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DAKSHINA KANNADA DISTRICT
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT
2014
Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat

Mangaluru
Planning, Programme Monitoring

and Statistics Department
Government of Karnataka, Bengaluru
Dakshi na Kannada Di stri ct Human Devel opment Repor t - 2014
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Dakshina Kannada District

Human Development Report: 2014
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MESSAGE
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Room No. 444, 445

4th Floor, Vikasa Soudha
Bangalore - 560 001
Res. No. 080 - 22343804
22343807
S. R. Patil
Minister for Planning &
Statistics, IT & BT
Science & Technology
And
Bagalkot District Incharge Minister
M essage
I am happy to learn that the District Human Development Reports
(DHDRs) for all the 30 districts in the State are being placed in public
domain shortly. A painstaking and massive effort
has gone into the
preparation of these reports. I heartily congratulate the Zilla Panchayats

and the Planning Department for this commendable work.
The reports, I am sure would help policy makers, administrators,
researchers, social organizations and the public at large to understand the
critical concerns of human development in the Districts and Taluks of our
state and also to bridge such deprivations by initiating suitable policy and
programme interventions.
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Room No. 305 - 305 A

3rd Floor, Vidhana Soudha
Bangalore - 560 001
Telephone : 22255023
22033564
B. RAMANATHA RAI
Minister for Forest, Ecology and
Environment Department And
Incharge Minister
M essage
The concept of human development does not depend solely on the improvement of
facilities such as health, education etc. or increase in per capita income. It includes open
atmosphere to get these facilities and attaining the competence of utilizing them. Therefore
eminent economists have said, Human development means extension of choices to the
people.
I am happy that the Government of Karnataka has recognized the importance of
human development and decided to bring out Human Development Report with the aim of
finding out the shortcoming and discrepancies. The reports from all the 30 district has
successfully compiled the report. This success is due to the active involvement of institutions
like Mangalore University, Justice K. S. Hedge Institute of Management, various NGOs,
experts and various department of the government.
I hope this report will contribute immensely in framing the policy with regard to
human development, in allotting financial resources for the projects and development works
in the district. I congratulate all those who are involved in the preparation of this report.
ASHA THIMMAPPA GOWDA KUNDADKA

W/o THIMMAPPA GOWDA
Kundadka House
Kunthuru Village & Post
Puttur Taluk, D.K.
Phone : 08251 - 265153
Mob : 9449103623
PRESIDENT
DAKSHINA KANNADA ZILLA PANCHAYAT
Ashok Nagar Post, Mangalore - 575 006
Phone : 0824 - 2220532
M essage
It is now well recognized that the mere increase in the Gross Domestic product and per capita
income cannot lead to the well being of people. The Human Development Approach of UNDP
rightly put the well -being of people at the centre of development. Recognising the critical
importance of well-being of people, Karnataka Government brought out two Human Development
Reports in 19999 and 2005. Since state level reports have not brought out disparities in various
dimensions of human development at grass root level within the districts, the Government of
Karnataka has now decided to bring out District Human Development Reports for all 30 districts in
the state. The Zilla Panchayat of Dakshina Kannada was made responsible to coordinate the task of
preparation of the Dakshina Kannada District Human Development Report. In the beginning
Mangalore University was appointed as the lead agency and subsequently, Justice K S Hegde
Institute of Management, Nitte took over as the lead agency for preparing Dakshina Kannada
District Human Development Report.
The Preparation of the Report was a huge responsibility and challenging task. Human
Development being multidimensional, the report adopted broad based methodology and a set of
taluk-level human development indicators for construction of seven indices to focus on inter-taluk
disparities in human development, gender inequality, child development, food security, urban
development, deprivation of Dalits and composite taluk development. The Report also discusses
meticulously various human development dimensions such as education, health, sanitation,
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livelihood standards, empowerment of women, status of marginalized sections, urban development

issues and governance from human development perspective. The Report has twelve chapters
focusing on in-depth empirical analysis of all these human development related concerns. The
concluding chapter, The Way Forward, charts out thrust areas for intervention policies and
strategies for enhancing comprehensive, inclusive, equitable and sustainable human development
in the district.
The Report is an outcome of collaborative efforts of both the Zilla Panchayat and the Lead
Agency. In the initial stage, Smt. Thulasi Maddineni, then CEO, ZP and thereafter, Smt. P.I.
Sreevidya who took over from her as the CEO spearheaded the task. The Planning Department of
the ZP coordinated the work of compilation of data from the line departments, organization of
workshops and collaborating with the Lead Agency in preparation of the Report. All the heads of the
line departments and urban bodies have fully cooperated in provision of requisite data. A team of
researchers from the Lead Agency worked very hard in computing various indices and in preparing
this Report. Without their dedication, commitment and team efforts , this Report would not be in its
present scholastic form. I would like to record our deep appreciation of all those involved for their
dedication and commitment in producing this Report in time. I sincerely hope that the Dakshina
Kannada District Human Development Report would be the basis for our future course of policies,
programmes and resource allocation.
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P I SREEVIDYA, I.A.S
Phone : 0824 - 2220578
Mob. : 9480862000
Fax : 0824 - 2220538
Email : ceozpmlr@kar.nic.in
Chief Executive Officer

DAKSHINA KANNADA ZILLA PANCHAYAT
Kottara, Mangaluru - 575 006
Foreword
Dakshina Kannada District Human Development Report 2014 is the outcome of

collaborative efforts of a dedicated team of researchers of the JKSH Instituite of Management, Nitte
supported by the Planning Department, Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat. The Department of
Planning, Programme Monitoring and Statistics, Government of Karnataka undertook a number of
preparatory steps like developing Guideline Document, organizing two workshops for sensitizing
and technical capacity building and providing technical guidance at every stage of preparation of
the Report. I would like to acknowledge their contributions, guidance and support. Special thanks
are due to Shri Sanjiv Kumar, I.A.S. former Principal Secretary, Smt. Anita Kaul I.A.S. (Rtd),
former Principal Secretary, Ms. V. Manjula I.A.S. former Principal Secretary and Shri Rajiv Ranjan
I.F.S. Secretary, Planning, Programme Monitoring and Statistics Department and Dr. H.Shashidhar
I.A.S., SLCC (State Level Consultant and Coordinator) for over-viewing the entire process and
guiding the preparation of the Report. The DHDR is also supported by UNDP-PCI, under their
project HDBI (Human Development: Towards Bridging Inequalities).
The entire process of preparation involved close consultation with a large number of experts,
line departments of Dakshina Kannada ZP and various institutions. Initially, Smt. Thulasi, CEO, ZP,
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my predecessor, spearheaded the initiative and coordinated the process. The Planning Department
of the ZP organized district-level and three taluk-level workshops and collobarated with the Lead
agency in compilation and validation of data from the line departments and preparation of the Reprt.
The Heads of Departments such as Education, Health and Family Welfare, Agriculture,
Horticulture, Animal Husbandry, Women and Child Development, Social Welfare, Urban Local
Bodies and others provided required data and participated actively in the deliberations of Core
Committee. I would like to express my sincere thanks to all of them for their assistance and
contribution.
The research team of the Lead Agency consisting of Dr. N.S.Shetty (Lead Coordinator),
supported by Shri Vinod Dixit worked very hard with commitment in preparing this Report. Prof
Rakesh Shetty of the Institute helped in computing the indices. The Report also greatly benefited
from the intellectual advice from Dr. N.K.Thingalaya, Emeritus Professor and Dr. M. S.
Moodithaya, Registrar of Nitte University. I am profoundly grateful to them.
Special thanks are also due to Prof. Sayeegeetha Hegde of the Department of Humanities,
Nitte University, for translating the entire Report into Kannada and Sri Jagadish of Ultra Designz
for designing the Report.
Finally, I thank all those directly or indirectly involved in giving the Report its final shape. I
sincerely hope that the Report would be of great policy relevance and provide basis for preparing
district planning process from human development perspective and resource allocation by the State
Government.
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COORDINATION AND EDITORIAL COMMITTEE

Chairperson
Smt. Thulasi Maddineni I.A.S
CEO, Zilla Panchayat
(16-7-2013 to 3-3-2015)
Dr. K. N. Viajaya Prakash

(1-8-2011 to 15-7-2013)
Smt. P I Sreevidya I.A.S
(From 4/3/2015)
Lead Agency:
Coordinating Agency
Justice K. S. Hegde
Institute of Management, Nitte
Planning Department
Zilla Panchayat
Dr. N S Shetty
Emeritus Professor
Lead Co-ordinator
Sri Mohammed Nazir

Cheif Planning Officer
Dr. N K Thingalaya
Emeritus Professor
Dr. M S Moodithaya
Registrar, Nitte University
Mr. Vinod Dixit
Research Scholar
Prof. Rakesh Shetty
Asst. Professor
Justice K S Hegde
Institute of Management
Sri N R Umesh
Sri P V Desai
Mrs Sandhya K S
Cheif Planning Officer (I/C)
Project Appraisal & Evaluation Officer
Mr Vishwanath P Mudajji
Mr. Mahesh Ambekal
Assistant Statistical Officer
Dr. Sayeegeetha
K. S. Hegde Medical Academy
Department of Humanities
Nitte University, Mangaluru
Kannada Translator
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CONTENTS
Part I: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Part II: DAKSHINA KANNADA DISTRICT HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.2:
1.3:
1.4:
1.5:
Concept and Methodology ...........................................................................................019

Factors Contributing to Human Development .............................................................022
Data Collection, Compilation and Validation ..............................................................027
Measurement of Indices ...............................................................................................028
Structure of the Report ................................................................................................029
Chapter 2: District Overview

2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4
2.5
2.6
2.7
2.8
2.9
2.10
2.11
Introduction..................................................................................................................033
Background and Brief Regional History......................................................................034
Physiographic Division of the District.........................................................................035
Land, Soil and Natural Resource Endowment .............................................................036
Demography.................................................................................................................039
Literacy .......................................................................................................................042
Agriculture and Irrigation ............................................................................................043
Industry ........................................................................................................................047
Infrastructure................................................................................................................049
Regional Perspective and Backwardness ....................................................................051
An Overview ................................................................................................................055
Chapter 3: Computation of Indices

3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
3.5
3.6
3.7
3.8
C O N T E N T S
1.1:
Introduction..................................................................................................................061
Human Development Index .........................................................................................062
Gender Inequality Index...............................................................................................066
Child Development Index ...........................................................................................067
Food Security Index .....................................................................................................069
Urban Development Index ...........................................................................................071
Composite Taluk Development Index..........................................................................072
Concluding Remarks....................................................................................................073
Chapter 4: Literacy and Education

4.1:
4.2
4.3
4.4
4.5
4.6
Introduction..................................................................................................................079
Historical Backdrop ....................................................................................................080
Literacy Profile of the District ....................................................................................081
Primary Education ......................................................................................................083
Secondary Education...................................................................................................094
Pre University Education ............................................................................................099
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4.7
4.8
4.9
4.10
4.11
4.12
Higher Education .........................................................................................................101

Vocational Education ...................................................................................................105
Schemes for Promotion of Literacy Level in the District ...........................................105
Per Capita Expenditure Analysis ................................................................................107
Radar Analysis for Education ......................................................................................108
An Overview and persisting Educational Gaps in the District ....................................112
Chapter 5: Health and Nutrition

5.1
5.2
5.3
5.4
5.5
5.6
5.7
5.8
5.9
5.10
5.11
5.12
5.12
5.13
5.14
5.15
Introduction ..................................................................................................................117
Demographic Profile ....................................................................................................117
Health Status: IMR & MMR........................................................................................118
Couple Protection Issues and Family Welfare .............................................................122
Infrastructure and Health Personnel Facility .............................................................122
ANC Coverage and Anemia among Pregnant Women ................................................127
Institutional Delivery ..................................................................................................128
Immunization of Children ...........................................................................................129
Under Weight Children and BMI Ratio ....................................................................130
Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases......................................................131
Performance of Various Health Schemes.....................................................................133
Per Capita Expenditure Analysis on Health Sector......................................................135
Per Capita Expenditure Analysis on Health Sector......................................................135
Radar Analysis for Health ...........................................................................................136
Micro-Study on Health Problems in Endosulfan Sprayed Areas in DK Dist...............140
An Overview: Performance and Inadequacies of Healthcare System ........................144
Chapter 6: Income, Employment and Poverty

6.1
6.2
6.3
6.4
6.5
6.6
6.7
6.8
6.9
6.10
6.11
6.12
Introduction..................................................................................................................149
District and Taluk Income............................................................................................149
Agriculture: Cropping Pattern, Irrigation, Livestock and Fisheries ...............................156
BPL Households, MGNREGA .....................................................................................164
Landless Households ...................................................................................................169
Employment and Unemployment ................................................................................170
Main and Marginal Workers ........................................................................................176
Work Participation Rate ...............................................................................................179
Occupation Pattern.......................................................................................................181
Child Labor ..................................................................................................................187
Radar Analysis for Living Standard.............................................................................188
Chapter 7: Standard of Living

7.1
Introduction..................................................................................................................197
Housing Status .............................................................................................................197

Siteless Households......................................................................................................199
Schemes for Housing Facility .......................................................................................201
Households and Asset Status .......................................................................................202
Drinking Water.............................................................................................................204
Electricity .....................................................................................................................207
Cooking Fuel................................................................................................................209
Sanitation......................................................................................................................211
Concluding Remarks .............................................................................................................214
Chapter 8: Gender and Development

8.1
8.2
8.3
8.4
8.5
8.6
8.7
8.8
8.9
8.10
Introduction: Gender as a Concept...............................................................................219

Gender Differentials in the District..............................................................................220
Patterns of Literacy and Enrolment ...............................................................................222
Work Participation Trends ............................................................................................224
Marginalization of Women's Works .............................................................................226
Trends in Political Participation...................................................................................228
Community Attitudes and Social Prejudices................................................................231
Crimes against Women ................................................................................................232
Role of Women's Groups and SHGs ............................................................................234
Concluding Remarks ...................................................................................................239
Chapter 9: Status of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes

9.1
9.2
9.3
9.4
9.5
9.6
9.7
9.8
9.9
Introduction.................................................................................................................245
A Demographic Profile of SCs & STs .........................................................................245
Education Profile and Levels of Enrolment Drop-out Rate............................................254
Health Awareness and Institutional Delivery Rate.........................................................259
Occupational Pattern and Livelihood Opportunities....................................................260
Housing, Drinking Water Facilities and Sanitation......................................................264
Radar Analysis of Marginalized Groups ......................................................................266
Composite Dalit Development Index (CDDI) A Case Study....................................270
C O N T E N T S
7.2
7.3
7.4
7.5
7.6
7.7
7.8
7.9
7.10
Chapter 10: Governance Issues Governance and Human Development

10.1
10.2
10.3
10.4
10.5
10.6
Introduction..................................................................................................................277
Local Governance Structure.........................................................................................277
Panchayat Raj Institutions: Structure and Process.........................................................278
Urban Local Bodies: Structure, Issues and Process .......................................................281
Improving Service Delivery Mechanisms:....................................................................285
Role of NGOs and Other Voluntary Groups ................................................................290
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10.7
10.8
Representation of Women and Marginalized Sections in Governance ........................294

Chapter 11: Urban Issues in Human Development

11.1
11.2
11.3
11.4
11.5
Introduction..................................................................................................................301
Service Delivery Issues................................................................................................301
Water Supply and Sanitation .........................................................................................303
Solid and Liquid Waste Management............................................................................306
Chapter 12: The Way Forward

12.1
12.2
12.3
12.4
Introduction..................................................................................................................313
Key Findings and Issues ..............................................................................................313
The Way Forward Strategies .........................................................................................321
Concluding Remarks ....................................................................................................329
Annexure : Technical Notes

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Methodology for Computation of Indices....................................................................333

Data Availability .......................................................................................................335
Note on IMR, CMR and MMR ...................................................................................336
Process of DHDR Preparation ......................................................................................338
District Human Development Report Core Committee Details /
List of Meeting and Workshop conducted ....................................................................340
a. District Human Development Report Core Committee Details
b. HDR workshop details
Appendix Tables
References
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LIST OF TABLES, GRAPHS, FLOW CHARTS AND BOXES

Tables
2.1
Taluk-wise Geographical Area and Rainfall....................................................................035
2.2
Land Utilization: 2011-12 ...............................................................................................037
2.3
Growth of Population in Dakshina Kannada District......................................................039
2.4
Gender Composition of Population in Dakshina Kannada District ................................040
2.5
Rural-Urban Populations: 2011 .......................................................................................041
2.6
Distribution Pattern of Land Holdings: 2010-11.............................................................044
2.7
Change in sector-wise Contribution to GDP ...................................................................051
3.1
HDI and its Dimensions Indices of Dakshina Kannada District and the State ..............062
3.2
Taluk-wise values of HDI Indicators...............................................................................063
3.3
Taluk wise data of HDI and its Composition ..................................................................064
3.4
Taluk-wise Gender Inequality Index (GII) and Its Dimensions ......................................067
3.5
Taluk-wise Values of CDI Indicators .............................................................................068
3.6
Taluk-wise CDI and its Compositions ...........................................................................068
3.7
Food Security Index (FSI) ...............................................................................................070
3.8
Urban Development Index ..............................................................................................072
3.9
Composite Taluk Development Index .............................................................................073
4.1
Taluk-wise Literacy Rates by Sex: 2001-2011................................................................081
4.2
Rural and Urban Literacy Disparity: 2011 ....................................................................082
4.3
Management-wise Classification of Primary Schools: 2011-12 .....................................084
4.4
Enrolment of Students in Primary Schools in Dakshina Kannada District (IVII) ........085
4.5
Taluk-wise Gross and Net Enrolment in Primary Education: (2011 -12) .......................086
4.6
Taluk-wise Rural-Urban GER in Primary Education......................................................087
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4.7
Taluk-wise GER by Social Class in Primary Education .................................................087
4.8
Taluk-wise Drop-out Students by Sex and Social Groups .............................................088
4.9
Taluk-wise Pupil /Teacher Ratio at Primary Education: 2011-12 ..................................090
4.10
Transition Rate from 7th to 8th Standard: 2011-12............................................................092
4.11
Schools with Basic infrastructure Facilities at Primary Schools.....................................093
4.12
Taluk and Management-wise High-Schools ...................................................................095
4.13
Taluk-wise Gross Enrolment in High Schools-2011-12..................................................096
4.14
GER in Secondary Education: 2011-12...........................................................................096
4.15
Taluk-wise Drop-out Rate in Secondary Schools: 2011-12 ............................................097
4.16
Pupil-Teacher Ratio in Secondary Education: 2011-12 ..................................................098
4.17
Taluk-wise SSLC Results by Social Groups: 2011-12....................................................098
4.18
High Schools with Basic Infrastructure (Number of Schools) :2011-12.........................099
4.19
Pre-University Colleges and Student Enrolment In DK District (2011-12)...................100
4.20
Higher General Education: Number of Colleges and Enrolment (2011-12) ...................102
4.21
Professional Education in Dakshina Kannada District: 2011-12 ....................................103
4.22
Public Expenditure for Primary and Secondary Education: 2011-12 .............................107
4.23
Radar for Education: Indicator Values and Radar Index .................................................108
5.1
Taluk-wise IMR and MMR and other Health Indicators (2011-2012)...........................119
5.2
Beneficiaries of Family Planning Measures....................................................................122
5.3
Health Infrastructure in Dakshina Kannada District (2011-12) ......................................123
5.4
Taluk-wise Number of Doctors .......................................................................................126
5.5
Taluk-wise Health Facilities: Some Indicators................................................................127
5.6
Full ANC Coverage and Anemia among Pregnant Women: 2011-12 .............................128
5.7
Taluk-wise Institutional Deliveries: 2011-12 ..................................................................129
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5.8
Taluk-wise Immunization of Children: 2011-12 .............................................................130
5.9
Taluk-wise Status of Underweight Children and Malnutrition: 2011-12 ........................130
5.10
People affected by major Communicable Diseases.........................................................133
5.11
Taluk-wise Public Expenditure on Health in the District................................................135
5.12
Health Indicators: Values and Indices: 2011-12 ..............................................................136
6.1
Growth of District GDP and Per capita Income ..............................................................151
6.2
Sector-wise Annual Growth Rate of GDP.......................................................................151
6.3
Changes in Sectoral Composition in District GDP (at Constant Prices) ........................152
6.4
Taluk-wise Net Income (NTDP) and Per Capita Income: 2010-11.................................153
6.5
Sectoral Composition of Taluk NTDP: 2009-10 .............................................................154
6.6
Taluk-wise BPL Families in the District .........................................................................165
6.7
BPL Card Holders in Dakshina Kannada District: 2011-12............................................166
6.8
Dakshina Kannada District: Implementation of MGNREGA Programme

during 2011-12 ................................................................................................................168
6.9
Landless Households in Dakshina Kannada District ......................................................171
6.10
Growth of Work Force in Dakshina Kannada District ....................................................172
6.11
Taluk-wise Growth of Work Force in Dakshina Kannada District .................................173
6.12
Taluk-wise Growth of Non-workers in Dakshina Kannada District ..............................175
6.13
Composition of workers and their Growth......................................................................176
6.14
Rural and Urban Composition of Main and Marginal workers in the District................177
6.15
Taluk-wise Composition of Workforce: 2011 .................................................................178
6.16
Work Participation Rate in Dakshina Kannada District ..................................................179
6.17
Rural and Urban Work Participation Rates in Dakshina Kannada District.....................180
6.18
Taluk-wise Work Participation Rates in Dakshina Kannada District .............................180
6.19
Taluk-wise Rural and Urban Work Participation Rates: 2011.........................................181
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6.20
Occupation Pattern of Workers in Dakshina Kannada District: 2011 .............................183
6.21
Taluk-wise Occupation Pattern: 2011..............................................................................186
6.22
Radar Analysis of Standard of Living .............................................................................189
7.1
Rural-Urban Housing Status in Dakshina Kannada District ...........................................197
7.2
Taluk-wise Houseless Households: 2011-12...................................................................199
7.3
Dakshina Kannada District: Housing under various Schemes: 2011-12.........................201
7.4
Taluk-wise Housing under various Schemes: 2011-12 ...................................................202
7.5
Dakshina Kannada District: Households having Modern Amenities ..............................203
7.6
Taluk-wise Household Assets: 2011................................................................................204
7.7
Dakshina Kannada District: Households by Main source of

Drinking water and Location...........................................................................................205
7.8
Taluk-wise Households by Safe Drinking Water ............................................................206
7.9
Dakshina Kannada District: Households by Main Source of Lighting ...........................208
7.10
Taluk-wise Households by Main source of Lighting 2011...........................................208
7.11
Dakshina Kannada District: Households using different type of

Fuel for Cooking ............................................................................................................209
7.12
Taluk-wise Households using different type of Fuels for Cooking ................................210
7.13
Dakshina Kannada District: Households by Type of

Latrine Facilities : 2011..................................................................................................212
8.1
Key Indicators of Demographic Gender Differentials: 2011 ..........................................221
8.2
Gender Gap in Literacy and Education ...........................................................................223
8.3
Gender Gap in work Participation in Dakshina Kannada District .................................225
8.4
Gender-wise Representation in Panchayat Raj in Dakshina

Kannada District (2011-2012) .........................................................................................229
8.5
Crimes against Women Registered in Dakshina Kannada District .................................233
8.6
Stree-Shakthi Women SHGs in Dakshina Kannada District: 2011-12............................236
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9.1
Demographic Profile of SCs in Dakshina Kannada District ...........................................247
9.2
Demographic Profile of STs in Dakshina Kannada District............................................247
9.3
Rural Urban SC/ST Population: 2011 .........................................................................249
9.4
Taluk-wise Population of Koraga Community................................................................251
9.5
Literacy Status of SCs and STs in Dakshina Kannada District .......................................254
9.6
Enrolment of SC and ST Students: 2011-12 ...................................................................255
9.7
Taluk-wise GER of Students by Social Groups At Primary

and Secondary Education: 2011-12 ...............................................................................256
9.8
Government Hostels for SC and ST Students in the

District (2011-12) ............................................................................................................257
9.9
Government Scholarship to SC and ST Students ............................................................258
9.10
Agricultural Land Holding Pattern of SCs & STs in

Dakshina Kannada District:2010-11 ...............................................................................261
9.11
Work Participation Rates of the SCs and STs..................................................................263
9.12
Housing for SCs and STs under various programs:2011-12 ...........................................264
9.13
Marginalized Groups: indicators for Radar.....................................................................266
9.14
Comprehensive Dalit Development Index (CDDI).........................................................273
10.1
Profile of Urban Local Bodies in Dakshina Kannada District ........................................283
10.2
Taluk-wise Composition of GP Elected Members: 2012 ................................................295
11.1
Growth of Population in ULBs in Dakshina Kannada District .......................................302
11.2
Basic Infrastructure Indicators of ULBs .........................................................................304
11.3
Households with Tap Water with meter andPer Capita

Water Supply (LPCD) .....................................................................................................305
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Graphs
2.1
Taluk-wise Geographical Area in sq.km ...........................................................................036
2.2
Taluk Wise Total Populations (in lakhs) Year 2011........................................................040
2.3
Size of Land Holdings in Percent.....................................................................................044
2.4
Change in sector-wise Contribution to GDP......................................................................054
3.1
Dakshina Kannada HD Index ............................................................................................067
3.2
Child Development Index ..................................................................................................069
4.1
DK District - Management wise classification of Primary Schools ..................................084
4.2
Enrolment of Students in Primary Schools in Dakshina Kannada District Gender Participation..........................................................................................................085
4.3
Net Enrolment Ratio- All ...................................................................................................088
4.4 Taluk-wise GER by Social Class in Primary Education Percentage ALL ......................088
4.5
Dropout of Boys and Girls Taluk Wise ..............................................................................089
4.6
Pupil / Teacher Ratio..........................................................................................................090
4.7
Infrastructure Index............................................................................................................094
4.8 Total Number of High Schools Taluk Wise .......................................................................095

4.9
Bantwal Taluk Education - Radar Chart ........................................................................109
4.10
Belthangady Taluk Education - Radar Chart .................................................................109
4.11
Mangaluru Taluk Education - Radar Chart ....................................................................110
4.12
Puttur Taluk Education - Radar Chart ............................................................................110
4.13 Sullia Taluk Education - Radar Chart..............................................................................111

4.14 Dakshina Kannada District Education Radar Chart.....................................................111
5.1 Maternal Mortality Rate 2011 -12........................................................................................121
5.2 Taluk wise Number of Doctors ............................................................................................126
5.3
Percentage of Children Malnourished in 2011 -12 .............................................................131
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5.4
Bantwal Taluk Health - Radar Chart ..............................................................................137
5.5
Belthangady Taluk Health - Radar Chart .......................................................................137
5.6
Mangaluru Taluk Health - Radar Chart..........................................................................138
5.7
Puttur Taluk Health - Radar Chart .................................................................................138
5.8
Sullia Taluk Health - Radar Chart..................................................................................139
5.9
Dakshina Kannada District Health Radar Chart .........................................................139
6.1
Annual Growth Rate of GDP in Dakshina Kannada District..........................................152
6.2
Sectoral Composition of District NTDP 2009 -10...........................................................155
6.3
Percentage of BPL Families - Taluk wise ........................................................................165
6.4
Number of Landless Households .....................................................................................171
6.5
Taluk wise Growth of Work Force...................................................................................174
6.6
District Composition of Workforce in 2011.....................................................................178
6.7
Occupation Pattern of Workers 2011 ............................................................................183
6.8
Bantwal Taluk Standard of Living - Radar Chart .........................................................189
6.9
Belthangady Taluk Standard of Living - Radar Chart ..................................................190
6.10 Mangaluru Taluk Standard of Living - Radar Chart .....................................................190

6.11 Puttur Taluk Standard of Living - Radar Chart .............................................................191
6.12 Sullia Taluk Standard of Living - Radar Chart .............................................................191
6.13 Dakshina Kannada District Standard of Living Radar Chart.....................................192
7.1
Housing Status in Dakshina Kannada District.................................................................198
7.2
Housing Under Various Schemes 2011-12 ......................................................................101
7.3
Households having Modern Amenities ............................................................................203
8.1
Gender Wise Decadal Population Growth ........................................................................222
8.2 Type of Crime Registered Against Women in Dakshina Kannada in 2011 -12 ................235
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8.3
Stree - Shakthi Women SHG's in Dakshina Kannada District: 2011-12...........................237
9.1
Decadal Growth Population of SCs in Dakshina Kannada..............................................248
9.2
Decadal Growth Population of STs in Dakshina Kannada ..............................................248
9.3 Taluk Wise Population of Koraga Community .................................................................252

9.4
Government Scholarship to SC & ST Students in 2011 12 ...........................................259
9.5 Housing for SCs and STs under various programs: 2011-12.............................................265
9.6
Bantwal Taluk Marginalised Groups - Radar Chart.......................................................267
9.7
Belthangady Taluk Marginalised Groups - Radar Chart................................................267
9.8
Mangaluru Taluk Marginalised Groups - Radar Chart ..................................................268
9.9
Puttur Taluk Marginalised Groups - Radar Chart ..........................................................268
9.10 Sullia Taluk Marginalised Groups - Radar Chart..........................................................269

9.11 Dakshina Kannada District Marginalised Groups Radar Chart .................................269
10.1 Caste Wise Composition of GP Elected Members............................................................296
11.1 Decadal Growth of Urban Local Bodies in Percentage ....................................................302
FLOW CHARTS
Chart 1.1 : Key Indicators Selected for Human Development Indices
Chart 10.1 : District Level Zilla Panchayat ..............................................................................279
Chart 10.2 : Structure of Urban Local Bodies .............................................................................284
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BOXES
Box 2.1 Agricultural Sector: Strengths, Constraints and Prospects.......................................................046
Box 2.2: Prospects and Constraints for Industrial Development...........................................................048
Box 2.3: South Canara District: The Cradle and Nursery of Banking....................................................050
Box 2.4: Mangaluru City A Gateway City of Karnataka....................................................................055
Box 2.5: Dakshina Kannada District: Challenging Potential for tourism ..............................................056
Box 4.1: Contribution of Christian Missionaries to Education in erstwhile South Kanara District........080
Box 4.2: Mainstreaming of Destitute Children in Education ................................................................091
Box 4.3: Mangaluru University: A Hub of Higher Education ...............................................................103
Box 4.4: Nitte Education Trust .............................................................................................................104
Box 4. 5: RUDSETTI at Ujire: A Replicable Model for Skill Development ..........................................106
Box 5.1 Comprehensive health Care: Eleventh Plan Seven Measureable Targets .................................119
Box 5.2: Karnataka State Integrated Health Policy 2004....................................................................121
Box 5.3: KMC, Mangaluru: First PPP Model in Medical Education and Health Care ...........................125
Box 6.1: Growth in Income in Dakshina Kannada District ...................................................................155
Box 6.2: Varanashi Farm: Water Conservation A Success Story.........................................................157
Box 6.3 Dairy as an Enterprise or Self-employment .............................................................................159
Box 6.4: Milk Societies led White Revolution and 'Nandini' a Brand....................................................160
Box 6.5: Government's Fishermen Welfare Schemes ...........................................................................162
Box 6.6: Problem of Migrant Workers..................................................................................................185
Box 6.7: Employment Scenario in Dakshina Kannada District: Major Highlights................................187
Box 7.1 Hosangadi GP : A Clean Village Initiative ...............................................................................213
Box 8.1: Women Employment in Beedi Rolling...................................................................................227
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Box 8.2 Gender Friendly and Enabling Factors in Dakshina Kannada District .....................................232
Box 8.3: Operational Guidelines issued by RBI/NABARD for formation of SHGs..............................235
Box 8.4: Shree Gajanana Navodaya SHG, Mangaluru A success Story..............................................238
Box 8.5: Navodaya Grama Vikas Charitable Trust, Mangaluru ............................................................239
Box 9.1: Malekudiya: A Tribal Community living in Forest ................................................................252
Box 9.2: Koraga Community: Poorest of the poor ................................................................................253
Box 10.1: SKDRDP: A NGO Model for Replication ...........................................................................293
Appendix: Statistical Tables

Table 1
Dakshina Kannada District Profile: Basic Statistics ..........................................................................343
Table-2
District wise Area & Population ........................................................................................................347
Table-3
District wise Rural and Urban Population .........................................................................................348
Table 4
Human Development: Comparison of Dakshina Kannada with Other Districts

In Karnataka State .............................................................................................................................349
Table 5
Taluk and District Level Key Human Development Indicators for HDI(2011-12) ...........................350
Table 6
Key Indicators for Gender Inequality Index (GII)(2011-12) .............................................................351
Table 7
Key Indicators for Child Development Index (CDI)(2011-12)..........................................................352
Table 8
Key Indicators for Food Security Index (FSI)(2011-12)....................................................................352
Table 9
Key Indicators for Urban Development Index (UDI)(2011-12) ........................................................354
Table 10 Key Indicators for Composite Taluk Development Index (CTDI)(2011-12).....................................355

Table-11 District wise Change in Sex Ratio 2001 2011(Per 100 males) .......................................................358
Table-12 District wise Change in Literacy Rate by Sex : 2001 2011(Percentage) ........................................359
Table-13 District wise Rural-Urban Literacy Rates by Sex : 2011(Percentage)...............................................360
Table-14 District wise IMR, CMR and MMR: 2011 2012 ............................................................................361
Table-15 District wise Sectoral Composition of Gross District Domestic Product (GDDP) at Current Prices:
2010-11 (Rs. Lakhs)..........................................................................................................................362
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ABBREVIATIONS
AAY
AIDS
ANC
BPL
CALC
CMPCO
CBOs
CBR
CC
CDI
CDDI
CTDI
CDR
CEO
CHCs
CMR
CPO
CRZ
CSO
CSR
DC
DCDI
DDI
DES
DHDR
DHFW
D. K.
ENT
DPT
DSO
DWCD
FSI
GDI
GDP
GII
GEM
GER
: Anthyodaya Anna Yojana

: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
: Antenatal Care
: Below Poverty Line
: Computer-aided Learning Centre
: Cocoa Marketing and Processing Cooperative Ltd.
: Community Based Organizations
: Crude Birth Rate
: City Corporation
: Child Development Index
: Composite Dalit Development Index
: Composite Taluk Development Index
: Crude Death Rate
: Chief Executive Officer
: Community Health Centres
: Child Mortality Rate
: Chief Planning Officer
: Coastal Regulation Zone
: Central Statistical Organization
: Child Sex Ratio
: Deputy Commissioner
: District Composite Development Index
: Dalit Deprivation Index
: Directorate of Economics and Statistics
: District Human Development Report
: Department of Health and Family Welfare
: Dakshina Kannada
: Ear, Nose and Throat
: Diphtheria, Polio and Tuberculosis
: District Statistical Officer
: Department of Women and Child Development
: Food Security Index
: Gender-related Development Index
: Gross Domestic Product
: Gender Inequality Index
: Gender Empowerment Measure
: Gross Enrolment Ratio
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GNI
GOI
GOK
GP
GDDP
GSDP
HDI
HDR
HDD
HIV
ICDS
IHDI
IMR
ITDP
KHDR
KMC
KUDCEM
: Gross National Income

: Government of India
: Government of Karnataka
: Gram Panchayat
: Gross District Domestic Product
: Gross State Domestic Product
: Human Development Index
: Human Development Report
: Human Development Division
: Human Immunodeficiency Virus
: Integrated Child Development Services
: Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index
: Infant Mortality Rate
: Integrated Tribal Development Programme
: Karnataka Human Development Report
: Kasturba Medical College
: Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environment Management
KIOCL
LEB
LIC
LPCD
MCF
MCH
MDGs
MGNREGA
MMR
MRPL
MPI
MESCOM
NABARD
NDDP
NER
NGOs
NGVCT
NRHM
NSS
NSSO
OBC
: Kudremukh Iron Ore Company.

