India was not only able to withstand the economic crisis but also generated steady employment from 2009.
Policies such as Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) helped our economy recover effectively from the global slowdown of 2008, economic survey report 2010-11, released on Friday, said.
In fact, India’s recovery has been one of the fastest in the world.
The country was not only able to withstand the economic crisis but also generated steady employment from 2009. Unlike other developing countries, where measures to counter job losses were ad hoc and based on protectionism, India’s employment generation programme was planned with a long-term outlook and was free from protectionism.
Employment in the organised sector — public and private combined — increased during 1994-2008, primarily due to growth in the private sector.
Government expenditure on social services and rural development (plan and non-plan), which contributes to human growth, went up consistently from 13.75% during 2005-06 to 19.27% during 2010-11.
Improvement of access, along with equity and excellence, adoption of state-specific strategies, enhancement of relevance through curriculum reforms, vocationalisation, networking and information technology and distance education were some of the main policy initiatives in the higher education sector.
Significant progress has been made over the last three decades in health delivery facilities. However, as per human development report 2010, India fared poorly when compared to China and Sri Lanka on parameters such as per capita expenditure on health and number of physicians/hospital beds per 10,000 persons.
In the last decade, the country developed a well-structured three-tier public infrastructure comprising community health centres, primary health centres and sub-centres in rural and semi-urban areas as well as tertiary medical care comprising multi-specialty hospitals and medical colleges. However, inadequate health-related infrastructure, including shortage of doctors and paramedical professionals, has severely restricted the delivery of health services, particularly in rural areas.
Inter-state comparison of socio-economic development threw up some interesting results. While developed states such as Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu performed well on many indicators, backward states such as Bihar, and Orissa showed good growth.
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