Inter-State Disparities - Concepts - Chapter 3 Class 9 Economics - Poverty as a Challenge - Economics

Interstate Disparities

• Poverty in India also has another aspect or dimension.
  
  
• The proportion of poor people is not the same in every state.
  
  
• The success rate of reducing poverty varies from state to state.
  
  
• Recent estimates show while the India Head Count Ratio (HCR) was 21.9 percent in 2011-12 states like Madhya Pradesh, Assam, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Odisha had above-all India poverty levels.
  
  
• As the above graph shows, Bihar and Odhisha continue to be the two poorest states with poverty ratios of 33.7 and 32.6 percent respectively.
  
  
• States like Punjab and Haryana have traditionally succeeded in reducing poverty with the help of high agricultural growth rates.
  
  
• Kerala has focused more on human resource development.
  
  
•  In West Bengal , land reform measures have helped in reducing poverty.
  
  
• In Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu public distribution of food grains could have been responsible for the improvement.