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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