: Life Expectancy at Birth
: Life Insurance Corporation of India
: Liter per capita per day
: Mangalore Chemicals Fertilizers Ltd.
: Maternal and Child Health
: Millennium Development Goals
: Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
: Maternal Mortality Rate
: Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd.
: Multidimensional Poverty Index
: Mangalore Electricity Supply Company
: National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
: Net District Domestic Product
: Net Enrolment Ratio
: Non-Governmental Organizations
: Navodaya Grama Vikas Charitable Trust
: National Rural Health Mission
: National Sample Survey
: National Sample Survey Organization
: Other Backward Community
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PDS
PHCs
PMGY
PNC
PPMSD
PPP$
PRI
PTG
PTR
PUC
RBI
RCH
RMSA
RRBs
RUDSETI
RTE
SCs
SEZ
SCDCCB
SDMCs
SGRY
SGSY
SHGs
SKDRDP
SLCC
SSA
SSLC
STs
TB
TMCs
TP
IT
TSC
UDI
ULBs
UN
UNDP
WHO
WPR
ZP
: Public Distribution System

: Public Health Centres
: Pradhana Mantri Gramodaya Yojana
: Post Natal Care
: Planning, Programme Monitoring and Statistics Department
: Purchasing Power Parity in terms of US Dollars
: Panchayat Raj Institutions
: Primitive Tribal Group
: Pupil Teacher Ratio
: Pre-university Course
: Reserve Bank of India
: Reproductive and Child Health
: Rastriya Madhyamik Shikshan Abhiyan
: Regional Rural Banks
: Rural Development and Self-employment Training Institute
: Right to Education
: Scheduled Castes
: Special Economic Zone
: South Canara District Central Cooperative Bank
: School Development and Monitoring Committees
: Sampoorna Grameena Rozgar Yojana
: Swarnajayanti Grama Swarozgar Yojana
: Self-Help Groups
: Shree Kshetra Dharmastala Rural Development Project
: State Level Coordination Committee
: Sarva Shikshan Abhiyana
: Secondary School Leaving Certificate
: Scheduled Tribes
: Tuberculosis Bacilli
: Town Municipal Councils
: Taluk Panchayat
: Information Technology
: Total Sanitary Campaign
: Urban Development Index
: Urban Local Bodies
: United Nations
: United Nations Development Programme
: World Health Organization
: Work Participation Rate
: Zilla Panchayat
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Part I
Executive Summary
Income
Education
Health
Empowerment
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Executive Summary
As the conventional development
approach measured in terms of GDP and per
capita income did not capture basic aspects of
well-being of people, the United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP), in its first
Human Development Report in 1990, advocated
people-centric human development as an
alternative approach. It made the human
development as the primary goal of
development. Since people are wealth of
nations, the development should aim at creating
an enabling environment for people to lead a
long and healthy life, to acquire knowledge and
to have access to resources needed for a decent
standard of living. The Human Development
Index (HDI) was evolved as a yardstick to
measure well-being of people across countries.
As a composite index, it takes into account three
core dimensions of human development viz.
health, education and standard of living. The
UNDP 2010 HDR has made HDI broad-based
beyond three core dimensions and suggested
users to take into consideration other key human
development concerns affecting human
development.
The Government of Karnataka brought
out the first HDR in 1999 and second HDR in
2005. Recognizing the critical importance of
human development concerns at grass root level,
the State Government has decided to undertake
DHDRs in all 30 districts in the state. The main
purpose of the DHDRs is to capture all the key
dimensions affecting well-being of people at the
taluk and district levels. Accordingly, a broader
approach is adopted to take into account most of
the key factors affecting human development at
taluk level. A common conceptual and
methodological framework and uniform set of
measurable indicators with standardized
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definition and data sources are considered with a

view to ensure taluk-wise and district wise
commonality and comparability in all 30
districts in the state. Dakshina Kannada DHDR
is the outcome of this initiative. The Executive
Summary is a brief summary of the findings and
recommendations of the main DHDR.
Findings of HDIs
The DHDR computed six different
human development related indices to provide a
comprehensive view of human development at
taluk and district levels. They are - Human
Development Index (HDI), Gender Inequality
Index (GII), Child Development Index (CDI),
Food Security Index (FSI), Urban Development
Index (UDI) and Composite Taluk Development
Index (CTDI). In addition, Composite Dalit
Development Index (CDDI) was computed to
understand the human development issues
specific to Dalits (SCs'). A set of 68 indicators to
measure three core dimensions of human
development health, education and standard of
living has been used for construction of these
indices. These indicators are selected by taking
into account demographic factors, livelihood
and employment related factors, household
assets, empowering factors, health factors
including safe drinking water supply, and
sanitation and education factors. Since SCs are
marginalized community and face distinctly
different development problems such as social
exclusion, social discrimination and
deprivation, CDDI is computed to capture
perception on human development issues
specific to Dalits (SCs) pertaining to a one
selected gram panchayat in the district. The
purpose of this index is to understand the
difference between the perception and reality in
a limited manner based on a case study of a GP.

The HDI for Dakshina Kannada district
works out to 0.687. This shows the overall
human development deficit of 31 percent in the
district. It has relatively higher dimension index
values for education (0.809) and living standard
(0.708), but it has lower index value in health
(0.567). Taluk-wise, Mangaluru taluk, which
ranks first, has the highest HDI of 0.830 and is in
very good category. Belthangady ranks the
lowest and has HDI of 0.399.The HDIs of other
taluks were below 0.500. The differences
between first ranked Mangaluru taluk and other
taluks in the district are significantly high. The
inter-taluk disparities in three dimension index
values are also very wide. Mangaluru ranks first
in education and standard of living, while
Belthangady ranks first in health but lowest in
education and standard of living.
In gender equality, the district is found in
'very good' status. The GII for the district works
out to 0.043, showing only 4 percent gender
inequality. In GII, Belthangady ranks first
(0.026), followed by Mangaluru (0.034) and
Sullia (0.046). Bantwal has the lowest index
value (0.061) showing the highest gender
inequality. As regards other indices, the district
is in 'good' status in CDI (0.518), FSI (0.571) and
District Composite Development Index (0.661)
Taluk-wise, there is wide divergence in ranking
pattern in various indices and also in dimension
indices. In CDI, Bantwal ranks first (0.847),
followed by Mangaluru (0.493) and Sullia
(0.449). Belthangady has the lowest position in
CDI (0.382). In FSI, Mangaluru ranks first
(0.603), followed by Sullia (0.593). Puttur has
the lowest FSI index (0.416). Similarly, the intertaluk variations in various dimensions of these
indices are found to be very wide.
In the case of UDI, since ULBs are of

different category, they can be compared and
ranked only in similar category. Since 48 percent
of the district's population live in urban areas, it
is important to look at urban development from
human development perspective. Mangaluru
CC has the highest index value of 0.690. It shows
development deficit of 31 percent. Among
TMCs, Puttur TMC tops with UDI of 0.562,
followed by Ullal TMC (0.406). Bantwal and
Moodabidri TMCs have UDI of 0.310 and 0.316
respectively. As regards TPs, Sullia TP with UDI
of 0.636 ranks first, followed by Belthangady TP
(0.397). Mulky TP has the lowest UDI of 0.380.
The development deficits in the case of TMCs
and TPs vary from 36 percent to 69 percent.
The CDDI works out to 0.787 which is
considered very good. Thus Dalit
Deprievation Index for the panchayat studied is
only 0.213. With the increasing education and
Dalit friendly government interventions the
disparities between them and the other
communities in terms of social discrimination
and institutional inclusion are reduced. However
the outcome of this index is should not be used
for generalization.
The computation and analysis of six
human development related indices at taluk and
district levels are quite revealing and of
important policy relevance. The indices
computed brought out disparities and the
relative position of taluks in various dimensions
of human development within the district. Only
in GII, all taluks and district as a whole are in
very good status. In other indices, the taluks are
either in 'good' or 'average' status. In some
dimensions of human development, they are in
'poor' category. Moreover, the inter-taluk
disparities are significantly high. The gap
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between the highest ranked taluk and the lowest

ranked taluk is very wide. Interestingly, there is
no close correlation between index values of
various dimensions. The taluks, which have
higher education index values, have lower health
index values. Similarly, the taluks which have
lower standard of living index values have
higher education and health indices. For human
development in the district, all dimensions are
equally important. The development of one
dimension cannot automatically take care of
development of other dimensions. For any
planning or policy to succeed, it has to take into
consideration inter-taluk disparities in various
dimensions of human development and tackle
them at that level.
The DHDR also carried out
disaggregated analysis of human development
problems for each dimensions at taluk and social
groups level. The findings of them are
summarised below:
Literacy and Education

Education is a basic ingredient for
human capability building and functional
empowerment. It is in fact important input
indicator influencing other human development
dimensions such as health, standard of living,
income, choices and freedom. Dakshina
Kannada district has achieved a remarkable
progress in literacy rate. As per 2011 Census, the
district has the literacy rate of 88.57 percent
which is the highest literacy rate in the state and
18 percent higher than the State's average (75.36
percent). The gender-wise, the male population
has literacy rate of 93.1 percent and female 84.13
percent. The gender disparity in literacy rate
works out to 9 percent, which is also the lowest
in the state. There is no wide inter-taluk variation
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in the literacy rates. Belthangady taluk has the

lowest literacy rate (83.92 percent), followed by
Puttur (85.92 percent). Mangaluru taluk has the
highest literacy rate of 91.67 percent. In rural
areas, 85.33 percent of people are literate and in
urban areas, 92.12 percent, literate. The
rural/urban disparity in literacy rate in the
district works out to 6.79 percent as against state
level rural/urban disparity of 17.05 percent.
In education, the performance is
analyzed at primary, secondary and tertiary
levels in terms of access, enrolment, retention,
teacher-student ratio, quality, equity,
educational attainments and infrastructure. The
achievement of the district in most of these
indicators, as shown in this study, is quite
impressive. The district has made impressive
progress even in higher education. It is ranked as
one of the best in education attainment in the
state. It is almost on the way to universal in
primary and secondary education. Even in the
education attainment in terms of pass percentage
in SSLC and PUC, the district is always one
among top ranked districts in the state. The
disparities between taluks, rural and urban and
across social groups and gender do exist but are
not very significant. The district also witnesses a
gradual upward movement of the students in the
ladder of education and particularly towards
professional courses. The programmes such as
Sarva Shiksha Abhiyana (SSA), the Mid-Day
Meal programme and now Rashtriya
Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) have all
contributed significantly to this achievement.
Despite considerable improvement in
the field of education, the district is still faced
with many areas of concern. Most of the schools
in rural areas are short of the RTE norms of
provision of requisite school infrastructure.
Some of the government school buildings in

rural areas were constructed in 1950s and 1960s,
which require major repairs/renovation. The
gender gaps, social inequities and rural-urban
disparities in enrolment at secondary, PUC and
higher education levels still persist. The
discontinuation of education by SC, ST and
some minority students at secondary and PUC
level is relatively very high. The rural-urban
divide in terms of quality education at primary
and secondary level is widening. While in urban
areas, children have easy access to private
nursery schools, in rural areas, children are
deprived of pre-schooling. The urban children
are also benefiting from mushrooming tuition
classes in secondary and PUC level. The rural
students do not have easy access to tuition
classes and also cannot afford them. This
adversely affects their performance in
competitive examinations for professional
education.
Leveraging computer technology in the
primary and secondary education system is
essential in today's world, but it still remains a
distant dream. Moreover, the private English
medium schools are increasingly becoming
popular and thereby threatening the
sustainability of Kannada medium government
schools. It also creates inequality in education;
English medium for elites in urban areas and
Kannada medium for poor and socially
disadvantaged sections in rural areas. Though
the district has favorable pupil-teacher ratio, in
many rural lower primary schools due to lack of
students, a mandatory number of two teachers
have to manage classes I to V. With the declining
population and enrolment in the district, the
number of such schools in rural areas will
increase in near future. This has serious
implications on the quality of education in rural
areas. Since the district is already on the way to

universal primary and secondary education, the
challenge would be now not on expansion but
improvement in quality, equity in educational
attainment and equipping children with lifeskills required to compete at the higher levels in
all spheres.
Health and Nutrition

Health is another important ingredient of
human development. It determines both the
longevity and the quality of life. Health also
impacts learning outcomes, functioning
capability and earning capacity of the people.
Dakshina Kannada district is blessed with good
health infrastructure and enviable public-private
initiatives in provision of healthcare service. The
district has 11 privately run medical and dental
colleges and a number of para-medical and
nursing colleges. All of them played a catalytic
role in building up necessary health
infrastructure and delivery of high quality health
care services in the district. Public sector health
care infrastructure through PHCs, CHCs and
taluk and district level hospitals renders health
care services mainly to the weaker section of the
community throughout the district. In rural
areas, the government through PHCs/CHCs is
the main provider of health care services. Under
the NRHM initiatives, the district has made
remarkable progress in most of the RCH
indicators like IMR, CMR and MMR and stands
out as one of the districts to achieve the UN
millennium development goals in time.
Despite these achievements, the district
is faced with the problems emanating mainly
from prevailing institutional set up and the
changing health environment like aging
population and modern life style and food habits
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and resultant change in disease profile. The

institutional problems arise mainly due to more
urban orientation of private health
infrastructure, scarcity of qualified doctors and
paramedical staff in public network and absence
of networking between PHCs/CHCs and tertiary
hospitals at taluk and district levels. The private
sector health facilities and the public tertiary
health facilities mainly located in urban centres,
while in rural areas, only available healthcare
services are from PHCs/CHCs. The PHCs and
CHCs lack qualified doctors and nurses as well
as timely supply of required medicines. They
also do not provide health services to rural
people round the clock. There is, thus, a growing
rural-urban divide in the access and provision of
quality healthcare services, which creates
stumbling blocks towards achieving the dream
of 'health for all' and universal comprehensive
quality health coverage as envisaged under
Twelfth Five Year Plan.
Other area of health concern is the
unrelenting burden of the old and emerging
threats of new diseases. Though good progress
was achieved in RCH indicators, the maternal
and child health care and nutrition are still
continuing to be a problem among weaker and
marginalized section of the population. The
declining child sex ratio in the district, which has
at present a favourable male-female ratio till
now, has serious future demographic
implications. The revival of malaria and filaria,
rising incidence of Dengue Fever and
HIV/AIDS, aging population, chronic noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes,
hypertension, heart ailments, growing mental
diseases, alcoholism among the youth and
increasing unnatural deaths such as road
accidents and suicides are the emerging new
health problems in the district. The district is also
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faced with the problem of numerous endosulfan

infected illnesses in endosulfan sprayed areas.
All these require specialists' treatment at
affordable costs. The health service network in
rural areas is at present not fully geared to cope
up this requirement. The cost of noncommunicable health services of private
hospitals in urban areas is beyond the
affordability of rural people.
The high morbidity and mortality rates
among the marginalized SCs/STs, migrants and
other vulnerable sections of the society in urban
slum areas are also posing problems in health
sector. They have a very poor health profile
compared with the other communities. The
current influx of massive number of floating
migrant workers because of the rapidly growing
urbanization and acute shortage of labour
resulted in rising urban slums without basic
amenities. These slums are characterized by
temporary houses crowded together without
access to safe drinking water and sanitation. As a
result of the unhygienic conditions, these slums
are increasingly becoming a breeding ground for
communicable diseases.
Livelihood Factors
Living standard is closely linked to per
capita income, employment status, ownership of
assets and basic livelihood amenities such as
housing, safe drinking water supply, electricity
for lighting and sanitation. Dakshina Kannada
district ranks second in per capita income and
3rd in total GDP among 30 districts in the state.
During the last decade, the district, however,
witnessed lower growth compared to the state's
average. The agriculture witnessed deceleration
in growth. Industrial sector is also facing slowdown in growth in recent years. The tertiary
sectors only witnessed higher growth.

Employment oriented traditional industries like
tiles and beedi rolling are almost in closing
stage. More importantly, the economic growth in
the district is mainly driven by cities,
particularly Mangaluru city. The growth is not
broad-based, benefitting all taluks and all
sections of people. In rural areas, most of the
families in the district depend on the remittances
from outside district to maintain standard of
living and for investing in housing, health and
education of children.
As regards employment, the major area
of concern is the significant decline in the work
participation rate (WPR) among women and
increase in women non-workers. Men dominate
in the workforce and the gap between men and
women in WPR is very wide. The structural shift
in the occupation pattern from rural areas
towards secondary and tertiary sectors is taking
place at faster rate. Though, it is a healthy sign in
the dynamics of economic change, the area of
concern is the decline of agricultural sector as
source of employment when 52 percent of the
district population still lives in rural areas. The
slow demise of traditional gender-friendly
industries like beedi rolling and tiles factory
adversely affected the employment and income
of weaker section of the community particularly
women in rural areas. Though poverty incidence
in the district is considered as one of the lowest
in the state, BPL families, as per the eligibility
criteria stipulated by the state, constitute nearly
50 percent of the families in the district. Most of
them are in rural areas and concentrated among
marginalized rural communities, such as
marginal farmers, agricultural labourers, SCs
and STs.
Dakshina Kannada has made significant
progress in basic livelihood amenities such as
housing, safe drinking water, electrification and

sanitation. The quality of housing in terms of
materials used for roofing and walls and quality
in terms of availability of dwelling rooms,
kitchen and bathroom in the district is
comparatively better than most of the other
districts in the state. The district is, in fact, in the
process of reaching the goal of houseless
households in all sections of the community.
Similarly, almost all inhabited villages in the
district are electrified and nearly three-fourth of
households uses electricity for lighting. The
government's pro-active and pro-poor housing
policy also significantly contributed in provision
of quality houses and electricity in the case of
weaker and marginalized section of the
community.
In regard to safe drinking water, the
district, traditionally, relied on open wells. More
than half of rural households still depend on
open wells for drinking water. Even in urban
areas, one-third of the households use open wells
for drinking water. The water quality of open
wells is considered not very safe for drinking
from health point of view. The tap water treated
is available mainly in urban areas. The district
has also the problem of availability of adequate
drinking water during summer. With the
overexploitation of ground water for irrigation
through bore wells, the ground water table is
depleted and open wells and rivers dry up during
summer months, which create acute shortage of
water for drinking during summer. Thus, the
problem of safe drinking water centred on not on
access but on quality and adequate supply
particularly during summer.
The types of fuel used for cooking differs
widely between rural and urban areas. In rural
areas, nearly three-fourths of the households
depend on traditional bio-fuels like fire-wood
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for cooking. As against this, in urban areas,

about two-thirds of the families use modern fuel
type mainly LPG. Inaccessibility and
unaffordability of LPG and absence of its
supply/services network in rural areas are the
main constraints in this regard. The bio-gas was
expected to replace traditional fuel for cooking,
but it has not taken off as expected.
In the area of sanitation, the district has
made a remarkable progress in both rural and
urban areas. The majority of households
including weaker sections have flush toilets in
their own premises. The Government's enabling
pro-poor policy and programmes facilitated this
achievement. However, their effective use
particularly in rural areas and among weaker
section of the community remains doubtful. The
menace of growing slums with the increasing
number of floating migrant labour families in
and around urban centres also poses serious
threat to the sanitation in the district particularly
in urban areas.
Gender Issues
The women constitute slightly more than
half of the total population. Inclusive human
development is not possible unless they are
bought into mainstream on equal basis
economically, socially and politically. The
district is considered as one of the most
progressive districts in the state with regard to
women and their empowerment. The genderfriendly enabling factors such as matriarchal
system, favourable sex ratio, high literacy
amongst men and women etc have contributed
significantly to the gender development in the
district. The government schemes such as
Bhagya Laxmi Programme to provide insurance
cover for new born girl's education and marriage
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of poor families, free education for girls in

government schools up to the secondary level,
provision of bicycles to secondary school girls,
Stree Shakthi SHG model for empowering
women and reservations in political
representation in local governing bodies have
also played significant role in gender
development and improving gender equality in
the district.
Notwithstanding these achievements,
the women in the district still suffer from some
traditionally rooted gender biases such as social
norms and customs on women's roles, codes of
modesty, code of honour and dowry system as
well as women's ability to do some jobs. The
parents still prefer boys rather than girls in
professional education. Declining sex ratio,
declining female work participation,
feminization of employment and casualization
of women's employment in informal sectors
without security of jobs and benefit of any social
security are some of the emerging gender issues
in the district. The disintegration of undivided
joint family, dowry system, increasing spouse
abuse and divorce, out-migration of husbands
and consequently single women living and the
life of widows without children support also
increase women's insecurity and vulnerability.
Adding to this is the recent phenomenon of
increasing alcoholism among young generation
which result in family quarrels, spouse abuse
and violence against women. However,
compared to other districts, the number of
reported such cases are minimal.
Marginalized Section
The SCs and STs are historically,
socially and economically deprived
communities. The Central and the State
Governments have implemented several multifaceted and multi-pronged programmes for

social and economic welfare of the SCs and the
STs to bring them into the mainstream
development. Most of the government social
programmes implemented have been found
successful in provision of the basic livelihood
amenities to the SCs and the STs in the district.
They are, at present not lagging very much
behind other communities as regards primary
and secondary education, housing, safe drinking
water supply, electricity and sanitation. They,
however, still lag behind the rest of the
population in higher and professional education,
access to healthcare facilities, high-end job
market, access to productive assets and credit,
business enterprises and standard of living. Most
of them remained resource poor and in low-end
labour jobs. The setting up separate colonies for
SCs and STs with all infrastructures, though
good, has adverse effect on their integration into
mainstream society.
Another important emerging issue is the
existence of wide gaps among the sub-castes of
the SCs and the STs. All sub-casts among SCs
and STs have not benefitted from government
programmes equally. Among the STs, Koragas
are still far behind economically and socially
compared to other ST groups. There is no data on
livelihood, education and health status,
occupation pattern, poverty and other socioeconomic indicators of various sub-casts in SCs
and STs. The challenge is to compile such data to
recognize the real downtrodden sub-castes and
prepare a holistic action plan to bring them to the
level of the rest of the community.
Governance Issues
Good governance means efficient and
timely delivery of public services, simplicity and

easy accessibility of systems and procedures,
accountability, transparency and sound financial
management, active people's participation,
autonomy in decision making process and strict
enforcement of right to information. Dakshina
Kannada district, by all standards, has done
relatively better in local governance than most of
other districts in the state. However, there are
many grey areas, which are mainly systemic and
require civil reforms. Under panchayat raj
system, GPs are the bottom of the pyramid
administrative units for direct delivery of
developmental services for the well-being of
people. The GPs in the district are plagued with
numerous problems, which include inter alia
inadequate allocation of resources, political
interference, absence of community
participation, lack of knowledge and capability
of representatives, lack of accountability and
transparency etc. The GPs have at present no
financial and functional autonomy. The Grama
Sabhas and Ward Sabhas are at present not
active. They are not empowered to participate
effectively and act as watch-dogs at the GP level.
As against this, the ULBs in the district
have better record of performance. They have
achieved significant improvement in provision
of safe drinking water, water bill collection, road
sweeping and cleaning and solid waste
collection and disposal. However, there are still
gaps in provision of these basic civic services.
They are mainly centered around supply of
portable tap water in required quantity
throughout the year to all households,
segregation of solid waste collection at primary
stage, UGD coverage for all households etc.
Besides these issues, there is also problem of the
basic needs of migrant population who live in
slums and suffer from multiple deprivations that
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include lack of access to basic amenities such as

water supply, sanitation, decent housing and
electricity.
The Way Forward Strategies

The six human development indices
computed provide comprehensive view of
present status human development as well as
development deficits at taluk and district level.
The ranking of taluks, divergences between
rankings and spatial and social disparities in
various human development related indices and
in their components have serious implications
for the way forward policies and strategies for
inclusive, equitable and sustainable human
development in the district. They provide thrust
areas for action. It is also important that the
future policies and strategies should not be
restricted to merely on eliminating disparities
across gender, social class and regions in respect
of various dimensions of human development,
but they should aim at enhancing all round
wellbeing of all people in all the taluks. The
sector-wise the policies and strategies emerged
from the study are adumbrated below.
improvement in quality, curriculum, social

equity in educational attainment and equipment
of students with life-skills required at formative
stage to enable students to compete at the higher
levels in all spheres. The Government is going to
remain the main provider of primary and
secondary education in rural areas. With the
declining population growth and declining
number of students in the rural areas, what is
required is not institutional expansion but
provision of quality education. It would be ideal
to consider integrating primary and secondary as
one model high school to one GP with all RTE
requirements to provide quality education
instead of maintaining number of lower primary,
higher primary and high schools within a
jurisdiction of 5km. The following are also
considered the critical elements of the way
forward strategy in the education sector in the
district:
Motivate and incentivize students of SCs

and STs and other weaker sections to
increase transition rate from secondary to
PUC and PUC to higher and professional
education.
Create IT-based teacher support tools with

free broadband internet to provide both
content and pedagogical support.
Train periodically teachers to update their

knowledge and professional skill critical for
quality education and incentivize them for
creativity, research and extra-curricular
activities.
Integrate pre-vocational courses for skill

development at secondary and PUC level
either as an add-on or alternative subject to
facilitate mobility options and improve
employability of students who do not go for
higher education.
Towards Universal access to Quality

Education:
In the education sector, the primary
objective of education policy should be to ensure
that all children across gender, social class,
rural-urban or differently-abled have equal
access to educational institutions and quality
education. This requires a holistic approach and
concerted efforts to strengthen the system at all
levels of education: elementary, secondary and
higher education. The district is already on the
way to universal elementary and secondary
education. The challenge would be now on
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rural weaker section to access health care

facilities from both private and public with
the help of various health insurance schemes
introduced by the Government as well as
private hospitals.
Involving community partnership with

more emphasis on alumnae without
political interference not only to provide
financial support but also to ensure good
school governance and act as watch-dog.
Provide special health services through well

equipped Mobile Units to remote tribal
areas, forest areas, and Naxalite affected
areas to ensure easy access and effective
reach to the people staying there.
Strengthen monitoring and surveillance as

well as preventive and curative measures to
control revival of communicable diseases
like Malaria, TB and Dengue Fever as well
as prevalence of HIV/AIDS and endosulfan
infected illnesses.
Conduct periodical awareness campaigns

and Medicare camps for chronic diseases
like diabetes, hyper-tension, blood pressure
etc particularly in rural areas.
Equitable Comprehensive Health Care

System:
The health care system in the district has to
be comprehensive, easily accessible and
inclusive. The accessibility, availability and
affordability should be made critical in universal
health coverage system. The following are
considered important for future strategy in the
district's health care system:
Need for a close collaboration of private

medical colleges with Taluk and District
Hospitals to ensure access to quality and
super specialty health services in the present
public sector system.
Strengthen the primary health care in rural
areas to provide comprehensively
preventive, curative and rehabilitative
health care services by upgradation of PHCs
and CMCs as per IPHS standards.
Consider the Tamil Nadu Model of mapping

geographically and setting one Junction
Hospital for a group of PHCs with specialist
doctors and adequate number of nurses and
provide their services to the rural people
round the clock.
Develop network linking of PHCs, Junction

hospitals and Taluk and District Hospitals
through IT in order to ensure prompt referral
system, close interface, robust surveillance
and timely treatment
Organize awareness campaign to enable
Linking Human Development with Growth:

Income, asset ownership and basic
amenities not only determine the living standard
but also functionally linked to education, health
and other dimension of human development.
The need to strengthen the virtuous cycle of
linking human development with economic
growth hardly requires any emphasis. The
district has vast potential for diversification of
agriculture, development of medium and small
scale industries and tertiary activities like
tourism, software industries etc. The recent
spread of communication technology to rural
areas has also opened up opportunities to foster a
variety of secondary and tertiary activities in
rural areas. Several rural centres have, in recent
years, emerged as rural towns. This process of
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semi urbanization and associated improvements

in infrastructure also provide good scope for
non-farm employment opportunities both in the
secondary and in the tertiary sectors in the
surrounding rural areas. The formation of selfhelp groups of women and promotion of micro
finance in rural areas can also play a crucial role
in encouraging women's participation in
household industries. The way forward strategy
for human development in livelihood sector
should, therefore, focus on virtually linking
human development with achieving higher,
sustainable and more inclusive economic
growth in the district. This seems to be the only
way to arrest out migration and improve women
work participation in rural areas in the district.
issues. Taking into consideration this

perspective, the following strategies for gender
empowerment are suggested:
Empowering Women: The focus should

continue, as hitherto, on improving
reproductive health, education, relief and
rehabilitation of women in distress, women
concerns in employment, access and control
over resources, promotion of women's Selfhelp Groups and enhancing their capacity to
participate effectively in community and
political decision making process.
Fostering women's self-employment

ventures and entrepreneurship: The women
focused specific strategies are required for
promotion of women SHGs, capacity
building, business skill development, credit
linkage, and provision of industry specific
inputs and organization of marketing
networks to enable women to take up income
generating micro enterprises and also enter
into business world as entrepreneur.
Empowering women in agriculture: In rural

areas, there is a need to empowering women
in agriculture through a multi-pronged
strategy aiming at independent land rights
for women, strengthening their agricultural
capacities, improving their access to credit,
extension and marketing facilities,
designing women-friendly technologies and
promoting gender-friendly diversification of
agriculture.
Social security protection for women: There

is an urgent need for providing social
security protection to women employees in
the informal sector and widows and single
women living in urban areas.
Empowerment of Women:
The emancipation of women from persisting
gender bias and gender inequality can be
achieved only through empowerment of women
in all human development dimensions. The
process of empowerment involves not only
equity in access to and control over resources but
also development of functional capabilities to
access one's rights and entitlements on equal
basis. The empowerment of women has to
therefore go beyond mere capacity building to
get control over the circumstances of their lives,
but also address the problems of women's
agency, their rights and freedom and their wellbeing and self-esteem. Poverty reduction, access
to livelihood resources, capability building,
security against vulnerability and equality of
gender relations in all spheres of activities have
to be considered integral part of the gender
planning and development. The interventions
and programmes should be therefore based on
ground realities and by taking into consideration
gender differential needs and related emerging
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Mainstreaming Marginalized Groups:

The well-being of historically marginalized
groups like SCs and STs is possible only through
right based entitlement interventions. In all
government interventions, the emphasis, so far,
was given on social welfare focus - education,
health, shelter, basic amenities such as
electricity and sanitation. These initiatives are
essential and need to be strengthened. What is
now required is the economic empowerment as
they are still in lowest rung of socio-economic
ladder. They require capability building to
actively participate in productive sectors and
other economic activities. They should graduate
from their low-end traditional occupations to
high-end professional occupations on par with
other communities. The following strategic
interventions are considered critical for
improving the well-being of the SCs and STs in
the district:
Need for undertaking a stock-taking and

diagnostic exercise to compile information
on livelihood, education and health status,
occupation pattern, poverty and other socioeconomic parameters of all sub-castes of
SCs and STs with a view to plan sub-cast
specific focused demand driven
government interventions with monitorable
signposts for their economic and social
uplift.
Motivate and incentivise SC and ST

students to enter higher and professional
education to enable them to move away
from low-end traditional jobs and become
closer to other communities economically.
Motivate and incentivise SC and ST

students who completed secondary or PUC
education and do not want to pursue higher
education to go for vocational training for

skill development and improve
employability to enable them to enter
income generating productive ventures like
agriculture, livestock enterprises, small and
medium industries and business world as
well as to enable them to enter organized job
market.
Effective Local Governance:

The good governance at panchayat raj
institutional level matters for effective and
efficient delivery of public services at grass root
level. The main ingredients of good governance
at local level are: (i) efficient and effective
delivery system for public services, (ii) simple,
easily accessible and people-friendly rules and
procedures, (iii) transparency, accountability
and sound financial management, (iv)
responsive to local needs and aspirations and (v)
stringent anti-corruption measures and absence
of rent seeking behaviour. The panchayat raj
institutions and ULBs in the district should be
geared to adopt these ingredients of good
governance. The way forward agenda should
also include capacity and capability building,
leveraging IT technology in governance,
devolution of functions and finance, active
people participation, involvement of civil
society especially voluntary agencies in
implementation of programmes and the crucial
right to information. Special attention need to
given to the capacity building at GP level for
need assessment, priority setting, formulation of
projects/programmes, and their effective
implementation, sound financial management,
transparency and accountability as well as right
to information. The Grama Sabhas and Ward
Sabhas should be empowered to participate
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effectively and act as watch-dogs at the GP level.

