In rural Gujarat, infrastructure can't compensate for lack of jobs

In spite of industrialisation, rising incomes, and investment in infrastructure, health outcomes are poor in Gujarat

“You won’t find many people to talk (to) in our village,” said 50-year-old Gaman Gavit, a farmer from Girmal village near Girmal falls, a tourist spot in South Gujarat’s Dang district, 400 kilometres from the state’s capital Gandhinagar. Two of his four sons migrated to Surat district and Maharashtra to help feed his family of 15, said Gavit, who owns four acres of land on which he grows rice, nagali (finger millet) and