emerge. We cannot say as yet when the state-wide study would be done, but we are trying our level best,” he added.

Shital Shukla Lodhia, Assistant Professor at Sardar Patel Institute of Economic and Social Research, Ahmedabad, is the author of the report on the tribal district of Sabarkantha. Lodhia, who had also assisted in the research for the 2004 report, said the district has seen a marked improvement in the education sector but healthcare sector remains a major concern.

Compared to the 2004 report, the time lapse between initiation and release is not surprising as the first report had also taken almost a decade of constant data-updating before being finally released by the Mahatma Gandhi Labour Institute.

The process began in 1995 and the report was released in 2004; a delay ascribed to — a government machinery largely indifferent to the social sector but crazy about economic growth — by an official involved with the report’s preparation.

The MGLI-published report had led Chief Minister Narendra Modi to say that “though Gujarat is doing well in terms of economic growth, it is lagging behind in a few indices. It has to improve its performance in the field of health and nutrition, literacy and education and development of the marginalised groups of the state”.

That report was funded by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), whose stated aim since the publication of the first Human Development Report in 1990 was to ascertain whether economic growth translates into human and gender development.

It was written by two academicians — Professor Indira Hirway of the Centre for Development Alternatives, and Darshini Mahadevia, who heads the Centre for Urban Equity in CEPT University — in consultation with the heads of various government departments and NGOs.


The Indian Express, 22 November, 2010, http://www.indianexpress.com/story-print/714350/


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