Indian States at a Glance 2008-09: Performance, Facts and Figures - Punjab
Indian States at a Glance 2008-09: Performance, Facts and Figures presents information on the 29 states and 6 union territories of India in a set of 22 volumes. A compilation of the latest facts and figures, ranging from the basic socio-economic and demographic indicators to development parameters, these books also provide brief profiles of the states covering their history, culture, cuisine, handicrafts, places of tourist interest as well as an account of their performance vis-à-vis other states
Punjab, the state whose fields made India self-sufficient in food in the 1960s, is an affluent state. However, its growth performance has been below the national average and in agriculture, especially, there are acute problems of stagnation that need to be resolved. The state has not been able to attract much industrial investment given its turbulent past of militancy in the 1980s; however, this trend is now being reversed. By human development indicators, the state has done well on many fronts including literacy, but a serious issue of gender bias came to the fore in the 2001 census with a large decline in the sex ratio. To sustain its high level of living, the state needs to revive agriculture and move towards more diversified activity in the services sector.
Table of Content
- The National Picture
- The State at a Glance
- State Profile: A Review
- Tourism Profile
- Economic Profile in Numbers
- Social Profile in Numbers
- District Profile in Numbers
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Salient Features
- The first state to mobilize the ‘green revolution’, Punjab is a large state with larger achievements. It occupies 1.5 per cent of the country’s geographical area and accounts for more than two-thirds of the country’s production of food grains.
- Punjab is not an industrially developed state and is characterized by predominance of small industrial units.
- Gender imbalance is acute in the state with an alarmingly low female sex ratio, which declined from 882 in 1991 to 876 in 2001.
- Punjab is counted among the richer states of the country, with only 8.1 per cent of the population below the poverty line in 2004-05.
- The general affluence in the state shows up in the high penetration levels of vehicles and ownership of two-wheelers and cars. It had 1,065 cars per lakh population in 2004 compared to 675 cars per lakh population at the national level.
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