If you want to rank states, there are two broad roads to follow. First, you can administer questionnaires and respondents' reply to specific questions. However, this route presumes that respondents know about all the states you wish to rank. Typically, that doesn't happen. Respondents know about states they operate in (or are located in). Second, you can use objective data.
In a glaring act of negligence, for almost three years the Punjab government failed to provide mandatory supplements of iron and vitamin A to children born in the state. Vitamin A deficiency can not only cause night blindness, but also increase the risks of acute respiratory disorders as well as diarrhea, the two major causes of infant mortality in India.
As the city deals with burgeoning population, the average number of births per day in the Capital is 915 against 295 deaths. Despite the high number, Delhi
Insurgency and geographical isolation from the rest of India are two of the major causes for underdevelopment of the North East region of India despite the fact that the region has abundance of natural resources, said a report of the World Bank.
The euphoria over improvement in the imbalanced sex ratio at birth has proved to be short-lived for the hill state. Though the sex ratio at birth is looking up, but what is more disturbing is the fact that the infant mortality rate (IMR) has shown a decline, indicating that if the girl child does manage to come into this world, chances of her survival
are bleak.
A UNICEF-supported project on behaviour change communication and child development and nutrition, implemented by the North East Diocesan Social Forum (NEDSF) and visualised as a situational need, has won the confidence of different communities concentrated in three districts of the State namely Barpeta, Bongaigaon and Goalpara.
