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That’s interesting. I didn’t realize had HP had a development factor close to Kerala (74 vs 75)

• alephnerd 3y ago
  It's around 0.723. I might be biased but the poverty alleviation work done in Himachal Pradesh (and also Tamil Nadu and Haryana to a certain extent) are much more impressive than Kerala, which already had higher than average developmental indicators at independence. When Himachal became a state in 1971, there were only 1,000 MI of roads total, and the literacy rate was around 6-7%, yet by 2023, the literacy rate has reached 82.8% (it's near 100% for those born in the 1990s onwards), rural healthcare and electrification has reached even tiny hamlets on the Tibetan plateau, and there is a massive biopharmaceutical industry with a annual revenue roughly comparable to Telangana despite being a much smaller state (6 million Himachalis). Tamil Nadu and Haryana are 2 other states that made amazing leaps from undeveloped to industrialized. Here's are good reads on the governance apparatus in Himachal: https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/Asian_Survey_5505_03_Mangla_219b4d54-2a4f-4a43-a0ab-d632628f8fae.pdf https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/Asian_Survey_550... https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/139691467991985197/scaling-the-heights-social-inclusion-and-sustainable-development-in-himachal-pradesh https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-rep...