The matrix in Table 5 illustrates the overall distribution of EDIs and allocation per child by EDI quartiles and per-child allocation quartiles. Unfortunately, most of the states with a higher proportion of districts in the two lower quartiles of EDIs also have more districts in the lower quartile of per child allocations of SSA funds. 30 districts in the country that fall in the category of the worst EDIs as well as the lowest PCA allocations belonged to the state of Bihar in contrast to the 24 districts which have some of the best EDIs as well as highest PCA (half of which are in HP). _This is definitely an inequitable and undesirable situation._

|**TABLE 5.**<br>**PCA**|**Per Child Allo**<br>**Quartiles**|**cationquartiles**<br>**PCA – Q1**<br>**(Lowest)**|**and EDIquarti**<br>**PCA – Q2**|**les: Distribution**<br>**PCA – Q3**|**of districts acro**<br>**PCA – Q4**<br>**(Highest)**|**ss States**<br>**Total**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**EDI**|Mean|**264**|**374.8**|**504.09**|**832.68**|**491.6**|
|**Quartiles**|Std Dev|**49.51**|**29.4**|**55.67**|**201.68**|**238.1**|
||Min|**119**|**326**|**427**|**607**|**119**|
||Max|**325**|**426**|**604**|**1483**|**1483**|
|||**30 dists**|**34 dists**|**34 dists**|**35 dists**||
|||AP(1)|Assam(1)|Assam(1)|Chattisgarh(4)||
||**EDI-1**|Assam(3)|Bihar(13)|Bihar(2)|Jharkhand(9)||
|Mean|**0.2878947**|Bihar(22)|Haryana(1)|Jharkhand(4)|MP(1)||
|Std Dev|**0.0473391**|Jharkhand(1)|Jharkhand(5)|MH(1)|Orissa(1)|**133 dit**|
|Min|**0.17**|UP(3)|Orissa(2)|MP(1)|Rajasthan(5)|**ss**|
|Max|**0.35**||UP(8)|Orissa(3)|UP(15)||
||||W.Bengal(4)|Rajasthan(4)|||
|||||UP(17)|||
|||||W. Bengal(1)|||
|||**25 dists**|**33 dists**|**36 dists**|**37 dists**||
|||AP(4)|AP(3)|Assam(1)|Assam(1)||
|||Assam(5)|Assam(7)|Gujarat(1)|Chattisgarh(8)||
||**EDI-2**|Gujarat(5)|Haryana(2)|Haryana(1)|Haryana(1)||
|Mean|**0.4017557**|Haryana(1)|Jharkhand(1)|MP(3)|MP(9)||
|Std Dev|**0.027018**|Karnataka(2)|MP(2)|Orissa(4)|Orissa(9)|**131dists**|
|Min|**0.36**|MH(1)|Punjab(2)|Punjab(1)|Rajasthan(3)||
|Max|**0.44**|Punjab(1)|Rajasthan(6)|Rajasthan(5)|UP(4)||
|||Rajasthan(5)|UP(7)|UP(13)|Uttaranchal(1)||
|||UP(1)|W.Bengal(3)|Uttaranchal(1)|W. Bengal(1)||
|||||W. Bengal(6)|||
|||**32 dsts**|**23 dists**|**28 dists**|**29 dists**||
|||AP(6)|AP(3)|Assam(2)|Chattisgarh(1)||
|||Assam(1)|Assam(1)|Haryana(5)|Haryana(1)||
|||Gujarat(10)|Gujarat(1)|Karnataka(1)|MP(14)||
||**EDI-3**|Haryana(1)|Haryana(1)|MH(2)|Orissa(5)|**112 dists**|
||**0.4799107**|Karnataka(2)|karnataka(1)|MP(7)|Rajasthan(1)||
|Mean|**0.0211599**|MH(5),MP(2)|MH(7)|Orissa(6)|TN(1)||
|Std Dev|**0.45**|Punjab(2)|MP(1)|Punjab(1)|UP(1)||
|Min|**0.51**|UP(1)|Punjab(1)|Uttaranchal(2)|Uttaranchal(5)||
|Max||Uttaranchal(1)|Rajasthan(3)|W. Bengal(2)|||
|||W. Bengal(1)|TN(4)||||
|||**38 dists**|**36 dists**|**26 dists**|**24 dists**||
|||AP(1)|AP(4)|AP(1)|HP(12)||
||**EDI-4**|Gujarat(8)|Haryana(1)|Haryana(1)|Karnataka(2)||
||**0.5729032**|Haryana(1)|Karnataka(8)|Karnataka(5)|MH(1)||
|Mean|**0.0453312**|Karnataka(6)|Kerala(5)|Kerala(1)|MP(2)|**124 dists**|
|Std Dev|**0.52**|Kerala(8)|MH(8)|MH(4)|TN(4)||
|Min|**0.77**|MH(5)|Punjab(4)|MP(3)|Uttaranchal(3)||
|Max||Punjab(3)|TN(6)|Punjab(2)|||
|||TN(6)||TN(8)|||
|||||W.Bengal(1)|||
||**Total**|**125**|**126**|**124**|**125**|**500**|

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