A study of social sector development in eastern Uttar Pradesh: districts-wise disparity

Education and health is known to have vital and important links with the achievement of income and social development as well as improvements in health and education has important implications for the supply and demand of labour. Uttar Pradesh is more populous state of India and eastern region of Uttar Pradesh is more backward than other region of Uttar Pradesh. In this paper an attempt has been made to analyse inter-district disparity in the eastern UP and inter regional disparity among the economic regions of U.P in development of social sectors, i.e., education and health. The purpose of this study is to focus on the education and health capabilities of the people of eastern Uttar Pradesh because improvements in education and health are strong symbol of development and growth of any country. The present work is mainly based on secondary data. The study seeks to compare regional variation for the two point of time i.e, 2011-12 and 2017-18 as per availability of data. The districts of Eastern Uttar Pradesh are suffering with low health outcome and poor health development. The overall performance of the Eastern Uttar Pradesh in terms of health attainment is pitiable. Between 2011-12 and 2017-18, the overall picture of districts of Eastern Uttar Pradesh has remained unchanged with some improvement. By the data analysis it is clear that some districts are performing better in health and education while some districts are in worse condition. Eastern Uttar Pradesh can set the rules of policy and governance for rest of the regions.