OF SELECT STATES State Per Capita Income for – (in Rs) Haryana , , Kerala , , Bihar , income and Bihar is at the bottom. This means that, on an average, a person in Haryana earned Rs , , in one year whereas, on an average, a person in Bihar earned only around Rs , . So, if per capita income were to be used as the measure of development, Haryana will be considered the most developed and Bihar the least developed state of the three. Now, let us look at certain other data pertaining to these states given in Table .
. Source : Economic Survey – , P.A . State Literacy Rate % Net Attendance Ratio (per – persons) secondary stage (age and years) – Haryana Kerala Bihar Sources : Economic Survey – , P.A , National Sample Survey Organisation (Report No. ), National Statistical Office, Government of India.
Explanation of some of the terms used in this table: Infant Mortality Rate (or IMR ) indicates the number of children that die before the age of one year as a proportion of live children born in that particular year. Literacy Rate measures the proportion of literate population in the -and-above age group. Net Attendance Ratio is the total number of children of age group and years attending school as a percentage of total number of children in the same age group. Infant Mortality Rate per , live births ( )