In the case of ULBs, besides these ingredients,
their task is to make cities livable for all with
basic urban infrastructure facilities.
Notwithstanding the progress already achieved
in development of urban infrastructure, there are
many areas where the scaling-up delivery of
civic amenities and provision of utilities with
emphasis on universal access to the urban poor is
needed. The following are also the priority areas
in urban governance from human development
perspective:
Safe Drinking Water: There is a need to

ensure that all households in the municipal
areas have access to portable treated water
supply and requisite quantity throughout the
year.
Underground drainage system: UGD should

cover all households in the cities.
Solid Waste Management: In order to ensure

scientific solid waste management and
facilitate proper treatment of solid waste,
there is need to ensure scaling up
segregation of solid waste at primary
source.
Basic livelihood amenities in Slums: There

is an urgent need to address their basic civic
service needs of migrant people living in
slums.
In conclusion, human development concerns

are numerous and challenging. An agenda for
sustainable and equitable human development is
broader, multi-faceted and multi-dimensional.
The agenda should address both social and
spatial human development deficits and
inequalities in various dimensions of human
development, institutional failures, social,
religious and cultural barriers, vulnerabilities
and emerging concerns affecting the well-being
of people. The findings and recommendations of
the DHDR provide a framework to evolve a
strategic vision and to plan both short term and
long term action plans.
It is important that the strategic plans of
action should be bottom-up process and take into
consideration inter-taluk disparities and needs
and aspirations of local people. Each taluk
should build on its strengths and opportunities.
Such an agenda for human development should
be made an integral part of the Comprehensive
District Development Plan backed by adequate
funds and monitoring mechanism with
monitorable human development signposts.
Only with effective implementation of the
Comprehensive District Development Plan
development is possible and can be achieved in
the district.
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Part II
Human Development Report
Chapter 1
Introduction
Yakshagana - Traditional Folk Art of Dakshina Kannada
Karnataka State Map
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Introduction
Increasing Gross Domestic Products
(GDP) and per capita income were considered in
the past as primary goal of economic
development. However, the development
experience of many countries had empirically
shown that the mere GDP growth miserably
failed to reduce socio-economic deprivation of
substantial section of their population. It was
well recognized that the conventional measure
of economic growth in terms of GDP and per
capita income cannot capture the basic aspects of
human well-being. In the words of Mahabub-ulHaq, the architect of the first Human
Development Report (HDR) of United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP) any
measure that values a gun several hundred times
more than a bottle of milk is bound to raise
serious questions about its relevance for human
progress (Mahabub-ul-Haq, 1995). This led to
the realization that development process is a far
more complex phenomenon than mere growth in
domestic product alone and there is a need to
reflect on the level of well-being of the people.
Since the income centric development
paradigm did not capture the various dimensions
of well-being of people, the need was felt to have
a broader people-centric approach for
development. UNDP, as an international
development agency played a pioneering role in
developing human development as an
alternative development paradigm and human
development index (HDI) as a composite
measure of human well-being. It brings out
every year HDR comprising HDIs to measure
achievements in human development in every
nation since 1990. UNDP HDRs were global
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reports and indicate achievement in human

development only across countries. Hence,
many nations have brought out country-specific
HDRs to capture performance in various
dimensions of human development in their
country. The Government of India, for the first
time, prepared the National Human
Development Report in 2001 providing Human
Development Indices both state-wise and for the
whole nation. Since then, many states in India
have made efforts to prepare such reports at state
level. Karnataka State brought out the first HDR
in 1999 and its second HDR in 2005. These
reports have brought out regional level
imbalances existing in various dimensions of
human development within the state.
With the view to capture variations in the
status of the human development at the district
and taluk levels, the Government of Karnataka
initiated four pilot projects in the first phase in
Vijayapura, Kalaburagi, Mysuru and Udupi for
preparing District Human Development Reports
(DHDRs). Encouraged by the experience of
pilot DHDRs, the Government of Karnataka has
decided to develop DHDRs to taluk-level for all
30 districts in the state. The present study is,
accordingly, an outcome of the attempt to
prepare DHDR for Dakshina Kannada district.
1.1 Concept and Methodology

The first HDR of UNDP defined human
development in the following terms:
Human development is a process of enlarging
people's choices. In principle, these choices can
be infinite and change over time. But at all levels
of development, the three essential ones are for

people to lead a long and healthy life, to acquire
knowledge and to have access to resources
needed for a decent standard of living. If these
essential choices are not available, many other
opportunities remain inaccessible (UNDP,
1990).
By definition, the objective of human
development is to enlarge people's choices.
Fundamental to enlarging people's choices is the
expansion of human capabilities to do what they
want and what they value. According to Sen, the
term capabilities refer to the opportunities that a
person has to exercise his or her 'freedom to
attain different kinds of alternative lives between
which a person can choose The capabilities and
choices are multi-dimensional. They include
political, social, economic and cultural freedom,
community participation without discrimination
by class, gender, race, nationality, religion,
community, or generation and opportunities for
being creative and productive and live with self
respect and human rights. To achieve all these,
UNDP considered three basic capabilities
essential. They are to lead long and healthy lives,
to be knowledgeable and to have access to the
resources needed for a decent standard of living.
The objective of development, therefore, should
be to create an enabling and conducive
environment in which people can develop their
full potential and lead productive, creative lives
in accordance with their needs, aspirations,
capabilities and choices.
Human development being multidimensional, the measuring of it involved using
multiple human capabilities and capturing them
in an aggregate index for evaluating
achievements in well-being of people. Since the
quantification and reliable data availability of

most of the human development capabilities
posed problem, UNDP has considered health,
knowledge and standard of living as the essential
and critical capabilities of well-being of people
for constructing HDI as a composite measure of
human development. The underlying
assumption is that without these basic
capabilities, people cannot have other choices
and opportunities. The HDI was computed
originally as a simple arithmetic average of three
dimension indices of health measured by life
expectancy at birth (LEB), education computed
as a combination of adult literacy (two-third
weight) and enrolment ratios at the primary,
secondary and tertiary levels (One-third weight)
and command over resources for standard of
living measured by per capita real GDP adjusted
for purchasing power parity in dollars (PPP$) to
ensure international comparison.
For computing HDI, each of the
dimension indices were considered as of equal
importance for human development and
estimated as normalized indicators of
achievements. By using minimum and
maximum goalposts, the indices were
normalized. The reason for normalizing each
dimension was to transform indicators into
indices between 0 and 1, thus to give equal
relevance to each dimension and to allow the
arithmetic sum of the indices. The lower bound
was considered as minimum and the upper
bound as a 'saturation' point beyond which
additional increments do not contribute to
expansion of human capabilities. Thus, the HDI
is the arithmetic mean of three dimension
indices: living a long and healthy life, having
access to knowledge and a decent standard of
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living. Besides HDI, UNDP also computed the

Gender-related Development Index (GDI),
Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) and
Human Poverty Index (HPI) to measure the
gender empowerment and deprivation.
In spite of its popularity, there were
criticisms on choice of dimensions and
indicators of the HDI and its computational
methodology. In 2010, for the twentieth
anniversary edition, the HDR undertook a
comprehensive review of the criticisms and
introduced several key changes to the HDI while
Dimensions
maintaining the three basic dimensional

structures with equal weights. Changes
introduced are mainly centered around choice
and measurement of indicators for education and
income, method of aggregation from arithmetic
average to geometric average and upper and
lower goal posts to normalize the index. The new
HDI, according to the revised methodology, is
the geometric mean of normalized indices
measuring achievement in each dimension of
human development as follows.
Measurement
Indicators
Minimum
Goal post
Maximum
Goalpost
Dimension
Index
Life expectancy at
birth
20 years
83.4 years
Health Index
Mean years of
schooling
Observed
Maxima
Expected years of
schooling
Expected
Maxima
Standard of living
GNI per capita (PPP$)
100
$107721
Aggregation
(Geometric Mean)
Human Development index
Long and Healthy life
Knowledge
Education
Index
Income Index
The dimension sub-indices are computed on the basis of the following general formula:
Actual Value Minimum Value
Component Index =
Maximum Value Minimum Value
HDI is the geometric mean of the three dimensions (I health . I Education . I Income)1/3.
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The UNDP 2010 HDR has also made a

significant move away from the idea that the
ideal measure of human development must
cover only three core dimensions and
recommended user to 'build your own
development index' by taking into account key
contextual human development concerns. The
DHDR, while taking into consideration the
conceptual and methodological framework of
UNDP, has made an attempt to adopt a broader
approach with a view to take into account the key
human development concerns affecting at the
district and taluk level.
1.2 Factors Contributing to Human Development

The human well-being being
multidimensional, the factors contributing to
human development are numerous. One of the
major criticisms of the HDI was that it restricted
to only three capabilities. It excluded other
important capability dimensions such as equity,
freedoms, social security, political voice,
sustainability and happiness- just to name a few.
Even in the case of three critical capabilities, the
choice of indicators selected to measure was
restricted to one or two indicators. For example,
life expectancy as a measure of longevity does
not reflect the quality and health profile of
people during the time that they are alive. The
health factors such as mal-nutrition, infant
mortality rate (IMR), child mortality rate (CDI),
maternal mortality rate (MMR) and other health
related factors are equally important. Similarly,
literacy rate and enrolment ratios do not reflect
quality of education, knowledge, skill
development and competence. In the case of
standard of living, the per capita income does not
capture basic requisites of livelihood such as

housing, safe drinking water, sanitation and
other livelihood concerns. The per capita GDP
also does not capture inequality, poverty and
social deprivation. The composite measure of
human development should, therefore, go
beyond three core dimensions. It should include
all key factors - economic, social and political affecting the wellbeing of the people.
It is also important to recognize that the
actual performance variations, disparities and
deprivations in most of the dimensions affecting
human development are better reflected at micro
and household level rather than at global,
national or state level. While the macro level
perspective based on aggregate data enables to
rank countries, regions and states based on status
of specific dimension indices as well as on
composite index of HDI, the ground reality of a
range of human capabilities and deprivations
across regions and communities can be captured
only from micro level perspective where people
actually live. The micro level perspective,
besides ranking bottom level regions, facilitates
ranking of communities, evaluation of
prevailing policies and programs and their
impact from human development lens. It is also
possible to broaden the HDI by capturing as
many potential dimensions as possible at micro
level as the compilation of meaningful and
reliable data would be easier at household level.
Recognizing the importance of and the
need for micro level human development
perspective, the Government of Karnataka has
initiated a program for preparing DHDRs in all
its 30 districts with the assistance of UNDP.
Instead of focusing on only three-dimensional
HDI and preparing status reports like pilot
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DHDRs initiated in the first phase, the emphasis

in the DHDRs was laid on all key human
developmental factors that enhance the wellbeing of life at taluk and district level.
Accordingly, a broader approach and modified
methodology was considered for DHDR
exercise keeping in mind the UNDP's
conceptual and methodological framework.
With a view to take into account all key
factors contributing to human development at
taluk and district levels, the following six indices
on various human development issues are
considered for preparing the DHDRs:
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
F)
Human Development Index (HDI),

Gender Inequality Index (GII),
Child Development Index (CDI),
Food Security Index (FSI),
Urban Development Index (UDI),
Composite Taluk Development Index
(CTDI).
In addition to these Human

Development related indices Composite Dalit
Development Index ( CDDI) was computed
based on a case study of a gram panchayat in a
district.
After detailed deliberation at the high
level workshop represented by government
officials
of Human Division, Planning
Department, Directorate of Economics and
Statistics (DES), State Level Coordinator of the
project, Consultants and professionals from
Universities, Institute of Social and Economic
Research and Non-Government Organizations
(NGOs) in the state and taking into account
quantifiability, measurability and data
availability, a set of indicators affecting the three
basic dimensions of human developmenthealth, education and standard of living - have
been identified and selected for construction of
these indices. The set of indicators selected for
each index is shown in the flow chart below:
Flow Chart 1.1: Key Indicators Selected for Human Development Indices
A)1.Percentage of Houses having access to modern cooking fuel
Living
Standard
Health
Education
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Percentage of Houses having access to modern cooking fuel

Percentage of Houses having access to toilets
Percentage of Houses having access to safe drinking water
Percentage of houses having access to electricity
Percentage of houses having access to pucca houses
Percentage of non-agricultural workers tototal workers
Per Capita Income (at current prices)
1. Child Mortalit Rate (0

2. Maternal Mortality Rate
-5Years)
1. Literacy Rate
2. Gross Enrolement Rate at Schools
(Primary + Upper Primary + Secondary)
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B) Gender Inequality Index (GII):
1. Maternal Mortality Rate

2. Share of Institutional Delivery
3. Share of regnant women with Anemia
Reproductive
Health
1.
Empowerment
2.
3.
1.
2.
Labour Market
Share of Female and Male elected representatives

in PRIs/ULBs)
Share of Female and Male children in the age group
of 0-6 years
Share of Female and Male literacy
Share of Female and Male work participation

Share of Female and Male works in non-agricultural
secor
C) Child Development Index (CDI):
CDI
Health
Child Mortality Rate

(0-6years)
Nutrition
Education
1. Percentage of Malnourished Children

(excluding normal)
2. Percentage of Children born under
weight
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Percentage of drop-out
children mainstreamed
a) Primary
b) Secondary
Introduction
D) Food Security Index (FSI):
Availability
1. Cropping intensity
2. Pecentage of change in net sown area over
decade (2001-11)
3. PerCapita Fodgrain production (kgs)
4. Percentage of forest cover in total geographical
area
5. Irrigation intensity
6. Percentage of area degraded (cultivable waste)
to TGA
7. Percentage of leguminous (area under pulses)
crops in gross cropped area
1.
Accessibility
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Accessibility
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Percentage of BPL card holders to total card

holders
Per capita income at current prices)
Percentage of non-agricultural workers to total
workers
Average size of holdings
Percentage of agricultural labourers to total
workers
Percentage of villages having PDS outlets within
villages
Child Mortality Rate (0-5 years)
Percentage of houses with access to water
Percentage of pregnant women with anaemia
Percentage of malnourished children
Percentage of children born underweight
Female literacy rate
E) Urban Development Index (UDI):
UDI
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
Percentage of urban population to total population

No. of Households without own houses
Percentage of slum population to total urban population
Percentage of households with tap water connection
Sewerage Drainage (Percentage)
No. of hospital beds per 1000 urban population
Growth rate of own resource mobilization
Per capita expenditure on development works
Road Km. per Sq. Km
Crime Rate per 10000 urban population
Road accidents per 10000 urban population
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F) Composite Taluk Development Index (CTDI):
CTDI
Standard of Living
Education
Health
Health
Demographic
Education
Sanitation
Livelihood and
Employment
Water
Housing and Assets
Participation
(Note: 68 Indicators related to taluk Human Development concerns are

considered for CTDI as given in annexure table 10)
Composite Dalit Development Index (CDDI)

CDDI
Inclusion
Discrimination
Freedom
Standard of
living
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Gender
Access to
Basic
facilities
Introduction
Excluding CDDI, 68 indicators as given

in Annexure 10, were chosen taking into account
their contribution to the human development at
taluk and district level. They are mainly cantered
on demographic factors, livelihood and
employment related factors, household assets,
community participation, health factors,
including safe drinking water supply and
sanitation and education factors. It is also
important to note that the indicators selected
were identified with the objective of
standardizing information gathering, analysis
and presentation, and providing a
comprehensive picture of human development
for all taluks and districts in the state.
The dalits are marginalized community
and continue to remain at the lowest rung of the
socio-economic ladder. They constitute a
sizeable portion of the total population in the
state. Their development problems such as
untouchability, social exclusion, social
discrimination, unfreedom etc., are different
from mainstream human development issues
and not reflected in the above development
indicators. These problems, in fact, produce
disabilities among the Dalits, which hinder their
capabilities to absorb development
opportunities and affect their institutional and
social inclusion, freedom, mobility, access to
basic amenities, community participation and
integration to mainstream economic
development. Because of these reasons, it is felt
that there is a need to construct a separate CDDI
to capture all Dalit specific factors affecting
human development. Key factors considered for
construction of CDDI are: social and
institutional inclusion, perception of
discrimination, perception of freedom, standard
of living, gender dimension of development,
access to basic facilities including education.
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However the CDDI is restricted to a case study

of one GP in the district.
The DHDR for Dakshina Kannada
district has made an attempt to construct all these
human development indices with a view to
evaluate on holistic basis the present status of
human development, human development
concerns and policies and programs required
from human development perspective both at
taluk and district level.
1.3 Data Collection, Compilation and
Validation
Collection of the relevant and reliable
data on the indicators chosen is very important
for construction of various indices at taluk and
district level on realistic basis. In order to
facilitate comparative analysis across 30
districts and 176 taluks in the state, it was
decided by the GOK that all DHDRs should
adopt the common conceptual and
methodological framework. As per the
Guidelines issued by the Government in this
regard, following are the main common features
proposed for preparation of DHDRs:
The conceptual and methodological

framework as suggested in the 2010 UNDPHDR should be adopted for estimating
district and taluk-wise HDIs and GIIs, using
proxy indicators.
Uniform set of indicators with standardized

definitions and data sources should be
adopted for various indices on human
development issues to ensure district-wise
commonality and comparability.
DHDR should analyze all the indicators and

indices at taluk level in comparison to the
district.
DHDRs should undertake a case study on

the position of marginalized Dalits
(Schedule Castes) in one Panchayat in each
district based on secondary and primary
data. The primary data should be compiled
from not less than fifty Schedule Caste (SC)
households in the selected Panchayat.
data were compiled mainly for construction of

CDDI and for special area/micro studies. The
interview and participant observation and rapid
appraisal methods were used for collection of
primary data. Wherever required, the structured
questionnaires were used for collection of data
through personal interview.
Radar Scale should be computed sectorwise to reflect sectoral achievements and

taluk-wise to show taluk position using 19
proxy indicators of education, health and
living standard reflecting the status of
human development and in both cases, the
physical distance from the accepted norm
should be measured.
DHDR should undertake four or five small

area/micro studies on district's special focus
issues particularly in areas such as
education, health, living standards, gender
empowerment, status of SCs and STs,
minorities, water supply and sanitation and
housing.
DHDR should maintain uniformity in

respect of presentation of tables and chapter
contents.
Since data collection involved through

several agencies, it is important to have
accuracy, consistency and reliability of data. The
process of data collection, compilation and
validation is therefore done in a participatory
manner involving district administration, urban
authorities, concerned line departments, NGOs,
academia, women's groups, and people's
representatives. The validation of the data
compiled is done by the lead agency in
consultation with the concerned agency and in
the District Core Committee meetings.
Wherever required, the data are revised or
updated and approval of the Core Committee
obtained. The Planning Department,
Government of Karnataka also checked and
authenticated the data collected for selected 68
indicators. Thus all efforts were made to ensure
that the data gathered from different sources are
authentic, clean, consistent, accurate and
realistic.
A wide range of data is required from

different sources on different indicators and for
disaggregated analysis of human development
issues both at taluk and district level. The data
sources are primarily from secondary sources
and to a limited extent from primary sources.
The data required for various indictors were
collected from secondary sources. The
secondary sources of data used are mainly from
2011 Census, documented data from the
functional departments of Zilla Panchayat (ZP),
Urban Local Bodies (ULBs), non-government
organizations (NGOs) and published
government documents. The primary sample
1.4 Measurement of Indices

As per the guidelines issued by the
Government, the conceptual framework of the
UNDP's three core dimensions namely health,
education and standard of living and the
modified computation methodology of 2010
HDR were adopted for construction of all human
development indices. Since the DHDR adopted
broad based approach, instead of one or two
indicators as adopted in the UNDP's framework,
the measurement of core dimensions was done
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by multiple indicators selected. As shown in the

flow chart above, 68 indicators were selected to
measure core dimension of six human
development related indices (excluding CDDI).
The measurement of indicators depends on
quantification of the indicators.
The computation of indices, as per the
guidelines was done at two levels. First one is
done to understand the position of the taluks
within the district for which the observed
minimum and maximum goalpost values among
the taluks in the district are taken into account.
The second type of computation is undertaken to
understand the position of taluks and districts
among the 176 taluks and 30 districts in the state
by taking into account the observed minimum
and maximum values from all the 176 taluks in
the state. In the DHDR, the focus is only on the
first one to understand the position at the taluk
level in the district. The second method index
values for the districts and taluks in the state are
compiled separately by the Planning
Department, GOK for comparing the position of
30 districts and 176 taluks in the state. The
chapter 3 and Technical note in the Appendix
explain in detail methodological issues involved
in measurement of indicators and computation
of indices.
The CDDI was constructed based on a
case study of one Gram Panchayat (GP) in the
district where the dalit population is
concentrated. Both secondary and primary data
were used. The primary data are collected from a
sample of 50 dalit households. The computation
of CDDI has taken into account the following
dimensions:
a) Inclusion Institutional and Social
inclusions,
b) Discrimination Perception, protest and
Resolution,
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c) Freedom Social, Political, Economic and

Cultural,
d) Standard of Living Land, non-agricultural
source of income, T.V., Fridge, TwoWheelers
e)
Gender Dimension- Pre and Post delivery

rest, Reproductive health support
f)
Access to basic facilities Education,

Drinking water, Housing, Toilets and
Sanitation.
The scoring for each dimension was

done based on the positive or negative responses
and the CDDI is computed by dividing the
aggregated actual values of all dimensions by
aggregated expected maximum values of all
dimensions. Since CDDI was done based on
perceptive survey one GP, it has limited validity
and cannot be used for generalization.
1.5 Structure of the Report

It should be noted that the attempt to
compile data on 68 key human development
indicators and construct six human development
Indices at taluk level within the district and
compare taluks within district and also to carry
out a disaggregated analysis of human
development problems for each dimensions at
the grass roots level is itself a pioneering one and
is of great importance. For the first time, it would
provide grass root level baseline data for the
district on various human development issues
for policy formulation and planning.
For analytical convenience, as per the
Government guidelines, the report has been
organized into twelve chapters. The chapter one,
by way of introductory note, provides a broad
conceptual and methodological framework. The
Introduction
second chapter presents the socio-economic

profile of Dakshina Kannada district together
with the SWOT (strengths, weaknesses,
opportunities and threats) analysis for
development of the district as a backdrop. In
chapter three, an attempt was made to compute
human development indices based on chosen 68
indicators and bring out their implications at the
taluk and district levels. The next three chapters
contain an in-depth disaggregated analysis of
present status and spatial and social group
disparities in various indicators of three core
dimensions of human development viz. literacy
and education, health and nutrition and income,
employment and poverty. The standard of living
issues in terms of access to basic amenities by
taluks and social groups are analysed in chapter
seven. In chapter eight and nine the present
status, emerging issues and areas of concerns
with regard to women empowerment, child

development and the marginalized SCs and STs
are looked into. The chapter ten focuses on the
governance issues of Panchayat Raj Institutions
and the role of NGOs and voluntary groups from
the human development perspective. The
discussion on urban issues in human
development is included in the chapter eleven.
The concluding a way forward chapter
recapitulates the key areas of human
development concern and their implications and
to suggest strategic interventions and
programmes required to address the existing
spatial and social disparities and for further
enhancement of human development in
Dakshina Kannada district. Annexure contains a
technical note, supporting statistical tables and a
bibliography.
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Chapter 2
District Overview
DAKSHINA KANNADA ZILLA PANCHAYAT OFFICE

MANGALURU
Dakshina Kannada District Map
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2.1
Introduction
Dakshina Kannada (erstwhile South

Kanara) is one of the three coastal districts of
Karnataka State with a geographical area of
4859 sq. Km. Located between the foothills of
Western Ghats in the east and Arabian sea in the
west, it is bordered by Udupi District to the
north, Chikkamagaluru district to the northeast,
Hassan District to the east, Kodagu to the
southeast, and Kasaragod District in Kerala to
the south. The district has five taluks namely,
Bantwal, Belthangady, Mangaluru, Puttur and
Sullia. Mangaluru city is the district
headquarters and the main city of the district.
Mangaluru is also one of the main port cities of
Karnataka State. The district is blessed with
abundant rainfall, fertile soil, and lush
vegetation. Pristine beaches, picturesque
mountain ranges, temple towns, and rich culture
makes it a sought after tourist destination.
CHAPTER 2
Dakshina Kannada district constitutes a

part of Tulu Nadu along with the neighbouring
Udupi district. Kannada, Tulu and Konkani are
the main indigenous languages in the distinct.
Administratively, the district has 331 villages,
203 GPs, one municipal corporation (Mangaluru
City Corporation), four town municipal councils
(Bantwal, Puttur, Ullal, and Moodabidri) and
three town panchayats (Belthangady, Mulky and
Sullia).
This chapter presents a brief overview of
historical, geographical, demographic and
socio-economic features of the district to
provide the contextual background for the
district's human development report. It also
made an attempt in brief a SWOT (strength,
weakness, opportunity and threat) analysis to
highlight sectoral development potentials and
problems of the district.
Western Ghats
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This chapter presents a brief overview of

historical, geographical, demographic and
socio-economic features of the district to
provide the contextual background for the
district's human development report. It also
made an attempt in brief a SWOT (strength,
weakness, opportunity and threat) analysis to
highlight sectoral development potentials and
problems of the district.
2.2 Background and Brief Regional History

Dakshina Kannada district, historically
known as Parashuram Nadu, has a long history
and cultural heritage. Empirical evidences are
available to prove that there existed a distinct
indigenous civilization in the district from prehistoric days. Historically many dynasties ruled
and played key roles in bringing about sociocultural and economic transformations in the
district. In the epic Ramayana, Lord Rama and in
the epic Mahabharata, Sahadeva, the youngest
of Pandavas believed to have ruled over the
region. In the third century BC, the district
formed part of the Maurya Empire. The region
was then known as Sathia (Shantika). This
region was historically known as Tulunadu since
Tulu was one of the prominent languages of the
region.
As per the recorded history, the earliest
dynasties that ruled the region were Alupas,
Hoysalas and Kadamba. Mangalapura (now
Mangaluru) was the capital of Alupa dynasty
until the 14th century. During that time, the city
was an important trading centre for Persian and
Arab merchants. With the establishment of
Vijayanagara Empire in the early 14th century,
the district came under its rule. Jain kings ruled
the district as feudatories of the Vijayanagara
Empire and brought the district under an
efficient and centralized administration. In 1448,

Abdur Razak, the Persian Ambassador of Sultan
Shah Rukh of Samarkhand visited Mangalapura
and recorded the rich cultural heritage of the city.
After the ruin of Vijayanagara Kingdom, the
district came under the rule of Keladi kings.
Portuguese were the first Europeans who
entered the district in the beginning of 16th
century. Between 1763 and 1799, the district was
under the Mysore rule of Hyder Ali and Tippu
Sultan. With the defeat of Tippu, the district
came under the British rule and became a part of
Madras Province. During the British rule, the
Christian Missions were actively involved in
education, health and social services and
contributed significantly to the socio-economic
development of the district. Mangaluru
flourished during this time in education and
industry. The Lutheran German Basel Mission
set up in 1834, besides playing active role in
education and health, became instrument in
setting up cotton weaving, tile manufacturing
and other industries in Mangaluru and other
cities in the district. The linking of Mangaluru to
Madras through railway in 1907 was another
landmark development during this period.
Prior to 1860, Dakshina Kannada was
part of a district called Canara, which was under
a single administration in the Madras
Presidency. In 1860, the British split the region
into South Kanara and North Kanara; the former
being retained in the Madras Presidency, while
the later was made a part of Bombay Province in
1862. Kundapura taluk was earlier included in
North Kanara, but was re-included in South
Kanara later. After independence, with the
formation of linguistic states in 1956, the district
was merged with Mysore State (renamed as
Karnataka State on 1st November 1973) named as
Dakshina Kannada district. In August 1997, for
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administrative reasons, three taluks: Karkala,

Kundapura and Udupi were separated from the
district and formed new district named as Udupi
district.
Dakshina Kannada district is,
historically, known for its own distinct
indigenous cultural traditions. Important among
them are: Nagaaradhane (snake worship),
Boothaaradhane (spirit worship), Kambla
(buffalo race) and Yakshagana (classical folk
dance). They are part of Tulu culture. It is also
known for famous Hindu and Jain temples,
churches, beaches and tourist spots. The district
is famous for red clay roof tiles, popularly
known as Mangaluru tiles, cashew nut and its
products, banking, professional education and
exotic cuisines.
2.3 Physiographic Division of the District

The total geographical area of the district
is 4859 sq.km which constitutes about 2.53
percent of the total geographical area of the state
(Table 2.1). Geographically, Belthangady is the
largest taluk with 1375 sq.km (28.3 percent),

followed by Puttur with 1000 sq.km (20.6
percent) and Mangaluru with 923 sq. km (19
percent). Bantwal with 735 sq. km (15 percent)
is the smallest taluk in terms of geographical
area. Sullia has geographical area of 826 sq. km,
which constitute 17 percent of the district's
geographical area.
The district lies between 12.570 and 13
500 North Latitude and 740 and 75 500 East
Longitude. The district can be divided into three
physiographic belts: coastal belt, middle plain
terrain belt and the Western Ghat malnad
section. The narrow stretch of coastal area is the
most thickly populated part of Mangaluru taluk
comprising mostly beaches, backwater swamps
and creeks. The middle belt consists of
undulating terrain of forested hills and valleys.
Bantwal, Puttur and lower part of Belthangady
are located in this belt. The Western Ghats form
the eastern boundary of the district consisting of
evergreen forested hills and plantation gardens
of crop like areca nut Sullia and upper part of
Belthangady are in this area.
Table 2.1
Taluk-wise Geographical Area and Rainfall
Taluk/District
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
State
Geographical
Area
(sq.km)
Share in the
District
(Percent)
Normal Rain
Days
(Days)
Normal Annual
Rainfall
(mms)
Actual Annual
Rainfall
(mms 2012)
735
1375
923
1000
826
4859
191791
15.13
28.30
18.99
20.58
17.00
100.00
2.53
120
128
120
124
125
123
103
3833
4509
3609
4017
3593
3912
1198
3282
4046
3166
2929
2768
3238
1094
Source: Dakshina Kannada District at Glance 2012-13

Note: Normal rainfall 1951 to 1990
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Graph 2.1
Taluk-wise Geographical Area in sq.km
Dakshina Kannada district has a tropical

monsoon climate with varied climatic zones. It is
humid in the coastal region, warm in the midland
and cool in the Ghat region. The humidity is as
high as 78 percent during the greater part of the
year. There are four seasons namely rainy season
from June to September, when the district gets
most of the monsoon rainfall; two months of
warm and damp weather during October and
November, when south-west monsoon is
retreating; pleasant winter season between
December and February and a hot and sultry
summer season from March to May.
The district is blessed with one of the highest
rainfall in the state mainly from the South-west
monsoon. The normal annual rainfall for the
district is 3912 mm as against the state's average
of 1198 mm (Table 2.1). Among taluks,
Belthangady has the highest rainfall (4509 mm)
followed by Puttur (4017). Sullia taluk has the
lowest rainfall (3593 mm).
2.4 Land, Soil and Natural Resource

Endowment
Land utilization pattern in the district
shows that of the total geographical area of 4.77
lakh hectare (ha), the area under forest is 1.29
lakh ha (27 percent), area under net cultivation,
1.31 lakh ha. (28 percent) and fallow land, 11774
ha (2.5 percent). The remaining 42.5 percent of
the geographical land is either not available for
cultivation or uncultivable (Table 2.2). Dakshina
Kannada district has large tracks of tropical
evergreen forest in Western Ghat area which is
one of the biodiversity hot spots in the world.
Among taluks, Belthangady has the highest
geographical area under forest (49837 ha)
followed by Sullia (43282 ha) and Puttur (27386
ha).
In the case of Sullia, slightly more than
50 percent of geographical area is under forest.
Bantwal taluk has only 5069 ha (7 percent) under
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forest, while Mangaluru taluk has the lowest

forest and of 2902 ha (3 percent).
As regard land under cultivation, the
district has one of lowest percentage of land area
under cultivation in the state. As against the state
average of 55 percent, the net area under
cultivation in the district is only 27.5 percent.
The gross cropped area Is 1.58 lakh ha. The
cropping intensity works out to 1.2, which is one
of the lowest in the state. The area cultivated
more than once, thus, constituted slightly less

than 20 percent of the cultivated land area. The
proportion of net cultivated area in the
geographical area is the highest in Bantwal (39
percent); followed by Belthangady (28 percent)
and Sullia (26 percent).Puttur taluk has the
lowest percentage of land area under cultivation.
The inter-taluk variation in the cropping
intensity is only marginal.
Table 2.2
Land Utilization: 20011-12
(Hectares, Figures in bracket percentage)
Taluk/District
Geographical
Forest
Area
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
State
Nonavailable Uncultivated
for
land
cultivation
Fallow
land
Net
cultivated
area
Gross
cropped
area
34720
71758
5069
23323
14699
957
27710
(100.00)
(7.06)
(32,50)
(20.48)
(13.34)
(38.62)
137510
49837
29976
18253
1170
38274
(100.00)
(36.24)
(21.80)
(13.28)
(0.85)
(27.83)
85385
2902
33244
20233
7439
21335
(100.00)
(3.41)
(39.04)
(23.76)
(8.74)
(25.05)
99697
27386
31101
17013
2103
22094
(100.00)
(27.47)
(31.20)
(17.06)
(2.11)
(22.16)
83031
43282
6576
11035
105
22033
(100.00)
(52.13)
(7.92)
(13.29)
(0.13)
(26.53)
477149
128476
124220
81233
11774
131446
(100.00)
(26.93)
(26.03)
(17.02)
(2.47)
(27.55)
19049836 3071833
(100.00)
2173931 1614677 1785288
(16.12)
(11.41)
(8.48)
(9.37)
45934
29647
24926
22456
157683
10404107 12873308
(54.62)
Source: Dakshina Kannada District at a Glance: 2011-12
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Soil structure of the district contains

three types: sandy alluvium soil, yellow loamy
soil and red lateritic soil. The sandy soils are in
coastal belt. Other parts of the district are
characterized by yellow loamy and lateritic soil
with high iron and aluminium contents. The
texture of the soils varies from fine to coarse
depending on location. The soils in the valleys
are rich in loam whereas in upland plains they
are coarse type. The soil in general is acidic due
to heavy run-off, but rich in nitrogen and
deficient in potassium and phosphorous. There
is rich deposit of alluvial soil in the valleys and
ravine bases. The lateritic stones are more in the
high plain. Yellow loamy soils, which are mostly
found along river banks and lower valleys, are
fertile and well suited for irrigation. The plain
land is suitable for growing variety of food crops
while to the east of the coastal region, the soil is
suitable for growing plantation crops like areca
nut, banana, cocoa, and rubber. The water
retention capacity of the soil structure, in
general, is very poor.
Dakshina Kannada district is blessed
with many rivers, which take birth in the
foothills of Western Ghats, flowing westwards

and joining the Arabian Sea. Important rivers of
the district are: Phalguni, Nethravathi,
Kumaradhara, Nandini and Shambhavi. Besides
these perennial rivers, there are number of
tributaries and streams, all running from east to
west. They normally become dry during
summer. In spite of many rivers, the district has
no major and medium irrigation schemes.
With the Western Ghats in the east and
Arabian Sea in the west, the district has got many
biospheres and biodiversity. The Western Ghats
Mountains have thick tropical forests and
vegetation and are rich in biodiversity. It is a
treasure house of flora and fauna and medicinal
plants. It has also falls such as Bandaje, Alekana
and Kadamba Gundi and Wild life Sanctuaries.
The district has a long coastal belt with beaches
and tourists spots like Pilikula Nisarga Dhama of
immense tourism potential. The coastal belt has
backwaters, estuaries and creeks, mangroves,
salt marshes and lagoons. It also provides good
scope for fisheries. The district has also
endowed with mineral resource potentials.
Lateritic and granite stones are available all
across the district.
The Coastal Line An Integral Part of the Topography of Dakshina Kannada

