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POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY TN

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4.9 Summary<br />

There are considerable inter-district and intra-districts differences in Tamil Nadu in<br />

respect of the incidence of poverty, nature and level of economic activities, education<br />

indicators, health indicators and general developmental indicators. Demographic<br />

differences like the share of young population in total population, male-female ratio are<br />

also notable. In devising a suitable strategy for coping with spatial imbalances in the<br />

context of Millennium Development Goals based poverty reduction strategy, the following<br />

are some of the major highlights of inter-district deficiencies in Tamil Nadu.<br />

1. In terms of real GDDP, indicative of income differences, the most deficient five<br />

districts are: Villupuram, Thiruvannamalai, Dharmapuri, Krishnagiri, and Thiruvarur.<br />

Relative to the average, the differences across districts in per capita GDDP are quite<br />

large. Considering all districts the range of variation is from 0 to 108.89.<br />

2. In terms of gross enrolment ratio (GER), the five most deficient districts are:<br />

Thiruvannamalai, Villupuram, the Nilgiris, Krishnagiri, and Vellore. Relative to the<br />

average the per capita differences in GER are limited. Considering all districts the<br />

range of variation is from 0 to 18.96.<br />

3. In terms of literacy rate, the five most deficient districts are: Dharmapuri, Krishnagiri,<br />

Villupuram, Perambalur, and Erode. Inter-district differences in literacy relative to the<br />

average are nearly twice as large as the case of GER. Considering all districts the<br />

range of variation is from 0 to 39.31.<br />

4. For life expectancy, five most deficient districts are: Theni, Dindigul, Virudhunagar,<br />

Ramanathapuram, and Namakkal. In this case also, the inter-district differences are<br />

limited. Considering all districts the range of variation is from 0 to 21.29.<br />

5. In terms of gender development index the five most deficient districts taking into<br />

account all the determinant of Gender Development Index are: Dharmapuri,<br />

Villupuram, Krishnagiri, Thiruvannamalai, and Perambalur. Considering all districts<br />

the range of variation is from 0.64 to 0.83.<br />

6. For gender related disabilities some of the notable districts are Dharmapuri, Salem,<br />

Theni, Perambalur and Virudhunagar. Considering all districts the range of variation<br />

relative to the Tamil Nadu average kept at 100 is: for life expectancy at birth 88.8 to<br />

106.15; literacy 89.05 to 119.73; gross enrolment ratio 95.62 to 106.1; and per<br />

capita income: 94.01 to 308.1.<br />

7. For population of children in the age group 0-6 the neediest districts are:<br />

Dharmapuri, Ariyalur, Pudukkottai, Ramanathapuram and Villupuram. Considering all<br />

districts the range of variation is from 0.609 to 0.843.<br />

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