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	Bimaru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Population is seen as widening the north-south divide
		identification of poverty and backwardness with BIMARU States is a trifle simplistic.
		When compared with the so-called BIMARU states in the north (Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Raiasthan and Uttar Pradesh), the southern states are slated to see their populations decrease from 23.2 percent in 1991 to 16.5 percent in 2051,...
	encyclopedie.cc /Bimaru (345 words)

	Private sector shuns Bimaru states
		The four 'Bimaru' states-Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh-account for around 36 per cent of the total population and 31 per cent of the total area of India.
		Rajasthan is the only Bimaru state, where the outstanding projects investment fell by 3.3 per cent in the fiscal 2001-02.
		Among the Bimaru states, Rajasthan is the most preferred state by private promoters.
	www.projectsmonitor.com /detailnews.asp?newsid=4618 (614 words)

	A billion plus India
		With a population of 40 per cent of the country’s total, the BIMARU belt, in northern India, comprising the states of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh witnesses the worst demographic position in the entire country.
		With a large proportion of the population being illiterate, more so among the females, the total fertility rate in the BIMARU states is found to be as high as 5 as against 3.6 for the country as a whole.
		According to the 1991 census, the proportion of population in the age group 0-14 was found to be as high as 40 per cent in these states as against 30 per cent in Kerala-Tamil Nadu and 37 per cent in the country.
	www.assam.org /news/ab/a_billion_plus_india.htm (1448 words)

	Bimaru hole swallows Rs 350,000cr since â50s- The Economic Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Bimaru states rank among the last on the human development index — once again Bihar is at the bottom of the charts.
		But the decadal population growth rate in the Bimaru states seems to be a major constraint.
		And, the people in Bimaru states will be an important ingredient of this or the absence of human resource development will be a major obstacle.
	economictimes.indiatimes.com /articleshow/1220021.cms (546 words)

	North India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There is also a generally higher level of inequality between males and females on all social indices.
		The four BIMARU states of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh, collectively have the highest population growth rates in India, as well as lower than average literacy rates and economic growth rates than India as a whole.
		The economy of northern India, especially the region surrounding the Delhi metropolitan area is growing at a remarkable pace.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/North_India (794 words)

	HardNews - Minor growth, major anxiety
		The decadal growth rate of BIMARU states is still a high 25.7 per cent and has been this way for the last three decades.
		Com-pared to this, the decadal growth rate in the eastern region (minus Bihar) of India is also a relatively high 18.28 per cent, but is sliding downwards: from a high of 28.92 per cent in 1961.
		But what should equally be a matter of concern is the consequent implication that if the BIMARU population keeps growing till near the end of the century, then the populations in other regions will actually be contracting.
	www.hardnewsmedia.com /oct2004/census1.php (817 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		At a meeting with the chief ministers of Bimaru states yesterday, Atal Bihari Vajpayee told them he would check their report cards every six months to assess their performance in the spheres of health and population stabilisation.
		Vajpayee had summoned the chief ministers of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh (Bimaru) to express his displeasure on their failure to implement a population stabilisation policy, improve healthcare, and arrest infant and maternal mortality rates.
		The Prime Minister said he would call a meeting of the Bimaru chief ministers every six months to assess the implementation of health and population schemes.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1030118/asp/nation/story_1585557.asp (408 words)

	The Hindu Business Line : BIMARU or bimari?
		THE BIMARU States comprising Bihar, Madhya Pradesh (MP), Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh (UP) have long been known to be lagging behind in respect of most indices of economic growth and at the bottom of human and infrastructural development.
		To be fair, it is not as if only the BIMARU States are making such a poor show: Assam and Orissa too, among the bigger States, are seen to be running neck-to-neck with them.
		The reasons why the BIMARU States are consistently proving a drag, with such dismal returns on the money spent, deserve a detailed and objective study.
	www.thehindubusinessline.com /2005/08/12/stories/2005081200521000.htm (441 words)

	1,000,000,000 -- Call off the party now (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		With their abysmal social indicators, these states are pulling down the national average on every count, be it fertility or literacy rates, infant or maternal mortality or life expectancy.
		Clubbed together as the BIMARU states, as the name suggests, they pose the greatest challenge to efforts for bringing about a socio-demographic change.Since these states have an overwhelming 40 per cent of the country's population and account for about 42 per cent of the increase, strategies focussing on them should get top billing.
		Instead of touting the success of Kerala or Tamil Nadu in curbing population, the Government should concentrate on the BIMARU states whose record in family planning is shockingly poor.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/20000511/ina11048.html (744 words)

