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Table 2.7: Percentage Share of Workforce and GSDP bySub-Sector in Maharashtra, 2004-05 (at 1993-94 Prices)Sector Workers % GSDP %UPS UPSS GSDPAgriculture, etc. 55.17 55.74 11.14Mining & Quarrying 0.42 0.41 0.79Primary 55.60 56.15 11.93Manufacturing 11.67 11.78 22.17Electricity, Gas & Water supply 0.30 0.28 2.44Construction 4.98 4.87 4.61Secondary 16.95 16.93 29.22Trade, Hotel & Restaurants 11.01 10.80 14.53Transport, Storage & Communication 4.71 4.51 14.44Finance, Business, Real Estate, etc 2.82 2.80 17.74Public Admn., Health, Education, etc. 8.92 8.81 12.15Tertiary 27.46 26.92 58.85Total 100.00 100.00 100.00Source: Computed from CSO.2.4 Health and Nutritional StatusIt is a well known fact that a healthy person has a higher capacity to work. The goal of any economicactivity is human well-being, an important. component of which is health. Health and nutritionalstatus can be measured through a number of indicators. While mortality under age one [infantmortality] is an indicator of poor reproductive health facilities, antenatal care and post-natal care,mortality under age five is closely linked with immunization and overall poverty levels. The latter isalso useful for assessing both social practices and public policy and can be taken as acomprehensive indicator for the overall quality of life.In terms of nutritional indicators, Maharashtra has a better picture in case of proportion ofunderweight children (37 percent) in comparison to the other states and the national average. Theother mortality and nutritional indicators for children also show a better position in comparison tothe national average and to the other major states. However, the nutritional indicator in case ofwomen in Maharashtra is an indicator which invites attention. The proportion of thin women inMaharashtra is higher than the national average and also higher than other states like Uttar Pradesh(Table 2.8).While infant mortality can be reduced with improvements in access to healthcare, the presence oftrained birth attendants etc., reduction in child mortality is more related to improvements in food security16 FOOD SECURITY ATLAS OF RURAL MAHARRASHTRA
Table 2.8: Mortality and Nutritional Status of Children and Women 2 (2005-06)Under- Infant Under- Wasted Stunted Anemic Thinfive Mortality weight Children Children Children WomenmortalityChildrenIndia 74.3 57 42.5 19.8 48.0 69.5 35.6Uttar Pradesh 96.4 72.7 42.4 14.8 56.8 73.9 36.0Madhya Pradesh 94.2 69.5 60.0 35.0 50.0 74.1 41.7Jharkhand 93.0 68.7 56.5 32.3 49.8 70.3 43.0Orissa 90.6 64.7 40.7 19.5 45.0 65.0 41.4Chhattisgarh 90.3 70.8 47.1 19.5 52.9 71.2 43.4Rajasthan 85.4 65.3 39.9 20.4 43.7 69.7 36.7Assam 85.0 66.1 36.4 13.7 46.5 69.6 36.5Bihar 84.8 61.7 55.9 27.1 55.6 78.0 45.1Maharashtra 46.7 37.5 37.0 16.5 46.3 63.4 36.2Best State 16.3 15.3 22.9 9.2 24.5 44.5 18.0(Kerala) (Kerala) (Kerala) (Punjab) (Kerala) (Kerala) (Kerala)Worst State 96.4 72.7 60 35.0 56.8 78.0 45.1(UP) (UP) (MP) (MP) (UP) (Bihar) (Bihar)Source: National Family Health Survey III, 2005-06.and nutritional status specially of women. Social and economic factors determining the access tofood, food entitlements, safe drinking water, and so on, all come into play. Consequently, for an analysisof food security, child mortality is a more relevant indicator than infant mortality.In nutritional status of children (Table 2.9), rural Maharashtra is more or less at the par with all-India level. The proportion of stunted children under 3 years is about the same as the nationalaverage, but the proportions of children under 3 years who are underweight or wasted are bothmuch lower for rural Maharashtra. This would mean that there has been some improvement inchildren’s nutrition. This has not affected stunting, which, however, is a long-term, even intergenerationalissue.While rural children in Maharashtra are more or less at the all-India nutritional levels, the same is notthe case for rural women in Maharashtra. Of adult rural women in Maharashtra, as many as 43 percenthave an incidence of low BMI. This is more than four percentage points of all-India incidence. On theother hand, adult rural men in Maharashtra perform better than adult rural men at the all-India level(See Table 2.10).2. Only those states have been selected that have under five mortality higher than 80 per thousand live births.A PROFILE OF THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA17
Page 1 and 2: Food Security AtlasOfRURAL MAHARASH
Page 3 and 4: Copyright © 2010The UN World Food
Page 5 and 6: TECHNICAL ADVISORY GROUPChairperson
Page 8: PrefaceIndia is home to more than a
Page 12 and 13: ContentsForewardPrefaceAcknowledgem
Page 14 and 15: List of Tables, Figures, Maps and B
Page 16 and 17: List of AbbreviationsADAPTAIDISAPLA
Page 19 and 20: Executive SummaryExecutive SummaryF
Page 21 and 22: capacities and knowledge.Measures t
Page 24 and 25: 1. Introduction1. IntroductionIndia
Page 26 and 27: production. This portion of the con
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Page 31 and 32: Map 2.1: Maharashtra: Administrativ
Page 33 and 34: Table 2.2: Percentage Poverty Rates
Page 35: Table 2.6: Sectoral Composition of
Page 39: Table 2.11: Status of ConsumptionPe
Page 42 and 43: Children who are more than two stan
Page 44 and 45: Map 3.1: Food Security Outcome Map
Page 46 and 47: Table 3.3: Indicators used to Compu
Page 48 and 49: the ‘normal’ entitlements to fo
Page 50 and 51: to the dependent population 1 . Thi
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Page 55 and 56: 4.2. ProductionTable 4.1: Growth of
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6. Food Absorption6. Food Absorptio
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Map 6.1: Access to Health Services
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Map 6.3: Food Absorption Map of Rur
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Table 7.1: Ranks of Districts on Co
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Map 7.2: Maharashtra: Priority Dist
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Box 7.1: National Policy for Farmer
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A part of the wastelands has also b
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development policy for forest-dwell
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Table 7.6: Index of Public Interven
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Table 7.7: MGNREGS Performance, All
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Another policy implication from the
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The list of activities taken up und
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Box 7.5: The Forest Rights ActThe S
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women’s land rights also increase
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Box 7.6: Ralegan Siddhi: A Village
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may not be a corresponding improvem
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Infants and Young ChildrenBox 7.8:
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frequent disruption in the supply o
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panchayats, the panchayats perform
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Table 8.1: Key Interventions in Pri
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Government of India (2007a), The Sc
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Srivastava, Ravi, 1997, “Rural La
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Thus, rights require state action w
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obligation of the state to provide
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Name of Variable and Description So
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The basic objective of using PCA is
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Appendix III: Index Value, Normativ
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Table A3.3:Index Values and Normati
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