Rajasthan election marketing campaign: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot throughout public assembly for the upcoming meeting elections, in Jaipur, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023.
The Rajasthan Assembly elections are scheduled to happen on November 25. A comparability of the economic, social, and environmental indicators of the poll-bound State with the indications of different States exhibits that Rajasthan improved its rankings considerably between 2015-16 and 2019-21 in some social measures, whereas persevering with to lag behind in many others.
Table 1 | The lists Rajasthan’s rank in social indicators and its precise rating in an indicator in 2019-21, 2015-16, and 2005-06. It additionally exhibits the change in rank in 2019-21 from 2015-16. The efficiency of the highest three States in the indicator are additionally given for comparability.
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For occasion, Rajasthan had 16.8% wasted kids (low weight-for-height) in 2019-21, and ranked 13 out of 30 States. The three best-performing States that yr have been Punjab (10.6%), Haryana (11.5%), and Uttarakhand (13.2%). In this indicator, Rajasthan’s rating improved by eleven spots in 2019-21 from 2015-16, the yr when the State was positioned twenty fourth out of the 30 States.
Across some social indicators, there was notable enchancment in rankings in the previous few years. For occasion, the share of households with any member coated beneath a medical insurance/financing scheme improved from 18.7% in 2015-16 to 87.8% in 2019-21, pole-vaulting into the primary rank from the 18th rank in the interval. Rajasthan’s Infant Mortality charge rankings improved from twenty fourth to seventeenth out of 30 States and its rating in share of stunted kids improved from twenty fifth to sixteenth in the interval.
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However, it nonetheless lags behind in many different measures such because the share of the feminine inhabitants aged 6 years and above who ever attended faculty is barely 63.5% — ranked twenty eighth of 30 States. And over 25% of women aged 20-24 years have been married earlier than 18 years of age — ranked twenty fourth of the 40 States. So, extra particularly, Rajasthan nonetheless lags behind in indicators that measure women empowerment.
Table 2 | The desk exhibits Rajasthan’s precise rating in the human improvement index (HDI) and the change in rank in 2021, in comparison with 1990.
A comparability with knowledge from 2005-06 exhibits that the State’s rankings in women empowerment indicators have hardly improved since. In educating woman kids, the State was ranked among the many backside two in all three intervals (2015-16 and 2019-21 as properly). Given the progress in some social indicators, the State’s rankings in Human Development Index (HDI) improved by 7 spots from twenty seventh to twentieth between 1990 and 2021 as proven in Table 2.
Table 3 | The desk exhibits Rajasthan’s per capita internet state home product and its change in rank in 2021-22, in comparison with 1993-94.
Rajasthan’s economic efficiency is middling. Its rating improved barely by two spots — twentieth to 18th — between 1993-94 and 2021-22 as proven in Table 3. Over 40% of the inhabitants in the State belongs to the bottom two wealth quintiles (Table 4).
Table 4 |Â The desk exhibits the share of the inhabitants belonging to the bottom two wealth quintiles in Rajasthan.Â
Rajasthan’s manufacturing sector employed round solely 10% of the State’s workforce and the sector’s share in whole Gross Value Added was solely about 7.5%. The State ranks on the backside half of the desk in each measures (Table 5).
Table 5 | The desk exhibits Rajasthan’s rank in indicators associated to manufacturing.
In instructional indicators, the State exhibits blended progress. In two measures — common annual dropout charge at secondary degree (Class 9-10) and Gross Enrolment Ratio in larger secondary (Class 11-12) — the State ranked in the highest half. While in different two measures — Adjusted Net Enrolment Ratio in elementary training (Class 1-8) and Gross Enrolment Ratio in larger training (18-23 years) — they featured in the underside half of the rankings as proven in Table 6.
Table 6| The desk exhibits Rajasthan’s rank in indicators associated to training.
The State additionally confirmed blended progress in environment-related indicators (Table 7). The State generated a comparatively decrease quantity of plastic waste and featured on the high half of the State lists, whereas producing a comparatively larger quantity of hazardous waste rating on the backside half.
Table 7 | The desk exhibits Rajasthan’s rank in environment-related indicators.
vignesh.r@thehindu.co.in and rebecca.varghese@thehindu.co.in
Source: National Family Health Surveys, Global Data Lab advert NITI Aayog
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