Lok Sabha Question No. 6063 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-04-04
Subject: Aspirational Districts
Ministry: PLANNING
Asked by: KINJARAPU RAM MOHAN NAIDU, BALABHADRA MAJHI

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF PLANNING

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.6063 TO BE ANSWERED ON 04.04.2018

## ASPIRATIONAL DISTRICTS

## 6063. SHRI RAM MOHAN NAIDU KINJARAPU: SHRI BALABHADRA MAJHI:

Will the Minister of PLANNING be pleased to state:

- (a)   the names of districts identified as aspirational districts, State-wise;
- (b)   the criteria laid down for inclusion and exclusion of districts as aspirational;
- (c)   whether the Government proposes to include more districts in the list of aspirational districts; and
- (d)   if so, the details thereof, State-wise including Andhra Pradesh and Odisha?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDNT CHARGE) FOR THE MINISTRY OF PLANNING AND MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF CHEMICALS & FERTILIZERS

## (RAO INDERJIT SINGH)

- (a) List of identified aspirational districts is enclosed as Annexure-I

(b) Out of these districts, 35 districts have been selected by Ministry of Home Affairs on the basis of their being affected by Left wing Extremism. The remaining districts have been selected on the basis of composite index which in turn includes published data of deprivation enumerated under Socio-Economic Caste Census, Health &Nutrition, Education, and Basic Infrastructure. The data set and weight -age attached to them for creating composite index is as follows

Composite Index

| Databases                                                                                      | Sector            | Weight   |
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------|----------|
| Landless households dependent on Manual labour (Socio Economic Caste Census - Deprivation 7)   | Deprivation       | 25%      |
| Ante natal care ( National Health and Family Survey (NHFS-4)                                   | Health& Nutrition | 7.5%     |
| Institutional delivery( NHFS-4)                                                                | Health& Nutrition | 7.5%     |
| Stunting of children below 5 years ( NHFS-4)                                                   | Health& Nutrition | 7.5%     |
| Wasting in children below 5 yrs ( NHFS-4)                                                      | Health& Nutrition | 7.5%     |
| Elementary drop out rate ((Unified District Information System for Education (U- DISE 2015-16) | Education         | 7.5%     |
| Adverse pupil teacher ratio ( U-DISE 2015-16)                                                  | Education         | 7.5%     |
| Un-electrified households ( Ministry of Power)                                                 | Infra             | 7.5%     |
| Households without individual toilets ( Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation )            | Infra             | 7.5%     |
| Un-connected PMGSY village ( Ministry of Rural Development )                                   | Infra             | 7.5%     |
| Rural Household without access to water ( Ministry of Drinking water and sanitation )          |                   | 7.5%     |
| Total                                                                                          |                   | 100%     |

After short listing these districts as above, State Governments were requested that they may suggest    any modification on basis of objective criteria.  On the basis of their suggestions, the list has been modified and the same has been placed in annex-I as mentioned above.

(c)&(d) At present, there is no proposal to raise the number of districts.

## NITI Aayog

| State             |             | MHALWEDistricts   | Total   |
|-------------------|-------------|-------------------|---------|
| Andhra Pradesh    | Vizainagram | Visakhapatnam     |         |
| Andhra Pradesh    | Cuddapah    |                   | 3       |
| Arunachal Pradesh | Namsai      |                   | 1       |
| Assam             | Darrang     |                   |         |
| Assam             | Dhubri      |                   |         |
| Assam             | Barpeta     |                   |         |
| Assam             | Udalgiri    |                   | 7       |
| Assam             | Hailakandi  |                   |         |
| Assam             | Goalpara    |                   |         |
| Assam             | Baksa       |                   |         |
| Bihar             | Katihar     | Aurangabad        |         |
| Bihar             | Begusarai   | Banka             |         |
| Bihar             | Sheikhpura  | Gaya              |         |
| Bihar             | Araria      | Jamui             | 13      |
| Bihar             | Sitamarhi   | Muzaffarpur       |         |
| Bihar             | Khagaria    | Nawada            |         |
| Bihar             | Purnia      |                   |         |
| Chhattisgarh      | Korba       | Bastar            |         |
| Chhattisgarh      | Mahasamund  | Bijapur           |         |
| Chhattisgarh      |             | Dantewada         |         |
| Chhattisgarh      |             | Kanker            |         |
| Chhattisgarh      |             | Kondagaon         | 10      |
| Chhattisgarh      |             | Narayanpur        |         |
| Chhattisgarh      |             | Rajnandgaon       |         |
| Chhattisgarh      |             | Sukma             |         |
| Gujarat           | Narmada     |                   | 2       |
| Gujarat Haryana   | Dahod Mewat |                   | 1       |
| Himachal Pradesh  | Chamba      |                   | 1       |
| Jammu and Kashmir | Kupwara     |                   |         |
| Jammu and Kashmir | Baramula    |                   | 2       |
| Jharkhand         | Sahebganj   | Latehar           |         |
| Jharkhand         | Pakaur      | Lohardaga         |         |
| Jharkhand         | Godda       | Palamu            |         |
| Jharkhand         |             | PurbiSinghbhum    |         |
| Jharkhand         |             | Ramgarh           |         |
| Jharkhand         |             | Ranchi            |         |
| Jharkhand         |             | Simdega           |         |
| Jharkhand         |             | West Singhbhum    |         |
| Jharkhand         |             | Bokaro            | 19      |
| Jharkhand         |             | Chatra            |         |
| Jharkhand         |             | Dumka             |         |
| Jharkhand         |             | Garhwa            |         |
| Jharkhand         |             | Girdih            |         |
| Jharkhand         |             | Gumla             |         |
| Jharkhand         |             | Hazaribagh        |         |
| Jharkhand         |             | Khunti            |         |

