Lok Sabha Question No. 277 (STARRED), answered on 2015-08-07
Subject: Regional Imbalances
Ministry: PLANNING
Asked by: MAHEISH GIRRI

**GOVERNMENT OF INDIA**

**MINISTRY OF PLANNING**

**LOK SABHA**

**STARRED QUESTION N0.*277**

**TO BE ANSWERED ON 07.08.2015**

**REGIONAL IMBALANCES**

*277.  	SHRI MAHEISH GIRRI

Will the Minister of  PLANNING be pleased to state:

(a)       the per capita income at current prices and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in terms	of percentage of each State and their contribution to India’s GDP;

(b)       whether the Government has conducted any study to identify the factors responsible 	for regional imbalances or inter-State disparity and inter-State or regional 	migration for  livelihood;

(c)       if so, the details and the findings thereof; and

(d)     the action plan of the Government for balanced development of all regions in the 	country and to bring down inter-State disparity?

**ANSWER**

MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) FOR MINISTRY OF PLANNING

AND MINISTER OF STATE FOR DEFENCE

(RAO INDERJIT SINGH)

(a) to (d):   A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.

STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) to (d) LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO.*277 REGARDING“REGIONAL IMBALANCES” BY SHRI MAHEISH GIRRI TO BE ANSWERED ON 07.08.2015

(a):	The Per Capita Income measured in terms of Per Capita Net State Domestic Product (NSDP) at current prices and percentage contribution of each State in India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) for the year 2013-14 (based on 2004-05 release) is annexed.

(b) to (d): Regional imbalances and inter-State disparities have been the result of complex factors such as difference in resource endowment, geographical and historical factors and availability of socio-economic and physical infrastructure.  In view of this background, promotion of balanced growth has been one of the objectives of planned development strategy.  Various committees had been set up to look into the issue of regional imbalances. The Inter-Ministry Task Group for Redressing Growing Regional Imbalances (2004) and the Committee for Evolving a Composite Development Index of States (2013) have studied the issue in the recent past.  These Committees also attributed the regional imbalances to factors such as unequal resource endowment, uneven human development, inadequate infrastructure, poor budgetary resources, etc.  The Twelfth Five Year Plan specifically analyzes the issue of regional imbalances and inter-State disparities. The report on Migration in India based on the 64 th round survey on Employment & Unemployment and Migration conducted during July 2007 to June 2008 by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) reveals that proportion of households migrated to rural areas was very low about 1%, but in urban areas the migrated households constituted nearly 3% of all urban households.  Another finding of the survey was that migration of households was largely confined within State i.e. 78% of migrant households in rural areas and 72% of the migrant households in the urban areas had last usual place of residence within the State.  The most prominent reason for female migration was marriage, whereas the reason for migration of males was employment related.

The enhanced share of States in Central Taxes from 32% to 42% provides the much needed flexibility to the States for financing and designing of schemes suited to the local needs to bridge the development deficit in the backward regions of the States. Centrally Sponsored Schemes in the critical sectors also provide the leverage to the development efforts of the States.

