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Karnataka’s first exercise in measuring Human Development Index (GPHDI) for gram panchayats (village level) shows that at least 50 per cent of them are above the State average.
The HDI tool was developed by the United Nations to measure and rank social and economic developments based on life expectancy, mean years of schooling, expected year of schooling and gross national income per capita.
The results indicate that half of the 5,898 grama panchayats are performing above the State average GPHDI of 0.4392.
VariationsThe report showed that all the gram panchayats located in the districts of Bengaluru Urban, Dakshina Kannada and Udupi are above the State HDI average.
All GPs in Yadgir district are below the State average of HDI. The other districts that are performing poorly are districts of Bagalkot, Bidar, Gadag, Kalburi, Raichur and Vijayapura where more than 90 per cent of the GPs are below the average HDI figures.
A similar analysis also was conducted for each of the taluks in the district. About 27 taluks performed with 100 per cent of GPs performing above the State average, while 19 taluks performed below the State average.
‘Clear indications’“We initiated the GPHDI for the first time on the lines of District Human Development Index conducted few years ago,” Karnataka Minister for Rural Development and Panchayat Raj HK Patil said.
“Through the findings of GPHDI, now we get a clear picture to allocate funds and take up development works at the grassroots,” he added.
The GPHDI was conducted jointly by Abdul Nazir Sab State Institute of Rural Development, RDPR department and planning, programme monitoring and statistics department.
Patil said, “To derive GPHDI, dimensions like standard of living, health and education were taken into account in addition to indicators such as households having access to toilet, safe drinking water, electricity, pucca house, non-agriculture sectors workers, per capita income, child deaths, maternal deaths, literacy rate and gross enrolment in primary and secondary school.”
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