## Annexure-I

| Karnataka        | Yadgir             |            | 2   |
|------------------|--------------------|------------|-----|
| Karnataka        | Raichur            |            |     |
| Kerala           | Wayanad            |            | 1   |
| Madhya Pradesh   | Damoh              |            |     |
| Madhya Pradesh   | Singrauli          |            |     |
| Madhya Pradesh   | Chhatarpur         |            |     |
| Madhya Pradesh   | Rajgarh            |            |     |
| Madhya Pradesh   | Guna               |            | 8   |
| Madhya Pradesh   | Barwani            |            |     |
| Madhya Pradesh   | Vidisha            |            |     |
| Madhya Pradesh   | Khandwa            |            |     |
| Maharashtra      | Nandurbar          | Gadchiroli | 4   |
| Maharashtra      | Washim             |            |     |
| Maharashtra      | Osmanabad          |            |     |
| Manipur          | Chandel            |            | 1   |
| Meghalaya        | Ribhoi             |            | 1   |
| Mizoram          | Mamit              |            | 1   |
| Nagaland         | Kiphire            |            | 1   |
| Odisha           | Rayagada           | Koraput    |     |
| Odisha           | Kalahandi          | Malkangiri |     |
| Odisha           | Dhenkanal          |            |     |
| Odisha           | Balangir           |            | 10  |
| Odisha           | Nabarangpur        |            |     |
| Odisha           | Nuapada            |            |     |
| Odisha           | Gajapati           |            |     |
| Punjab Punjab    | Firozpur Moga      |            | 2   |
| Rajasthan        | Baran              |            |     |
| Rajasthan        |                    |            |     |
|                  | Jaisalmer          |            |     |
| Rajasthan        | Dholpur            |            | 5   |
| Rajasthan        | Karauli            |            |     |
| Rajasthan Sikkim | Sirohi West Sikkim |            | 1   |
| Tamil Nadu       | Ramanathapuram     |            |     |
| Tamil Nadu       | Virudhunagar       |            | 2   |
| Telengana        | Bhoopalpalli       | Khammam    | 3   |
| Telengana        | Asifabad           |            |     |
| Tripura          | Dhalai             |            | 1   |
| Uttar Pradesh    | Chitrakoot         |            |     |
| Uttar Pradesh    | Balrampur          |            |     |
| Uttar Pradesh    | Bahraich           |            | 8   |
| Uttar Pradesh    | Sonbhadra          |            |     |
| Uttar Pradesh    | Shrawasti          |            |     |
| Uttar Pradesh    | Chandauli          |            |     |
| Uttar Pradesh    | Siddharthnagar     |            |     |
| Uttar Pradesh    | Fatehpur           |            |     |
| Uttarakhand      | Haridwar           |            |     |
| Uttarakhand      | Udham Singh Nagar  |            | 2   |
| West Bengal      | Murshidabad        |            |     |
| West Bengal      | Nadia              |            |     |
| West Bengal      | DakshinDinajpur    |            | 5   |
| West Bengal      | Maldah             |            |     |
| West Bengal      | Birbhum            |            |     |