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District Overview
2.5 Demography
As per 2011 census, the total population
of Dakshina Kannada district is 20.90 lakh, of
which 10.35 lakh (49.5 percent) were males and
10.55 lakh (50.5 percent) females. The
population of the district has increased by 1.92
lakh people during the decade 2001-11 and in
terms of percentage; it has registered a decadal
growth 10 percent (Table 2.3). The decadal
growth rate of population of the district has
witnessed declining trend during the last two
decades from1991 onwards. It declined from
14.6 percent to 10 percent. While the decadal
growth of population is significantly lower than
state average of 17.5 percent and 15.6 percent
during these decades, compared to neighboring
Udupi district, it is very high. The decadal
growth of population in Udupi district during
2001-11 was only 5.85 percent.
Taluk-wise, Mangaluru taluk has the

highest population (9.95 lakh), followed by
Bantwal (3.95 lakh) and Puttur (2.88 lakh). The
total population of Belthangady is 2.67 lakh and
Sullia, 1.45 lakh. All taluks have witnessed
significant decline in decadal population growth
during 2001-11. The decadal growth in
population in Mangaluru taluk is the highest
(12.7 percent) followed by Bantwal (9.4
percent). Sullia has recorded the lowest decadal
population growth. The density of the
population in the district works out to 430 per
sq.km as against the state population density of
319. Mangaluru taluk has the highest population
density (1078 per sq. km) followed by Bantwal
(538 per sq.km). Sullia has the lowest (176 per
sq. km). Puttur and Belthangady have
population density of 288 and 194 per sq.km
respectively.
Table 2.3
Growth of Population in Dakshina Kannada District
Taluk
1991
(Number)
2001
(Number)
2011
(Number)
Decadal Growth
(Percent)
1991 -2001
2001 -2011
Bantwal
323005
361554
395380
19.31
9.36
Belthangady
211394
246494
266589
16.60
8.15
Mangaluru
759705
882856
994602
16.21
12.66
Puttur
237237
266072
287851
12.15
8.18
Sullia
124824
140754
145227
12.76
3.18
District
1656165
1897730
2089649
14.57
10.11
State
44977201
52850562
61095297
17.51
15.60
Source: Census 1991, 2001 and 2011
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Graph 2.2
Interestingly, there is no change in the

gender composition in the total population
during the decade. The percentage share of the
female population remained unchanged at 50.5
percent during 2001-11. The decadal growth in
male and female population, however, shows
slightly decline in the growth rate of female
population. During the decade 1991-2001, the

growth of male population increased by 14.4
percent, female population witnessed slightly
higher percentage of 17.7 percent during 19912001. As against this, the decadal growth during
2001-11 for male population works out to 10.3
percent while for female population, 9.9 percent;
slightly lower.
Table 2.4
Gender Composition of Population in Dakshina Kannada District
2001
Male
2011
Female
(No.)
(No.)
1024
196708
198672
1010
125206
1032
131967
134622
1020
434702
448154
1031
490797
503805
1027
Puttur
132786
133286
1004
143116
144735
1011
Sullia
70994
69760
983
72126
73101
1014
District
938434
959296
1022
1034714
1054935
1020
State(lakh)
268.99
259.52
965
309.67
301.29
973
Taluks
Male
Female
(No.)
(No.)
Bantwal
178664
182890
Belthangady
121288
Mangaluru
Sex Ratio
Source: Census 2011. Sex ratio: female population per 1000 male population.
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Sex Ratio
District Overview
Consequently, sex ratio declined

marginally from 1022 in 2001 to 1020 in 2011.
Comparative male-female ratio of the state is
1000:973 in 2011. The neighbouring Udupi
district has still higher sex ratio (1094) than
Dakshina Kannada. There is also decline in child
(0 6) sex ratio from 952 to 947. This is an area
of concern. The children in the age group of 0
6, also declined from 2,28,060 in 2001 to
2,08,297 in 2011, accounting for decline of 9
percent during the decade.
Taluk-wise,
Belthangady has the highest child sex ratio (962)
and Mangaluru has the lowest (941) child sex

ratio.
The rural and urban composition of the
population taluk-wise is shown in Table 2.5. Out
of 20.90 lakh population in the district, the rural
population is 109.3 lakh (52.3 Percent) and
urban population, 99.7lakh (47.7 percent). The
share of rural population has declined from 61.6
percent in 2001 to 52.3 percent in 2011. Even in
terms of number, the rural population declined
from 11.68 lakh to 10.93 lakh during this decade.
Table 2.5
Rural-Urban Population: 2011
Rural and
Taluks
Rural
Urban
Urban share
(percent)
Male
Female
Total
Male
Female
Total
Rural
Urban
Bantwal
138959
140523
279482
57749
58149
115898
70.69
29.31
Belthangady
124672
127130
251802
7295
7492
14787
94.45
5.55
Mangaluru
102613
107420
210033
388184
396385
784569
21.12
78.88
Puttur
112812
114165
226977
30304
30570
60874
78.85
21.15
Sullia
62428
62841
125269
9698
10260
19958
86.26
13.74
District
541484
552079
1093563
493230
502856
996086
52.33
47.67
State(lakh)
189.30
185.40
374.69
120.37
115.89
236.26
61.37
38.63
Source: 2011 Census
The share of urban population, on the

other hand, increased from 38.4 percent to 47.7
percent. There was an increase of 37 percent in
urban population as against 7 percent decline in
rural population. The taluk-wise analysis of
demographic data shows that except Mangaluru
taluk, in all most all taluks have rural population
above 70 percent as against the state average of
61 percent.
Belthangady has the highest
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proportion of rural population (94.5 percent). As

against this, Mangaluru taluk has the lowest
percent of 21 percent of population in rural areas.
Hence, though the district has one of the highest
percent of urban population in the state, it is
important to note that urbanization is only
confined to Mangaluru taluk. All other four
taluks are still dominated by rural people. As
regards sex ratio is concerned, the rural areas
have better sex ratios than urban areas. Talukwise, it varies from 1007 in Sullia to 1047 in
Mangaluru in rural areas. In urban areas, it
ranges from 1007 in Bantwal to 1058 n Sullia.
Dakshina Kannada district has one of the
lowest percentages of schedule caste (SC)
population in the state. As against the state
percentage of 17.2 percent SC population, the
district has only 6.9 percentage SC population.
In the case of ST population, the district has 7
percent as compared to state's 7 percent. The
decadal growth during 2001-11, in the case of SC
population works out to 13 percent and for ST
population, 31 percent as compared to decadal
growth of 10 percent of total population. The
respective decadal growth rates in the state are
22.3 percent and 22.7 percent.
Mangaluru taluk has the highest number
of SC population (49275), while Bantwal taluk
has the largest number of STs (20912). Similarly,
Bantwal taluk has the lowest number of SC
people (19260) and Sullia has the lowest number
of STs (11841). About 69 percent of SCs live in
rural areas whereas in the case of STs, it is 80
percent. The sex ratio for SC population works
out to 1021 and for ST population, 1008. The sex
ratio of SCs is comparable to 1020 for the district
population as a whole. In the case of STs, the sex
ratio is 1008 which is below the District's

average for the total population. At the state
level, the sex ratio for SC population is 989 and
for ST population 990.
2.6
Literacy
Dakshina Kannada district is in the

forefront in education. As per 2011 Census, the
district has 16.66 lakh literate people, out of
which 8.64 lakh males and 8.02 lakh females.
The literacy rate in the district is 88.57 percent as
against the state average of 75.6 percent. The
district has the highest literacy rate in the state. It
has increased from 83.4 percent in 2001. The
literacy rate among male population is 93.13
percent and among female population, 84.13
percent. In 2001, it was 89.2 percent for males
and 77.2 percent for females.
The gap between the male and female
literacy rates was reduced from 12 percent in
2001 to 9 percent in 2011. As against 4 percent
increase in literacy rate among males, female
literacy rate has gone up by 9 percent during this
period. In rural areas, the literacy rate is 85.33
and urban areas, 92.12. While in rural areas,
90.97 percent of males and 79.83 percent of
females are literates, in urban areas, male and
female literacy rates are 95.5 and 88.83 percent
respectively. Taluk-wise, Mangaluru has the
highest literacy rate (91.67), followed by
Bantwal (86.76 percent) and Sullia (86.35
percent). Puttur taluk has literacy rate of 85.92
percent. Belthangady has the lowest literacy rate
of 83.92 percent. An in-depth analysis of literacy
and education status in the district is looked into
as an important dimension of human
development in Chapter 4.
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District Overview
2.7 Agriculture and Irrigation
Agriculture A Prominent Occupation of the District
Agriculture
Agriculture and allied activities are the
backbone of the district's rural economy, where
the majority of the population lives. In the
coastal area, fishing is the main occupation.
Agriculture and allied activities contributes 14
percent to district GDP. Agro-ecologically, the
district has three zones: coastal plain, midland
plains and Western Ghats area. During 2011-12
crop years, the net cultivated area was 131446 ha
and gross cropped area, 157683 ha. The net
cultivated area constitutes 27.5 percent of the
geographical area of the district. The cropping
intensity works out to 1.2, which is one of the
lowest in the state. The district has no major and
medium irrigation projects. Consequently,
irrigated area is 72378 ha which is mainly
through wells, tube-wells, and lift irrigation.
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The crop production in the district is

mainly concentrated on paddy. During the crop
year 2011-12, total area under paddy was 55166
ha. Paddy crop was mainly raised during Kharif the rainy season. Pulses grown are black gram,
horse gram, green gram and cowpeas. The area
under pulses during 2011-12 was 3277 ha.
Sesamum is the only oilseed grown in the
district. It was grown in an area of 511 ha. Paddy
accounts for nearly 42 percent of the total gross
cropped area, followed by pulses (2.5 percent)
and oilseeds (0.4 percent). The area under food
grains is steadily declining mainly due to high
cost of cultivation and labour scarcity. The area
under paddy cultivation has declined from
61888 ha in 2001-02 to 55166 ha in 2011-12. The
area under pulses witnessed a decline from 3395
ha to 3277 ha during this period. Bantwal,
Belthangady and Mangaluru taluks are the main
paddy cultivating areas in the district.

Sugarcane, which was grown in about 340 ha in
2001, is grown in only 44 ha in 2011-12; almost
abandoned with the break-down of nearby
Brahmavar sugar factory.
The district has substantial acreage
under plantation and horticulture crops mainly
coconut (16163 ha.), areca nut (27921ha.),
cashew-nut (31119 ha.), rubber (10645 ha.),
cocoa (952 ha), pepper (2183 ha) and fruits
(37188). The area under vegetables was 1619 ha.
Major fruits grown are Mango, Banana,
Pineapple, sapota, lemon and Guava. The area
under the plantation and horticulture crops also
in recent years witnessed almost stagnation.

Puttur, Belthangady and Sullia are the main
taluks growing horticulture cops in the district.
Dakshina Kannada district has 209097
farmers. Most of them (73 percent) are marginal
farmers with land-holding less than 1ha (Table
2.6). Land-holding pattern in the district in the
table shows that the marginal farmers with less
than one ha who constitute 73 percent of farming
community own only 33 percent of the land area.
Small farmers with 1to 2 ha constitute 18 percent
of farmers and own 28 percent of land. Marginal
and small farmers, together, account for 91
percent of farming community.
Table 2.6
Distribution Pattern of Land Holdings: 2010-11
Size of Land
Holding (ha)
0-1
12
24
4 10
Above 10
Total
Number
Percent
153155
37460
13621
4340
521
209097
73.24
17.92
6.51
2.08
0.25
100.00
Area
(ha)
58357
50800
35958
24220
9080
178415
Percent
32.71
28.47
20.15
13.58
5.09
100.00
Source: 2010 - 2011 Agriculture Census
Graph 2.3
The medium and large farmers with

above 2ha, on the other hand, form 9 percent of
farming community and own 39 percent of the
land area cultivated. The average size of landholding works out to 0.85 ha. Out of 2.09 lakh
farmers, 68.7 percent are males and 31.3 percent
are females. The distribution pattern of
landholding is more or less the same in all taluks.
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District Overview
Considering the agro-climatic and

physio-geographic conditions, Dakshina
Kannada district was, once, considered not
suitable for commercial development of animal
husbandry activities. However, the situation has
recently changed. As cropping is becoming
unviable, small and marginal farmers and other
weaker sections of the rural community have
accepted dairy farming as a viable option for
their livelihood. The district has now 229838
indigenous cows, 166771 cross-bred cows and
15119 buffaloes. The milk collection in the
district is more than two lakh litre per day. The
Karnataka Milk Federation operates a dairy unit
at Mangaluru with a processing capacity of milk
up to 2 lakh litres per day.
As against the white revolution in milk
production, meat production in the district is
very negligible, the lowest in the state. In spite of
growing demand, the progress in poultry, goat
and sheep rearing and piggery in the district is
very negligible. There are very few commercial
farms. Traditional backyard poultry keeping,
once dominated, is now declining. As per

Livestock Census 2007, the district has 1322880
poultry birds, 25749 goats, 5332 pigs and 307
sheeps. The district is depending on other
districts for supply of goat meat and poultry
products.
The district has about 42 km. long
coastal belt, which provides good scope for
fisheries in the district. There are around 21
fishing villages with 53,584 fishing people. Out
of this, 30,651 people are directly involved in
fishing. Fishing is mainly done by using 65
purse-seiners, 890 mechanized trawlers, 1206
gillnetters and traditional boats. The district has
11 cold and frozen storages and 60 ice plants.
The annual fish production during 2011-12 was
138506 metric tons. Fish catch of the district
accounts for about one-third of the total fish
production in the state. Since the district has
heavy rain fall, a number of tributaries and
backwaters provide good scope for inland
fishery. With a view to promote inland fishing,
the Fisheries Department has set up a fish
breeding centres at Pillikula.
Fishing A Source of Livelihood in the Coastal District

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Box 2.1 Agricultural Sector: Strengths,

Constraints and Prospects
Strengths:
District is located in coastal zone with an annual rainfall above 4000mm.

District has many rivers and tributaries covering most of the areas.
District has agro-climatic conditions well suited for horticultural and
medicinal plants.
District has vast forest land with high biomass and natural green fodder.
Enterprising and Skilled farming community.
Well connected road, transport network, international airport and port
facilities,
High penetration of banking facilities.
Mangaluru city provides good market prospects for all agricultural
products.
Constraints:
Predominance of small/marginal farmers and fragmented and scattered
land holdings.
Mono-crop cultivation viz. paddy, which is labour intensive and at present
yield non-viable.
High cost of cultivation, labour scarcity and high labour wage made crop
production unviable.
Lack of irrigation and over-dependence on irregular monsoon rainfall.
Soil erosion, low moisture retention and micro-nutrient deficit.
Absence of processing and value additions and backward and forward
linkages.
Migration of younger generations and dependence on old people.
Absence of good market infrastructure and well connected market link.
Lack of dissemination of market information
Prospects:
Diversification into high-value and labour saving horticulture, dairy and
goat enterprises.
Increase cropping intensity and productivity by promotion of irrigation
projects by building vented dams to rivers and setting up lift irrigations.
Value additions through setting up agro-processing and contract farming
initiatives.
Improve rural infrastructure (roads, electricity, markets) for market
linkages.
Export of flowers, fresh vegetables and fruits with opening of international
airport at Mangaluru
Development of both marine and inland fisheries and fish processing for
value additions.
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District Overview
2.8 Industry
Dakshina Kannada district was
historically and internationally known for the
red-clay tiles (Mangalore tiles), cashew-nut
processing and beedi rolling industries. The tile
and beedi rolling industries are now losing
importance due to declining demand. The
cashew-nut processing is still pre-dominant
industry in the district. Mangaluru is the main
industrial belt of the district. The major
industries in and around Mangaluru include
Mangalore Chemical and Fertilizers Ltd (MCF),
Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd
(MRPL), Kudremukh Iron Ore Company
(KIOCL), The Canara Workshop Ltd., BASF,
TOTAL GAZ and Bharati Shipyard Ltd. At
Puttur, there is a cooperative chocolate
manufacturing plant called Central Areca nut
and Cocoa Marketing and Processing
Cooperative Ltd (CAMPCO). As per the data
available, there are 24 chemical factories, 48
engineering firms and 373 others employing
34156 people. In recent years, information
technology and outsourcing companies are
emerging as the new players in the medium and
large scale industry segment. They include
Infosys, Lasersoft Infosystems Ltd, MPhasis
BPO etc. Three IT parks are under construction;
one Export Promotion Industrial Park at
Ganjimutt, and second, IT SEZ near Mangalore
University. Another IT SEZ of 2 million sq. ft.
(180000 m2) is also under construction at
Thumbe.
The small scale industrial sector in the
Bykampadi Industrial Estate and industrial
estates in other taluks in the district is mainly
dominated by 484 automobile, 730 electrical and
electronic, 365 chemicals manufacturing, 357
Ferrous and non-ferrous, 4252 food and
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intoxicants, 528 glass and ceramics, 239 leather

2240 mechanical engineering, 600 paper and
printing, 665 rubber and plastics, 2353 textiles,
3465 wood and 3021 other manufacturing units.
As on 31st March 2012, 20434 small and medium
scale units employing about 134076 people were
registered and operating in the district.
Mangalore Chemicals and Fertlizers Ltd, Mangaluru
With the declining importance of

agriculture, the future of the district's economy
mainly depends on industrialization. There is
good scope for expansion of cashew production
and processing industry in the district. At
present, the cashew-nut processing units
depends on nearly import of 50 percent of their
raw cashew nut requirement from African
countries. There is also good scope for setting up
food processing and software technological
parks in all taluks in the district. Box 2.2
summarizes strength, constraints and
opportunities for industrial growth in Dakshina
Kannada district.
Box 2.2: Prospects and Constraints for

Industrial Development
Strengths:
v
High literacy level and availability of qualified skilled manpower. The
district is the hub of high standard professional education.
v
High enterprising nature of people.
v
Good communication and transport networks.
v
Wide net work of banking and financial institutions.
v
Konkan Railway, International Airport and Port facilities for export.
v
Stock of indigenous origin industrialists in Bangalore, Bombay and
outside India (NRI entrepreneurs).
Opportunities:
To set up more industrial estates/zones with cluster development.
To set up software and bio-technology parks in and around
Mangaluru, Bantwal, Moodabidri, Puttur and Mulki.
To establish agro-food processing park at Puttur and Belthangady.
To set up agri-export zone at Bajpe.
To expand cashew-nut processing for export with backward linkage to
agriculture.
To promote small scale and tiny rural based industries.
To promote fish processing for export.
To promote ancillary small scale industries.
To promote service sector based industries.
Constraints:
Non - availability of large tract of land for industrialization.
Lack/shortage of industrial raw materials.
Power shortage and irregular supply.
Shortage of skilled and unskilled labour due to high out-migration.
High humid and heavy monsoon rain.
Environmental awareness and anti-industry mindset.
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District Overview
2.9 Infrastructure
Well-knit and well-connected motorable
roads are the hall mark of Dakshina Kannada
district. Transport network within and outside
the district is one of the best in the country. All
villages are connected by all weather motorable
roads. The total road length in the district is
127042 km. National Highway 169, 66, 75 and
73 pass through the district. The district has
National Highway road length of 239.7 km. The
State Highways of 528.8 km length are well
linked to major urban centres in the state. Within
the district, the road network includes inter alia
1321 km municipality roads and 7567.29 km
rural/Panchayat roads. As per the RTO
registration, the district has 23002 goods
transport vehicles, 4426 buses, 19222 taxies,
28290 auto-rickshaws, 318387 two-wheelers,
105061 four-wheeler vehicle and 14326 other
vehicles in the year 2011-12.
Mangaluru city is well connected
throughout India through both Konkan and
Southern Railways. The district has 118.63 km
broad gauge railway route with 11 railway
stations; 8 in Mangaluru taluk, two in Puttur
taluk and one in Bantwal taluk. The district has
major ports at Mangaluru. The district can also
boast of well connected telecommunication
facilities by BSNL and private mobile, landline
and WLL service providers. 2G service is veered
throughout the district and 3G in selected areas.
Broadband connectivity is available in all urban
areas. All GPs are provided with internet facility.
Every village has postal office. There are 147
telephone exchanges with 124317 telephone
connections.
The district falls under Mangaluru
Electricity Supply Company (MESCOM). The
district gets electricity from Varahi and also from
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the main receiving station of Shivamogga. From

Varahi and Shivamogga, through 220KV line,
electricity is supplied to Mangaluru centre and
from Mangaluru, through 110 KV line,
electricity is redistributed to other places. There
are electric sub-stations in all taluks. All the
villages in the district are electrified. The total
electricity consumed during 2011-12 was
13114.20 lakh units. Industry uses about 12.7
percent, commercial consumption, 19.4 percent
and irrigation uses 14.4 percent. The home
consumption accounts for 38.4 percent. Other
uses account for the balance 15.1 percent. With
the commissioning of Nandikur Thermal plant in
the neighbouring Udupi district, the electricity
supply in the district is expected to improve.
Education infrastructure in the district is
the cynosure of many. Most of the villages have
more than three primary schools. There are 1459
primary schools, 516 high schools, 169 preuniversity colleges, 145 general degree colleges
and 33 professional colleges besides 9
polytechnic colleges in the district. Besides
Mangaluru University, the district is blessed
with education network of two private deemed
universities namely Nitte University and
Yenepoya University apart from a campus of
Manipal University. The professional education
institutions in the district are known education
centres of excellence in medical and engineering
in the country. Dakshina Kannada district is also
unique in the nation's banking map with the
highest concentration of bank branches. Almost
all nationalized and private banks are operating
in the district. There are 425 branches of
nationalized banks, 19 branches of Regional
Rural Bank and 35 branches of District Central
Bank. As against the national per branch
population of 12000, the district has 4308 people
per branch.
Box 2.3: South Canara District:

The Cradle and Nursery of Banking
The erstwhile South Canara district (now divided into Dakshina Kannada and Udupi
districts) provides a fascinating story of growth of banking institutions rooted in its soil and culture,
though it was not then a major hub of commercial and industrial activities. It had given birth to ten
banking institutions in the present Udupi district and 13 other banks set up in the now Dakshina
Kannada district during the last century. It can proudly claim to be the home of four out of 19
nationalized banks in India viz. Corporation Bank, Syndicate Bank, Canara Bank and Vijaya Bank. It
also given birth to one of the oldest and largest private bank namely Karnataka Bank. Even now the
head quarters of Corporation Bank and Karnataka bank are in Mangaluru city. Dashina Kannada
district has, even today, a unique position in the banking map of the country. It has one of the highest
concentrations of bank branches and the highest penetration ratio in terms of banking services
provided in the country. Almost all nationalized and private banks are operating in the district with a
network of more than 500 branches. The district has achieved 100 percent financial inclusion.
Syndicate Bank is the Lead Bank for the district.
Source: Dr. N. K. Thingalaya: The Banking Saga: History of South Kanara Banks, 1999,
Corporation Bank and District Credit Plan 2011-12, Syndicate Bank..
Corporation Bank Head office at Mangaluru
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2.10 Regional Perspectives and

Backwardness
Out of 30 districts, Dakshina Kannada
ranks 3 in total Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
and 2nd in per capita income in the state. The total
GDP of Dakshina Kannada district was
Rs.13690 crore as per the GDP estimate for
2009-10 at constant 2004-05 prices. The per
capita income works out to Rs. 764381. Its
contribution to the state GDP works out to 5.32
percent. The district witnessed its share in state
GDP decline from 5.7 percent in 2004-05 to 4.8
percent in 2008-09 and increase to 5.3 percent in
2009-10. As against the state average growth of
7.94 percent in GDP during Eleventh Plan
period, Dakshina Kannada achieved an average
rd
growth rate of 5 percent per annum during

Eleventh Plan. The major contribution for the
overall growth in the district came mainly from
the secondary and tertiary sectors (Table 2.7).
The primary sector contribution to district GDP
declined from 22.5 percent in 1999-2000 to 12
percent in 2010-11.
The contribution of industry increased
from 24 percent to 36 percent during the period
between 1999-2000 and 2005-06, but thereafter
it declined to 30 percent. The service sector
contribution, on the other hand, increased from
53 percent in 1990-91 to 58 percent in 2008-09.
The structural change observed in the sectorwise composition of district GDP is almost
similar to the one observed in the state GDP.
Table 2.7
Change in sector-wise Contribution to GDP (percentage)
Sector
1990-91
2005-06
2008-09
Dakshina
Primary
22.47
14.23
11.71
Kannada
Secondary
24.19
36.14
30.06
District
Tertiary
53.34
49.63
58.23
Total
100.00
100.00
100.00
Primary
34.60
19.63
15.66
Karnataka
Secondary
26.80
28.67
30.53
State
Tertiary
38.60
51.70
53.80
Total
100.00
100.00
100.00
Source: DES, GOK.
As per the district income and per capita income estimates made by the Directorate of Economics and Statistics in
their 'Sector wise Gross District Domestic Product at Constant prices.
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Graph 2.4
Change in sector-wise Contribution to GDP
Dakshina Kannada district is known for

the origin and growth of banking institutions,
good branch network and rapid growth of
transportation, communication and education
facilities. The district has a higher percentage of
educated middle class. Mangaluru cuisines are
well known brands in hotel industry all over the
country. Transport industry had prospered in the
past as a result of mainly private initiatives.
There are a number of private transport
companies operating in the district now. In the
field of education, the district is in the forefront
of professional education and has succeeded in
attracting students all over the country and
abroad. Every taluk in the district has more than
two or three colleges. Mangaluru city is the hub
of professional education. A host of education
institutes offer courses in medicine, engineering,
pharmacy, management, law, nursing and hotel
and catering management. The educational
institutes promoted by Manipal University, Nitte
University, Yenepoya University, Shri Kshetra
Dharmasthala Education Trust and other private
players play major role in professional

education. Alva's Education Trust in
Moodabidri, Bhandary Foundation and Sullia
Venktramana Gouda Education Trust are the
main players in professional education in other
taluks.
In the agricultural sector, the district has
good rainfall, many rivers for irrigation
exploitation, enterprising and educated farming
community, good scope for agricultural
diversification and value addition. The growth in
agricultural sector is, however, decelerating. It is
presently plagued with a number of problems;
inter alia mono-crop culture, high cost of
cultivation, low yields, acute shortage of labour,
limited scope for diversification and lack of
processing facilities and low value addition. The
Karnataka Agricultural Policy Document
focuses on doubling the agricultural GDP in the
next decade by achieving the growth rate of 4.5
percent per annum. Within this policy
framework, the challenge for the district
agricultural sector is to reverse the negative
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growth trend and revive the sector to grow at 4

percent per annum.
In industrial sector, the traditional
industries like tiles and beedi rolling, which once
dominant players in the district's economy are
now losing importance due to declining demand.
Some of the chemicals and manufacturing based
small and medium scale industries are in bad
shape due to non-availability of raw materials
and recessions. Industrial development was
confined to only Mangaluru city and has not
taken place in other taluks. Notwithstanding
these, Dakshina Kannada district has Potential
and the cutting edge advantage to trigger
industrial development, which is unmatched by
other districts of the state such as a long coastal
belt, high literacy rate, enterprising people,
qualified labor force, good road, transport and
communication network, enabling
infrastructure and institutions, wide network of
banking institutions and international airport
and port facility.
The district's growth is now led by the
service sector. The district has good potential to
achieve higher growth in the service sector in the
next decade. The main potential and thrust areas

are: transport and communication, banking and
insurance, real estate, retail trade, health and
education services, tourism, infrastructure
development and other service based activities.
The district has vast potential in tourism. Bound
by lush green mountains of Western Ghats on the
east and palm-fringed beaches along the Arabian
Sea on the west, the district is studded with
numerous tourist spots of great scenic beauty.
The coastal land mass offers vivid stretches of
beaches, panoramic seashores, endless stretches
of sand and surpassing shores of coconut
plantations. The mid-stretch of green land
presents vast expanses of paddy fields, river
tributaries, interspersed with old tiled houses.
The Western Ghats forms beautiful curtains
hung from the skies. They provide places worth
visiting like waterfalls and wild sanctuaries.
The district is also well known for its
pilgrim centres and vividity of diverse forums of
cultural heritage. The pilgrim places include the
famous Mangaladevi temple, Kadri Manjunatha
temple, Kudroli Gokarnanatha temple, Kateel
Durga Parameshwari temple, Dharmasthala
An International Cargo Ship entering the New Mangalore Port
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Manjunatheshwara temple, Puttur

Mahalingeshwar temple, Kukke Subramanya
temple, Uppinangadi Sahasralingeshwara
temple etc beside St. Aloysius Cathedral
Church, Ullal Sayyad Madani Darga. The
district is also famous for its various fairs and
festivals and folk dances like Yakshagana - a
fabulously costumed musical dance drama,
Boothakolas, Nagaaradhane, Hulivesha and
Kambla (buffalo race).
The district's perspective vision should
be based on resource endowment, need
assessment, potential and constraints for growth
in various sectors and aim at achieving speedy,
inclusive and sustainable 9 to 10 percent annual
GDP growth in the next two decades. The rapid
growth in the district's economy is critical
because not only to expand income and improve
well being of people, but also to provide
employment opportunities to growing younger
generation and thereby arrest out-migration of
young people. The growth has to be also broad
based and inclusive in order to spread its benefits
widely, particularly to marginalized weaker
section. The district's development perspective
should be to make the district an all-round
developed one with modern physical and social
enabling infrastructure and conducive
atmosphere for people to face all possible
challenges and live with dignity in a healthy and
sustainable environment.
Naga Mandala The Snake Worship
St. Aloysius Chappel
Ullala Darga Masjid
1000 Pillar Temple, Moodbidiri Jain Basadi
Mangaladevi Temple
Hulivesha The Tiger Dance during Dasara Celebrations
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Box 2.4: Mangaluru City A Gateway City of Karnataka

Mangaluru is a known historical city. Its original name was Mangalapura which
came from Mangaladevi, the diety of Mangaladevi Temple. Its history goes back to
Ramayana and Mahabharat. During Maurya Empire; the region was known as Sathia
(Shhantika) and was ruled by the Buddhist emperor, Ashoka, of Magadha. Since then
many dynasties ruled the region from this city. European influence can be traced back to
arrival of Vasco-da-Gama. The city came under British Rule after defeat of Tippu Sultan
in eighteenth century. It was made headquarter of South Canara district under the Madras
Presidency. After independence, as a result of the State Reorganization in 1956,
Mangaluru city became part of the Mysuru State which subsequently named Karnataka.
Historically Mangaluru city was an important trading centre for Persian and
Arab merchants. Mangalore tiles, Mangaluru Mallige, cashew nut, areca nut and spices
were then the branded commodities internationally traded. Since independence,
Mangaluru city witnessed remarkable growth. It is the major port city of Karnataka.
Mangaluru Chemicals and Fertilizer Limited was commissioned on 15thMar ch, 1976.
Mangaluru Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL) was set up in 1993. The last
decade witnessed rapid growth of service sector particularly software industries with the
entry of Infosys. It is the cradle of banking industry. It had given birth to three
nationalized banks viz. Canara Bank, Vijaya Bank and Corporation Bank and one of the
largest private banks: Karnataka Bank. The city has enormous potential for tourism
development. Palguni and Nethravathi rivers encircle this city on three sides and join
together to enter the Arabian Sea. Someshwara, Ullal, Thannirbhavi, and Panamboor
Beaches, St .Aloysius Chappel, Rosario Church built by Portuguse, Gokarnath temple ,
oldest Mangaldevi Temple and Kadri temple It is also the centre for higher and
professional education. It has three universities: Mangaluru University and two deemed
private universities Mangaluru city is now one of the fastest growing cities in Karnataka.
It is rightly and famously known as the Gate Way of Karnataka.
Source: compiled from various sources.
2.11 An Overview
In this chapter an attempt has been made
to provide a synoptic review of physiogeographical and socio-economic features
together with historical and more recent
glimpses of the district's economy to provide a
backdrop for the Human Development Report of
Dakshina Kannada district. Dakshina Kannada
district is considered as one of the most
progressive districts in Karnataka state. It ranks
055
second in per capita income, second in health,

and literacy and education. The district has
lowest level of poverty. The factors contributed
to this virtuous cycle of development are the
earlier rapid progress in the industrial and
service sectors, enabling infrastructure,
education and health facilities, remittance from
migrants, conducive cultural heritage and
enterprising nature of the people.
Box 2.5: Dakshina Kannada District:

Challenging Potential for Tourism
Dakshina Kannada district is blessed with numerous tourist spots of great
natural scenic beauty in its entire expanse. Sheltered by lush green Western Ghats on the
east and bordered by the blue waters of the Arabian Sea in the west, the district has
beautiful, vivid stretch of green land marked by its heterogeneity and panoramic
seashores, endless beaches, shores of the coconut and causarina plantations, vast
expanse of paddy fields and backdrop provided by the Western Ghats in form of
beautiful curtains hung from skies. The district is well known for its pilgrim centres and
of diverse forms of cultural heritage. The district is known for the pilgrim centres. The
famous Temples include the oldest Mangaladevi Temple, Kadri Temple, Gokarnanth
Temple, Dharmasthala Manjunath Temple, Durgaparameshwari Temple, Kateel and
Kukke Subramanya Temple. St. Aloysius Chapel at Mangaluru offers the famous
paintings of Antonio Moscheni of Italy in walls and ceilings. Sayyad Madani Darga at
Ulla of 400 years old is a famous darga in the region. Modabidri is the holy shrine of the
Jains and has eighteen Basadis which include Thousands Pillars Basadi built ion 15th
century. It is a treasure house of arts and architecture. The picturesque beaches include
Surathkal beach, Panambur beach, Someshwar beach and Tannirbhavi beach. The
historical monuments and places include Sulthan Battery, Jamalabad Fort and Venoor
Gomateshwar, a colossal monolithic statue of 38ft in height. The Westen Ghat
Mountains offer places worth visiting for eco-tourism and bio-diversity. Pilikula
Nisarghdhama located in Mudushedde is an integrated nature park with variety of
attractions to eco-tourists and nature lovers The district is also famous for its various
folk dances such as Yakshagana, Boothakola, Kambala, Nagamandala snake dance etc.
Thus the district is unique and offers lot of diversities in various spheres.
Sources: Compiled by Prof. K P Sandhya Rao, Justice K S Hegde Institute of
Management, Nitte.
Dasara festivities - The crowd puller from neighboring districts
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The district is, however, faced with many

grey areas and some emerging issues of concerns
in economic, social and sustainable
development of the district. It has one of the
highest out-migration of younger generation
resulting acute shortage of labour. The high
literacy rate and persistent unemployment led
people to seek employment outside the district.
Agriculture, which was once the backbone of the
rural economy, is losing ground because of its
non-viability due to high costs and acute labour
shortage. Horticulture and dairy have in the
recent past emerged as important economic
activities in rural areas. However, their
sustainability is in problem due to shortage of
labour, absence of appropriate technology for
harvesting and milking and younger generation
no more interested in agriculture. Outside
Mangaluru city, the district is not well developed
industrially. Traditional industries such as tiles
and beedi rolling are losing ground due to

declining demand. Medium and small scale
industries already set up are faced with
numerous problems. The expected boost to
industrial development with commissioning of
IT Parks, SEZ and opening of international
airport is not yet realized.
Considering the geographical potential,
the long coastal belt and availability of qualified
and talented younger generation, the district
provides a challenging potential for
diversification of agriculture into high value
addition, setting up agro-processing industries,
re-energization of medium and small scale
industries and promotion of tertiary activities
particularly, tourism, IT software, infrastructure
development etc. What are required are an
enabling policy, good modern infrastructure and
conducive environment for the people to realize
the development potential in the district.
Mangalore Tiles OnceThe Hall Mark of Mangaluru
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Computation of Indices
3.1 Introduction
The Human Development Index (HDI)
is a summary measure which captures several
dimensions of human development. Thus, it
involves using key variables or indicators of core
dimensions of human development and
aggregating them to a summary index. The
concept of human development, the key factors
affecting the human development and the
conceptual and methodological framework for
computing human development index (HDI) as
envisaged by UNDP are discussed in detail in
Chapter one. Since the main purpose of the
DHDRs is to capture all the key dimensions
affecting human development at the taluk and
district levels, it was decided that instead of
focusing only on three-dimensional HDI, the
DHDRs should take into account all key human
developmental parameters required for
enhancing the wellbeing of the people at taluk
and district levels. To achieve this, a broader
approach and modified methodology was
suggested for the DHDR exercise particularly
from the view point of different dimensions of
human development and choice of indicators,
keeping in mind the data availability and the
basic three dimensional framework of UNDP
HDI. Accordingly, the following six measures of
human development were considered for
preparing the DHDR for Dakshina Kannada
district:
Component Index value =
CHAPTER 3
Human Development Index (HDI),

Gender Inequality Index (GII),
Child Development Index (CDI),
Food Security Index (FSI),
Urban Development Index (UDI),
Composite Taluk Development Index (CTDI).
For computation of dimensional indices
and composite indices for each of this index, the
UNDP's three core dimensional conceptual and
methodological framework namely health,
education and standard of living and functional
form were used. A set of indicators were selected
for computation of indices based on their
contributions towards various dimensions of
human development. Since indicators are
measured differently, with a view to normalize,
the index value for each indicator was computed
in the range between 0 and 1, 0 indicating lowest
value and 1 indicating the highest value. There is
also a need to take into account the positive or
negative contribution of each indicator. For
computing the dimension indices and composite
index, the geometric mean is used. As regards
minimum and maximum goalposts, in the case of
positive indicator, the minimum value was taken
as 10 percent less than the observed minimum
value in the taluk and in the case of negative
indicator, the maximum value was taken as 10
percent more than the observed maximum value
at the taluk level. The index value in the case of
positive indicator was computed on the basis of
the following general formula:
Actual Xi Value Minimum Xi Value

Maximum Xi Value Minimum Xi Value
In the case of negative indicator, index value was computed using the following formula:
Component Index value =
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Maximum Xi Value Actual Xi Value

Maximum Xi Value Minimum Xi Value
A Technical Note in the Annexure explains in

details the methodology adopted for
computation of various indices. This chapter
focuses on the analysis of the above six human
development indices computed at taluks and
district level. Based on the findings, the taluks
are ranked according to dimension indices and
composite indices and the performance of taluks
and districts on various human development
indicators is analysed in depth from human
development perspective.
3.2
Human Development Index
Karnataka Human Development Report

