veeru_rocks Posted May 5, 2009 Posted May 5, 2009 http://www.indianexpress.com/news/go-figure-development-indicators-in-gandhi-pocket-boroughs/454856/ But the key question isn’t political debating points. Nor should one get obsessed about whether one constituency or district is superior to others. Have these constituencies improved significantly over time? And what is the role of an MP in furthering this improvement? That is the question one should ask. And one has variables like poverty rates, per capita income, agricultural employment, secondary sector employment, literacy, urbanization, work participation rates, immunization, under-five and infant mortality rates, electrification, piped drinking water and institutional delivery to play around with. Tracking progress from 2004 to 2008, what’s remarkable is poverty ratios have increased in Rae Bareli and Kalahandi, immunization of children has declined in Amethi, Rae Bareli and Kalahandi, percentage households with electricity connections has declined in Amethi, and per capita expenditure has declined in Amethi and Rae Bareli.
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