Results: Social Infrastructure Index

Social Infrastructure is one variable that cannot be overlooked by any state. A good education system, high literacy rates and efficient public health centres will highly reflect the social welfare of the people living within the district. This sub index precisely captures such welfare level within each district by including various other social welfare measures.

The graph above is an interesting finding of EEI and ranks Nilgiris at number one with a score of 0.78 and Villupuram the last with a score of 0.35. An interesting observation here is for Kancheepuram which features as rank number 8 in terms of overall economic governance but is at rank number 23 for social infrastructure.

This is a major area of concern as it might affect parameters of economic governance in the long term for Kancheepuram. This is also the reason as to why we emphasize at every stage that the overall governance index might be quite misleading at times and a closer look at disaggregated scores would come into use here.