Did Article 370 Prevent Development in J&K? Here Are the Stats

Home Minister Amit Shah said J&K has lagged behind due to Article 370. Is that true? Let’s see the stats.

Now that the BJP-led NDA government has effectively revoked provisions of Article 370, a debate around the lack of development in the erstwhile state because of the Article has been raging.

Home Minister Amit Shah in the Parliament said that while the country is developing, people in J&K still live in poverty. Shah also said that Article 370 ensured that there was no PPP model in the state, that healthcare has suffered, and that Right to Education has not applied to the children there.

In the context of this debate, here are five sets of indicators showing that Jammu and Kashmir has actually not performed as badly on certain parameters as is being portrayed. In fact, in certain cases, it has ranked better than the national average.