Myth of Gujarat Growth

The whole  popular media or better called corporate media put their energy persistently insisting that Gujarat model of development is ideal for the country backed by the fact that report by US congressional service has now put stamp on the success of the model. Gujarat CM Narender Modi took the opportunity to congratulate six crore gujaratis and narrated the success as their's,  showing in the process great humbleness on his part!!!!!...(In the same report by US congressional service West Bengal was called the most poorest of Indian states)....The media is generally  busy propagating the facts like Gujarat is growing at 11 percent and so on.Now I would put some facts in front of you to show how the same six crore gujaratis are suffering as the nature of so called growth suffers from exclusivity as opposed to inclusive growth which one  ideally seek. I am using West Bengal as comparative yard stick as with Kerala the state doesn't stand any chance. I am sticking on acceptable social Indicators for comparison most of which are used in MDGS. This is because the benefit of growth should ideally reach people at large for it to make any sense.

1. Percentage of malnourished Children in Gujarat is more than national average at 44.6 percent and much higher than so called poor state of West Bengal-38.7 percent.

2. Child sex ratio, which was recently in news, stood at 886 in Gujarat per thousand as compared to national average of 914. It is 950 in West Bengal.

3. Infant Mortality rate in Gujarat is 48 as compared to 33 in West Bengal.

4. Death rate, which shows health intervention, in Gujarat stood at 6.9 per thousand as compared to 5.2 in West Bengal.

5. Life Expectancy in Gujarat is 64.1 as compared to 64.9 in West Bengal.

6. Sex ratio in Gujarat at 918 is less than national average of 940 and much less than of West Bengal 947

7. Proportion of one year child immunization stood at 74.7 in West Bengal as compared to 65.7 in gujarat

8. Population control is a national policy. In the last decade the decadal growth rate in West Bengal is 13.93 as compared to much high rate of 19.17 in Gujarat. National average is 17.64.

9. Rural poverty is more in Gujarat than West Bengal as per Suresh Tendulakar Committee report.

I hope the CM of Gujarat would stop fooling the people of Gujarat in guise of pride of Gujaratis. Jago gujaratis jago..Narender Modi koh CM keh gaddi sen baar karo..