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Inter-state disparities unlikely to reduce despite 8% growth
New Delhi, Dec 18: The ambitious 8 per cent economic growth, envisaged in the 10th plan, would not be able to contain widening income disparity among states, the Planning Commission concedes, and cautions that Orissa, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar would be the main sufferers of this.
New Delhi, Dec 18: The ambitious 8 per cent economic growth, envisaged in the 10th plan, would not be able to contain widening income disparity among states, the Planning Commission concedes, and cautions that Orissa, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar would be the main sufferers of this.
Though the targeted growth rate in the draft document, likely to be approved on Saturday by the National Development Council, seeks a sharp reduction in poverty ratio in the nation, it has expressed fears that poor states would continue to be poor.
While projected decline in overall poverty is 19.2 per cent by 2006-07, from around 36 per cent in 1993-94, the document admits that most poor would continue to be concentrated in the states of Bihar, Orissa, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and North-East.
States like Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Goa, Gujarat, Punjab, Chandigarh, Dadar and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu and Delhi are, however, likely to register negligible levels of poverty ratio.
While admitting that the inter-state regional disparities during the 1990's have gone up, the document admits that "even if all states perform as targeted, the inter-state income disparities are unlikely to decline".
"Reduction in regional disparities could perhaps follow in the subsequent plans," it says adding that the 10th plan would primarily focus on "reversing the pace of increase in inequality and creating the necessary pre-conditions to help the worse-off states to catch-up". Bureau Report
While projected decline in overall poverty is 19.2 per cent by 2006-07, from around 36 per cent in 1993-94, the document admits that most poor would continue to be concentrated in the states of Bihar, Orissa, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and North-East.
States like Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Goa, Gujarat, Punjab, Chandigarh, Dadar and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu and Delhi are, however, likely to register negligible levels of poverty ratio.
While admitting that the inter-state regional disparities during the 1990's have gone up, the document admits that "even if all states perform as targeted, the inter-state income disparities are unlikely to decline".
"Reduction in regional disparities could perhaps follow in the subsequent plans," it says adding that the 10th plan would primarily focus on "reversing the pace of increase in inequality and creating the necessary pre-conditions to help the worse-off states to catch-up". Bureau Report