Why Karnataka's new government has a job on its hands despite 8.5% growth
In 2016, Karnataka recorded the
second-highest number of farmer suicides-1,212, behind only Maharashtra
Karnataka Election
2018:
Karnataka is
grappling with income inequality, an agrarian crisis and child malnutrition
even though its economy grew at 8.5%–second-highest among 10 states and
union territories in 2017–to a gross domestic product of Rs 9.5 lakh crore
($141 billion) in 2017-18, according to the latest economic survey.
The
2018-19 budgets for the state is Rs 2.09 lakh crore ($31 billion),
which is 12% more than the budget estimate of Rs 1.86 lakh crore for 2017-18.
There has been an increase in the state’s revenue as well. Karnataka’s tax
revenue for 2018-19, including goods and services tax (GT) compensation, is
estimated to be Rs 1.03 lakh crore ($15 billion), an increase of 13% over the
revised estimate for 2017-18.
The economic survey 2017-18 highlights Karnataka’s progress on the per capita
income front too. With a per capita income of Rs 142,267 per annum, Karnataka’s
citizens are India’s 10th richest, behind Delhi, Haryana, Maharashtra, and
Kerala in 2015-16 according to national accounts.
This
prosperity, however, has not led to equal distribution of wealth, robust
agriculture or good access to public health systems.
Income
disparity is high in the state. Bengaluru urban is the richest pocket with a
per capita income of Rs 320,346 per annum. Kalaburagi in the north is the
poorest, with a per capita income of Rs 65,493 per annum, almost one-fifth that
of the state’s capital city.
In
primary education (grades I to V), Yadgir in northeast Karnataka suffers a dropout rate–calculated by subtracting the sum
of promotion and repetition from 100 in every grade–of 12.3%. In Bengaluru
Urban, this rate is 2.9%. Yadgir average primary dropout
rate exceeds Mizoram’s (10.1%), according to the District Information System on
Education (DISE) 2015-16.
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