Dr Penna

For a decade Telugu people strived hard to get a reputation for being investment and growth hub. All these washed away with inappropriate actions of political goons like K Chandrasekar Rao and Lagadapati Rajagopal. US warning is only starting, multiple other warnings in form of low ratings for investment will follow if we take destructive path of state division.

Direct link

he Department of State alerts U.S. citizens to the possibility of violence as Andhra Pradesh continues to experience civil unrest. A demonstration is planned for December 10, and there is the potential that episodic clashes between the police and protesters will spark wider unrest in the city of Hyderabad. The Department recommends that U.S. citizens defer all non-essential travel to the Telangana Region of Andhra Pradesh and certain parts of Hyderabad (especially the Assembly and Secretariat, Osmania University, Panjagutta, and Ameerpet areas). The Telangana Region includes the districts of Rangareddi, Warangal, Medak, Nizamabad, Karimnagar, Adilabad, and Khammam. This Travel Alert supplements the Travel Alert for India dated October 29, 2009, and expires on December 31, 2009.

My previous posts regarding Telangana issue
Seperate Telangana State
Visalandhra – needs for new state

[Also read Industrial development in Telangana, Rayalaseema, Costal Andhra: Special economy zones, Solution to Telangana problem, Visalandhra needs for new state]

I have recently stumbled across a publication by National council of applied economic research (link) by Jatinder S Bedi & H Ramachandran. This is a working paper with title “Human Development Index for Rural Andhra Pradesh” it is a 39 page document and can be downloaded from NCAER website (link). This publication is based on IAMR survey that was undertaken in 2001. This publication will provide in detail analysis of difference of various human development index values in various districts in the state. Full publication can be accessed via above links but I am posting some tables so that you can see how the real growth and development is spread across rural parts of the state.

Their Conclusion clearly shows improving human development index in rural population of all three regions of Andhra Pradesh. The publication did not show selective lower growth and development in Telangana region. There were districts which are good like Khammam topping among all districts in AP. Of top 5 positions there were 2 Telangana districts, 2 Costal Andhra districts, and one Rayalaseema district. In bottom 5 positions there were 3 Costal Andhra districts and 2 Telangana districts.

This document proves that people are not bothered about real growth and development. Rather people stick on to lies provided by corrupt politicians like KCR. These politicians then ignite hatred among people. Do you guys remember the famous notion “Divide and rule”.

This district-wise analysis reveals that Khammam, Krishna, West Godavari, Chittoor and Medak are the five districts with highest HDI in ascending order in rural AP. There is high correlation among all the indicators. Mahbubnagar, East Godavari, Warangali, Visakhapatanam and Guntur are the districts with lowest HDI. The data show that the poor make up 16.3 per cent of the total population in rural AP and expenditure on consumption is around 13.5 per cent of the total consumption expenditure. The female literacy rate is 0.66 compared to male literacy rate in rural AP. The district-wise variations for poverty ratio are high and low for ratio of female/male literacy rate.

References

WP 99 Human Development Index for Rural Andhra Pradesh
Author(s): Jatinder S Bedi & H Ramachandran
Published in December,2008
http://www.ncaer.org/Publications.aspx?ID=2
http://www.ncaer.org/Downloads/WorkingPapers/WP99.pdf