Question

why odisha is not modernization state?​

Answer 1

Stay in Odisha for a bit and you will run into a puzzle.

Despite healthy finances, the state is failing to provide basic services to its people. Its schools and hospitals are badly understaffed. Jobs are not easy to find, as a result of which young people are getting disillusioned with education itself. Welfare programmes like the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme work only on paper.

While the state saw an iron ore boom over the last decade, government's policies ensured only a handful of people became rich. Most stayed unaffected. Some ended up poorer. During the same period, the state also saw a chit fund boom in which middle- and low-income families lost money.

Answer 2

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❀ Despite healthy finances, the state is failing to provide basic services to its people. Its schools and hospitals are badly understaffed. Jobs are not easy to find, as a result of which young people are getting disillusioned with education itself. Welfare programmes like the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme work only on paper.

❀ While the state saw an iron ore boom over the last decade, government's policies ensured only a handful of people became rich. Most stayed unaffected. Some ended up poorer. During the same period, the state also saw a chit fund boom in which middle- and low-income families lost money.

❀ Despite this streak of state failure, the state's people continue to be silent. To an outsider, the silence is striking. Said a senior IAS official in the state: “There is a passivity amongst the people. I have seen low-level government functionaries take Rs 50 off people who own no more than one set of clothes. And I could not understand. Why would one feel no qualms about taking money from someone so poor? Why did the other not protest?”

❀ Abhijit Sen, who was overseeing Odisha when he was a member at the erstwhile Planning Commission, agreed with this characterisation. “The puzzling thing about Odisha is its great inertia,” he said. “The government moves slowly. And people assume that slowness is inherent. In that sense, yes, the population is passive.”

❀ There is little political activism in the state, whether from its political parties, or from its people. What you see instead, said Sen, is a thriving informal sector with people who do whatever work they can get or simply migrate from the state to make ends meet.