| ANNEXURE  GROSS STATE DOMESTIC PRODUCT, PER CAPITA INCOME AT CURRENT PRICES  AND PERCENTAGE CONTRIBUTION OF EACH STATE IN INDIA’S GDP FOR THE  YEAR 2013-14 (2004-05 SERIES)  (As on  31-07-2015)   |                             |                         |                                    |                                                      |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------|-------------------------|------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------|
| S. No.                                                                                                                                                                                              | State\UT                    | Per Capita Income (Rs.) | GSDP                  (Rs. Crores) | Percentage contribution of each State in India's GDP |
| S. No.                                                                                                                                                                                              | State\UT                    | Per Capita Income (Rs.) | GSDP                  (Rs. Crores) | Percentage contribution of each State in India's GDP |
| 1                                                                                                                                                                                                   | Andhra Pradesh              | 81397                   | 464184                             | 4.43                                                 |
| 2                                                                                                                                                                                                   | Arunachal Pradesh           | 85468                   | 13545                              | 0.13                                                 |
| 3                                                                                                                                                                                                   | Assam                       | 44263                   | 159460                             | 1.52                                                 |
| 4                                                                                                                                                                                                   | Bihar                       | 31199                   | 343663                             | 3.28                                                 |
| 5                                                                                                                                                                                                   | Chhattisgarh                | 58547                   | 185682                             | 1.77                                                 |
| 6                                                                                                                                                                                                   | Goa                         | 224138                  | 48897                              | 0.47                                                 |
| 7                                                                                                                                                                                                   | Gujarat                     | 106831                  | 765638                             | 7.31                                                 |
| 8                                                                                                                                                                                                   | Haryana                     | 133427                  | 388917                             | 3.71                                                 |
| 9                                                                                                                                                                                                   | Himachal Pradesh            | 92300                   | 82585                              | 0.79                                                 |
| 10                                                                                                                                                                                                  | Jammu & Kashmir             | 59279                   | 87570                              | 0.84                                                 |
| 11                                                                                                                                                                                                  | Jharkhand                   | 46131                   | 172773                             | 1.65                                                 |
| 12                                                                                                                                                                                                  | Karnataka                   | 89545                   | 614607                             | 5.87                                                 |
| 13                                                                                                                                                                                                  | Kerala                      | 103820                  | 396282                             | 3.78                                                 |
| 14                                                                                                                                                                                                  | Madhya Pradesh              | 51798                   | 434730                             | 4.15                                                 |
| 15                                                                                                                                                                                                  | Maharashtra                 | 117091                  | 1510132                            | 14.42                                                |
| 16                                                                                                                                                                                                  | Manipur                     | 41573                   | 14324                              | 0.14                                                 |
| 17                                                                                                                                                                                                  | Meghalaya                   | 61548                   | 21922                              | 0.21                                                 |
| 18                                                                                                                                                                                                  | Mizoram                     | 76120                   | 10297                              | 0.10                                                 |
| 19                                                                                                                                                                                                  | Nagaland                    | 77529                   | 17749                              | 0.17                                                 |
| 20                                                                                                                                                                                                  | Odisha                      | 52559                   | 272980                             | 2.61                                                 |
| 21                                                                                                                                                                                                  | Punjab                      | 92350                   | 317556                             | 3.03                                                 |
| 22                                                                                                                                                                                                  | Rajasthan                   | 65974                   | 517615                             | 4.94                                                 |
| 23                                                                                                                                                                                                  | Sikkim                      | 176491                  | 12377                              | 0.12                                                 |
| 24                                                                                                                                                                                                  | Tamil Nadu                  | 112664                  | 854238                             | 8.16                                                 |
| 25                                                                                                                                                                                                  | Telangana                   | 95361                   | 391751                             | 3.74                                                 |
| 26                                                                                                                                                                                                  | Tripura                     | 69705                   | 26810                              | 0.26                                                 |
| 27                                                                                                                                                                                                  | Uttar Pradesh               | 36250                   | 862746                             | 8.24                                                 |
| 28                                                                                                                                                                                                  | Uttarakhand                 | 103716                  | 122897                             | 1.17                                                 |
| 29                                                                                                                                                                                                  | West Bengal                 | 70059                   | 706561                             | 6.75                                                 |
| 30                                                                                                                                                                                                  | Andaman & Nicobar Islands   | 107418                  | 6150                               | 0.06                                                 |
| 31                                                                                                                                                                                                  | Chandigarh                  | 156951                  | 29076                              | 0.28                                                 |
| 32                                                                                                                                                                                                  | Delhi                       | 212219                  | 391125                             | 3.73                                                 |
| 33                                                                                                                                                                                                  | Puducherry                  | 143677                  | 21077                              | 0.20                                                 |
| All-India GDP(2004-05 base)                                                                                                                                                                         | All-India GDP(2004-05 base) | 74380                   | 10472807                           |                                                      |

**Position No.15**

**NOTE FOR PAD**

**LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 277**

**FOR**

**07.08.2015**

**LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 277 REGARDING “REGIONAL IMBALANCES” BY SHRI MAHEISH GIRRI TO BE ANSWERED ON 07.08.2015**

**INDEX**

| **S.No.**   | **Particulars**                                                                                                       | **Page No.**   |
|-------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------|
| 1.          | Background of the Member of Parliament                                                                                | i              |
| 2.          | Purport of the Question                                                                                               | 1              |
| 3.          | Reports of Committees                                                                                                 | 1              |
| 4.          | Fourteenth Finance Commission & Budget 2015-16                                                                        | 2              |
| 5.          | Backward Region Grant Fund & other Area Programmes                                                                    | 3              |
| 6.          | State Component of BRGF                                                                                               | 4              |
| (i)         | Special Plan for Bihar                                                                                                | 4              |
| (ii)        | Special Plan for KBK Districts of Odisha                                                                              | 6              |
| (iii)       | Special Plan for West Bengal                                                                                          | 7              |
| (iv)        | Special Package for Bundelkhand Region                                                                                | 9              |
| 7.          | District Component of BRGF                                                                                            | 10             |
| 8.          | Integrated Action Plan/ACA for LWE Affected Districts                                                                 | 11             |
| 9.          | Schemes for Rural Developments                                                                                        | 15             |
| 10.         | Annexure – I: Gross State Domestic Product, Per Capita Income & Percentage Contribution of  each State in India’s GDP | 18             |
| 11.         | Annexure – II: Committees on Regional Imbalances/Study on  Migration in India                                         | 19             |
| 12.         | Annexure-III:BRGF District Component - List of Districts                                                              | 27             |
| 13.         | Annexure-IV: BRGF District Component –  Allocations & Releases                                                        | 31             |
| 14.         | Annexure-V: List of Districts Covered under ACA for LWE Affected Districts                                            | 32             |