(KHDR) 1999, for the first time, computed the
district-wise HDIs to assess status of human
development in the state based on the Census
1991 data. Subsequently, KHDR 2005 has
provided HDIs for districts based on 2001
Census data. Table 3.1 compares the trend in
human development in Dakshina Kannada
district based on these estimates.
The HDI of Dakshina Kannada district in
1991 was 0.661, which was 22 percent higher
than the state average of 0.541. During the
decade 1991-2001, the HDI of the district
improved from 0.661 to 0.722 in 2001. While the
state level decadal improvement in HDI was 20

percent, the decadal improvement in the district
HDI was only 9 percent. The gap between the
district level and state level HDIs was narrowed
down. Among then 27 districts in the state,
Dakshina Kannada ranked first in HDI in 1991
and 2nd in 2001 (Appendix Table - 4). Bengaluru
urban district was ranked first in HDI in 2001.
The analysis of the three core dimension indices
in the table shows that the district witnessed
lower improvement in all dimensions of human
development compared to the state level indices.
While in 1991, it ranked second in health,
education and income, in 2001, its rank slipped
to third and fourth in health and education
respectively. In income, it has maintained its
second rank in the state. In health and education,
Udupi district was ranked higher than Dakshina
Kannada in 2001. Only in income, Udupi had a
lower rank than Dakshina Kannada district.As
already stated, in the present DHDR, the HDI
was computed based on a broader approach by
taking into consideration a set of key taluk level
indicators. To compute HDI, 11 taluk level
indicators are used covering the area of standard
of living, health and education. Table 3.2 shows
the taluk level indicators considered for the three
dimensions for the purpose of deriving taluk and
district level HDIs.
Table 3.1
HDI and its Dimensions Indices of Dakshina Kannada District and the State Table 3.1
HDI and its Dimensions Indices of Dakshina Kannada District and the State
1991
Indicators
Health
Education
Income
HDI
District
0.683
0.799
0.500
0.661
2001
State
0.618
0.602
0.402
0.541
District
0.707
0.823
0.636
0.722
Source: Karnataka Human Development Report-2005
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State
0.680
0.712
0.559
0.650
Table 3.2
Taluk-wise values of HDI Indicators
Indicators
Percentage of HHs
having access to
Cooking Fuel
Percentage of HHs
having access to Toilets
Percentage of HHs
having access to
Drinking Water
Percentage of HHs
having access to
Electricity
Percentage of houses
having access to Pucca
Houses
Percentage of Nonagricultural Workers to
Total workers
Per capita income (in
Rupee)
Child (under 5 years)
Mortality Rate (per
1000 live births) in a
year
Maternal Mortality Rate
(per 100000 live births)
Literacy Rate
Combined Gross
Enrolment in Primary
and Secondary
Education
Bantwal
Belthangady Mangaluru
Standard of Living
Puttur
Sullia
District
24.86
18.38
63.73
23.58
15.14
42.02
92.58
90.65
96.33
88.02
80.81
92.66
47.87
27.46
64.83
45.33
29.18
51.77
93.46
77.31
96.73
84.94
80.10
90.83
54.54
34.55
73.30
48.28
44.57
59.52
91.22
85.58
95.36
97.46
98.46
93.68
54572.15
50267.21
94715.90
Health
24
27
122
28
53245.50 81882.46 74528.00
33
14
22
89
103
89
86.71
47
44
Education
84.06
91.50
86.02
86.69
88.57
86.7
85.76
92.18
85.91
89.22
90.94
Source: Census 2011 and DHFW and Education Departments, ZP, Mangaluru
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The data required for computing these

indicators are compiled from 2011 Census and
documented secondary data from the Health and
Education Departments of the Zilla Panchayat.
The comparative analysis of the data in the table
shows inter-taluk variations in performance and
achievement in various indicators of standard of
living, health and education dimensions of
human development. Seven indicators selected
for the standard of living dimension were five
indicators of the basic amenities: access to
modern cooking fuel, safe drinking water,
electricity, pucca house and toilet facilities and
two reflecting income capability: per capita
income, which reflects the direct command over
resources and share of non-agricultural workers
in total workforce as proxy indicator for income.
These indicators were considered critical for a
reasonable level of standard of living. In the case
of health dimension, the child mortality rate
(CMR) and maternal mortality rate (MMR) were
considered as important indicators. In the same
vein, the education dimension is measured by
achievement in literacy rate and gross enrolment
in both primary and secondary schools.
The dimension indices for health,
education and standard of living and HDI as
composite index were calculated by taking into

account minimum and maximum values of these
eleven indicators observed among taluks within
the district. The dimension indices and HDI
computed following the UNDP methodology are
shown in Table 3.3.
For analytical and comparative purposes,
if the index value is above 0.750, it is considered
as 'very good'; if it is in the range between 0.500
and 0.750, 'good', if it is between 0.300 and
0.500, 'average' and if below 0.300, 'poor'. The
HDI for the district works out to 0.687 and hence
can be considered 'good' in human development.
Still it has development deficit of 31 percent and
a long way to catch up 'very good' status. It is
important to note that the HDI for the district
now computed is lower than district HDI
estimated in the KHDR-2005 which was 0.722.
The difference in the HDI values is mainly
attributed to different indicators taken into
account to measure the three core dimensions of
HDI as well as change in computation
methodology in these studies. Hence, they are
strictly not comparable. It is also important to
note that the lower HDI index in the present
study is mainly due to lower achievement values
in indicators like access to modern cooking fuel,
access to safe drinking water and access to pucca
Table 3.3
Taluk wise data of HDI and its Composition
Taluk
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
Standard of Living
Index
Rank
0.510
2
0.182
5
0.978
1
0.440
3
0.274
4
0.708
Health
Index
Rank
0.273
4
0.635
1
0.610
2
0.272
5
0.588
3
0.567
Education
Index
Rank
0.665
3
0.551
5
0.958
1
0.809
2
0.637
4
0.809
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HDI Ranking
Index
Rank
0.452
4
0.399
5
0.830
1
0.459
3
0.468
2
0.687
houses. In rural areas, most of the households

depend on open wells for drinking water, which
was not considered as safe drinking water under
Census definition. Similarly most of the rural
households still depend on traditional fuel like
firewood for cooking. In the KHDR 2005 study,
instead of these indicators, only per capita
income was considered as proxy to standard of
living.
The HDI of Dakshina Kannada district
(0.687) is apparently driven by education
dimension index (0.809) and standard of living
index (0.708). The district has the highest adult
literacy rates in the state and student enrolment
ratios both at primary and secondary levels are
almost 90 percent. The health dimension index
works out to 0.567. Though it reflects good
status, its value is relatively lower than other two
dimension index values. The district has one of
the lowest CMR and MMR in the state. Since
they have negative values for computation of
index and maximum and minimum goal posts
are considered within the district, the lower
index value was due to computation

methodology adopted.
Taluk-wise analysis of the data shows
wide inter-taluk disparities in HDI as well as
index values of dimensions of human
development. In HDI, Mangaluru taluk ranks
first with index value of 0.830 showing 'very
good' status in human development. Sullia ranks
second with HDI of 0.468, followed by Puttur
with HDI of 0.459 and Bantwal with HDI of
0.452. Belthangady with HDI of 0.399 ranks the
lowest.
Inter-taluk disparity between the
highest ranked Mangaluru taluk and lowest
ranked Belthangady in human development
works out to 108 percent. Even in the case of
other taluks, the disparities between the highest
and other taluks range between 77 percent and
84 percent. The plausible explanation for these
wide inter-taluk disparities in HDIs is that
Mangaluru taluk is more urbanized and
industrialized and other taluks are mainly
agricultural based.
The analysis of dimensional indices also
Graph 3.1
Dakshina Kannada HD Index
065
shows wide inter-taluk variations. In standard of

living, Mangaluru taluk ranks first with index
value of 0.978. Belthangady which ranks the
lowest has index value of 0.182 followed by
Sulla with index value of 0.274. Both these
taluks are in poor category in standard of living.
The inter-taluk disparity between the highest and
lowest is 437 percent. Bantwal with index value
of 0.510 ranks second and Puttur with index
value of 0.440 ranks third. The wide inter-taluk
disparities in living standard are mainly due to
lower indicator values in safe drinking water,
modern cooking fuel, share of non-agricultural
workers and per capita income.
In the case of health, interestingly
Belthangady ranks first with index value of
0.635. Mangaluru taluk ranks second with index
value of 0.610. Puttur ranks the lowest with
index value of 0.272. The inter-taluk variation
between the highest and lowest ranked taluks is
133 percent. While Belthangady, Mangaluru and
Sullia are more or less in 'good' status, Bantwal
and Puttur are in poor status in health. In the case
of education, Mangaluru taluk ranks first
(0.958), followed by Puttur (0.809) and Bantwal
(0.665). Belthangady ranks lowest (0.551).
Inter-taluk disparities in education range
between 18 percent and 74 percent. In education,
Mangaluru and Puttur are in 'very good' status,
while other taluks in 'good' status. Apparently,
there is no positive correlation between standard
of living and health and also education and
health. There appears to be some relation
between standard of living and education.
3.3 Gender Inequality Index (GII)

The gender equality and empowerment
is an essential dimension of human
development. With growing international

recognition of the importance of eliminating
gender inequality and need for empowering
women, UNDP introduced two gender
development related measures in the 1995
Human Development Report: Gender-related
Development Index (GDI) and the Gender
Empowerment Measure (GEM). Since these
indices did not fully capture the disparities
women faced, the UNDP introduced the Gender
Inequality Index (GII) as a new measure of the
gender inequalities in the 2010 Human
Development Report. The new index is a
composite measure which captures the loss of
achievement in human development due to
gender inequality using three female related
dimensions: reproductive health,
empowerment, and labour market participation.
As the index reflects degree of inequality, the
zero GII value shows perfect gender equality and
the value of one shows perfect gender inequality.
The higher GII, the greater is the discrimination
and vice versa.
Following the earlier approach of
UNDP, the KHDR 1999 and 2005 computed
Gender related Development Index (GDI). The
GDI of Dakshina Kannada district was 0.645 in
1991, which increased to 0.714 in 2001. The
district was ranked first in 1991 and second in
2005 in GDI among 27 districts in the state. The
GDI of Dakshina Kannada was significantly
higher than the state average of 0.637 and the allIndia GDI of 0.609 in 2001. The major
contribution for gender improvement in the
district came from health and education.
AS per the guideline of the Government
for DHDRs, the new measure introduced by the
UNDP namely GII should be used as a measure
of gender inequalities. Accordingly, the UNDP
066
Table 3.4
Taluk-wise Gender Inequality Index (GII) and Its Dimensions
Dimension
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
Reproductive
Health
Index
Rank
0.681
5
0.769
1
0.760
2
0.702
4
0.712
3
0.725
Empowerment
Index
0.601
0.595
0.611
0.599
0.601
0.601
conceptual framework of three dimensional GII

viz. reproductive health, empowerment and
labour market participation was considered to
measure gender inequality in the district. A
technical note in Appendix contains
computation methodology adopted for
calculating GII. A set of three key taluk level
indicators for each dimension were identified for
computation of GII at taluk and district levels.
Table 6 in Appendix shows taluk-wise values of
various indicators chosen for measuring the
three dimensions for computing GII. The data
required are compiled mainly from 2011 Census
and the district's Department of Health and
Family Welfare.
The district and taluk-wise index values of
GII and its dimensions computed are presented
in Table 3.4.
The GII for Dakshina Kannada district
works out to 0.043 which clearly demonstrates
minimal gender inequality of 4.3 percent in the
district. Inter-taluk comparison shows that
Belthangady taluk ranks first with GII value of
0.026 and has the lowest gender inequality.
Bantwal taluk ranks highest with GII value of
0.061 and has the highest gender inequality.
067
Rank
2
4
1
3
2
Labour
Market
Index Rank
0.808
1
0.721
4
0.699
5
0.782
2
0.737
3
0.749
GII
Index
0.061
0.026
0.034
0.049
0.046
0.043
Rank
5
1
2
4
3
Next to Bantwal taluk, Puttur has the highest

gender inequality (0.049). Though inter-taluk
variation in gender inequalities is found not very
significant, surprisingly, Bantwal taluk, which is
more urbanized and more literate have higher
gender discrimination in the district. Compared
to other taluks, it is significantly higher.
3.4 Child Development Index (CDI)

Today's children are the future
generation of the nation. Hence, the
development status of children is very important
from human development perspective. The
development of children refers to all round
development: physical, mental, emotional and
social developments. In Dakshina Kannada
district, children in the age group 0-6 years
constitute about 10 percent of the total
population. Child Development Index (CDI) is a
composite performance measure specific to
children development. It comprises of three
child development related dimensional indices:
health, nutrition and education. The indicators
for each dimension are selected based on their
contribution to child well-being. They are given
in Table 3.5.
Table 3.5
Taluk-wise Values of CDI Indicators
Dimension
Health
Nutrition
Education
Indicators
Child Mortality
Rate
Percentage of
Malnourished
children
Percentage of
children born
underweight
Percentage of
primary and
secondary school
drop-out of
schools
mainstreamed
Bantwal
24
Belthangady
27
Mangaluru
28
Puttur
33
Sullia
14
District
22
19.06
25.59
17.89
22.89
31.54
21.23
5.90
9.24
20.73
10.41
15.04
12.26
89.50
84.30
87.98
86.14
86.45
86.87
The indicators selected for health and

nutrition dimension are negative in nature; lower
the value, better for children well-being status
and vice versa. In the case of education, on the
other hand, the indicator selected is positive in
nature. They contribute positively towards
children welfare. The CDI is the arithmetic
average of three dimensional index values. The
highest index value indicates better child
development outcome. Table 3.6 compares the
CDI and dimension index values for taluks and
the district.
The CDI for the district works out to
0.721, which can be categorized as 'good'. Talukwise, Bantwal taluk has the highest CDI value of
0.779 and ranks first. Inter-taluk differences in
CDI are not very significant. Surprisingly,
Mangaluru taluk has the lowest child
development index (0.559). This is mainly due
to its poor performance in nutrition and health.
In nutrition, Bantwal has the highest index value
(0.964), followed by Puttur (0.718). Mangaluru
and Sullia have the lowest index values. The
respective values are 0.350 and 0.294. In child
health, Bantwal ranks first followed by
Belthangady. Belthangady ranks second in child
health. Mangaluru has the lowest value of 0.123,
Table 3.6
Taluk-wise CDI and its Compositions
Taluks
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
Nutrition
Index
Rank
0.964
1
0.659
3
0.350
4
0.718
2
0.294
5
0.707
Health
Index
Rank
1.000
1
0.802
2
0.123
5
0.733
3
0.459
4
0.624
068
Education
Index Rank
0.632
5
1.000
1
0.740
4
0.870
2
0.848
3
0.818
CDI
Index Rank
0.779
1
0.690
2
0.559
5
0.613
4
0.624
3
0.721
followed by Sullia (0.459). The difference

between the highest ranked and the lowest
ranked is very significant. In child education,
Belthangady ranks first, followed by Puttur.
Bantwal has the lowest rank. Inter-taluk
differences in child education are only marginal.
The CDI for the district works out to
0.721, which can be categorized as 'good'. Talukwise, Bantwal taluk has the highest CDI value of
0.779 and ranks first. Inter-taluk differences in
CDI are not very significant. Surprisingly,
Mangaluru taluk has the lowest child
development index (0.559). This is mainly due
to its poor performance in nutrition and health.
In nutrition, Bantwal has the highest index value
(0.964), followed by Puttur (0.718). Mangaluru
and Sullia have the lowest index values. The
respective values are 0.350 and 0.294. In child
health, Bantwal ranks first followed by
Belthangady. Belthangady ranks second in child
health. Mangaluru has the lowest value of 0.123,
followed by Sullia (0.459). The difference
between the highest ranked and the lowest
ranked is very significant. In child education,
Belthangady ranks first, followed by Puttur.
Bantwal has the lowest rank. Inter-taluk

differences in child education are only marginal.
The lower index values in nutrition and
health in Mangaluru and Sullia taluks are really
areas of concern. This is particularly so when the
Central Government implemented Integrated
Child Development Services (ICDS) program
for all round development of children and set up
in the district 1614 anganawadi centres to cater
to the supplementary needs of pregnant women
and children, their health care including
vaccination and non-formal pre-school
education. The nuclear family and two or one
child norm, pro-child attitude of parents, higher
literacy of women and easy access to health care
services all these were expected to contribute
significantly to the well-being of the children in
the district.
3.5 Food Security Index

Food security is the availability and
ability to access to enough food for an active and
healthy life for all people and all time. Food
security, therefore, take into consideration both
Graph 3.2
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supply and demand aspects of food. It has, thus,

three dimensions: physical availability,
economic access and social access. Availability
of adequate quantity of food at all times is
important. But equally important is economic
access; people should have purchasing power to
access the required quantity of food to him and
family. It is also important to ensure social
access to food particularly marginalized and
poor section of the community. In spite of
achieving self-sufficiency in food production
and various initiatives to improve household
food security in the country, the problem of
chronic hunger and malnutrition continue at
very high level.
Recognizing the critical importance of
food security from human development
perspective, Food Security Index (FSI) was
included in the DHDRs as one of the six human
development indices to be computed. For
computing FSI, three major parameters of
household food security are considered. They
are: Availability, Accessibility and Absorption.
The indicators considered for measuring these
parameters are the following:
Availability (7 Indicators): Cropping

intensity, Change in net area sown over
2001-2011, Per capita food grain
production, Per capita forest cover,
Irrigation intensity, Percentage of area
degraded to total geographical area and
percentage of leguminous crops in gross
cropped area.
Accessibility (6 Indicators): Percentage

of BPL families, Per capita income,
Percentage of non-agricultural workers to
total workers, Average size of holdings,
Percentage of agricultural labourers to
total workers and Percentage of villages
having PDS outlets within village.
Absorption (5 Indicators): Child

mortality rate, Percentage of households
with access to safe drinking water,
Percentage of pregnant women with
Anaemia, Percentage of malnourished
children and Female literacy rate.
The values computed for these

indicators taluk-wise and for the district as a
whole are shown in Table 8 in the Appendix. It
may be noted that out of 18 indicators chosen, 12
are positive in contributing to food security and
Table 3.7
Food Security Index (FSI)
Taluk
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
Availability
0.341
0.639
0.491
0.350
0.450
0.439
Accessibility
0.431
0.317
0.772
0.432
0.863
0.637
Absorption
0.656
0.409
0.544
0.466
0.466
0.638
070
FSI
0.476
0.455
0.603
0.416
0.593
0.571
Rank
3
4
1
5
2
6 are negative in their contribution. FSI and its

dimension indices were computed by taking into
account the contribution of these selected
indicators. Table 3.7 presents index values of
three dimensions of food security and the overall
food security index for the taluks and the district.
The FSI for the district works out to
0.571. In food security, the district is lagging
behind by 43 percent. Inter-taluk comparison
shows that Mangaluru taluk ranks first with the
index value of 0.603 followed by Sullia with
index value of 0.593 and Bantwal with index
value of 0.476. Puttur has the lowest FSI of
0.416. Inter-taluk variation in FSI between the
highest and the lowest ranked is 45 percent. In
food availability, the district's index value works
out to 0.439. The district is in average status.
There is a deficit of 56 percent. Since the
indicators selected to measure food availability
are production-oriented, the low value of the
index clearly demonstrates decline in food
production in the district. In food accessibility
and food absorption, the district is in better
position. The index values are above 0.600.
The inter-taluk analysis of dimensional
indices demonstrates that in food availability,
Belthangady taluk has the highest index value of
0.639, followed by Mangaluru taluk (0.491).
Bantwal has the lowest index value (0.341).
Surprisingly Puttur and Sullia, which are mainly
agricultural based economies, have lower food
availability index values. This may be mainly
because they are increasingly shifting from food
production to horticulture. In food accessibility,
Sullia followed by Mangaluru ranks first and
second. Belthangady ranks lowest. Inter-taluk
variation is very wide. The difference between
the first ranked and lowest is 172 percent. As
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against this, in food absorption, Bantwal ranks

first, followed by Mangaluru. Belthangady
ranks the lowest. In food absorption, the intertaluk variation is only marginal. This may be
mainly due to the government's good network
for public distribution of food and subsidized
food for weaker section in all taluks.
3.6 Urban Development Index (UDI)

Dakshina Kannada district has urban
population of 996086, which constitutes 47.7
percent of the total population of the district. The
comparative state level urban population is 38.7
percent. The district has, thus, one of the highest
percentages of urban population in the state.
While the rural population in the district
witnessed decadal decline of 6.4 percent, the
decadal growth in urban population was 36.6
percent during 2001-11. Thus, the district is
witnessing a rapid growth in urbanization.
Urbanization being a driving force for economic
development, it is an inevitable phenomenon.
With the growing urbanization, the provision of
basic urban services such as housing, safe
drinking water, sewerage, drainage etc. poses a
real challenge for well-being of people living in
urban areas. Since growing numbers of people
live in urban areas, the urban issues related to
human development cannot be ignored.
Dakshina Kannada district has eight
Urban Local Bodies (ULBs). Mangaluru, the
district head quarter with population of 499487
has City Corporation. Bantwal, Puttur, Ullal, and
Moodabidri have Town Municipal Councils
(TMCS). Their population range from 29431 in
Moodabidri to 53773 in Ullal. Sullia, Mulky and
Belthangady have Town Panchayats (TPs).Their
population is below 20000. With a view to
evaluate the ULBs from human development

perspective, the DHDR envisages construction
of Urban Development Index (UDI) as a
composite index of urban related human
development indicators. Eleven critical urban
related development indicators were identified to
compute composite UDI for each ULB. The data
for these indicators were compiled from the 2011
Census, concerned ULBs and the Urban
Development Cell of the Deputy
Commissioner's (DC) office. The urban
development indicators selected for computation
of UDI and their actual values for each ULB are
set out in Table 9 in Appendix. Table 3.8 shows
the UDIs computed for eight ULBs in the district:
At the outset, it should be noted that
ULBs in the district are of different categories.
There is only one City Corporation, four TMCs
and three TPs. They cannot be ranked except in
the case of four TMCs and three TPs. Even while
comparing the relative position, the limitation of
their comparability should be taken into account.
However UDI shows the present status in urban
infrastructure development and development
deficits in all ULBs based on common urban
development indictors.
Table 3.8
Urban Development Index
Urban Local Bodies
UDI
City Corporation
Mangaluru City Corporation
0.690
Town Municipal Concils
Bantwal TMC
0.310
Puttur TMC
0.562
Ullal TMC
0.406
Moodbidri TMC
0.316
Mulky TP
Belthangady TP
Sullia TP
Town Panchayats
0.380
0.397
0.636
UDI Rank
-
4
1
2
3
3
2
1
The data on UDIs in the table shows that

Mangaluru city has the highest UDI value of
0.690. Though it is in the category of 'good' in
regard to basic amenities and infrastructure
related to human development, it has still
development deficit of 31 percent in some
dimensions such as health infrastructure, crime
rate, road accidents etc. Among TMCs, Puttur
TMC has the highest UDI value (0.562). Ullal
with UDI of 0.406 ranks second. Moodabidri
with UDI of 0.316 ranks third. Bantwal with
UDI of 0.310 ranks the lowest among TMCs.
Moodabidri and Bantwal appear to be in the
worse position in terms of all basic urban
amenities. Among TPs, on the other hand, Sullia
ranks first with UDI of 0.636. Belthangady TP
has lower UDI of 0.397 and Mulky with UDI of
0.380 ranks the lowest. They have development
deficit slightly more than 60 percent.
3.7 Composite Taluk Development Index

(CTDI)
The primary objective of DHDR is to
focus on taluk level human development issues
which enhance the quality of life at the grass root
levels. In order to achieve comprehensive taluk
development from human development
perspective, the Guidelines Document for
Preparation of DHDRs has identified and
selected a broad set of 68 indicators affecting
human development at taluk levels. All selected
indicators centered around three core
dimensions of human development viz. standard
of living, health and education. They broadly
take into account demographic factors,
livelihood and employment related factors,
household assets, political participation, health,
basic amenities such as electricity, water supply,
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housing, and sanitation and education factors.

The relevant data for all indicators were
compiled from Census 2011 and from the
relevant Government's Departments. The index
values for indicators were computed by taking
into account whether the indicators are positive
or negative in order to make the index
unidirectional. Following the UNDP
methodological framework of three core
dimension and HDI computation formula, the
dimensional index values and composite CTDI
values were calculated. The actual values of 68
indicators at taluk and district levels used for
computation are given in Table 10 in the
Appendix. Table 3.9 provides the outcome of
dimensional indices and CTDI values for
different taluks and the district as a whole.
The comparative analysis of CTDI in the
taluks in the table shows that Mangaluru taluk
with CTDI of 0.711 ranks first followed by
Sullia with CTDI of 0.660. Belthangady has the
lowest index value of 0.618. The development
deficit varies from 29 percent in the case of first
ranked taluk to 38 percent inthe case of lowest
ranked taluk. Interestingly, the inter-taluk
disparities in CTDIs are not very significant. The
difference between the highest and lowest
ranked taluks works out to 15 percent. The

District Composite Development Index (DCDI)
works out to 0.673. There is a development
deficit of 33 percent at the district level.
The analysis of dimensional index
values shows that Belthangady taluk ranks first
in standard of living (0.658), while Mangaluru
taluk ranks the lowest with index value of 0.576.
The dimension index for standard of living for
the district works out to 0.608. At the district
level, there is a deficit of 39 percent in living
standard. In health, Puttur ranks the highest with
index value of 0.703, followed by
Belthangady.(0.680). Sullia ranks the lowest in
health (0.584). As against this, in education,
Mangaluru ranks first (0.902), followed by
Puttur (0.673), Belthangady ranks the lowest
(0.517). In education, the difference between the
top ranked Mangaluru taluk and lowest ranked
Belthangady is 74 percent, which is by all
standards very high. .
3.8 Concluding Remarks

The computation and analysis of various
district levels are quite revealing and of policy
Table 3.9
Taluk
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
Standard of Living
Index
0.601
0.658
0.576
0.588
0.643
0.608
Health Index
Education Index
CTDI/DCDI
Rank
0.662
0.680
0.654
0.703
0.584
0.640
0.619
0.517
0.902
0.673
0.573
0.733
0.627
0.618
0.711
0.652
0.660
0.673
4
5
1
3
2
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significance. Six different indices computed

together provide a comprehensive view of
human development at the grassroots level. The
indices computed bring out spatial disparities,
the relative performance position and
development deficits of taluks in various
dimensions of human development within the
district. They provide thrust areas for action plan
to achieve comprehensive and equitable human
development in the district. For any planning or
policy to succeed, it must take into consideration
human development deprivation and disparities
in various dimensions of human development
and relative position of taluks therein.
The overall performance based on the
five indices shows that though Dakshina
Kannada district is considered progressive, all is
not well from human development perspective.
There are many areas of concern. The district as
a whole is in very good status only in GII. Most
of the taluks are either in 'good' or 'average'
status. In some dimensions of human
development, they are in 'poor' category. There is
a also wide inter-taluk disparities in the ranking
and values of indices. The analysis of dimension
indices also shows no close correlation between
them. In the case of HDIs, the taluks which have
higher education index values have lower health
index values. Similarly, the taluks which have
lower standard of living index values have
higher education and health indices. This
empirically proves that for overall human
development, all dimensions are equally
important. The development of one dimension
cannot automatically take care of development
of other dimensions, though theoretically such a
possibility cannot be ruled out.
In the ultimate analysis, human

development is the outcome of economic
growth, social policies and right based poverty
reduction strategies at taluk level. The six
indices computed clearly demonstrated that the
taluks which perform better in these indices are
also better in economic and social development
outcomes. Mangaluru taluk is the top achiever in
some human development related indices
because it has more industries, higher scope for
non-farm employment, higher urbanization and
easy access to educational and health
infrastructural facilities. As against this,
Belthangady taluk is more agricultural based has
the lowest rank in most of the indices. In the case
of health and education, easy access to
infrastructural facilities matters more than
income. In the case of income, nearness to urban
centres and major industries, scope for nonagricultural employment and diversification of
agriculture apparently played a significant role.
Thus, the ranking of taluks and
divergences between rankings based on various
human developments related indices and in their
components have serious implications for policy
makers, while formulating strategies and
allocating resources. They provide thrust areas
for action programmes and policy interventions
and also pointers for monitoring the
programmes in terms of human development
perspective. In the following chapters, an
attempt is made to carry out in-depth
disaggregated analysis of various dimensions of
human development at taluk and district level.
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Chapter 4
A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO THE EDUCATION
078

4.1 Introduction
Education is considered as the key
determinant for formation of functioning
capabilities and enhancing choices and freedom.
Without basic literacy and education, people
cannot have requisite skills and knowledge for
functional capabilities. They also cannot have
freedom to choose the life they value most.
According to Sen, illiteracy causes unfreedoms.
Without education, people will be marginalized
and become voiceless and hopeless. Education
functionally empowers people and enables them
to make informed choices about their lives, seize
opportunities and exercise freedom to achieve
among alternatives, what is best for them. It
expands employment opportunities and freedom
of choice. A well educated population, equipped
with knowledge and functional skills, is
essential to drive higher and inclusive
development. Education is, therefore, valued as
human capability-promoting, opportunityenhancing and empowerment manifesting
human development dimension.
Dreze and Sen (2002) in their wellknown work on influence of education on
social sector in India identified following five
roles of education:
Intrinsic value to enable people
knowledgeable and secure better and higher
position in the society,
Instrumental role at individual level to
expand employment opportunities,
Instrumental role at societal level to
participate in social, political and
development process,
Other instrumental role necessary to lead the
life one values most and with dignity, and
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Empowering and distributive role to fight

against deprivation, exploitation, inequality
and discrimination.
Under the Universal Declaration on
Human Rights of 1948, the United Nations
recognized education as a fundamental human
right along with other basic necessities such as
food, shelter and water. The UN Development
Millennium Goals envisage goal of achieving
universal primary education and gender equality
in primary and secondary education by 2015.
The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) introduced in
2001-02 in India focused on universalization of
elementary education. With the Right of
Children to Free and Compulsory Education
(RTE) Act which was enacted by Parliament in
2009 and came into effect in 2010, the primary
education has become a mandated right to all
children up to the age 14. The Eleventh Plan has
launched Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha
Abhiyan (RMSA) for universalization of
secondary education. The Twelfth Five Year
Plan has articulated the need for expanding
educational facilities and improving quality of
education at all levels as key instruments for
achieving faster, sustainable and more inclusive
growth.
education, the UNDP has rightly considered it as
one of the three core dimensions of HDI. Since
human development is predicated upon
universal access to education, it has implications
for equity, social justice and quality at all levels
of education. In this chapter, an attempt is made
to analyze in-depth education profile of people at
taluks and the district levels. While carrying out
disaggregated analysis of education, emphasis is
given more to gender, social, regional and ruralurban inequity and also on basic education
indicators such as access, enrolment, retention,
drop-out rate, transition rate, teacher-pupil
ratios, infrastructure and quality of education.
All these parameters are looked into at primary,
secondary and tertiary education levels. An
attempt is also made to carry out radar analysis
of key education indicators for intra and intertaluk comparisons.
4.2 Historical Backdrop

Historically, education system in India
was on Gurukula model and more religious
and theological oriented. Since the district's
economy was agriculture-based, occupational
knowledge was passed on from generation to
generation by parents, elderly relatives and
neighbours. The modern education system in the
district has only a recent history. In the initial
stage, the contributions of Christian
Missionaries were immense in the spread of
modern education in the district. The first
primary school was set up in Mangaluru by
Basel Mission in 1832. The number of schools
set up by the Mission in erstwhile Dakshina
Kannada district increased to 300. The
educational institutions were set up not only in
Mangaluru but also in other cities and
surrounding rural areas. The Roman Catholic
Diocese had set up St. Aloysius College for boys
and St. Agnes College for girls in Mangaluru
besides schools all over the district.
Subsequently nationalists like Ammembala
Subbarao Pai were instrumental in setting up
high schools mainly in Mangaluru city. The
district was then under Madras Presidency.
With the setting up of Education
Box 4.1:Contribution of Christian

Missionaries to
Education in erstwhile South Kanara
District
Basel Mission was the pioneer in setting up modern
educational institutions in the District:
Beginning with the first primary school in
Mangaluru in 1832, the number of schools
set up in erstwhile South Kanara district
(undivided Dakshina Kannada district)
increased to 300.
At a time when schooling for girls was not
much supported by society, Basel Mission
started a school exclusively for girls.
It also provided opportunities to people
from marginalised sections of the society. In
1911, it started a school for the members of
the Scheduled Caste for the first time in
Mangaluru.
It was also a pioneer in establishing Kinder
Garden School in 1876 for children of
weavers given free education.
It started night technical schools to train
workers in technical education.
Roman Catholic Diocese also played active role in
spread of modern education in the district. Reputed
educational institutions, schools and colleges such
as St. Aloysius College and St. Agnes College for
girls Schools were set up by Roman Catholic
Mission.
Source : compiled from various sources
Department under Madras Presidency and

introduction of the New Education System by
the British during 1855-56, the government
schools were set up mainly in the urban centers.
Madras University set up in the year 1857
provided avenues for higher education mainly
for elite class in the district. In spite of various
initiatives, more than three-fourths of the
080
population in the district was illiterate at the time

of independence. Only Mangaluru city had
colleges at that time. The education map of the
district, however, changed significantly after
Independence. The Government was in the
forefront and took a number of initiatives in the
field of primary and secondary education. The
government set up High Schools in most of the
urban centres to improve access to the secondary
education. The public effort was also
supplemented by the private initiatives in higher
education. Manipal Academy of General
Education, Nitte Education Trust, Dharmasthala
Education Trust, Yenepoya Education trust,
Alvas Education Foundation and others
promoted higher education institutions in the
district.
4.3 Literacy Profile of the District

As per 2011 Census, Dakshina Kannada
district has the literacy rate of 88.57 percent
which is the highest literacy rate in the state. As
against the state's literacy rate of 75.36 percent,
the district has 18 percent higher literacy rate
(Table 4.1). In 1991, the district had literacy rate
of 76.74 percent, which increased to 83.4

percent in 2001, accounting for a decadal
increase of 8.68 percent. During 2001 and 2011,
the literacy rate of the district increased to 88.57
percent; witnessing a decadal increase of 6.2
percent.
The decadal growth in literacy rate is
lower than the state's 13.1 percent. The lower
decadel growth was mainly because, the district
is at the end-stage of universal literacy rate. The
gender-wise literacy status in the table reveals
that the male population has literacy rate of 93.1
percent and female 84.13 percent in the district
in 2011. The respective literacy rates at the state
level are 82.47 percent and 68.1 percent. While
the decadal growth rate in male literacy rate
between 2001 and 2011 is 3.8 percent, in the case
of female literacy rate, it is nearly 9 percent. The
significant increase in female literacy rate has
narrowed down the gender gap in literacy rates
from 12.5 in 2001 to 8.97 in 2011. The gender
gap in the district is significantly lower than the
state level which is 14.4 percent.
There is no wide inter-taluk variation in
the literacy rates. All taluks have literacy rates,
both or male and female, above state's average.
Table 4.1
Taluk-wise Literacy Rates by Sex: 2001-2011 (Percentage)
Taluks
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
State
Male
88.30
85.10
92.60
87.20
87.40
89.70
76.10
2001
Female
73.20
70.60
82.10
73.50
74.90
77.20
56.87
Total
80.60
77.70
87.30
80.30
81.20
83.40
66.64
Male
92.60
89.99
95.31
90.71
91.34
93.10
82.47
2011
Female
81.02
77.99
88.15
80.51
81.44
84.13
68.08
Total
86.76
83.92
91.67
85.92
86.35
88.57
75.36
Decadal Growth
Male Female Total
4.87
10.68
7.64
5.75
10.47
8.01
2.93
7.37
5.01
4.02
9.54
7.00
4.51
8.73
6.34
3.79
8.98
6.20
8.37
19.71
13.08
Source: Census 2001 and 2011.
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Belthangady taluk has the lowest literacy rate

