Telangana, which has seen rapid development since its formation eight years ago, has emerged as one of the top States, with more than 90 percent of households having access to quality power supply, clean fuel, and well-maintained houses.
These are the discoveries of the Social Progress Index (SPI) for States and Districts prepared by the Institute for Competitiveness and Social Progress Imperative, which was submitted to the Economic Advisory Council and Prime Minister last week.
As a matter of fact, according to the SPI report, Hyderabad district has the highest score of 95.87 under the ‘Shelter’ component, which focuses on assessing the performance of districts based on three indicators: households in good condition, electricity, and use of clean fuel, followed by Yanam (Puducherry) and Chennai (Tamil Nadu), with scores of 95.58 and 95.30, respectively. Districts of Tamil Nadu and Telangana have performed remarkably well across this sub-pillar, scoring in the range of 68.82-95.87.
While Hyderabad is the best performer in the state, districts such as Ranga Reddy and Medchal have also done well, scoring 94.76 and 88.30, respectively. Districts in Tamil Nadu with high shelter sub-pillar scores include Tiruppur (93.60), Erode (93.57), Coimbatore (93.30), and Tiruvallur (92.68). Bankura district in West Bengal has the lowest score of 21.65, which is more than 40 points lower than the national average.
West Khasi Hills (Meghalaya), Darrang (Assam), Sitapur (Uttar Pradesh), and Hailakandi (Assam) also have low component scores of 23.64, 24.22, 24.66, and 25.81, respectively.
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Telangana was also one of the top performing states in the country when it came to using clean fuel for cooking. More than 90% of households in Telangana, Delhi, Goa, Chandigarh, and Puducherry use clean fuel for cooking. Less than half of households in Uttar Pradesh, Tripura, Nagaland, Assam, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha, Meghalaya, Chhattisgarh, and Jharkhand use clean fuel for cooking.
It was discovered that approximately 97 percent of the country’s population lives in households with electricity on average, with 26 districts having 100 percent of households with electricity. However, it was discovered that while households in Rajouri (Jammu and Kashmir), Jind & Bhiwani (Haryana), and Bilaspur (Himachal Pradesh) have electricity, less than 50% of them use clean fuel for cooking. Meghalaya’s districts all have less than 64.18 percent of households using clean fuel for cooking.
Whereas in Bihar, Assam, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, and Jharkhand have more than 90 percent of districts households with less than the national average.
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