Results: Physical Infrastructure Index

The sub index Physical Infrastructure assumes the highest weight (20 per cent) in the construction of the index due to the greater variability of the values within the sub index.

The above graph ranks districts on parameters that include variables like time taken to get a telephone repaired, percentage of villages connected through power network, and time taken in travelling 25 kilometers. Thus the sub index captures both the quality of and access to physical infrastructure.

Here we see that all the districts have scores ranging roughly between 0.4 and 0.8. It is evident that Namakkal outperforms all other districts and stands at rank one with a score of 0.8 while Virundhunagar lags behind right at the bottom at number 28 with a score of 0.38. It is also observed that the top ten ranked districts in terms of overall economic governance also have high ranks for physical infrastructure. A sound physical infrastructure will have direct benefits on other parameters of governance as well. Physical infrastructure is also widely accepted as a pre-cursor to development outcomes.