(83.92 percent), followed by Puttur (85.92
percent). Mangaluru taluk has the highest
literacy rate of 91.67 percent. The gap in literacy
rates between highest and lowest works out to
7.8 percent. The gender-wise data analysis
shows that Mangaluru taluk has the highest and
Belthangady taluk, the lowest literacy rates for
both males and females. The gap between the
highest and lowest is 5.3 percent for male
literacy and 10.2 percent for female literacy. It is
pertinent to note that except Mangaluru, all other
taluks have the literacy rates significantly lower
than the district average for both male and
female population. The higher district's literacy
rate is apparently due to high literacy rate of
Mangaluru taluk.
The rural and urban disparities in literacy
rates in different taluks and the district are given
in Table 4.2. As per 2011 Census, in rural areas,
85.33 percent of people are literate and in urban
areas, 92.12 percent literate. The respective
literacy rates at the state level are 68.7 percent
and 85.8 percent. The rural/urban disparity in
literacy rate in the district works out to 6.79
percent as against state level rural/urban

disparity of 17.05 percent. The district has the
highest literacy rates both in rural and urban
areas in the state. The district has also the lowest
rural-urban disparity in literacy rates in the state.
Taluk-wise, Bantwal has the highest literacy rate
(86.32 percent) in rural areas and Belthangady
has the lowest (83.74 percent). In urban areas, on
the other hand, Mangaluru has the highest
literacy rate (95.49 percent) and Belthangady
has the lowest literacy rate (89.61 percent) in the
district. In all taluks, rural and urban literacy
rates are above the state's average literacy rates.
Gender-wise, in rural areas, the literacy
rate for male population is 90.97 percent and for
female population, 79.83 percent. In urban
areas, for male population it is 95.5 percent and
for fmale population, 88.83 percent. The gender
disparity in literacy rates works out to 11.14
percent in rural areas and 6.67 percent in urban
areas. Mangaluru taluk has the lowest rural
literacy rate for male, while for female
population; Belthangady has the lowest literacy
rate. As against this, Bantwal has the highest
literacy rate for rural male population and
Table 4.2
Rural and Urban Literacy Disparity: 2011 (Percentage)
Taluks
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
State
Male
92.28
89.91
87.52
90.31
90.72
90.97
77.61
Rural
Female
80.44
77.73
84.67
78.62
80.28
79.83
59.71
All
86.32
83.74
86.11
84.41
85.48
85.33
68.73
Male
95.40
92.67
98.35
96.23
95.37
95.50
90.04
Urban
Female
86.19
86.66
92.71
88.76
88.50
88.83
81.36
Source: Census: 2001 and 2011
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All
90.74
89.61
95.49
92.24
91.80
92.12
85.78
Gender Disparity
Rural
Urban
11.84
9.21
12.18
6.01
2.85
6.24
11.69
7.47
10.44
6.87
11.14
6.67
29.98
10.67
Mangaluru has the highest for female

population. The gender disparity in rural literacy
rates is the highest in Belthangady and lowest in
Mangaluru taluk. In urban areas, gender
disparity in literacy rates is the highest in
Bantwal and lowest in Belthangady.
Comparatively, at the state level, the gender
disparity is 30 percent in rural areas and 10.6
percent in urban areas. Inter-taluk variations in
literacy rates both in rural and urban areas are not
significantly high.
4.4
Primary Education
The education system in Dakshina

Kannda district like in other districts in the state
consists of lower primary classes: I-V, upper
primary classes: VI-VIII, secondary: IX and X,
pre-university: XI and XII and higher education
including professional courses. A primary
school is the fundamental and foundational unit
of an educational system. The universal primary
education requires the fulfillment of following
objectives:
I. Universal access to primary schools:
Availability of primary schools within
walking (1km) distance for all children;
II. Universal enrolment: 100 percent enrolment
entitlement for all eligible children;
III.Universal retention: Active and regular
participation of all children enrolled without
any drop-out until completion of 8 year
elementary education;
IV. Universal achievement: Attainment of
minimum essential levels of learning by all
children when they complete their primary
education; and
V. Eradication of gender and social gap in
education
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In what follows, an attempt is made to

assess taluk-wise status of primary education
system in the district broadly in terms of access,
enrolment, retention and drop-out, pupil/teacher
ratio, infrastructure and quality of education
with emphasis on gender and social equity.
4.4.1 Access to Schools

Access to universal primary education
mainly depends on the number of primary
schools in relation to inhabitants in a given area.
The Sarva Shikshana Abhiyaana (SSA) aims at
to provide school facility in the same habitation
or at least within one km for lower primary
schools and within 3 km for higher primary
schools to all elementary school age children.
Dakshina Kannada district has witnessed a
significant growth in the number of primary
schools after independence. The district has
1734 habitations and all habitations are now
covered by lower and upper primary schools.
There are 354 lower primary schools and 1098
upper primary schools in the district.
The schools in the district fall under four
categories based on the type of management and
funding. They are (i) Government schools
managed by the Department of Education
(DOE), (ii) Private aided schools funded by the
government and managed by the private sector,
(iii) Private unaided schools, both funded and
managed by the private sector, and (iv)
Government schools managed by Department of
Social Welfare. The State Government is the
main provider of primary education in the
district. The private sector plays an active role in
primary education mainly in urban areas. Table
4.3 provides management-wise classifications
of primary schools in the district.
Table 4.3
Management-wise Classification of Primary Schools: 2011-12 (number)
Taluks
Government
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
195
180
231
183
140
929
Govt -aided
Private
56
21
129
13
6
225
Private-unaided
Social Welfare
Total
44
22
153
35
17
271
4
6
7
2
4
23
299
229
520
233
167
1448
Source: Education Department/ SSA.
Graph 4.1
The data in Table 4.3 on managementwise classification of primary schools in

different taluks clearly shows that out of 1448
primary schools, 929 (64 percent) schools are
managed by the State Government's Department
of Education. If aided and Social Welfare
Department schools are added, nearly 81 percent
primary schools are Government funded. It is,
however, important to note that the recent
increase in unaided primary schools is mostly a
phenomenon of urban areas providing education

in English medium. Most of the private schools
are upper primary schools.
4.4.2 Enrolment
Enrolment of all children in 6 to 14 agegroups is the first step in universalization of
primary education. It is also mandated
entitlement of every born child as per the RTE
084
Act. It is, however, important to note that

enrolment of school going children depends on
growth rate of population and out-migration of
young people. Dakshina Kannada district
witnessed decline in child population
from228060 in 2001 to 208297 in 2011. Table 4.4
clearly shows this declining trend in enrolment in
elementary education. The total enrolment in
primary education declined from 274198 in
2001-02 to 238946 in 2011-12. The decline took

place both in boys and girls. There was also slight
decline in boys' participation ratio. It declined
from 52.3 percent to 51.6 percent during this
period. As against this, participation rate of girls
increased from 47.7 percent to 48.4 percent. The
present gender participation rate in primary
education is more or less consistent with the
present sex ratio in child population in the
district.
Table 4.4
Enrolment of Students in Primary Schools in Dakshina Kannada District (I VII)
Year
2001-02
2004-05
2011-12
Boys
(Number)
Girls
(Number)
Total
(Number)
143359
133541
123327
130839
124631
115619
274198
258172
238946
Change in
Enrolment
(Percent)
(5.85)
(12.89)
Gender Participation
(Percent)
Boys
Girls
52.28
47.72
51.72
48.28
51.61
48.38
Source: Education Department/SSA. Figures in bracket show decline.
Graph 4.2
Enrolment of Students in Primary Schools in Dakshina Kannada District Gender Participation (Percent)
The taluk-wise data on gross enrolment and net enrolment in the primary education is analyzed in Table 4.5.
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Table 4.5
Taluk-wise Gross and Net Enrolment in Primary Education: (2011 -12) (Percentage)
Taluk
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
Boys
GER
96.44
95.84
104.24
104.69
96.34
101.03
Girls
NER
91.30
91.04
99.78
99.34
92.26
95.89
GER
96.00
94.80
103.63
101.53
95.83
100.36
All
NER
90.52
89.99
99.15
96.57
91.47
95.06
GER
96.23
95.34
103.94
103.13
96.09
100.56
NER
90.93
90.53
100.00
97.88
91.88
95.49
Source: Education Department/DISE
Graph 4.3
The gross enrolment ratio (GER) is the

percentage of students enrolled in a level of
education irrespective of relevant age group to
population in the relevant age group at that level.
Net enrolment ratio (NER), on the other hand, is
the percentage of students enrolled in a level of
education belonging to relevant age group to the
population in that age group. The GER and NER
for the district works out to 100.56 percent and
95.49 percent respectively. For boys, they are
101.03 percent and 95.89 percent and for girls,

100.36 percent and 95.06 percent. The never
enrolled eligible children during the year 201112 numbered only two. The GER exceeds 100
percent mainly due to inflow of migrant students
mainly in Mangaluru. The inter-taluk variation
in enrolment in both boys and girls in primary
education level is not very significant. Similarly
gender disparities among taluks are not
significantly high. Its only in Mangaluru-South
086
block, GER and NER are significantly lower

than the district's average. The high GER and
NER for boys and girls in all taluks clearly
demonstrate that the objective of universal
access and enrolment has been largely achieved
in the district. This may be attributed to the
successful implementation of various
interventions under SSA.
The analysis of enrolment data talukwise rural and urban as well as by social class ion
Table 4.6 and 4.8 clearly demonstrates almost
similar pattern in enrolment and gender-wise
participation in primary education in both rural
and urban areas in all taluks in the district.
Table 4.6
Taluk-wise Rural-Urban GER in Primary Education (Percentage)
Taluk
Boys
94.86
93.45
102.78
102.78
94.78
98.73
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
Rural
Girls
93.56
91.82
102.23
100.78
93.43
98.53
All
94.21
92.64
102.51
101.78
94.11
98.63
Boys
97.89
97.57
105.63
105.93
97.82
101.29
Urban
Girls
98.34
97.86
104.96
102.76
98.29
101.96
All
98.12
97.72
105.30
104.35
98.06
101.63
Rural-Urban
Disparity
3.91
5.08
2.79
2.57
3.95
3.00
Table 4.7
Taluk-wise GER by Social Class in Primary Education (Percentage)
Blocks
Boys
Bantwal
97.89
Belthangady 97.89
Mangaluru
99.56
Puttur
99.79
Sullia
97.45
District
99.45
SC
Girls
98.12
98.46
99.94
99.71
97.59
99.24
ST
Others
All
Boys
Girls
All
Boys
Girls
All
98.01 95.89 94.89 95.39 99.54 98.89 99.22
98.18 94.86 92.49 93.68 98.12 99.15 98.64
99.75 101.02 101.96 101.49 105.45 104.56 105.01
99.75 100.89 99.89 100.39 104.69 100.98 102.84
97.52 95.46 94.56 95.01 97.42 96.48 96.95
99.64 98.16 97.46 97.81 103.24 101.32 102.28
087
Graph 4.4
Taluk-wise GER by Social Class in Primary Education Percentage - ALL
Even among SCs and STs, universal

enrolment has ben achieved in both males and
females in all taluks. Whatever inter-taluk ruralurban, inter-social group and gender differences
found are negligible. This performance
achievement may be attributed to the successful
implementation of various interventions under
SSA.
4.4.3 Retention and Drop-out

The retention and drop-out rates are
important indicators of the effectiveness and
efficiency of the primary education system. The
objective of universal elementary education is to
ensure that all children enrolled to first standard
continue in schools, progress on the ladder and
complete the final stage of elementary
education. There should not be any drop-out of
Table 4.8
Taluk-wise Drop-out Students by Sex and Social Groups (Number)
Taluk
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
General
Boys Girls All
3
0
3
2
2
4
46
20
66
5
1
6
0
1
1
56
24
80
Boys
2
7
12
4
4
29
SC
Girls
0
6
15
0
1
22
All
2
13
27
4
5
51
Boys
0
0
4
0
0
4
Source: SSA Karnataka-Annual Report,2011-12
088
ST
Girls
0
1
1
0
0
2
All
0
1
5
0
0
6
Boys
5
9
62
9
4
89
All
Girls
9
36
1
2
48
All
5
18
98
10
6
137
schools for any reason. Every student enrolled

has to be retained to complete elementary
schooling to enable to enter secondary
education. To achieve universal retention, the
zero drop-out of schooling is a must.
The drop-out of schooling is the
difference between number of enrolled children
at 1st standard and the number of students
reaching the 8th standard and the retention rate is
the percentage between the two. Table 4.8 shows
taluk-wise drop-out in elementary school during
2011-12.
Total students dropped out from the
schools are 137. The proportion of drop-outs in
total enrolled students works out to 0.14 percent.
The district has relatively the lowest drop- out
rate in the state. Out of 137 drop-outs, girls
number 48 and boys, 89. Among social groups,

the number of drop-out is the highest among SC
students (51). Incidentally, among ST students,
it is the lowest (6). In all social groups, the
number of drop-out of boys is more than girls.
Taluk-wise, Mangaluru has the highest school
drop-outs and Bantwal has the lowest in
numbers. The percentage-wise, Mangaluru has
the lowest drop-out rate and Sullia has the
highest drop-out rate. Except in Belthangady, in
all other taluks, more number of boys than girls
dropped out at primary education level. There
are no drop-outs at lower primary level and
hence retention rate was 100 percent. At higher
primary level, the district's retention rate was
99.86 percent. Taluk-wise it varied from 97.18
percent in Sullia to 99.87 percent in Mangaluru
taluk.
Graph 4.5
Taluk - wise Dropout of Boys and Girls
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4.4.4 Pupil-Teacher Ratio

The pupil-teacher ratio is one of the
important determinants of quality of primary
education. An adequate number of trained
teachers obviously improve the quality of
instruction. The pupil-teacher ratio as per RTE
norm should be 1:30 and for schools that have
more than 200 students, it should not exceed
1:40. With the implementation of SSA, the
strength of teachers in government schools has
gone up considerably and this has improved
favorably the pupil-teacher ratio. In Table 4.9,
the number of teachers
Working and pupil/ teacher ratio are

given. The total number of teachers working in
the district is 7946 (Table 4.9). The pupil-teacher
ratio works out to 30, which is 27 percent higher
than the state average (24). It is nearer to RTE
norm of 30. At lower primary school level, the
district has pupil-teacher ratio of 16 as against
the state average of 16. Out of 7946 teachers,
3369 (50 percent) are working in Mangaluru
taluk. Taluk-wise, Sullia has the lowest number
of school teachers (681), followed by
Belthangady (1039).
Table 4.9
Taluk-wise Pupil /Teacher Ratio at Primary Education: 2011-12 (Number)
Taluk
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
Total Enrolment
46227
31333
108802
36462
16122
238946
Teachers
1590
1039
3369
1267
681
7946
Graph 4.6
090
Pupil /Teacher Ratio

29
23
32
28
23
30
Box No. 4.2: Mainstreaming of Destitute Children

in Education
The mainstreaming of destitute children in education poses a serious challenge to the district's
Education Department to ensure universal primary education. The destitute children are:
Children who are involved in unhealthy activities such as drinking, smoking, theft and
irregular to the school
Run away children, street children, children-beggers, and destitutes who are abondoned
These children require counseling, de-addiction camps, close monitoring and safe place to dwell.
This problem is more acute in city like Mangaluru. With a view to bring these destitute children in
mainstream education, the district's Education Department has taken an initiative to arrange
Chinnara Thangudhama (Transit Home) with the Target of 50 Children. This Center is run in
collaboration with Prajna Counseling Center, an NGO in Kankanady Mangaluru. The centre Is a
short stay home for the rescued children where their needs are met till such time they are
mainstreamed. It would be operational for 24 hours and have some basic facilities like toilets,
bathroom, bedding, play activities food drinking water first aid box etc. The staff would include
field volunteers, counselors, doctors, teachers, cook, wardens and staff for maintaining and
cleaning. The voluntaries / staff could use this transit home as a drop in centre for street children
throughout the day with a view to build the trust and confidence in the child
Food cloth, bedding and other daily needs, play activities.
Medical care and protection
Once the children get used to this centre, the counseling is done. In the counseling,
information is gathered about their family background, reason for walkout of home, the
problem faced by the child, ambitions of the child etc.
The drug addict and alcoholic children would be enrolled in de-addition camps.
50 Urban Deprived children under went through this scheme. One residential school is already
sanctioned or this purpose. The Department has also uses the school/hostel premise of Government
Model Higher Primary School, Belthangady. Belthangady is the Naxal affected Taluk with forest
and hilly area. Studets selected from remote area belongs to SC, ST and backward class with
Naxal menace are also accommodated under this initioative.

Source: Education Department/DISE, ZP, Mangaluru.
SSA stipulates a norm of 50 percent

female teachers at primary education level. The
district has 6275 female teachers out of total
7946 teachers. The proportion of female
teachers works out to 79 percent. Taluk-wise, the
pupil-teacher ratio is the lowest in Belthangady
and Sullia. Except Mangaluru, all other taluks
have pupil-teacher ratio below the RTE norm.
The challenge before the district, at present, is
not the pupil-teacher ratio but the quality of
091
teachers and updating of training to keep abreast

with changing pedagogical methods for childcentered learning.
4.4.5 Education Attainment and Transition

Rate
Education attainment at primary
education level can be judged from transition
rate to higher education and learning levels in
terms of reading, comprehension and

mathematics. Transition from 1st to 8th
standards of schooling is usually smooth. It may
not be so when children have to take transition
from 8th to 9th standards schooling onwards.
There is a perceptible change in terms of access,
financial implications and commitment from
parents' point of view. At the same time, the
transition from 7th to 8th is critical from
student's point of view as it is a stepping stone for
higher education. The transition rate is an
important indicator to know how many children
enrolled at primary education successfully
complete primary education and enter next stage
of higher education. It is estimated as percentage
of enrolment in class 8th to enrolment in class 7th.
In Dakshina Kannada district, transition
from 5 standard to 6th standard is 100 percent in
all taluks. The district's transition rate is higher
than the state average of 96.88 percent. The
transition rates from higher primary to
secondary (from 7th to 8th standard) in different
taluks are given in Table 4.10.
th
Table 4.10
Transition Rate from 7th to 8th Standard:
2011-12 (Percentage)
Taluks
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
D.K. District
State
At the district level, the transition rate

from 7 to 8th standard works out to 101.5
percent. There is no transition loss. Comparative
transition rate at state level is 97.3 percent.
Taluk-wise, only in Bantwal, the transition rate
is below 100 percent. There is a transition loss of
nearly 4 percent.
th
Learning attainment can be assessed

based on the findings of quality assessment
agencies such as ASSER. It evaluates education
Primary Education An Area of Strength of Dakshina Kannada District

From 7th to 8th Class

96.07
100.81
104.53
106.51
100.16
101.5
97.32
092
in terms of performance indicators such as

reading, comprehension, mathematics etc.
Based on the findings of ASSER evaluation, the
district ranks one of the best first among 30
districts in the state. The SSA Mission,
Government of Karnataka also evaluates
districts for allocation of resources based on
Educational Development index. For the year
2010-11, the educational Development index for
the district was estimated for lower primary,
0.722, upper primary, 0.679 and for the overall,
0.701. The district is ranked 10th in lower
primary level, 11th at upper primary level and 10th
at overall index.
4.4.6 School Infrastructure

The provision of basic infrastructure is
critical for improving enrolment and retention as
well as for quality education. As per the road map
laid down under RTE Act - 2013, within a time
frame of three years, schools should have

provision of school infrastructure: all-weather
school buildings, one classroom for 30 students
and other infrastructure such as separate toilets
for boys and girls, drinking water facilities,
barrier-free access, library, playground and
boundary wall. SSA has accordingly accorded
special significance and weightage for the
provision of infrastructure facilities to schools. It
has identified eight basic facilities: common
toilet, separate girl's toilet, electricity,
playground, drinking water, ramps, compound
wall and library.
Table 4.11 provides the data on number
of schools without basic infrastructure facilities
and composite infrastructure index based on
availability of eight basic facilities (identified by
the SSA). Dakshina Kannada district has
achieved significant progress in the
provision of most of the basic facilities to
Table 4.11
Schools with Basic infrastructure Facilities at Primary Schools (Number)
Infrastructure
Facilities
No. of Schools
Boys Toilets
Separate Girl Toilets
Electricity
Playground
Drinking Water
Ramps
Compound Wall
Library
Computer
Infratructure Index
Bantwal Belthangady Mangaluru

196
196
196
196
151
196
196
187
196
30
88.00
180
180
180
180
166
180
180
173
180
25
88.00
228
228
228
228
201
228
228
198
228
48
81.00
Puttur
Sullia
District
184
184
184
184
173
184
184
146
184
21
88.00
140
140
140
140
138
140
140
134
140
16
92.00
928
928
928
928
829
928
928
838
928
140
87.50
Source: Education Department/SSA, Data relates to Government Schools only
093
the schools during the last five years under SSA.

Almost all primary schools in the district have
their own all-weather pucca buildings, Kitchen
rooms, separate toilets for boys and girls,
electricity, drinking water, and ramps. The
student class room ratio is one of the important
infrastructure indicators for quality elementary
education. In all taluks, some schools lack
playground, compound wall and computers. In
the case of computer, only 140 schools out of
928 have computers. The composite
infrastructure index for the district works out to
87.50. In School infrastructure development, the
district ranks second next to Kodagu in the state.
of secondary education. In pursuance of this

objective, the Eleventh Plan has launched the
programme of Rastriya Madhyamik Shiksha
Abhiyan (RMSA) on similar line of the SSA for
primary education to improve enrolment and
quality in secondary education. The
universalization of secondary education by 2017
is also accorded priority in the Twelfth Plan. As
the demand for secondary education is bound to
increase in the coming decade, the challenges of
universal secondary education would be
improving access, enrolment, retention, quality
and transition to higher and professional
education.
4.5 Secondary Education
4.5.1 Access
The secondary education from 8th to 10th

standard is crucial stage in education as it
enables students to enter higher education and
professional courses to acquire necessary
functional capabilities to seize opportunities to
lead the lives they want. With the
universalization of primary education becoming
reality, the focus is now on the universalization
The access to secondary education

depends on the proximity in terms of number of
habitats having access to high schools, network
of high schools and educational infrastructure in
place in the district. The taluk-wise network of
high schools managed by the government and
the private sector is shown in Table 4.12.
Graph 4.7
Infrastructure Index
094
Table 4.12
Taluk and Management-wise High-Schools (Number)
Taluk
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
Government
Rural
Urban
34
2
31
1
37
27
21
3
13
3
136
36
Private Aided and Unaided

Rural
Urban
33
13
16
5
70
111
40
9
16
7
175
145
Rural
67
47
107
61
29
311
Total
Urban
15
6
138
12
10
181
Total
82
53
245
73
39
492
The district has 492 high schools, out of

which 172 Government managed high schools,
and 320 privately managed both government
aided and unaided high schools. Most of the
unaided are English medium high schools. The
data on network of high schools shows that in the
past, the government was the main provider of
secondary education in the district, but not now.
At present, the private sector owns and manages
65 percent of secondary schools in the district.
Out of 492 secondary schools, 311 are in rural
areas, which accounts for 63.21 percent of total
high schools in the district. Most of the
government high schools are in rural areas
(79.07 percent). The private aided and unaided

high schools are mainly in urban centres. The
taluk-wise data in the table shows that
Mangaluru taluk has the highest number of high
schools (50 percent), followed by Bantwal (17
percent). Out of 1734 habitations in the district,
only 80 habitations have no easy access to high
schools. Belthangady taluk has the highest
number of habitations without easy access to
secondary education followed by Sullia.
Mangaluru, Bantwal and Puttur have no
habitations without easy access to secondary
education.
Graph 4.8
Taluk wise Total Number of High Schools
095
4.5.2 Enrolment and Dropouts

Enrolment of students in secondary
education which was 75822 in 2001-02,
increased to 98586 in 2011-12. The participation
ratio of girl students in secondary education is on
par with school going children sex ratio which
works out to 48.8 percent. Table 4.13 shows the
taluk-wise enrolment of boys and girls in
secondary education. The gender gap in
participation ratio is 2.34 percent which is on par
with school going children sex ratio. Mangaluru
taluk has the highest number of students in
secondary education followed by Bantwal.
Taluk-wise, there is no wide difference in gender

participation rate.
Table 4.14 sets out taluk-wise gross
enrolment ratios in secondary education for both
boys and girls.
Mangaluru and Puttur have GER more
than 100 percent mainly due to migrant students
from outside taluks. Among taluks, Bantwal has
the lowest GER (87 percent), followed by Sullia
(89 percent) in secondary education. The pattern
of gender-wise GER in all taluks is almost the
same. In all taluks, the GER of girl students in
secondary education is more than boy students.
Table 4.13
Taluk-wise Gross Enrolment in High Schools-2011-12
Taluk
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
Boys
Number Percent
9142
51.94
6216
51.10
24032
50.89
7742
50.87
3312
51.94
50444
51.17
Number
8458
5949
23193
7478
3064
48142
Girls
Percent
48.06
48.90
49.11
49.13
48.06
48.83
Total
(number)
17600
12165
47225
15220
6376
98586
Source: Education Department/SSA
Table 4.14
GER in Secondary Education: 2011-12
Taluk
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
Boys
85.75
87.36
103.46
105.50
85.20
96.02
Girls
88.42
93.56
109.75
108.40
94.47
101.20
096
All
87.04
90.34
106.51
106.90
89.46
98.52
In the district as a whole, girl students'GER is

101.2 percent while for boy students, it is 96.02
percent. There is a gap of 5 percent.
The drop-out rates at secondary
education level taluk-wise are shown in Table
4.15.
The data in table reveals that drop-out
varies from 7.94 percent in Mangaluru taluk to
13.05 in percent in Belthangady. The drop-out
rate in secondary schools is relatively higher in
Belthangady, Bantwal and Sullia taluks.
Mangaluru and Puttur have comparatively lower
drop-out rates. In all taluks, the dropout rate
among boy students is significantly higher than
the dropout rate among girl students. Among
boys, the dropout rate is the highest in Sullia (22
percent), followed by Bantwal and Belthangady
with 18 percent dropout rate. Among girls,
Belthangady and Bantwal have the highest
dropout rate in secondary education. Their
dropout rates are 8 percent and 7 percent
respectively. Interestingly Sullia, which has the
highest drop out rate for boys, has the lowest
(0.83 percent) dropout rate among girls. The

drop-out rate in the district as a whole is 9.96
percent; for boys, it is 14.23 percent anf for girls,
5.38 percent. Compared to other districts in the
state, Dakshina Kannada district has one of the
lowest dropout rates in secondary education.
4.5.3 Pupil-Teacher Ratio

In secondary education, pupil-teacher
ratio is crucial for ensuring quality of education.
The total number of teacher for high school
education in the district is 3761 (Table 4.16). Out
of 3761teachers working in high schools, 1474
are males and 2287 are females. The percentage
of female teachers is 61. The pupil-teacher ratio
in the district works out to 26, which is quite
satisfactory. The state average is 20.6. Talukwise, Belthangady has the highest pupil-teacher
ratio of 31, followed by Bantwal (28).
Mangaluru and Puttur have pupil/teacher ratio of
25 each. Sullia has the lowest pupil-teacher ratio
of 22.
Table 4.15
Taluk-wise Drop-out Rate in Secondary Schools: 2011-12 (Percentage)
Taluks
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
Boys
18.19
18.17
10.49
14.47
21.91
14.23
Girls
6.65
7.74
5.25
4.26
0.83
5.38
All
12.73
13.05
7.94
9.45
12.51
9.96
097
Table 4.16
Pupil-Teacher Ratio in Secondary Education: 2011-12
Taluk
Total enrolment
(Number)
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
17600
12165
47225
15220
6476
98586
Male
298
198
578
284
116
1474
Teachers
(Number)
Female
312
192
1311
308
164
2287
Pupil/Teacher
Ratio
Total
610
390
1889
592
280
3761
28
31
25
25
22
26
4.5.4 Educational Attainments

The educational attainment in secondary
education is ultimately measured in
performance of Board Examination. In Table
4.17, taluk-wise data on the SSLC pass results of
students of various social groups for the year
2011-12 are compared.
In 2011- 12, out of 29363 students
appeared for SSLC examination, 26295 have
passed, giving the percentage passed as 89.55.
For boys, the percentage passed was 86.43 and
for girls, 92.38. The girls usually perform better
than boys in secondary education. Taluk-wise,
Mangaluru has the highest percentage (94) of
pass, followed by Belthangady (91). Other

taluks have about 88 percentage pass in SSLC.
In secondary pass results, wide disparities are,
however, found among social groups in all
taluks. , SC and ST have relatively lower
percentages compared to other groups. At the
district level, both SC and ST students have pass
percentage of 79 percent as against 86 percent
for OBCs and 89 percent for all. Among SCs and
STs, in Belthangady, Mangaluru and Sullia, ST
students have better results than SCs. In other
Taluks, SC students got better results.
Importantly, out of 447 high schools, 120 have
achieved 100 percent results in final secondary
examination in the district.
Table 4.17
Taluk-wise SSLC Results by Social Groups: 2011-12 (Percentage)
Taluk
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
SC
80.97
80.57
81.02
76.92
76.25
79.64
ST
79.37
85.31
85.28
72.01
77.07
79.45
OBCs
82.73
88.59
87.14
83.47
85.62
85.84
098
All
88.00
91.00
94.00
87.00
88.00
89.55
4.5.5 School Infrastructure

The availability of adequate
infrastructure in secondary education is one of
the important determinants of enrolment and
retention of students as well as quality in
secondary education. The data on number of
high schools with basic infrastructure facilities
and the composite infrastructure index of eight
basic facilities are shown in Table 4.18.
All high schools in the district have
pucca buildings. However, most of the
government high school buildings were
constructed in 1950s and 1960s it is found that in
some high schools the class rooms in the district
are in disorder condition and require
renovation/repairs. All high schools have
drinking water facilities, separate toilets for boys
and girls, library and electricity. As regards other
infrastructure such as playground, ramps,
compound wall and playground, the number of
high schools without these facilities in all taluks

is significantly high. It is gratifying to note that
all high schools have computers. The overall
performance index in provision of eight basic
facilities at high school level education in the
district is recorded as 88.19 percent, which is
significantly higher than the state average of
78.9 percent.
4.6 Pre-University Education

Pre-University (PU) education is an
important bridge between the secondary
education and higher general education and
professional courses such as medicine,
engineering, agriculture etc. A student, who
passes SSLC, usually decides at this juncture
whether to pursue vocational education or enter
pre-university course (PUC) to pursue higher
education. The PU education is conducted both
in extended high schools known as Junior
Table 4.18
High Schools with Basic Infrastructure (Number of Schools):2011-12
Infrastructural Facilities
No. of High Schools
Drinking Water
Separate Boys Toilets
Separate Girls Toilets
Playground
Electricity
Library
Ramps
Compound wall
Computer
Infrastructure Index:
8 Basic Facilities (Percent)
Bantwal Belthangady Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
35
35
35
35
19
35
35
35
9
35
33
33
33
33
29
33
33
12
10
33
57
57
57
57
46
57
57
51
40
57
23
23
23
23
18
23
23
23
6
23
15
15
15
15
14
15
15
15
8
15
163
163
163
163
126
163
163
136
73
163
85.00
81.82
92.54
88.04
93.33
88.19
Source: Education Department/SSA. Data relates to Government High Schools only
099
(Padavi Purva) Colleges and First Grade Degree

Colleges.
Dakshina Kannada district has made
significant progress in pre-university education
during the last decade. It had 99 PU colleges in
2001-02, which has increased to 169 in 2011-12.
Table 4.19 provides taluk-wise data on PU
institutions and student enrolment. Except
Mangaluru, in other taluks, most of the PU
colleges are managed by the government. Talukwise, Mangaluru has the highest number of PU
colleges (85), followed by Puttur (26). Bantwal
has 25 and Belthangady, 20 PU colleges. Sullia
has the lowest number of PU network (13). The
total enrolment of students in PU in 2011-12 was
50016, out of which the government managed
PU colleges account for 12 percent, the
government aided PU institutions, 40 percent
and the unaided private PU institutions, 48
percent. Unlike primary and secondary
education, in PU education, private sector plays
dominant role.
.
It is encouraging to note that out of
50016 students enrolled in PU course, 26780
were girls. Their performance was to 53.54
percent; about 7 percent more than boys. Except

Sullia, in all other taluks, more girls enrolled
than boys in PU education. In Sullia,
surprisingly, the girls participation in PU
education is only 47 percent. The girls
participation is the highest in Mangaluru taluk
(55 percent). The lower enrolment ratio of boys
in PUC may be attributed to lower percentage
pass of boys in SSLC and higher percentage of
boys entering vocational training.
There are 1258 lecturers and pupilteacher ratio works out to 39.76 which is below
the prescribed standard of 45 for PUC. Intertaluk variation in pupil/teacher ratio is found to
be very high. Puttur has the lowest ratio of 24,
whereas in Mangaluru taluk, it is as high as 55.
Other taluks, which have more favourable
pupil/teacher ratios are Belthangady (37) and
Sullia (31). The performance of students in PU
examinations shows that Dakshina Kannada
along with neighboring Udupi district ranks
continuously highest in the state. Girls have
continuously outperformed boys. Even among
social groups, the disparity in performance in
terms of percentage students passed was only
Table 4.19
Pre-University Colleges and Student Enrolment In Dakshina Kannada District (2011-12)
Taluk
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
PU colleges
Number
25
20
85
26
13
169
Boys
Number Percent
2499
47.49
2742
47.80
13546
45.18
2984
47.64
1465
52.58
23236
46.46
Source: D.K. District at Glance: 2011-12
100
Girls
Number Percent
2752
52.41
2995
52.20
16433
54.82
3279
52.36
1321
47.42
26780
53.54
Total
Number
5251
5737
29979
6263
2786
50016
marginal. As against the state average of 57

percent, the district has attained 87 percent pass
in PU examination during 2011-12.
4.7 Higher Education

The growing economy is creating huge
demand for higher education. Higher education
is also essential to build a workforce in various
disciplines capable of managing a modern,
competitive and knowledge-based economy. In I
ndia, enrolment in higher education is below 12
percent while in developed countries, it is more
than 40 percent. Enrolment in higher education
has, therefore, to be increased significantly on a
demand driven basis in the coming decade.
Higher education includes degree courses in
general education, technical and medical
education and other professional courses. The
Government of India has targeted to achieve the
gross enrolment ratio in higher education 20
percent by 2017 and 25 percent by 2022.
Mangaluru city is the main centre of higher and

professional education. Mangaluru University,
Nitte and Yenepoya Deemed Universities are
located in Konaje and Deralakatte; near
Mangaluru city. Manipal University was a
pioneer in establishing medical college in
Mangaluru city. There are number of education
trusts promoted by private persons who set up
professional colleges particularly medical,
engineering and management institutions in
Mangaluru city, Sullia, Moodabidri and
Belthangady.
In general education, private sector is the
dominant player in the district. The district has
143 general degree colleges out of which 17 are
government managed and 126 private managed.
The number of government colleges has
increased from 7 in 2001-02 to 17 in 2011-12,
whereas in the private sector, it increased from 3
to 126. In Table 4.20, taluk-wise spread of
degree colleges and enrolment in all classes
during 2011-12 are given.
In Dakshina Kannada district,
Govt. School Building

101
National Institue
of Technology
Karnataka at
Surathkal
Table 4.20
Higher General Education: Number of Colleges and Enrolment (2011-12)
Taluk
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
Colleges
(Number)
Government
Private
4
4
2
8
5
98
4
12
2
4
17
126
Enrolment from First year to final

