{"id":7364,"date":"2017-11-29T13:58:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T13:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/?p=7364"},"modified":"2017-11-29T14:09:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T14:09:51","slug":"kerala-tops-among-states-on-3-critical-social-parameters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/?p=7364","title":{"rendered":"Kerala tops among states on 3 critical social parameters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is economic progress itself an indicator of overall growth? Not quite.<\/p>\n<p>Going by the Social Progress\u00a0 Index, a tool that captures the social progress of the regions based on social performance, Kerala&#8217;s social progress score is about 10 points higher than Gujarat&#8217;s despite the latter&#8217;s economy being about twice the size of the southern state.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Kerala\u00a0is the only state in top 5 on all three component indices and its social progress score is about 10 points higher than Gujarat&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>This shows that economic growth alone cannot deliver good quality of life.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a look at how India&#8217;s making social progress and how the states fared on three dimensions that make up their social progress index\u00a0 score.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Kerala01KERALA29nov2017.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7370\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Kerala01KERALA29nov2017.png?resize=604%2C632\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Kerala01KERALA29nov2017.png?w=635&amp;ssl=1 635w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Kerala01KERALA29nov2017.png?resize=287%2C300&amp;ssl=1 287w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Kerala02KERALA29nov2017.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7372\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Kerala02KERALA29nov2017.png?resize=400%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Kerala02KERALA29nov2017.png?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Kerala02KERALA29nov2017.png?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>STATE STATS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The colours indicate the position of the state in the overall index as shown on the map<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Kerala03KERALA29nov2017.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7374\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Kerala03KERALA29nov2017.png?resize=604%2C757\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"757\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Kerala03KERALA29nov2017.png?w=635&amp;ssl=1 635w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Kerala03KERALA29nov2017.png?resize=239%2C300&amp;ssl=1 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>source: http:\/\/www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com \/ The Times of India \/ News&gt; India News \/ TNN \/ November 29th, 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is economic progress itself an indicator of overall growth? Not quite. Going by the Social Progress\u00a0 Index, a tool that captures the social progress of the regions based on social performance, Kerala&#8217;s social progress score is about 10 points higher than Gujarat&#8217;s despite the latter&#8217;s economy being about twice the size of the southern state. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/?p=7364\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kerala tops among states on 3 critical social parameters<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-kerala","category-inspiration-positive-news-and-features","category-records-all"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7364"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7376,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7364\/revisions\/7376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}