Maharashtra faring worse than BIMARU states, says study
Wednesday December 01, 2010 06:43:35 PM ,
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utmost pain that the successive governments in Maharashtra have
virtually transformed the whole state into a picture perfect of
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Mumbai:
Maharashtra's development has seen a steady deterioration and it
has been faring quite poorly as compared to the country's four
BIMARU states - Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh
- a study by a University of Mumbai professor revealed.
"Despite the large tax collection
base, Maharashtra's poor governance and apathetic attitude has
brought it to this state," said Mala Lalvani, an economics
professor at the University of Mumbai.
Lalvani's research titled ‘Maharashtra at 50: A new entrant to the BIMARU group?' raises some concern.
She has mentioned that the rich-poor divide in Maharashtra's rural
areas is worse than in any BIMARU state. "Only Madhya Pradesh has
a rich-poor divide worse than Maharashtra," she said.
"Maharashtra's expenditure on social and economic services as
opposed to its total expenditure is now only marginally above that
of Bihar," she said.
"In fact, the state's expenditure on education in proportion to
its total expenditure is lower than that of Bihar," she added.
Lalvani blames the government for this scenario.
"During the 1970s and 1980s - considered to be the high growth
period - the government did not invest in strengthening public
services. It only concentrated on developing the Mumbai
Metropolitan Region," she said.
"What needs to be also taken care of is the power cuts, water
crisis and poor health services in the rural areas of the state,"
she added.
Lalvani, however, says there are several other factors that still
make Maharashtra stronger than other states. "I do not say that
Maharashtra is at par with the BIMARU states. But problems on the
fiscal front and lack of good governance are surely worth the
concern," she said.
Lalvani mentioned that the state government needs to look into
health issues that are cropping up due to poor budget allocation.
"Maharashtra has registered more polio cases this year as compared
to Bihar," she said.
Lalvani also pointed out that the state's budget allocation for
economic services in ratio to its total expenditure was less than
that of Madhya Pradesh. It was, however, higher than that of other
BIMARU states.
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