Raghuram Rajan too played politics with the panel headed by him ranking Goa and Kerala as the most advanced states. A person who travelled through the length and breadth of Gujarat would see the development in that State. The report is rather intended to belittle BJP as Gujarat is ruled by Narendra Modi. Modi is the Prime Ministerial candidate of BJP.
If truth be told Goa and Kerala, the two states in the top chart, are merely tourism centres, and only the rich foreigners visit these places. If the tourist flow stops the income is only from liquor sale. And there is acute price rise in Kerala and the power supply is always in doldrums. On the other hand in Gujarat under Modi's regime power production is surplus and neighbouring states are benefitted from it.
The expert committee criteria to find a state whether undeveloped or under developed, is beyond the comprehension of common man.
K A Solaman
The New Indian Express published on 28-9-2013
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