(a) the names of districts identified as aspirational districts, State-wise;
(b) the criteria laid down for inclusion and exclusion of districts as aspirational;
(c) whether the Government proposes to include more districts in the list of aspirational districts; and
(d) if so, the details thereof, State-wise including Andhra Pradesh and Odisha?
MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDNT CHARGE) FOR THE MINISTRY OF PLANNING AND
MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF CHEMICALS & FERTILIZERS
(RAO INDERJIT SINGH)
(a) List of identified aspirational districts is enclosed as Annexure-I
(b) Out of these districts, 35 districts have been selected by Ministry of Home Affairs on the basis of their being affected by Left wing Extremism. The remaining districts have been selected on the basis of composite index which in turn includes published data of deprivation enumerated under Socio-Economic Caste Census, Health &Nutrition, Education, and Basic Infrastructure. The data set and weight -age attached to them for creating composite index is as follows
Composite Index
Databases Sector Weight
Landless households dependent on Manual labour (Socio Economic Caste Census – Deprivation 7) Deprivation 25%
Ante natal care ( National Health and Family Survey (NHFS-4) Health & Nutrition 7.5%
Institutional delivery( NHFS-4) 7.5%
Stunting of children below 5 years ( NHFS-4) 7.5%
Wasting in children below 5 yrs ( NHFS-4) 7.5%
Elementary drop out rate ((Unified District Information System for Education (U-DISE 2015-16) Education 7.5%
Adverse pupil teacher ratio ( U-DISE 2015-16) 7.5%
Un-electrified households ( Ministry of Power) Infra 7.5%
Households without individual toilets ( Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation ) 7.5%
Un-connected PMGSY village ( Ministry of Rural Development ) 7.5%
Rural Household without access to water ( Ministry of Drinking water and sanitation ) 7.5%
Total 100%
After short listing these districts as above, State Governments were requested that they may suggest any modification on basis of objective criteria. On the basis of their suggestions, the list has been modified and the same has been placed in annex-I as mentioned above.
(c)&(d) At present, there is no proposal to raise the number of districts.
Annexure-I
NITI Aayog
State MHA LWE Districts Total
Andhra Pradesh Vizainagram Visakhapatnam 3
Andhra Pradesh Cuddapah
Arunachal Pradesh Namsai 1
Assam Darrang 7
Assam Dhubri
Assam Barpeta
Assam Udalgiri
Assam Hailakandi
Assam Goalpara
Assam Baksa
Bihar Katihar Aurangabad 13
Bihar Begusarai Banka
Bihar Sheikhpura Gaya
Bihar Araria Jamui
Bihar Sitamarhi Muzaffarpur
Bihar Khagaria Nawada
Bihar Purnia
Chhattisgarh Korba Bastar 10
Chhattisgarh Mahasamund Bijapur
Chhattisgarh Dantewada
Chhattisgarh Kanker
Chhattisgarh Kondagaon
Chhattisgarh Narayanpur
Chhattisgarh Rajnandgaon
Chhattisgarh Sukma
Gujarat Narmada 2
Gujarat Dahod
Haryana Mewat 1
Himachal Pradesh Chamba 1
Jammu and Kashmir Kupwara 2
Jammu and Kashmir Baramula
Jharkhand Sahebganj Latehar 19
Jharkhand Pakaur Lohardaga
Jharkhand Godda Palamu
Jharkhand PurbiSinghbhum
Jharkhand Ramgarh
Jharkhand Ranchi
Jharkhand Simdega
Jharkhand West Singhbhum
Jharkhand Bokaro
Jharkhand Chatra
Jharkhand Dumka
Jharkhand Garhwa
Jharkhand Girdih
Jharkhand Gumla
Jharkhand Hazaribagh
Jharkhand Khunti
Karnataka Yadgir 2
Karnataka Raichur
Kerala Wayanad 1
Madhya Pradesh Damoh 8
Madhya Pradesh Singrauli
Madhya Pradesh Chhatarpur
Madhya Pradesh Rajgarh
Madhya Pradesh Guna
Madhya Pradesh Barwani
Madhya Pradesh Vidisha
Madhya Pradesh Khandwa
Maharashtra Nandurbar Gadchiroli 4
Maharashtra Washim
Maharashtra Osmanabad
Manipur Chandel 1
Meghalaya Ribhoi 1
Mizoram Mamit 1
Nagaland Kiphire 1
Odisha Rayagada Koraput 10
Odisha Kalahandi Malkangiri
Odisha Dhenkanal
Odisha Balangir
Odisha Nabarangpur
Odisha Nuapada
Odisha Gajapati
Punjab Firozpur 2
Punjab Moga
Rajasthan Baran 5
Rajasthan Jaisalmer
Rajasthan Dholpur
Rajasthan Karauli
Rajasthan Sirohi
Sikkim West Sikkim 1
Tamil Nadu Ramanathapuram 2
Tamil Nadu Virudhunagar
Telengana Bhoopalpalli Khammam 3
Telengana Asifabad
Tripura Dhalai 1
Uttar Pradesh Chitrakoot 8
Uttar Pradesh Balrampur
Uttar Pradesh Bahraich
Uttar Pradesh Sonbhadra
Uttar Pradesh Shrawasti
Uttar Pradesh Chandauli
Uttar Pradesh Siddharthnagar
Uttar Pradesh Fatehpur
Uttarakhand Haridwar 2
Uttarakhand Udham Singh Nagar
West Bengal Murshidabad 5
West Bengal Nadia
West Bengal DakshinDinajpur
West Bengal Maldah
West Bengal Birbhum