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Manipur tops in women and child development, Jharkhand at the bottom

Manipur is right at the top in women and child development. The other states in the top five are Mizoram, Kerala, Sikkim and Nagaland

GN Bureau | May 5, 2016

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The Public Affairs Centre, a not for profit organisation, assessed states and union territories using data available in the public domain in key areas of governance and came out with ‘Public Affairs Index’, presenting an inter-state comparison. The states were compared on 10 areas each and were given scores between 0 and 1, with 0 being the lowest score and 1 being the highest. Here’s a look at:

Women and children

It comprised of two focus subject (and their indicators)

1. Child

Crime against children
Percentage of child labour
Percentage of beneficiaries under integrated child development services
Child sex ratio
Percentage of malnourished children

2. Women

Women working population ratio
Utilisation of janani suraksha yojana funds
Male female literacy gap
Institutional delivery

Here are the rankings:

State/Union territory	PAI Index	Ranking
Manipur	0.723	1
Mizoram	0.7	2
Kerala	0.655	3
Sikkim	0.64	4
Nagaland	0.623	5
Arunachal Pradesh	0.619	6
Himachal Pradesh	0.61	7
Tamil Nadu	0.608	8
Tripura	0.606	9
Assam	0.605	10
Andhra Pradesh	0.589	11
Odisha	0.561	12
Karnataka	0.559	13
Maharashtra	0.554	14
Meghalaya	0.55	15
West Bengal	0.548	16
Uttarakhand	0.546	17
Punjab	0.54	18
Haryana	0.527	19
Jammu and Kashmir	0.506	20
Goa	0.503	21
Chhattisgarh	0.5	22
Delhi	0.486	23
Madhya Pradesh	0.483	24
Gujarat	0.472	25
Uttar Pradesh	0.466	26
Rajasthan	0.437	27
Bihar	0.404	28
Jharkhand	0.359	29

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