(Number)
Boys
Percent
Girls
Percent
1592
39.00
2489
61.00
2005
37.17
3389
62.83
15007
54.08
12742
45.92
1526
34.36
2915
65.64
1139
41.31
1618
58.69
21269
47.88
23153
52.12
Total
4081
5394
27749
4441
2757
44422
Source: D.K. District at Glance: 2011-12
Mangaluru taluk has the highest network

of degree colleges in the district. Out of 143
degree colleges, 103 colleges are in Mangaluru
taluk. Puttur has 16, Belthangady-10, Bantwal-8
and Sullia-6 degree colleges.
The total
enrolment of students for general education was
44422, out of which, 23153 were girls and 21269
boys. Except Mangaluru, in all other taluks, girl
students were more than boys students in general
degree education. In Mangaluru taluk,
surprisingly, Girls student participation was only
46 percent as against 54 percent of boy students'
participation.
The lower level of boys'
participation in general education in other taluks

reflects preference of boys towards professional
courses and to some extent more dropouts at
secondary level. In professional courses, the
private sector is the main player. In medical, the
main players are Manipal University (Kasturbha
Medical College), Nitte University (K.S. Hegde
Medical Academy), Father Muller Medical
College, Yenepoya Medical College, Srinivas
Medical College and A.J. Institute of Medical
Science. Table 4.21 contains the network of
professional educational institutions in the
district.
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Table 4.21
Professional Education in Dakshina Kannada District: 2011-12 (Number)
Category
Institutions
Medical (Allopathic)
Medical (Ayurvedic)
Dental
Engineering
Others
11
5
15
NA
Enrolment (Total)
Boys
Girls
2487
2898
610
1508
15189
7177
NA
NA
Total
5385
2118
22366
NA
Source: D.K. District at Glance: 2011-12, others include MBA, Nursing, Hotel
Management etc. NA: not available.
Box 4.3: Mangaluru University: A Hub of Higher Education

Mangaluru University was established in 1980 at Konaje near Mangaluru city. It has a
jurisdiction of three districts: Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and Kodagu. It grew originally out of a postgraduate centre of the University of Mysore. The campus, once housed mere three post-graduate
departments has now 25 post-graduation departments in different disciplines and 208 affiliated
colleges including two constituent colleges: one at Mangaluru and other at Madikeri. The University
has also one PG centre at Madikeri and another it proposes to set up in Belapu, Udupi district. The
university has exchange program of faculty and students with universities in USA, UK, Finland, Japan,
Norway, German and Spain. The university is now recognized as a major centre for the study of ecology
and environment. The University was the first to start undergraduate programmes in hotel
management, human resource development, fashion design and yogic sciences. At present 411 scholars
are pursuing their doctoral studies in various disciplines. It as established several endowments chairs
with the objective of development in areas such as bank management, rural development, ecology and
environment, Sanskrit literature, Christianity, tulu language, Konkani language, Kanakadas studies
etc.Its Dr. Ambedkar Study Centre, Kanakadas Adyayana Peetha, Yakshagana Study Centre and
Ambigara Chowdayya Peetha undertake empirical reaserch studies in the concened fields. The
university has also introduced
distance education in both
undergraduate and post-graduate
courses for the benefit of poor
students. For the benefit of
SC/ST and other backward class
students, with the help of Union
Ministry of Social Justice and
Empowerment, it undertakes
IAS/IPS couching classes.
Mangaluru University , Mangaluru
103
The district is blessed with 11 medical,

one homeopathic, 5 dental and 15 engineering
colleges. There are number of other professional
institutions such as Business Management, paramedical, nursing, Hotel Management etc. run by
the private players mostly located in and around
Mangaluru city. Medical colleges and
Engineering colleges are well-known nationally
for quality education. It is difficult to get reliable

information on intake of district's students for
professional courses as most of the professional
colleges have extensive outreach outside the
district. The enrolment data shows that gender
participation rate is more in medical and dental
colleges than in engineering colleges. In dental,
the girls' participation is significantly higher
than that of boys.
Box 4.4: Nitte Education Trust

Nitte Education Trust, established in 1979, is one of the important private initiatives in the field of
education in the district. Founded by Justice K. S. Hegde, a retired Supreme Court judge and the former
Speaker of Lok Sabha (Parliament) in Nitte, a village in Karkala taluk, the Trust located in Mangaluru, has
developed a number of education institutions mainly in Mangaluru in Dakshina Kannada district and also
in Bengaluru and Udupi district. The Trust has a medical and dental college at Deralekatte and seven
Health Science Institutions in and around Mangaluru city under K.S.Hegde Medical Academy
(KSHEMA). They are accorded deemed university status in 2008. The university is named as Nitte
University and stationed at Dealekatte. It has also three Engineering Science Institutions, three
Management Institutes, one college of communication, one hotel management institute, two First Grade
Colleges, two Pre-university Colleges and four high Schools located at Nitte, Mangaluru and Bengaluru.
Nitte has now become an Education Brand of Excellence in medical, engineering and management
education. Under the leadership of visionary, Shri N Vinaya Hegde, Chancellor of Nitte University, its
mission is to impart quality education, develop competent and skilled professionals to face the scientific,
technological, managerial and social challenges in the fast evolving global scenario, with a high degree of
credibility, integrity, ethical standards and social concern. It has remarkable student base of more than
10000 and 18500 alumina. The Trust has carved a niche for itself, changing significantly the educational
landscape of the district.
Source: Nitte Education Trust, Mangaluru
Nitte University, Mangaluru
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4.8 Vocational Education

Vo c a t i o n a l t r a i n i n g a n d s k i l l
development is crucial for employability of
growing youth population. While skill formation
has to be mainstreamed in the formal education
system right from secondary education onwards,
skill creation outside the formal education
focusing on employability in several key areas on
demand driven basis is very important to drive
economic growth. The National Education
Policy of Government of India emphasizes skillbased vocational training for at least 25 percent
of students after the completion of secondary
education. It is also important to note that
traditional family based vocational
skills/knowledge in areas like carpentry,
jewellary, pottery, plumbing, painting and
various agricultural enterprises which were
ignored so far require to be brought into
minstream skill development. In fact, there is a
growing demand for such skills as the family
traditions of these job skills are gradually being
abandoned. The objective here is to impart
necessary vocational/technical skills and
competencies to enable the students to enter the
job world or self-employment. Vocational
education after secondary education through
polytechnics and vocational training institutes
therefore assumes crucial importance in skill
development.
Dakshina Kannada district has, at
present, 7 private Polytechnics colleges and two
government polytechnic institutes and 15
Industrial Training Institutes besides Rural
Development and Self-employment Training
Institute (RUDSETI) promoted by Sri
Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara Educational
Trust in collaboration with Syndicate Bank and
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Canara Bank. The main objective of the

RUDSETI is to train unemployed rural youth to
enable them to take up self-employment
ventures in their own villages. The total number
of enrolled students for vocational training in
polytechnics during 2011-12 was 5330, out of
which 1179 were girls and 4151, boys. In 23
industrial training institutes, 22366 youths were
trained during 2011-12, out of which 7177 were
girls and 15189 were boys.
4.9 Schemes for Promotion of Literacy Level

in the District
In view of the crucial importance of
education for human development, the
government has initiated many schemes to
universalize the access, improve enrolment and
retention and make formal education at all levels
more inclusive and improve quality. The SSA
introduced in 2001-02 focused on provision of
basic education infrastructure to all elementary
schools such as repair of school buildings,
provision of additional class rooms, drinking
water, toilets, etc. Under various State
Government's schemes, in all government and
aided schools, all students studying from 1st to
10th standard are given text books and uniforms
at free of cost. All girl students and SC and ST
students up to 12th standard have been exempted
from paying school fees. SC and ST students are
also provided with school-bags and writing
note-books. All students studying in 8th standard
in government-run schools are given bicycles
for transport. For extra curriculum activities, a
grant of Rs.5000 for each lower primary school
and Rs 12000 for each higher primary school is
given every year.
In selected upper primary schools in the

district, computer aided learning centres
(CALCs) are set up to provide computer literacy
and facilitate computer-based education. They
are provided with five computers, one multivideo projector and UPS besides required
furniture and a separate computer room for
teaching. Akshara Dasoha (Mid-day Meal) is
another important scheme implemented by the
State Government aiming at improving the
attendance of children at the primary level. The

scheme has now been extended up to 10th
standard. All government managed and
private-aided schools and high schools in the
district are involved in the implementation of
mid-day meal scheme. Under Suvarna Health
Scheme, the Education Department arranges
free medical check-up once a year for all
students studying 1st to 10th standards in all
schools.
Box 4. 5: RUDSETI at Ujire:

A Replicable Model for Skill Development
The mainstreaming of rural youth dropped out from secondary and PUC level for their socioeconomic emancipation warrants vocational training and skill development not only to make them
employable but also foster self-employment ventures in their own areas. Recognizing the critical
importance of vocational training for work skill development, two public sector banks viz. Canara Bank
and Syndicate Bank together with Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwar Education Trust came together to
jointly built up a Rural Development and Self-Employment Training Institute (RUDSETI) at Ujire,
Belthangady taluk. RUDSETI started functioning in 1982. The main objective was to transform and
empower of unemployed rural youth by training in various work skills to enable them to take up income
generating self-employment ventures. The candidates selected for various courses are provided free
boarding lodging and training during the duration of the courses. The RUDSETI, since its inception,
played front runner role in developing holistic approach to motivate, counsel and promote
entrepreneurship among rural youth, develop training modules and methodology appropriate to meet the
requirement of self-employment ventures. The training pedagogy adopted involves, on package basis,
providing training for skills development, start-up promotion services tied up with bank finance and posttraining follow-up service. The duration of the progamme usually varies from two weeks to three months
depending on the nature of the programme. Now
the RUDSETI has network of institutes all over
India. The model adopted by RUDSETI for skill
development has thus proved to be quite successful
and emerges as the only way to empower rural
unemployed youth. The model warrants
replication throughout the country to make India
skilled India.
Source: Rural Self-Employment Programmes in
India: An Appraisal by M.S. Moodithaya, Nitte
University.
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Mid-day Meal An Important Scheme implemented for promoting Literacy in the District
4.10 Percapita Expenditure Analyses

The public expenditure incurred as a
proportion of the district GDP is an indicator of
importance given to education in the district by
the state government. The total expenditure
incurred (both plan and non-plan) by the District
Education Department during 2011-12 is shown
in the Table 4.22.
The Percapita public expenditure for education

works out to Rs 326.Total expenditure as
proportion of the district GDP works out to 0.08
percent. Inter-taluk disparity in per capita
expenditure in education is very wide. It varies
from Rs.510 in Bantwal to Rs.163 in Puttur.
While Mangaluru taluk, it works out to Rs.426,
in Belthangady and Sullia, it is Rs.281 and Rs
249 respectively.
Table 4.22
Public Expenditure for Primary and Secondary Education: 2011-12 (Rs.in lakh)
Taluk
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
SSA
Per Capita Expenditure (Rs)
336.7265
249.5787
487.833
248.8703
128.655
1451.6635
510.52
281.54
426.04
162.99
249.48
326.11
Source: District Education Department
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4.11 Radar Analysis for Education

The radar scale technique is used to view
within a taluk and within the district the status
and disparities of critical education indicators
through graphical portrayal. A radar scale chart
is a graphical method of displaying multivariate
data in the form of a two dimensional chart of
three or more quantitative variables on axes
starting from the same point. It provides the
actual status of a taluk or district in relation to
norms. This also enables inter and intra-taluk
comparisons. This helps policy makers to take
corrective actions on specific indicators
analyzed on a radar scale.
For drawing radar for education, four

important indicators: net enrolment rate in
elementary education (1-8 classes), drop-out
rate (6-14 ages), school infrastructure index and
SSLC pass-out rate were selected. By using
converting the actual values of these indicators
into index with 10-point scale, two types of
radars are drawn: (i) radar for each taluk, and (ii)
radar for all the taluks together (for the district).
Table 4.23 shows the data on actual
values of the education indicators selected and
indices computed based on 10-point scale.
Table 4.23
Radar for Education: Indicator Values and Radar Index
Taluks
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
Net Enrolment
Actual
90.93
90.53
100.00
97.98
91.88
95.49
Index
9.10
9.10
10.0
9.80
9.20
9.5
Dropout Rate
Actual
1.18
2.47
0.13
0.13
2.82
0.14
Index
9.88
9.75
9.99
9.99
9.72
9.98
School
Infrastructure
Actual
Index
0.88
8.80
0.88
8.80
0.81
8.10
0.88
8.0
0.92
9.20
0.87
8.70
Note: Since the Drop out rate being the negative value indicator, the index computed for radar
represents the retention rate
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SSLC Pass-out
Rate
Actual Index
88
8.8
91
9.1
94
9.4
87
8.7
88
8.8
90
9.0
Based on the indices of the education

indicators computed in the table, the radar charts
drawn for each taluk and all taluks within the
district are shown below:
Graph 4.9 Radar Chart
Bantwal Taluk - Education

Net Enrolment
10
9.5 9.1
9
8.5
SSLC Pass-out
Rate
8.8
9.88
Dropout Rate
8.8
School Infrastructure
Belthangady Taluk - Education

Net Enrolment
10
9.5 9.1
9
8.5
SSLC Pass-out
Rate
9.1
9.75
Dropout Rate
8.8
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Mangaluru Taluk - Education

Net Enrolment
10
10
8
6
4
SSLC Pass-out
Rate
9.4
9.99 Dropout Rate
8.1
Puttur Taluk - Education

Net Enrolment
10
9.8
8
6
4
SSLC Pass-out
Rate
8.7
9.99
Dropout Rate
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Sullia Taluk - Education

Net Enrolment
10
9.5
9
8.8
SSLC Pass-out
Rate
9.2
8.5
9.72
Dropout Rate
9.2
Dakshina Kannada District - Education

Bantwala
10
8
6
Sullia
4
2
Belthangady
Puttur
111
Mangaluru
Net Enrolment
Dropout Rate
SSLC Pass-out
Rate
The radars are all self-explanatory. They

show graphically disparities in performance
metrics of four education indicators within
taluks and in comparison to different taluks
within the district. The overall education status
of Mangaluru and Puttur taluks appears to be
better compared to other three taluks. The radar
clearly shows the gap in achievement in each
indicator and also among taluks.
4.12 An Overview and persisting Educational

Gaps in the District
In the field of education, the issues of
concern are mainly centered on access,
enrolment, retention, teacher-student ratio,
quality, equity, educational attainments and
infrastructure. The achievement in terms of most
of these indicators, as shown in this study, is
quite impressive. Dakshina Kannada district has
also made remarkable progress in higher
education during the last two decades. The
district is ranked as one of the best in education
attainment in the state. The district is almost on
the way to universal literacy and also universal
primary and secondary education. Even in the
education attainment in terms of pass percentage
in SSLC and PUC, the district is always one
among top ranked districts in the state. The
disparities between rural and urban and across
social groups and gender do exist but are not
very significant. The district also witnesses a
gradual upward movement of the students in the
ladder of education and particularly towards
professional courses.
Despite remarkable achievements, many
gaps remain in the quality of education at all

levels besides persistent social and regional
disparities. Since the district is on the way to
universal elementary and secondary education,
the quantum of challenge would be now not on
expansion but improvement in quality,
curriculum, social equity in educational
attainment and equipment of students with lifeskills required to compete at the higher levels in
all spheres. The primary and secondary
education is the foundation for integrated and
holistic development of the school-going
children. The quality education should therefore
facilitate realization of all innate potentials of
children from primary education stage itself.
The innate potential should not be limited to
learning text book subjects only. It should be
extended to non-scholastic areas through
innovative children friendly extra curriculum
activities. Even in the class room education
process, emphasis should be given more towards
exploration, project work, experimentation,
investigation, fields based experiential learning
and interactive/communicative learning rather
than mere text book teaching. Under the RTE
Act, it is a fundamental right of all children to
demand such quality education at all levels. The
major challenge before the district is now the
effective implementation of these initiatives
from RTE perspective.
Not withstanding this, there are some of
the key areas of concern, which require
immediate attention. They are briefly
summarized below:
Though the district is near universal literacy
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among the SC and ST students. The

compulsion of providing support to the
livelihood of households causes
absenteeism even while they are enrolled in
schools. This adversely affects their
performance.
rate and elementary education, the gender

gap, social inequity and rural-urban
disparity in literacy rates and enrolment at
primary and secondary level still persist.
School infrastructure matters in quality

education. No doubt, infrastructural
facilities in the primary and high schools
have been improving under SSA and RMSA.
Nevertheless, much remains to be achieved
in this respect. Most of the government
school buildings in rural areas were
constructed in 1950s and 1960s and require
major repairs / renovations. A substantial
number of schools have no playgrounds and
compound walls. Rural schools are
relatively at a disadvantage in this regard.
Computer assisted instruction through
setting up computer aided laboratories in all
primary and secondary schools is still a
dream. Only few upper primary schools are
brought under CALC. Wherever, CALC are
set up, computer teachers are not appointed
and as a result, students are deprived of
computer learning. Learning computer
technology in the education system has to be
mainstreamed at the formative years of
schooling.
Computer education in high school is

provided through ICT Phase I, Phase II. But
in thsese schools all the systems are
dysfunctional, ICT phase III is still a dream.
Discontinuation at secondary level among

SCs, STs and Muslim girls is relatively high.
Apart from this, seasonal and intermittent
missing out on school attendance is an issue
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There is a rural-urban divide in primary and

secondary education in the district. In urban
areas, children have easy access to private
nursery schools, while in rural areas,
children are deprived of pre-schooling.
Anganwadis with multifarious functions
cannot substitute pre-nursery schools.
Moreover, the urban children are benefiting
from mushrooming tuition classes in
secondary level. The rural students do not
have easy access to tuition classes and also it
is beyond their affordability.
Though the district has favorable pupilteacher ratio, in many rural lower primary
schools, a mandatory number of two
teachers have to manage classes I to V. With
the declining population and enrolment in
the district, the number of such schools in
rural areas will increase in near future. This
has serious implications on the quality of
education in rural areas.
The popularity of private English medium

schools is becoming a threat for
sustainability of Kannada medium
government schools. It creates inequality in
education; English medium for elites in
urban areas and Kannada medium for poor
and socially disadvantaged sections in rural
areas where bulk of students live and study.
With the emergence of English medium

schools, affordability of primary and
secondary education in English medium
schools in terms of fee is also an area of
concern particularly, for economically
weaker sections.
The mainstreaming vocational training in

general education for increasing
employability and skill development hardly
needs any emphasis. It should be made
integral part of higher secondary education.
The School Development and Monitoring

Committees are at present politicized. This
adversely affects the governance at
government schools. Involvement of
committed stakeholders and old alumina
without political interference would go a
long way in ensuring good governance of
government schools particularly in rural
areas.
"Ksheera Bhagya" - A prominent scheme introduced by the Government to improve the health of children
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Chapter 5
WENLOCK DISTRICT GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL, MANGALURU
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5.1 Introduction
Health is prerequisite to the well-being
of human beings. It determines both the length
and the quality of people's lives. Health is also
important constituent of the capability as,
without health, none of the other components
has any value. The capability to lead a longer and
socially and economically productive life
depends on good health. The World Health
Organization (WHO) defines health as a state
of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely absence of disease or
infirmity. The health care system, therefore,
embraces multitude of services provided to
individuals or communities by agents of the
health services or professions, for the purpose of
promoting, maintaining, monitoring and
restoring health. A healthy community is an
asset upon which an economically viable and
vibrant society can be built. The enjoyment of
long and healthy life has been declared by the
WHO as one of the fundamental rights. Being a
merit good, the state has a responsibility for
ensuring good health of the people. The UNDP
has, therefore, rightly considered health as the
second most important core dimension to
measure human development.
health for human development, under the
Constitution of India, the provision of healthcare
is made a responsibility shared by central, state
and local governments. The Government of
India and the State Government implemented
several programmes for health care since
independence. National Rural Health Mission
(NRHM) was most recently launched
programme to improve health care in the rural
areas, where the bulk of population lives. The
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CHAPTER 5
NRHM seeks to provide accessible, affordable

and quality health care to all rural population.
The UN Millennium Development Goals
include inter alia health related goals such as
reduction of infant and under 5 mortality rates by
two-thirds, reduction of maternal mortality by
three-quarters, halt and begin to reverse the
spread of HIV/AIDS and halt and begin to
reverse the incidence of malaria and other major
diseases by 2015.
This chapter attempts to analyze
empirically the health profile of the taluks and
the district from human development
perspective. The focus in the chapter is on
disaggregated analysis in terms of various
healths related indicators and availability,
adequacy, accessibility and affordability of
health care services in the district. Depending on
the data availability, an attempt is also made to
carry out cross-section analysis of various health
parameters by taluk, rural-urban, gender and
social groups.
5.2 Demographic Profile

As per 2011 Census, the total population
of the district is 20.90 lakh, out of which 10.35
lakh are males and 10.55 lakh are females.
During 2001-11, the district witnessed decadal
population growth of 10 percent as against the
State's decadal growth of 15.7 percent. The
proportion of male population works out to 49.5
percent and female 50.5 percent. The sex ratio
works out to 1000:1020. The sex ratio only
marginally declined during the last census
decade. It declined from 1022 in 2001 o 1020 in
2011. The district has, however, favourable sex
ratio compared to the state average of 1000:973.
The sex ratio of children of the age group 0-6
years is, however, lower (947). There was a

decline of child sex ratio from 952 in 2001 to 947
in 2011. The lowering of child sex ratio in the
district, which was known for favourable sex
ratio, is really a worrisome feature.
urban adult sex ratio of 1005, the comparative

rural sex ratio is 1033. Contrary to this in the case
of child sex ratio, the urban areas have the higher
child sex ratio of 960 and rural areas has lower
ratio of 947.
Taluk-wise, demographic profile was

discussed in depth in chapter two (Table 2.4).
The pattern of distribution of population genderwise and sex ratios are almost same as reflected
in the district data. Mangaluru taluk has the
highest population of 9.95 lakh, followed by
Bantwal with population of 3.95 lakh. Sullia has
the lowest population of 1.45 lakh. The
respective population of Puttur and Belthangady
are 2.88 lakh and 2.67 lakh. Mangaluru taluk has
the highest adult sex ratio of 1027, followed by
Belthangady (1020). Bantwal has the lowest
adult sex ratio (1010). As regards child sex ratio,
Sullia has the highest ratio (967), followed by
Belthangady with the ratio of 962. Surprisingly,
Mangaluru has the lowest child sex ratio of
941.Bantwal and Puttur have same child sex
ratio of 945
As regards religious composition of

population, as per 2001 census, Hindus
constitute about 68.59 percent of the population,
followed by Muslims, 22.07 percent and
Christians, 8.69 percent. Jains and other
religions account for less than one percent of the
district population. The district has the lowest
percentage of Schedule Caste (SC) and Schedule
Tribe population in the state. As per 2011
Census, SCs are 148178, accounting for 7.09
percent as against the state percentage of 17.2
percent (Table 2.6). STs are 82268, which
account for 3.9 percent as compared to state's 7
percent (Table 2.6). The decadal growth is,
however, significantly higher in the case of SCs
which works out to 13 percent and for STs, it is
31 percent as against decadal growth of 10
percent of total population in the district during
2001-11. Among taluks, Mangaluru taluk has the
highest SCs (49275), followed by Puttur
(34040). Bantwal has the lowest SC population
(19260). STs are more in Bantwal (20912),
followed by Puttur (17627). Sullia has the lowest
STs (11841). Mangaluru taluk has ST population
of 16246.
The rural population constitutes 10.93

lakh (52.3 percent) and urban 9.96 lakh (47.7
percent) (Table 2.5). The district, in fact,
witnessed change in the rural-urban composition
of population since last census. While share of
rural population declined from 61.6 percent to
52.3 percent, the share of urban population
increased from 38.4 percent to 47.7 percent. The
district has one of the highest proportions of
urban population. Out of 10.93 lakh rural
people, 5.41lakh are males and 5.52 lakh,
females. In Urban areas, out of 9.96 lakh people,
4.93 lakh are males and 5.03 lakh, females.
There is wide rural-urban disparity in both adult
and child sex ratios in the district. As against
5.3 Health Status: IMR AND MMR

Infant mortality rate (IMR), child
mortality rate (CMR) and maternal mortality
rate (MMR) along with life expectancy at birth
(LEB) are universally accepted as the most
important indicators of overall health status of
any community. UN Millennium Development
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measured as a ratio of mortality of children up to

age 5 to 1000 live births. Other indicators are
crude birth rate (CBR) and crude death rate
(CDR).
Goals aim at reduction of infant and under-5

mortality rates by 2/3rd and maternal mortality
rates by three-quarters by 2015. IMR is
measured as a mortality ratio of 1000 live birth.
MMR measures a mortality ratio of 100000 live
births. Complementary to IMR, the CMR is
Table 5.1 shows taluk-wise position of

IMR, CMR, MMR, CBR and CDR in the district
during 2011-12.
Table 5.1
Taluk-wise IMR and MMR and other Health Indicators (2011-2012)
Taluk
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
State
IMR
22
23
24
25
13
19
35
CMR
24
27
28
33
14
22
40
MMR
122
47
44
89
103
89
144
CBR
14.06
13.81
10.14
14.02
13.40
12.1
19.20
CDR
3.59
3.27
2.45
4.09
4.98
3.23
7.10
Source: SRS, 2011 for IMR CMR and MMR

DSO, ZP, DK for CBR and CDR
Note: IMR and child mortality rates per 1000 children and MMR per 100000 mothers.
Crude Birth Rate and Death Rate per 1000 persons
Box 5.1 Comprehensive health Care:

Eleventh Plan Seven Measureable Targets
The Eleventh Five Year Plan set seven measureable
targets, reflecting the health status to be achieved by the end
of the plan period. The Twelfth Plan aims to re-strategize to
achieve faster progress towards the seven goals set under the
Eleventh Plan. These targets relate to:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Infant Mortality Rate (IMR)

Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR)
Total Fertility Rate (TFR)
Under-nutrition among children
Anaemia among women and adolescent girls
Provision of clean drinking water for all
Raising child sex ratio for age group 0-6 years
Source: Eleventh and Twelfth Five Year Plans.
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At the outset, it should be noted that

IMR, MMR and CMR were computed for taluks
and district by using SRS (sample registration
system) estimates of Government of Karnataka
and ratio method to avoid underestimation and to
ensure uniformity in computation methodology
for all 176 taluks and 30 districts in the state (see
Technical Note in Annexure 3). In the case of
Dakshina Kannada district, they were, however,
found overestimated and are significantly higher
than the actual reported by DHFW Department.
For example, as per the DHFW, the actual CMR
for the district in 2011-12 is 13.64 as against the
estimate of 22 computed by SRS, 2011, Talukwise, the actual data varies from 5 in Mangaluru
taluk to 15 in Sullia. In the government estimates
it ranges between 14 and 33. Similarly the actual
IMR and MMR for the district are significantly
lower than the estimates provided by the
government. Since for computation of human
development indices, the estimates of SRS, 2011
were adopted and also to fall in line with other
districts, the analysis in this chapter is made
based on the estimates provided by them.
The IMR for the district works out to 19.
The comparative IMR at national level is 47 and
in the state level, 35. The district ranks third in
IMR in the state. Udupi which ranks first has
IMR of 11 and Bengaluru, which ranks second,
has IMR of 15. The district witnessed a
significant decline in IMR during the last
decade. In 1992, it was 59. In 2001-02, it
declined to 44. Taluk-wise it varies from 13 in
Sullia to 25 in Puttur, which has the highest IMR.
Mangaluru taluk has the next highest IMR (24).
In CMR also, the district stands third after Udupi
and Bengaluru. The CMR for the district works
out to 22 as against the state average of 40. Udupi
district has CMR of 13 and Bengaluru, 17.

Taluk-wise, CMR varies from 14 in Sullia to 33
in Puttur. Mangaluru and Belthangady taluks
have also higher CMR. The district also ranks
third in MMR. Its MMR is 89. The comparative
MMR of first ranked Udupi is 50 and second
ranked Bengaluru, 73. The state average is 144.
Taluk-wise, MMR is very high in Bantwal (122)
and Sullia (103) and; very low in Mangaluru
(44). In Belthangady, it is 47, whereas in Puttur,
it is on par with the district's average of 89. It is
interesting to note that Sullia has the lowest IMR
and CMR but its MMR is one of the highest in
the district. The district has also one of the lowest
CBR and CDR. Taluk wise, CBR varies from
10.14 in Mangaluru to 14.06 in Bantwal.
Similarly, CDR ranges from 2.45 in Mangaluru
to 4.98 in Sullia. Inter-taluk differences in both
CBR and CDR are marginal.
At the outset, it should be noted
that the district's Department of Health and
Family Welfare (DHFW) provide certain unique
health services for maternal health and child care
under various schemes like Janani Suraksha
Scheme for safe motherhood, Madilu-kit for
child birth of STs, Thayi Bhagya Plus and the
Prasuthi Araike. The National Rural Health
Mission initiated by the Central government,
which was implemented in the district since
2005 contributed significantly to improve RCH
parameters in rural areas.
Dakshina Kannada district achieved
significant improvement in LEB during the last
two decades. In 1991, the LEB for the district
was 66 years. It has increased to 67.4 years in
2001. Women have higher LEB than Men. As
against LEB of 68.5 years for women, the LEB
for men was 65.9 years in 2001. The district had
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the highest LEB for both men and women in the

state. The comparative data for the year 2011 is
not available. With the significant improvement
in health profile of the people, the LEB for the
district must have gone beyond 70 years.
Graph 5.1
Box 5.2: Karnataka State Integrated Health Policy 2004

The Government of Karnataka formulated a state Integrated Policy
based on the recommendations of the Task Force on Health and Family
Welfare (2001). The key focus areas of the policy are:
Providing integrated and comprehensive primary healthcare.

Providing a credible and sustainable referral system.
Establishing equity in delivery of quality healthcare.
Encouraging grater public-private partnership in the provision of
quality health care in order to better serve the under-served areas.
Addressing emerging issues in public health.
Strengthening health infrastructure.
Improving access to safe and quality drugs at affordable prices.
Increasing access to alternative medicine systems.
Source: Economic Survey of Karnataka, 2011-12
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5.4 Couple Protection Issues and Family

Welfare
With the growing population, the family
planning is given higher priority under the
government's health and family welfare
programmes. The Government's family
planning policy mainly focuses on three areas:
First is to ensure availability and access to a
sufficient range of contraceptive options and
relevant contraceptives in stock. Second is to
make informed decisions, clients need to have
adequate information about the available
options, their side effects and advantages. Third
is to provide a service in a manner that protects
the individual's or couple's privacy.
The district has good network of family
welfare service centres. All taluks have equitable
distribution of family welfare service centres
based on population. The district has 83 family
welfare centres and 430 sub-centres. The district
has one of the lowest total fertility rates in the
state. It is less than 1.5. Earlier two children was
the couple's mantra and now most of the younger
couples prefer one child. The spacing between
the births of two children is also equally adopted.

Table 5.2 presents number of beneficiaries of
various family planning measures and the
couple protection rate for different taluks in the
district.
The women sterilization is the most
common method of family planning in the
district. The couple protection rate is the
indicator of use of contraceptive practices in the
community. For the district, it works out to 66.18
percent. It is slightly lower than the state average
of 66.42. It is the highest in Puttur (71 percent),
followed by Bantwal (69 percent). It is the
lowest in Mangaluru (62 percent). With the
increasing education and entry into employment
market, the women are now aware of the need for
family planning.
5.5 Infrastructure and Health Personnel

Facility
Prior to independence, in the erstwhile
South Kanara district, the government-run
Wenlock Hospital at the district headquarter
Table 5.2
Beneficiaries of Family Planning Measures
Taluk
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
Vasectomy
(number
4
4
18
11
7
44
Tubectomy
(number)
1137
1146
3012
926
683
6904
I.U.D.
(number)
1687
1192
3269
1199
689
8036
C.C.
(number)
1381
1752
3501
1680
723
9037
Source: Dakshina Kannada District at a Glance 2011-12/DHFW

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O.P.
(number)
1109
1152
2313
999
525
6098
Couple
Protection
Rate
(Percent)
68.90
66.50
62.50
71.09
66.20
66.18
Mangaluru and the taluk level hospitals at taluk

headquarters were the main health infrastructure
for provision of health services. Other known
hospitals were one missionary-run hospital
namely Father Muller's Hospital at Kankanadi
and other government run Lady Goschen
hospital in Mangaluru city. All these hospitals
were located in urban centres and there was no
health service network in rural areas. The
medical graduates were very few. In the absence
of transport and communication facilities, rural
people had no access to health facilities. The
local medicines were the only source. After
independence, with the introduction of public
health services and emergence of private
hospitals, there was a revolutionary change in
the health infrastructure in the district. Both
public and private sectors have played a
dominant role in the overall development of the
health sector in the district.
The three-tier government's health
infrastructure at the district level comprises of
Primary Health Centres (PHCs) at Grama
Panchayat (GP) level, Community health

centres (CHCs) at block level and taluk and
district hospitals at tertiary level. Dakshina
Kannada district has Wenlock as district hospital
in Mangaluru city, four taluk hospitals at taluk
headquarters and 72 hospitals in important urban
centres. The district has seven CHC's, 64
Primary Health Centres (PHCs). Besides this,
the district has net work of 107 private hospitals
and nursing homes. Table 5.3 shows the talukwise network of health infrastructure, both
public and private in the district.
In the private sector, the district has 11
teaching hospital; important among them are:
Kasturba Medical College Hospital in
Mangaluru, Father Muller Hospital at
Kankanadi, Justice K.S. Hegde Charitable
Hospital at Deralakatte, Yenepoya Hospital at
Deralakatte, A.J.Hospital in Mangaluru, K.
Venkatramana Gowda Medical Hospital at
Sullia and Srinivas Medical Hospital at Mukka
The government hospitals have 1891 beds, out
of which 1351beds are in Mangaluru taluk. The
Table 5.3
Health Infrastructure in Dakshina Kannada District (2011-12)
Taluk
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
Government
Hospitals
No.
20
13
25
12
7
77
Beds
186
102
1351
166
86
1891
Private
Hospitals/Nursing
Homes
No.
Beds
13
148
9
447
62
6960
16
556
7
845
107
8956
Private
Ayurvedic
Hospitals
No.
Beds
-
PHCs/CHCs*
No.
19
12
23
11
6
71
Beds
156
72
186
70
36
520
Clinics
No.
173
103
1042
180
83
1581
Source: Dakshina Kannada District at a Glance 2011-12/ DHFW. *PHCs refers to

Public Health Centres and CHCs, Community Health Centres
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private hospitals have 8956 beds capacity; out of

which 6960 beds capacity in Mangaluru taluk
only. 11 teaching hospitals have 6310 beds
capacity. In rural areas, PHCs and CHCs have
520 beds capacity. Besides hospital network,
there are 1581 private clinics, 788 medical shops
and 13 blood banks. Most of them are in
Mangaluru city. The government's health system
also include network of 19 ambulance vehicles
24/7 services and mobile health units mainly for
tribal community.
For combating specific public health
problems, the districts health system is equipped
with a range of specialized facilities at taluk and
district levels. They include TB control units, the
district leprosy control units, mother and child
health care units, family welfare units, district
HIV-AIDS prevention unit and so forth. All
these specialized branches report under the
overall District Surveillance Unit. The
government health system has its unique feature
of including traditional medicine as means of

treatment integrated with allopathic practices.
There are governmental Ayurveda units in the
district hospital including one which practices
Panchakarma. Moreover, homeopathic and
unani services are also widely available in the
district. Father Muller homeopathic hospital is
well known in this field. Health infrastructure
for health services available in the district, is one
of the best in the state
The quality of health care
services depends on not only on the net work of
health infrastructure but also availability of
qualified doctors, nurses and facilities in terms
of population served. 77 government hospitals
have 92 doctors and 107 private hospitals and
nursing homes, 462 doctors (Table 5.4). Besides
there are 1581doctors having clinics. Most of the
clinics are in Mangaluru city. Out of 2135
doctors involved in health
Shri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara Yoga and Naturopathy Centre

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Box 5.3: KMC, Mangaluru:

First PPP Model in Medical Education and Health Care
KMC Mangaluru was started in 1953 utilizing the clinical facilities of the Government Wenlock
Hospital and Lady Goschen Hospital. It was the first medical college set up in the district and in the private
sector in India with private public partnership model in Medical education and health care. The collaboration
between the KMC and the government's Wenlock Hospital, which is the district hospital and one of the
oldest public sector hospitals in Mangaluru city still in practice. It was set up by Late Dr. T.M.A.Pai, the
founder and builder of now Manipal University. Apart from Government hospitals, there is a full-fledged
500-bed teaching hospital at Attavar established in 1992 and College of Dental Sciences. In 1993, it was,
along with KMC Manipal, granted deemed university status by the Government of India because of their
excellent track record and academic reputation. Now it is affiliated to Manipal University. In 2001, a centre
for Baic Sciences was started at Bejai. It is at present ranked 25th among top medical colleges in India; the
medical college with the highest ICMR STS awards in the country. The KMC Mangaluru is also rcognized as
one among 20 International Medical Schools by the Educational Commission for foreign graduates
(ECFMG). In research publications, it was ranked first among private universities in India. Students from
45 countries graduated from KMC Mangaluru. Its degrees have been recognized worldwide.
Source: KMC, Mangaluru
Kasturba Medical College Hospital Mangaluru
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Table 5.4
Taluk-wise Number of Doctors
Taluk
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
Government Hospitals Private Hospitals/Nursing Home Clinics

21
23
173
5
17
103
37
124
1042
19
46
180
10
252
83
92
462
1581
Total
217
125
1203
245
345
2135
Source: Dakshina Kanada District at a Glance 2011-12/ DHO
Service, 1203 are in Mangaluru taluk.

