explain with reason why state of punjab with very high for capital income has a very low literacy rate?
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Although the average person in Punjab has more income, he/she lags behind in crucial areas such as literacy rate because
Income is not an adequate indicator of material goods and services which people are to use.
In many regions, education, health and sanitary facilities are not adequately available to educate and prevent from infectious diseases.
People are not aware about the importance of literacy for their betterment of life.
In rural areas, they prefer to educate boys and discriminate against girls to give them school education.
Also, many parents themselves are illiterate and not given priority for education.
They send children to work for wages instead of school.
Answer:(i) Per capita income of Punjab is ` 26,000.
(ii) Literacy rate of Punjab according to 2001 is 70%.
(iii) Therefore, income by itself is not a completely adequate indicator of material goods and services that citizens are able to use.
(iv) Over the past decade, health and education indicators have come to be widely used along with income as a measure of development.
(v) Human Development Report Published by UNDP compares countries on the basis of education.
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