	Indiainfo.com -> News -> India -> No reason for Naidu to cry: Digvijay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Singh is the second chief minister after Ashok Gehlot of Rajasthan to come out against the protestations of Naidu on the issue.
		Gehlot too pointed out that the 11th Finance Commission's increased allocations to the so-called 'Bimaru' states (Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh) should not become a sore point with developed states.
		Bimaru, which translates as sick in Hindi, is a term coined by demographer Ashish Bose for underdeveloped states.
	news.indiainfo.com /2000/08/22/22digvijay.html (478 words)

	India: Cut in food subsidies angers government allies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		But Ghosh said the diversions were possible because the poor are yet to be identified except in Andhra Pradesh and one or two other states and given separate ration cards under the 'two-tier' system introduced by the previous United Front government.
		According to government estimates, half of the country's poor people live in the BIMARU states.
		BIMARU means sick in the Hindi language and is also the acronym for Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh where PDS coverage for the poor is less than 10 percent.
	www.sunsonline.org /trade/process/followup/1999/02030699.htm (896 words)

	Health melas -- New tool to fight problems in BIMARU states (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		MATHURA, SEPT 18: As part of its special drive to improve health facilities in India's five `BIMARU' states that are home to outbreaks of several epidemics, Government has initiated a novel strategy of organising `Health Melas' to take medicare to doorsteps of the people.
		Dotted with numerous stalls, the first such `mela' organised at Mathura in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday witnessed experts from Delhi's leading hospitals rub shoulders with local municipal officials and doctors to offer cheap medicare for tuberculosis, malaria, `kala azar' and polio.
		Thakur said that from Mathura, the `mela' would move to Lucknow, Ghazipur, Patna, Guwahati, Bhopal, Jaipur and finally to Delhi as part of the efforts to reach out to the people, particularly at block and village level in the backward areas.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/20000919/ina19004.html (472 words)

	Can India grow without Bharat?
		Second, the BIMARU economies have grown at only 4.6 per cent over the last decade compared to the 6.3 per cent clocked by the low-fertility states.
		The disparity is greater in terms of per capita income growth since population in BIMARU states has grown faster.
		Third, precisely because the BIMARU states are laggards in the demographic transition, they will see the highest relative and absolute expansion in population and labour force between now and 2051.
	in.rediff.com /money/2003/nov/25guest.htm (1245 words)

	A spectacular march by Rajasthan
		The rate of improvement has been faster than the rest of India in the case of each of the 'Bimaru' States.
		During the 1990s the problem of illiteracy was particularly scute in the four States of the Hindi heartland - Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh - which have been given the derisive acronym of Bimaru.
		But, the latest statistics provided by the Census of India 2001 show that the rate of improvement has been faster in each of these States than in India as a whole.
	www.flonnet.com /fl1824/18240420.htm (1562 words)

	Goa Su-Raj Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		However, in the wake of the economic development that took place in the years ensuing liberation of Goa from Portuguese rule, a tremendous influx of labour force from other states such as Bihar, Rajasthan, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh has caused visible imbalance in the tiny Goa’s demographic profile.
		The reproductive profile of this labour population even after several years of stay in Goa is evocative of the reproductive profile of the population of the states of their origin that is of the BIMARU STATES and is the cause of great worry to the Goan population.
		Goa’s population control programme should address effectively to the BIMARU STATES within the State of Goa., represented by the settlements of labourers from these states, as otherwise there is a great danger of Goa’s identity being dissolved and disappearing in thin air in the years to come.
	www.goasu-raj.org /gen/party_stand/5.htm (600 words)

	Excelsior... Nation
		As part of its special drive to improve health facilities in India’s five ‘Bimaru’ states that are home to outbreaks of several epidemics, Government has initiated a novel strategy of organising ‘health melas’ to take medicare to doorsteps of the people.......
		Keeping in mind the report of the expert committee probing the death of white tigers in the prestigious Nandankan Zoo in Orissa, the Supreme Court today termed the situation as "distressing"......
		CBI counsel B N Ojha said, clubbing the trial of Pinto, who was extradited from London last month, with the rest of the accused was required as "he is a party to same offence, same transaction and same criminal conspiracy".
	www.dailyexcelsior.com /00sep19/national.htm (2921 words)

	Population is not our real problem!
		The growth of population of the four southern states is a third to half that of the four BIMARU states.
		(Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh and hence 'Bimaru').
		True, the populations of Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat and Maharashtra are also growing at rates comparable with the Bimaru four, but their growth in per capita income is comparable with that of the southern four.
	www.rediff.com /news/2003/aug/11guru.htm (1690 words)

