vibrant Gujarat - lie or reality? kitna jhuth kitna sach - Page 2

Interesting question -  To an overall development , it is vital for a nation/state to do well in all the indicators including the social one. But India is a very different nation, you have a Gujarat with its claim of better GDP but not a robust growth in social indicators whereas Orissa is not scoring well on economy front but is holding its own and improving the social indicators. With each region led by individual societies and identities it is very difficult in India to have one common parameter for measuring social indicator for all its states. N-E with very less economic development perhaps has a better score in HDI index, it is not just attributed to the local govt but the general social culture of N-E. 

Also economic growth does facilitate social awareness , the pace depends on the existing configuration of the society in general. 

Gujarat's number might place it 11th , a slide from the 5th position it helped in the inter-state HDI number it held in 1991, what it doesn't take into account  is the inclusion of Delhi, Himachal, Goa, the North-East etc which because of varied reasons are better positioned in terms of social indicators.

Education wise Gujarat seems to have bettered its tally but well it still doesn't match the national figures. So the education indicators have improved , the percentage fails to catch up with the national averages.

I would really like to see the claim of any other political party in terms of Social indicators, to me personally, all of them have failed to achieve it equally. This number solely improves because of the general public and their own awareness.  For a game-changing improvement , you do need National level coverage and unified policies, like say for Polio campaign . Parameters like health are specifically dependent on the national schemes , also some of the surveys are dated, like National family Health survey was last done in 2005-2006

I just don't frown on Modi's development model on the basis of his state;s social indicators, they have too many objective parameters and reasons behind them.Also it would be a bit unfair to discount the correlation of economic growth vs human development.