UP trails other states in economic indicators
The Bahujan Samaj Party, which will form a new government in Uttar Pradesh, has a pretty tough job of turning around the fortunes of India's most populous state - which the Planning Commission has said lags others in all economic parameters.
By PTI |
NEW DELHI: The Bahujan Samaj Party, which will form a new government in Uttar Pradesh, has a pretty tough job of turning around the fortunes of India's most populous state - which the Planning Commission has said lags others in all economic parameters.
Though Uttar Pradesh, which has a huge market, large agricultural base and diversified industrial activities, could be an important engine of national growth, "the state trails the rest of the country in almost every respect," the 'Uttar Pradesh Development Report' of the Planning Commission said.
Mayawati's BSP won 202 of the 396 seats for which results were announced in UP, which accounts for 16.1 per cent of India's population of over a billion.
During the post-reform period (1993-94 to 2000-01), the real Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) at factor cost (1993-94) in undivided UP had an average annual growth of 4.22 per cent as against the all-India average of 6.3 per cent.
But during 2001-2003, the average growth of the state had been just about 2.24 per cent against the national rate of 4.88 per cent, the report, published in the latest issue of Quarterly Review of NCAER, said.
The state has the lowest percentage of electrified villages and is second lowest in terms of per capita power consumption.
"The household access to power is just about 32 per cent, much below the national average of 84 per cent," it said.
The share of real activity in undivided UP, in terms of GDSP shrank from 13.8 per cent in 1980-81 to 10.5 per cent in 1999-2000." After the division, the share fell further from 9.22 per cent in 1999-2000 to 8.48 per cent in 2002-03.
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