Political Cocktail (discussion on 9th March) Me: Hear you support Narendra Modi, why? Uncle: I have lived in Gujarat and its impressive Me: wasnt it already a prosperous state to start with, besides social-development index including healthcare and education are below average? Uncle: O those polls are all fake Me: I thought it is the election polls that are fake? Anyways you know you couldnt enjoy your drink the way you are in Gujarat, its a dry state Uncle: you do get booze in Gujarat Me: but why hide it? Uncle: Go! go get me another drink Todays TOI ran an article that says the Gujarat Model of development does not exist!! Dropout rates in schools is 58% way higher than the national average of 48%. Higher education enrolment is abysmal at 17.6% in Gujarat, national average is 20.4% and infant mortality for girls is 37 %as against the national average of 34% Look forward to more issue based reporting than `personality cult promotions we see as headlines. Could it be Arvind Kejriwal gate crashing Gujarat that got this report published...for no one was listening to our nobel laureate Amartya Sen when he said that Gujarats development model failed on all social indicators more than a year ago!
Posted on: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:44:46 +0000