'Missing' governance

 Today Raghu Dayal writes in TOI on ‘vanishing dream of growth.’ Raghu laments that “India is ranked in a Thomson Reuters Foundation poll as among the world’s worst places to be a woman; second from the bottom in the 2010 PISA tests on school education quality; 94^th in Transparency International Corruption Perception Index; 131^st in the 2011 Human Development Index (HDI), fallen from 124^th in 2004.” What Raghu forgets to write that it is Gujarat which has also contributed a lot in lowering these rankings. 

Dear Raghu, please look at this stats. It’s official.

District	Total children missing			Tracked			Still missing/lost
	C	F	M	C	F	M	C	F	M
Kutch	611	789	502	508	607	385	103	181	117
Navsari	160	174	200	121	128	116	39	46	84
Patan	169	411	128	134	297	90	35	114	38
Por bandar	67	133	68	61	124	52	6	9	16
Surendranagar	267	215	147	259	203	137	8	12	10
Valsad	311	293	279	244	209	164	67	84	115
Rajkot	1367	1675	1082	1247	1437	932	120	238	150
Amreli	165	240	94	159	211	78	6	29	16
Banas kantha	315	531	280	294	290	242	21	41	38
Bhav nagar	305	395	246	281	330	196	24	65	50
Gandhi nagar	567	914	454	461	688	307	106	226	147
Total	4304	5770	3480	3769	4724	2699	535	1046	781

 

    C-child, F-female, M-male

                                                (Source: legislative assembly, Gujarat state)

And this:

Proportion of woman is high among ‘missing’!

	Total  missing	Found	Still missing
Children	4304	3769	535
Female	5770	4724	1046
Male	3480	2699	781
Total	13554	11192	2362

Raghu quotes Jim O’Neill, a major proponent of the celebrated October 2003 Goldman Sachs BRIC’s report which predicted that, by 2032, India could be the world’s third largest economy, after the US and China. Raghu refers O’Neill’s praise for Gujarat’s CM. Raghu, please send above facts to poor O’Neill.