	India's Population Breakthrough
		Health programmes in earlier decades, despite many sins of commission and omission, have lowered infant mortality and the overall death rate, a precondition for population control, in every single state.
		The total fertility rate (number of children per woman) remains as high as 5.1 in Uttar Pradesh, but Orissa's rate is down to 3.3.
		Nobody expects the BIMARU states to become as progressive as Kerala, but surely they could, by the year 2000, reach Orissa's current level.
	www.swaminomics.org /articles/19940918_populationbreakthrough.htm (751 words)

	Daily Excelsior... Editorial
		So the thrust area is the woman and it is she who holds the key to the success of any scheme meant for checking population growth.
		As per feed back already in hand, 90 districts in the Bimaru States have been identified where anything between 6 to 10 children are produced by the ignorant couple quite unmindful of consequences.
		As regards creation of Population Stabilisation Fund, the idea is to segregate it from usual budgeting which has failed to percolate to the targeted population.
	www.dailyexcelsior.com /00july24/edit.htm (4514 words)

	World Affairs Board - India's 'Bimaru' states continue to lag, shows UN report
		There is no denying that the BIMARU states lag behind the rest of India, the South for example is doing very well, if we were to take out the BIMARU states, India is equally China in GDP growth rates.
		The reasons why the BIMARU states are behind lie in them being more feudalitic and in some respects backwards, for example, the cast system and such fights are prominent in Bihar, in the rest of India such things have almost dissapeared or are decreasing.
		In fact its funny you would post this, Biharis were reluctant to have new elections or have the elcted politicians run the state preferring the Presidential rule over the state.
	www.worldaffairsboard.com /showthread.php?t=8129 (1295 words)

	Indiainfo.com -> News -> India -> PM to inaugurate ayurveda conference in New York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		He announced that with an aim to take health facilities to every door step, his ministry in coordination with the state governments and a host of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is organizing health melas in all the states in the next two years.
		Priority will be given to the 'BIMARU' states of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Assam and Orissa in organizing the health melas, which will provide an opportunity to the general masses to avail on-the-spot medical treatment.
		Modern blood banks with facilities of segregation of blood components, which will avoid the wastage of blood, will be set up in the states very soon.
	newsarchives.indiainfo.com /2000/09/05/05ayur.html (412 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion
		The identification of poverty and backwardness with the BIMARU (Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh) states, with a pun on the word “bimar”, is a bit more robust.
		However, Rajasthan clearly no longer belongs to the classic BIMARU fold and Madhya Pradesh also seems to be climbing out.
		In addition, gender disparity is highlighted through female and male literacy rates, but not actually used in the process of identifying backwardness.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1030911/asp/opinion/story_2351761.asp (1270 words)

	PACS Programme backgrounders and discussion papers on poverty in India
		Generally this phenomenon has been described by the use of the term 'BIMARU': The states of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh are considered the least developed in the country on many criteria.
		The BIMARU economies have grown at only 4.6% over the last decade, compared to the 6.3% clocked by low-fertility states.
		The disparity in terms of per capita income growth will become larger since population in BIMARU states is growing faster.
	www.empowerpoor.org /backgrounder.asp?report=3 (1460 words)

	outlookindia.com
		He also made it clear he was convinced that economic development of India would not be complete unless the lifestyle and living conditions of 35 crore people in BIMARU states like Bihar, MP, Orissa and UP are lifted.
		In keeping with his unusual style, he made a power presentation at the India Today Chief Minister's conclave saying that the thrust of it is to evolve an empowered nation through seven economic zones from 28 states and Union Territories based on their core competence and missions for water, power, healthcare, education and employment generation.
		He said the BIMARU states had adequate water, natural resources and hardworking people but the results of modern economic development had not reached most of the people.
	www.outlookindia.com /pti_print.asp?id=240583 (548 words)

	True colour of Bengal's class strugglers
		The "Bimaru" states and West Bengal: The four states of the north, Bihar Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, are called the "Bimaru" (ailing) states of India.
		Further, with the exception of Bihar, all the four states in question are traditionally ruled by the Congress, which till 1989 was a reference point of right-wing politics.
		Table O shows that the West Bengal lags behind all the four "Bimaru" states, including Bihar, in implementing reservations in teaching positions in schools.
	www.ambedkar.org /research/Truecolour.htm (1034 words)

	outlookindia.com
		The Chief Minister, in a letter faxed to Vajpayee said, he was surprised by the allegations he made at a rally since his government's work had not only been accepted but lauded by the central government itself.
		He said it was wrong to say that Madhya Pradesh had been unable to reduce backwardness as the Planing Commission had agreed that the state had come out of BIMARU (Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh) group of states.
		Singh also dismissed Vajpayee's claim that infant mortality rate was high in Madhya Pradesh, saying there was no truth in it as according to national agencies IMR in the state had come down from 106 in 1993 to 86 in 2001.
	www.outlookindia.com /pti_print.asp?id=175406 (261 words)

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