Raje govt in Rajasthan saw growth, yet failed to use it for social progress

At 7.2%, Rajasthan's gross state domestic product growth in 2017-18 was higher than the national GDP growth of 6.7%. However, it ranks eighth in our 12-state list

Rajasthan, India’s seventh most populous state, which goes to the polls on December 7, 2018, with Telangana, registered a 7% growth rate, exceeding the national average. But it has not been able to use this growth to create enough jobs, improve women’s literacy or combat high maternal and child mortality rates.

IndiaSpend compared Rajasthan’s indicators on health, agriculture, unemployment with 11 other states, using diverse sources, such as the National Family Health Survey (NFHS), National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) and Niti Aayog. We picked these 12 states for