CHAMBA BEST IN HEALTH, EDUACTION LIVING STANDARDS

Why in news?

• Himachal Pradesh has bagged the 23rd position in the National Multidimensional Index of India (MPI) report
issued by the Niti Aayog, with 7.62 percent of its population being multidimensionally poor.
• Based on the National Family Health Survey-5, the survey has taken into account health, education and standard
of living of households.
• The neighbouring state of Haryana lies on the 21st position while Punjab lies on the 24th position, Uttarakhand
stood at the 15th position.
• Chamba tops the stat with 11,27 percent MPI, while Sirmaur and Solan district were at the second and third
position with MPI of 10.88 and 9.24 percent respectively.
• Smaller district of Kullu was at the fourth position with 8.97 percent MPI while Mandi is ahead of tribal districts
Lahaul-Spiti and Kinnaur, registering MPI of 8.3 percent as against 7.7 percent registered by Lahaul-Spiti, which
occupies the sixth position among districts. Presence of industrial dusters appears to have failed to alleviate
poverty in Solan and Sirmaur, Bilaspur secured MPI of 7.54 percent and occupied the seventh position while
Shimla is marginally better at eight position with MPI of 7.4 percent.
• The state’s biggest district of Kangra has MPI of 5.88 percent where Una stood next with MPI of 5.12 percent.
Following by Kinnaur at 5.10 percent and Hamirpur has the lowest MPI score of 4.60 percent. The MPI was found
to be more profound in rural areas.
• On parameters of nutrition, there are 27.2 percent households where a child between the age of 0 to 59 months
or women between the ages of the 0 to 49 years or men between the age of 15 to 54 years have been found to
be undernourished
• As many as 3.8 percent households have a school aged child not attending school. The school attendance is
deficient from 0.9 to 1.1 percent for varying school going aged children, Standard of living takes in to account
cooking fuel, sanitation, drinking water and electricity.