Coimbatore will overtake Kolkata.

LAVEESH BHANDARI who co-authored this report on West Bengal says “When every parameter shows a relative decline, when the malaise is overarching, when accounts of government-run firms are not completed for many decades (yes, decades!)”, 

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JNU Professor Dipankar Gupta Illusion

Can the left locked JNU professor DIPANKAR GUPTA disprove West Bengal which he did so energetically in Gujarat?

The Left symptoms are key diseases in West Bengal and in India

There is a news on new report by two Indian economists at Indicus Analytics which state that: 

• “In the early 1960s, West Bengal was one of the more successful states in India. What happened since the 1960s. One answer is the Left Front government and its policies. Even in instances of central schemes like NREGA and RTI, the delivery mechanism is not there at all,” Mr Debroy said releasing the report. The Left has been claiming NREGA was an outcome of its pressure on the UPA. West Bengal’s per capita GDP was Rs 29,457 which made it 18th in the country, he said.  
  
• In 2005-06, only 27.9% of West Bengal’s households had access to safe drinking water. In Maharashtra, this figure was 78.4% and in Tamil Nadu 84.2%. “In a state often called the intellectual capital of India, the school dropout rate was 78.03%... Only Bihar, Nagaland, Meghalaya and Sikkim fare worse,” it said.  
  
• While for India, 10.1% of households were rich, 54% middle class and 35.9% poor, for West Bengal 5.6% were rich, 41% middle class and 53.4% poor. This time, the finger will have to point inwards. The report quoted NSS data to say that in 2004-05, 47.3% of Bengal’s poor had no subsidy card while 43.3% of non-poor had BPL or Antyodya Anna Yojana cards. “This doesn’t say much about a government that is supposed to work in the name of the poor,” the report said.  
  

Kerala Model- highest suicide rate, unemployment etc

Shirin Shirin writes rather stupidly that “the Kerala model as a path to development? The answer may lie in when Kerala chose to follow this path. The 1960s and 1970s were before structural adjustment programs and free-market principles dominated the discourse of development economics. Kerala borrowed heavily - and still borrows - to finance its social investments. While other countries have made similar investments, IMF-backed austerity measures have rolled back those investments before they could bear fruit. Now that the age of Milton Friedman appears to be nearing its end, the world would do well to give Kerala another look.  

Only free market economics loath can say “the age of Milton Friedman appears to be nearing its end” 

However, “a study by two economists claims that a significant number of jobs are being created in the state by the private sector and by local entrepreneurs”.  

I mean essentially it is by the private sector that has created more jobs.

The cases of suicide are highest in Kerala-2004 and 2006.