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Hyderabad tops HDI ranking
Telangana state capital, Hyderabad retains its top position in the Human Development Index (HDI) in the 7-year period between 2004-05 and 2011-12, computed by the Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), Hyderabad.
Hyderabad: Telangana state capital, Hyderabad retains its top position in the Human Development Index (HDI) in the 7-year period between 2004-05 and 2011-12, computed by the Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), Hyderabad.
On the other hand Mahbubnagar and Medak slipped from 8th to 9th rank and 9th to 10th rank respectively. The adjacent Ranga Reddy, Warangal and Karimnagar districts have maintained its 2nd, 3rd and 4th ranks out of 10 districts of Telangana.
The CESS has released it HDI report here at the Indian Economic Association annual meeting on Tuesday. The report said the construction of HDI combines three areas of development – long and healthy life, knowledge and decent standard of living, as per the approach of the UNDP methodology.
Highlighting the Telangana movement, the report pointed out that the movement contributed to favouring decentralised model of economic development and for innovative public policies to promote the standard of living and remove inequalities and vulnerabilities.
The indices have clearly showed that there is a significant improvement in the HDI across all the districts, though the ranks of some of the districts might have changed in the seven years period taken for review.
For instance, the rank of Nizamabad improved from 10th position to 8th position, while Medal dropped to 10th position from 9th position. And in the case of Khammam, it has improved to 5th position from 7th and Nalgonda dropped to 7th from 5th rank.
A known backward district, Adilabad, has surprisingly maintained its 6th position in the seven years period. A close observation of the data shows that districts with a low value of HDI in 2004-05 had increased their HDI value faster compared to the districts with a higher HDI values in 2004-05.
The report said that the decomposition of changes in HDI across the districts reveal that the share standard of living is higher in the total change, while health and education occupies second and third places in most of the districts except in Medak, Ranga Reddy and Nizamabad.
On the state level, the value of HDI has increased at the rate of 8.3 per cent during the 7-year period under review, while Nizamabad and Khammam achieved the highest growth rate at 12 per cent. On the other hand, Hyderabad, Karimnagar and Warangal have reported lower growth rate compared to the state average.
Coming to projections for 2016, the CESS report stated that Hyderabad and Ranga Reddy maintain their first and second ranks, while Medak and Mahbubnagar stays at the bottom. However, there are changes in the middle levels.
The report further points out that the percentage of both SC and ST population is the highest in Khammam, Adilabad and Warangal.
