What will it take for UP to climb out of decades-old governance quagmire?

If the state has to catch up with rest of the country, major reforms and political stability will be needed

One-sixth of India’s population lives in Uttar Pradesh. The state has more people than the UK, France, Germany and the continent of Australia. Its economic development has, however, lagged far behind all these countries. Its per capita income is less than one-40th of the UK and half of the average per capita income of India.

The funny thing is that this was not always the state of affairs. When India became independent, the average per capita income of the state was at the same level as rest of India. But growth of the state domestic product (SDP) was slow and lagged