Belthangady has the lowest number of doctors.
Surprisingly, as against 13 government
hospitals, it has only 5 doctors. Next to
Mangaluru, Sullia has the highest number of
doctors. This is mainly due to a medical college
and teaching hospital in Sullia. In the network of
clinics, next to Mangaluru, Puttur taluk has the

highest number of clinics (180).
Table 5.5 gives taluk-wise some key
indicators of availability of basic health facilities
to the people. The doctor/population ratio for the
district works out to 0.89 doctors per 1000
people.
Graph 5.2
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Table 5.5
Taluk-wise Health Facilities: Some Indicators
Taluk
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
Population
served by
sub-centres
4316
3688
4631
3925
2426
4670
Population
Served by
PHC
25089
23048
36261
26764
23462
29058
Doctors per
1000
population
0.52
0.47
1.23
0.81
0.59
0.89
Nurses per
1000
population
0.23
0.59
0.73
0.82
0.26
0.60
Hospital Beds
per 1000
population
1.24
2.45
8.54
2.75
6.66
5.44
Source: Dakshina Kannada District at a Glance 2011-12, DHFW.
By all standards, it appears on lower side.

Taluk-wise, it varies from 0.47 in Belthangady to
1.23 in Mangaluru taluk. Inter-taluk disparity is
very wide. Similarly, the district has average
nurse- population ratio of 0.60. However, it
varies widely between taluks. In Puttur, it is 0.82
and Bantwal, 0.23. Even in Mangaluru, where
health infrastructure is more concentrated, it is
below one. As regards availability of hospital
beds, the total number of hospital beds in the
district, as shown in Table 5.3, is 11367. The
population-bed ratio at the district level is 5.44
people per 1000 bed which is one of the lowest in
the state.
The population served by a sub-centre
varies from 2426 in Sullia to 4631in Mangaluru
taluk. Similarly, the population served by PHCs
varies from 23048 in Belthangady to 36261 in
Mangaluru taluk. The analysis of indicators of
health facilities clearly shows that in spite of
remarkable growth in the health infrastructure in
the district, all is not well in the availability of
health services and the district has a long way to
go to provide quality health services to people.
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5.6 ANC Coverage and Anemia among

Pregnant Women
Maternal health care is the major
component of reproductive health (RCH)
services provided through PHCs and sub-centres
in the rural areas. In urban areas, the government
and private hospitals and clinics provide
maternal health care facilities. The iron
deficiency is the main reasons for anemia among
married women in the age group 18 - 49. This is
mainly caused as a result of inadequacy of diet
and nutritional imbalance. In India about 42
percent of women in the reproductive age are
found to be anemic. RCH program implemented
by the government include provision of full
ANC package, which includes supply of iron
and folic acid tablets, tetanus (TT), and three
ANC visits to all pregnant women registered.
The number of pregnant women
receiving full ANC coverage and also
information on pregnant women affected with
severe anemia (excluding normal) in different
taluks in the district is shown in Table 5.6.
Table 5.6
Full ANC Coverage and Anemia among Pregnant Women: 2011-12 (percent)
Taluk
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
Pregnant Women
receiving Full ANC
88.82
Pregnant women
with Anemia
42.36
74.06
89.17
80.14
85.05
85.11
26.80
37.87
41.52
21.29
33.96
Source: Dakshina Kannda DH & FWO & DD Women and Child

Anemia during pregnancy was observed
in 33.96 percent of cases of pregnancy in the
district during 2011-12. Nearly, 85.11 percent of
pregnant women covered under full ANC. The
comparative figure at the state level is 39 percent
for incidence of severe anemia and 92 percent
for receiving full ANC. The relative poorer
performance of the district in the coverage of
pregnant women receiving full ANC is a matter
of serious concern.
Belthangady taluk followed by Puttur
are worse in this regard. The proportion of
pregnant women received ANC was 74 percent
in Belthangady and 80 percent in Puttur. As
against this, Mangaluru and Bantwal, it was 89
percent. In Sullia, it was slightly lower (85
percent). The incidence of severe Anemia was
the highest In Bantwal (42.4 percent) and Puttur
(41.6 percent) and lowest in Sullia (21 percent)
and Belthangady (27 percent). In Mangaluru
taluk, it is as high as 38 percent. In spite of high
coverage of pregnant women under full ANC,
incidence of anemia of this magnitude is an area
of concern.
5.7 Institutional Delivery

Another important objective of the RCH
programme is to ensure 100 percent safe
delivery through health institutions in hygienic
conditions and under supervision of trained
health professionals. Safe delivery is important
for both the health of mother and new-born
child. To ensure safe delivery, easy access to
health institutional facilities and affordability
are critical. In the past, due to absence of health
institutional network in rural areas and
difficulties to access, deliveries took place in the
district mostly at home under the supervision of
untrained Aayas. The district has now good
network of both private and public, health
institutions. With the improved transportation
and communication as well as improved
education level among women, the scenario now
changed. The need for safe delivery through
hospitals is now well recognized, in the district
among all communities.
In Table 5.7, Taluk-wise position of
institutional deliveries is analysed. The analysis
of the data clearly shows that institutional
delivery in the district was almost 100 percent.
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Table 5.7
Taluk-wise Institutional Deliveries: 2011-12 (Percent)
Taluk
Institutional Delivery
Bantwal
99.91
Belthangady
99.93
Mangaluru
99.90
Puttur
99.90
Sullia
99.93
District
99.92
Source: Dakshina Kannada DH & FWO
There may be few exceptions as a result

of deliveries that took place either in transit or
delay in hospitalization. Even in such cases,
most of the deliveries took place under the
supervision of ANM/LHE or trained Aayas. The
district does not have any record of delivery
conducted by the untrained Aayas. The
institutional delivery percentage in the district is
slightly higher than state average of 97 percent.
Inter-taluk differences in the proportion of
institutional deliveries are almost negligible.
The data in the Table clearly demonstrate that
there exists already a strong awareness among
married couples about the necessity of safe
delivery through health institutions.
5.8 Immunization of Children
Immunization of children is important
for child survival. Immunization against six
serious diseases viz. tuberculosis, diphtheria,
pertussis, tetanus, poliomyelitis and measles is
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important for reducing the mortality and

morbidity among infants and young children.
The state government's universal immunization
programme includes administration of nine
doses of vitamin A, for prevention of night
blindness, and iron folic acid solution for iron
supplementation. The package includes
immunization through D.P.T., Polio, BCG,
Measles, TT and Hepatitis B injections. Table
5.8 contains taluk-wise information on the
children immunized during 2011-12.
From the Table, it may be seen that in the
year 2011-12, more than 24000 children were
immunized in the district. The percentage of
children fully immunized for the district works
out to 78.02 percent. Taluk-wise, it varies from
66 percent in Mangaluru to 89.7 percent in
Sullia. Compare to the state level figure of 125.9
percent, the performance of all taluks in the
district is disappointing. The lower percentage
of fully immunized children may be due to
Table 5.8
Taluk-wise Immunization of Children: 2011-12 (Number)
Taluk
D.P.T.
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
5250
3721
9911
3958
2057
Polio
5250
3721
9911
3958
2057
BCG
Measles
5605
3826
9887
4090
2021
5241
3572
9521
3820
1996
TT
5753
3956
4130
2147
10389
Hepatitis B
5470
3674
9280
3961
1963
Children fully
immunized
(percent)
88.76
87.41
66.12
88.26
89.74
Source: Dakshina Kannada Dist.- DH & FWO

migration of population and non-record of
privately immunized.
5.9 Children born Under-weight and BMI

Ratio
The weight of an infant at birth is an
important measure of the nutritional status of the
mother and an indicator of the child health and
survival rate. An infant with birth weight lower
than 2.5 Kg is considered at high risk. The

mother's nutritional status also determines the
weight of child born. As shown in the Table 5.9,
the district has relatively lower percentage of
children born underweight in the state2. The
proportion of underweight children at birth for
the district is 5.26; male children 2.72 and
female children, 2.54. At the state levl, it is found
to be 11.5 percent.
Table 5.9
Taluk-wise Status of Underweight Children and Malnutrition: 2011-12 (Percentage)
Percentage of Children born

Underweight
Taluk
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
Male
Female
All
2.95
2.44
3.05
3.83
2.31
2.72
2.00
2.26
3.34
3.54
2.42
2.54
4.95
4.70
6.39
7.37
4.73
5.26
Source: Dakshina Kannada District - DH & FWO
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Percentage of
Children
Malnourished
19.06
25.59
17.89
22.89
31.54
21.23
Taluk-wise, there are no wide

differences in the proportion of underweight
children. Puttur has the highest underweight
children (7.37 percent), followed by Mangaluru
(6.39 percent). Belthangady has the lowest
percent of underweight children (4.70 percent).
Bantwal has 4.95 percent and Sullia, 4.73
percent underweight children.
The children malnutrition is another
important area under RCH programme. The data
in the table shows that the district has one of the
highest percentages of malnourished children in
the state. It is 21 percent. The comparative data
for the neighbouring Udupi district is 0.62
percent. Taluk-wise, it varies from 17.9 percent
in Mangaluru to 31.5 percent in Sullia. The high
malnutrition among children in all taluks is, thus,
a serious issue faced by the health system in the
district.
5.10 Communicable and NonCommunicable Diseases

The common communicable diseases in the
district are malaria, leprosy and tuberculosis.
Malaria was, once, eradicated in the district.
However, in recent years, the incidence of
malaria is increasing particularly in urban
centres. In recent years, the cases of
Chikungunya, Dengue Fever, Japanese
Encephalitis and Lymphatic Filariasis were
emerging communicable diseases in the district.
In the case of leprosy, 58 cases were diagnosed
during 2011-12, out of which 39 males and 19
females. Most of them (36) are from Mangaluru
taluk. Bantwal and Puttur have also reported 7
cases each. Other two taluks have only 4 cases
identified as suffering from leprosy. Compared
with other districts, the incidence of malaria and
leprosy in Dakshina Kannada district is one of
the lowest.
Graph 5.3
The proportion of underweight children estimated by HDD, PD is significantly higher than the actual data provide by the
DHWF, For computation of CTDI, the estimates provided by the HDD, PD are used to fall n line with other districts. The
table contains the actual data on underweight children provide by the DHWF,
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Doctor examining the patient in Primary Health Centre, Kollamogaru
The RNTCP program running in the

district reported around 1868 cases of TB during
the year 2011-12. All the TB patients diagnosed
are put on DOTS which has a comparatively
decent compliance rate than other districts in
Karnataka. The total number of TB patients
cured during the year 2011-12 was 650. Most of
the people affected by TB were men. The
maximum number of reported TB patients was
from Mangaluru taluk.
Another major communicable disease is
AIDS caused by the HIV virus, which adversely
affects the body's immune system and leads to
death through secondary infections. The
incidence of HIV cases in the district has been
increasing during the last ten years. During
1987-2003, 415 HIV and 37 AIDS cases were
recorded. In 2011-12, a total of 902 patients were
tested for HIV infection, which included 576
males and 326 females. During the year, 107
people died of AIDS. Comparing to
neighbouring Udupi district, the incidence of

HIV/AIDS in the district is very low. Talukwise, out of 902 cases, 795 were from
Mangaluru. In other taluks, the incidence of
HIV/AIDS varies from 16 to 34. The incidence is
high in the age group of 30 39 years, which is
the most productive period of human life.
Table 5.10 shows the percentage of
people affected by the major communicable
diseases in the district.
Though the percentage of people
affected by the major communicable diseases is
marginal, in terms of number, it is 32598 people.
Bantwal taluk has the highest percentage of
people affected by major communicable
diseases, followed by Mangaluru and Sullia.
Belthangady has the lowest incidence of
Major non-communicable diseases
include hypertension, diabetes, asthma,
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Table 5.10
People affected by major Communicable Diseases
(Percentage)
Taluk
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
2010-11
2.36
0.84
1.48
1.24
1.67
1.55
2011-12
2.20
0.96
1.55
1.16
1.46
1.56
Source: Dakshina Kannada District at Glance / DH & FWO
bronchitis, cancer, accidental injuries and

mental diseases. As a natural corollary of
modern life style, food habits and development,
the district is witnessing an overall increasing
trend in the occurrence of non-communicable
diseases. Statistics available from hospitals
clearly demonstrate that the cases of
hypertension, cancer, diabetes and asthma have
increased over the years. Similarly, there is an
upward trend in the incidence of mental
diseases. With the changing composition of
population and aging process, this trend is likely
to continue in the future. This has serious
implications on the burden of treatment as the
cost involved for these treatments is
significantly high. In the same vein, there is an
increasing trend in unnatural deaths such as
suicidal and accidental deaths.
5.11 Performance of Various Health Schemes

Health is critical for well-being of
people. A healthy community is an asset upon
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which an economically viable and vibrant

society can be built. The Government of India
and the State Government initiated several
programs for improving availability,
accessibility and affordability of provision of
good health care services since independence.
The government of India's National Rural
Health Mission (NRHM) launched in 2005 was
the most important programme to improve
health care of the rural population. Other
important national and state health programs of
public health importance in the provision of
comprehensive healthcare services to the people
are: Janani Suraksha Yojane for RCH services to
BPL, SC and ST families, Madilu to provide post
natal care for mother and child, Universal
Immunization, Bhagyalakshmi Scheme for girl
children, Arogya Kavacha108, Suvarna Arogya
Chaitanya and School Health Program focusing
on health care of school age children. For control
of communicable diseases, the Government
launched specific programmes. They include
National Leprosy Eradication Programme,
National Programme for control of Blindness,

National Vector Borne Disease Control
Programme, National Filaria Control
Programme, Japanese Encephalitis Control
Programme and Aids Awareness and
Surveillance Programme. All these programs are
implemented by the Department of Health and
Family Welfare (DHFW). The Government has
also initiated various health insurances for poor
and vulnerable citizens to support them
financially for their medical concerns, like the:
Vajapayee Arogyashree Scheme, Yashaswini
Health Insurance Scheme and Sampoorna
Suraksha Scheme, Rashtriya Swastya Bima
Yojane
Under various health programs initiated
by the Government of India and the Government
of Karnataka, the district has made remarkable
overall progress in the health status. The DHFW
has achieved targets set under the various
National Health Programmes which include
inter alia RCH programme, Malaria Eradication
Programme, Filaria Control Programme,
Tuberculosis Control Programme, Leprosy
Control Programme, Blindness Control

Programme, Programme for Control of all
Communicable Diseases and School Health
Programme. Interestingly, one of the most
successfully running health programmes in
Dakshina Kannada is the RCH programmes
under NRHM. The outcome of the performance
is clearly reflected in significant improvement in
all RCH and health indicators such as IMR,
MMR, institutional delivery, extent of full
immunization, full antenatal care etc. It may be
noted that Dakshina Kannada district is in the
forefront in accomplishing the UNMDGs in the
health sector in the state. Dakshina Kannada is
also ranked number one in most of the health
indicators and in the overall health index in the
Karnataka HDR 1999 and 2005.
The District Health Action Plan was
prepared in accordance with the national
guidelines to achieve NRHM and RCH goals
and objectives. With a view to ensure universal
health care services, a holistic approach is
adopted, which includes: (i) new interventions
under NRHM, (ii) RCH programs to achieve the
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relevant goals, (iii) strengthening routine full

immunization, (iv) disease control and
surveillance program and (v) inter-sectoral
convergence of activities such as nutrition, safe
drinking water, and sanitation for poor and
vulnerable section of the society. Under NRHM,
the focus of intervention would be to strengthen
PHCs and improve delivery of health care
services in the rural areas. Improvement of rural
health infrastructure and rural family welfare
would be also the main focus under state
sponsored health programmes.
5.12 Per Capita Expenditure Analysis on

Health sector
In health sector, the government is a
major player in rural areas in the district. As
against this in urban areas, the private sector is
the dominant player. With the implementation of
NRHM and other state sponsored health
programs, there was steady increase in public
expenditure on health during the Eleventh Plan.
In spite of this, the total public expenditure
incurred on health by centre and states during the
Eleventh Plan period amounted to less than one

percent of GDP. This is by international standard
is very low. The Twelth Five Year Plan,
therefore, aimed at increasing the total public
expenditure on health to 2.5 percent of GDP.
The total public expenditure incurred in
the health sector during the year 2011-12 was
Rs.3972 lakh. As a share of district GDP, it
works out to only 0.04 percent as compared to
state level ratio of one percent. Despite the
importance of public healthcare services in rural
areas, expenditure on health and family welfare
in the district is apparently very low. The major
portion of expenditure was for of RCH and
NRHM activities followed by rural family
welfare initiatives through PHCs and subcentres. Among disease control programs,
communicable disease control programs such as
TB, leprosy and vector borne disease control
programs received higher allocation due to
various government schemes.
Taluk-wise information on total public
expenditure incurred on health services and per
capita public health expenditure worked out is
given in Table 5.11.
Table 5.11
Taluk-wise Public Expenditure on Health in the District (Rupee)
Taluk
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
2001-02
Total
24980985
23045380
24433186
20644206
23735443
116839200
2011-12
Per capita
69.09
93.49
27.68
77.59
168.63
61.57
Total
75201276
69217168
117661417
70471682
64657965
397209508
Per capita
190.20
259.64
118.30
244.82
445.22
190.10
Source: Dakshina Kannada district DH & FWO
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From the table, it may be seen that there

is a 3.4 fold increase in the total expenditure
incurred on health in the district during the
period between 2001-02 and 2011-12. The per
capita expenditure increased from Rs 61 to 190
during this period. Taluk-wise, it is the lowest in
Mangaluru and highest in Sullia. Inter-taluk
variation is significantly high.
5.13 Radar Analysis for Health

In this chapter, an attempt is also made to
apply the radar technique to portray graphically
intra and inter taluk disparities in various health
indicators. Six health indicators selected as

proxy to portray health status through radar
analysis. They are: percentage of children born
underweight, percentage of institutional
deliveries, percentage of women using full
ANC, percentage of children fully immunized,
percentage of households with toilets and
percentage of households provided with safe
drinking water facility. Table 5.12 contains the
actual values of these indicators and indices
constructed for these indicators for radar based
on Census data and the data collected from
various government departments on 10-point
scale.
Table 5.12
Health Indicators : Values and Indices: 2011-12
Indicators
Percentage of
children born
underweight
Percentage of
Institutional
deliveries
Percentage of
pregnant
women
receive full
ANC
Percentage of
children fully
immunized
Percentage of
Households
with toilets
Percentage of
HHs provided
with safe
drinking
water
Bantwal
Value Index
Belthangady
Value Index
Mangaluru
Value Index
Puttur
Value Index
Sulia
Value Index
District
Value Index
5.90
9.40
9.24
9.10
20.73
7.90
10.41
9.00
15.04
8.50
12.26
8.77
99.91
9.99
99.93
9.99
99.90
9.99
99.90
9.99
99.93
9.99
99.92
9.99
88.82
8.88
74.06
7.41
89.17
8.92
80.14
8.01
85.05
8.50
85.11
8.51
88.76
8.88
87.41
8.74
66.12
6.61
88.26
8.83
89.74
8.97
78.02
7.80
92.58
9.26
90.65
9.06
96.33
9.63
88.02
8.80
80.01
8.00
92.66
9.27
47.87
4.79
27.46
2.75
64.83
6.48
45.33
4.53
29.18
2.92
51.77
5.18
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The radar charts drawn for each taluk and the

district based on the index values of various
health indicators are presented below.
Bantwal Taluk - Health

Percentage of Childre
born underweight
10
9.4
Percentage of HHs
provided with safe
drinking water
4.79
9.99
Percentage of
Institutional
deliveries
0
9.26
8.88
Percentage of
Households with
toilets
Percentage of
pregnant women
receive full ANC
8.88
Percentage of
children fully
immunized
Belthangady Taluk - Health

born underweight
10
9.1
5
Percentage of HHs
provided with safe
drinking water
9.99
2.75
Percentage of
Institutional
deliveries
0
7.41
9.06
Percentage of
Households with
toilets
Percentage of
pregnant women
receive full ANC
8.74
Percentage of
children fully
immunized
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Mangaluru Taluk - Health

born underweight
10
7.9
Percentage of HHs
provided with safe
drinking water
Percentage of
Institutional
deliveries
6.48
9.99
0
9.63
Percentage of
pregnant women
receive full ANC
8.92
Percentage of
Households with
toilets
6.61
Percentage of
children fully
immunized
Puttur Taluk - Health

born underweight
10
9
Percentage of HHs
provided with safe
drinking water
Percentage of
Institutional
deliveries
9.99
4.53
0
8.8
8.01
Percentage of
pregnant women
receive full ANC
Percentage of
Households with
toilets
8.83
Percentage of
children fully
immunized
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Sullia Taluk - Health

Percentage of Children
born underweight
10
8.5
5
Percentage of HHs
provided with safe
drinking water
9.99
2.92
Percentage of
Institutional
deliveries
0
8
8.5
Percentage of
Households with
toilets
Percentage of
pregnant women
receive full ANC
8.97
Percentage of
children fully
immunized
Dakshina Kannada District Health Radar Chart

Bantwala
10
8
6
Percentage of Children born underweight
Percentage of Institutional deliveries
Sullia
Belthangady
Percentage of pregnant women

receive full ANC
Percentage of children fully
immunized
Percentage of Households with
toilets
Puttur
Mangaluru
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Percentage of HHs
provided with safe drinking water
The radar charts evidently show

marginal the intra and inter taluk disparities in
the health status in respect of the identified six
health indicators. The performance metrics of all
indicators are nearer to maximum values except
drinking water. As a result the health status of all
taluks is relatively at higher radar scale.
5.14 Micro-Study on Health Problems in

Endosulfan Sprayed Areas in Dakshina
Kannada District:
to study the issue and take necessary actions.

Recognizing the seriousness of the health
problem, The DHFW has carried out a
diagnostic survey of the affected areas in the
district in 2012.
The survey was undertaken with the
following specific objectives:
To identify the villages affected by the

endosulfan infected diseases.
To diagnose specific illness caused as a

result of endosulfan spraying
To assess the dimension and seriousness

of the endosulfan infected health
problem.
To determine health care measures

required to cope up with this health
problem and,
5.14.1 Rationale and Objective of the Study

Endosulfan is a broad spectrum
organochlorine insecticide and acaricide
recommended for control of agricultural pests
for fruits, cashew plantations and vegetable
crops. Karnataka Cashew Development Board
(KCDB) carried out aerial spraying in Bantwal,
Belthangady, Puttur and Sullia taluks where they
owned large track of cashew plantations during
1980 to 2000. They also extensively used the
pesticide for ground spraying. Villagers in these
zones also have undertaken ground spraying by
using this pesticide during this period.
The extensive use of this pesticide
resulted in various chronic health problems for
the people in the endosulfan sprayed areas. In
early 2009, unusual density of various illnesses
was found in endosulfan sprayed areas like
Kokkada, Nidle, Patrame of Belthangay taluk
and Kadaba and Koila in Puttur taluk. The
Directorate of Health & Family Welfare Sevices,
Government of Karnataka, based on the
complaints of people on various chronic health
problems of pesons residing in the sprayed areas,
directed the DHFW, Dakshina Kannada district
To compile baseline data for evidence

based planning for future activities.
In view of the seriousness of the
endosulfan infected health problem, which is
threatening the life of large number of families in
Puttur, Sullia, Bantwal and Belthangady taluks,
it was decided to undertake a micro study on
health problems of people living in endosulfan
sprayed areas in the district. Since the DHWF
has already carried out a detailed survey for
identification of specific illnesses of people
living in endosulfan sprayed areas in the district
in 2012, the micro study aimed at recapitulating
its findings and looking into the measures
undertaken to cope up with the emerging health
problems in endosulfan sprayed areas.
5.14.2 Methodology
The study aimed at covering all villages affected
by endosulfan spraying in four taluks namely
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Taluks
PHCs
Sub-centres
Villages
Population
Teams
(number)
(number)
(number)
(number)
(number)
Belthangady
18
22
77166
77
Puttur
11
36
36
138411
139
Sullia
11
14
29429
30
Bantwal
13
43229
43
Total
23
78
77
288235
289
Bantwal, Belthangady, Puttur and Sullia.

Accordingly, a PHC level survey involving the
health workers of the PHCs and ASHA and
Anganwadi workers was carried out to compile
basic data in the affected villages. They were
trained regarding the objectives and
methodology of the survey. The structured
schedules/formats were used for collection of
the requisite data. The survey envisaged
covering all households in all villages affected.
Junior Health Assistants (Female) were made
responsible for supervision of the survey
activities in their respective areas. The coverage
and teams involved in the survey are as given
above.
The survey was carried out from 16th
October to 30th October 2012. The survey was
conducted by 289 teams of 23 PHCs and 7 subcentres covering 77 villages with total
population of 288235. The findings of the
survey were consolidated both at PHC level and
taluk level. In the second phase, the DHWF
organized specialists' camps in the affected
villages to identify actual endosulfan infected
individuals and diagnose their illnesses. For
specialists' help, the DHFW has sought the
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assistance of Kasturba Medical College,

Mangaluru and other institutions. The
specialists' camps were organized in Kokkada
(covering Kokkada, Pattrame and Nidle villages
of Belthangady taluk) and Koukrady (covering
Nellyadi, Golithottu, Koila, Alankaru and
Kadaba villages of Puutur taluk).
5.14.3 Findings and Measures undertaken

Endosulfan residue is transmitted
through a variety of environmental media viz.
air, surface water, ground water, soil and
sediments. The most likely way for people to be
exposed to endosulfan is eating the
contaminated products. It can be also absorbed
via lungs through air and skin. It causes acute
and chronic toxicity. Central nervous system is
the main target in endosulfan toxicity.
Endosulfan is a neurotoxin, haematoxin,
genotoxin and nephrotoxin. It has been linked to
congenital physical disorders, reproductive
organs disorders, mental disabilities and deaths.
The survey identified individuals who
came under the given citeria for suspected
endosulfan affected population. Taluk-wise
identified cases are as follows:
Taluks
Bantwal
Belthangady
Sullia
Puttur
Total
Suspected endosulfan related

illness Cases (number)
680
2445
726
1372
5223
Completely bed
ridden cases (number)
26
53
39
61
179
Most affected areas are: Kokkada,

Pattrame and Nidle villages of Belthangady
taluk and Kadaba, Alankar, Kuntur, Nelyadi,
Golithottu, Balya, Koukradi and Koila in Puttur
taluk. The study identified 5223 people suffering
from various ailments as a result of endosulfan
spraying. Out of 5223 cases, 179 are completely
bed-ridden cases. The families of the individuals
suffering were informed of specialists' camps to
be conducted, date and venue. An orientation
camp was conducted for specialist doctors who
participated in the camps. The designated camp
Medical Officers were bestowed with
responsibilities of coordinating and organizing
the various camps as and when required.
The study findings reveal higher
incidence of neurological disorders including
mutism, heart diseases and limb disabilities,
reproductive ailments including infertility and
skin disorders and asthma among the affected
people. As per the study, the following illneses
are attributed to the spray of endosulfan:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
Still birth
Abortions
Brain tumour
Hemiplegia
Lower limb deformities
Mental retardation
Deafness
Deaf-mutism
Mutism
An Adult Victim of Spraying of Endosulfan
10. Epilepsy
11. Blindness
12. Hand disability
13. Heart diseases
14. Joint Swelling
15. Handicap of limbs
16. Caliver
17. Strility
18. Mental disorders and others.
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Specialists from KMC, KSHEMA, Father

Muller's Medical College, Yenapoya Medical
College, A.J. Medical College and KVG
Medical College, Sullia were deputed to various
camps. In each camp, a team of specialists
participated include Physician, Pediatrician,
Psychiatrist with clinical Psychologist,
Orthopedecian, Surgeon, Opthamologist with
refractionist, ENT Surgeon, Dermatologist,
Gynecologist and General Duty Medical
Officer. Eleven camps were organized in the
severely affected areas in Puttur, Belthangady,
Sullia and Bantwal taluks and out of 4986
individuals inspected, 1907 were identified as
endosulfan affected patients. Six camps were
organized at Puttur, Sullia, Kokkada, and Vittla
to certify the identified persons for various
disabilities. The patients identified were given
compensation of Rs.50000. Presently, 134
people with 75 percent and more disability are
receiving RS.1000 per month, 95 people with
disability between 40 and 75 percent are
receiving Rs.400 pe month.
Based on the findings of the study, the
DHFW has set up two Day-care centres at
Kokkada and Koila for rehabilitating the people
suffering. The Day-care centres are being run in
collaboration with Dharmasthala
Gramabhivridhi Sangha. The facilities provided
in these centres include besides providing
compensation, provided food, physiotherapy,
occupational counselling and vocational
training, treatment at nearby PHCs. The District
Administration also took the assistance of
specialists from all medical colleges in the
district to face the menace of this dangerous
pesticide on ihe health of people. A General
Body and Executive body for rehabilitation of
endosulfan were formed with the following
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Victim of Endosulfan Spray
ojective:
To identify victims of endosulfan spray.
To distribute Smart Card to avail free health

facilities
To provide transport arrangement for the

disabled to avail medical facilities
To provide home based palliative care by

staff nurse at GP level to bed ridden victims
To establish mobile medical unit to reach in

remote areas
To provide free ration to the families of

victims
The findings of the study are quite revealing

and a wake up call for not only users of pesticides
but also health administration as well as policy

makers. Though agriculture needs use of
pesticides to control pests, the agriculturists are
usually not sensitized the ill health effects of the
most of the pesticides presently used. The multinational companies who are the main producers
of these pesticides aggressively promote their
use. In absence of effective regulatory
framework, this will continue. When the health
effects of endosulfan was known, how a public
sector organization like Karnataka Cashew
Development Board could undertake
extensively aerial spraying over a decade? Now
the real victims are the innocent small and
marginal farmers and people belonging to
weaker section living in the villages. Who is
accountable for their life long suffering; this is
real issue to think about.
5.15 An Overview: Performance and

Inadequacies of Healthcare System
with good health infrastructure and enviable
public-private initiatives in provision of quality
healthcare service. The district has 11 privately
run medical and dental colleges and a number of
Para-medical and nursing colleges. All of them
played a catalytic role in building up necessary
infrastructure and delivery of high quality health
care services in the district. The government
play dominant role in rural health services.
Public sector health care infrastructure through
PHCs, CHCs and taluk and district level
hospitals renders health care services to weaker
section of the community especially rural poor
and vulnerable section of the community
throughout the district. Good ambulatory
facility, qualified and responsive health
personnel, good road networks and

communication facility, the timely support from
NGOs and finally, health conscious population makes the district's health system an example of
laudable success when compared to other
districts in the state. Under the NRHM
initiatives, the district could make remarkable
progress in most of the RCH indicators like IMR,
CMR and MMR and stands out as one of the
districts to achieve the UN millennium
development goals in time.
Despite these remarkable achievements,
the district is faced with unrelenting burden of
the old and emerging new threats of diseases.
There are also problems, some of which are
institutional in nature and others emanate from
the changing environment, aging population and
modern life style and food habits. Institutional
problems which affect adversely universal
access to health care services are mainly due to
urban orientation of private health infrastructure,
scarcity of qualified doctors in rural areas,
unscientific geographical distribution of PHCs,
scarcity of paramedical staff and absence of
networking between PHCs/CHCs and tertiary
health facilities mainly concentrated in urban
centres, while in rural areas, only available
healthcare services are from primary public
health facilities. They are unevenly spread
across the district and lacking qualified doctors
and nurses as well as timely supply of required
medicines. They also do not provide health
services to rural people round the clock. There is,
thus, a growing rural-urban divide in the
provision of healthcare services, which creates
stumbling blocks towards achieving the dream
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of 'health for all' and universal comprehensive

quality health coverage.
Though good progress was achieved in
RCH indicators, the maternal and child health
care and nutrition still continuing to be a problem
among weaker and marginalized section of the
population. The revival of malaria and filaria,
rising incidence HIV/AIDS, aging population,
chronic non-communicable diseases such as
diabetes, hypertension, heart ailments, growing
mental diseases, alcoholism among the youth
and increasing unnatural deaths such as road
accidents and suicides are the main emerging
new health problems in the district. Even though
the public health programs in the district have
succeeded in controlling communicable diseases
such as malaria, tuberculosis, filaria,
leptosperofin etc. their reappearance once again
in recent years, particularly in urban areas has
posed a challenge. Morbidity and mortality rates
slum areas are still unacceptably higher. They
have a very poor health profile compared with
the other communities. Implementation of any
public health care packages has limited impact
unless their problem of poverty is properly
tackled. The health situation is also compounded
by ignorance, prejudice and discrimination. The
current influx of massive number of floating
migrant workers because of the rapidly growing
urbanization and acute shortage of labour and
resultant increase in urban slums without basic
amenities is also breeding ground for
The Twelfth Plan strategy envisages
achievement of Universal Health Coverage
(UHC) over next two or three plan periods. The
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ultimate goal of UHC is to guarantee affordable

easy access to a required package of quality
health services to all citizens. With a view to
provide universally accessible quality health
services at affordable costs and efficiently in the
district, there is a need to consider the following
health strategies:
Considering the prevailing mixed

institutional health system in the district,
there is a need for public and private sectors
to work in tandem to provide appropriate,
equitable and affordable health care services
at all levels. Besides regulating affordability
of private medical services, there is a need to
link the private medical colleges with Taluk
and District Hospitals to ensure access to
quality and super specialty health services in
public sector system.
The primary health care in rural areas should

be strengthened to provide comprehensively
preventive, curative and rehabilitative
health care services. This requires
upgradation of PHCs and CHCs as per IPHS
standards. Every PHC should have one
doctor, a staff nurse, a pharmacist, a health
inspector and other supporting staff. The
PHC should have a vehicle to provide
mobility support to the doctor to do the field
work. Every PHC sub-center should have its
own building and one staff nurse.
It is worth considering the Tamil Nadu

Model of mapping geographically and
setting one Junction Hospital for a group of
PHCs instead of CHCs. The Junction
Hospital should have specialist doctors and
adequate number of nurses and their services
should be made available to the rural people
round the clock. Such junction hospitals
should be linked to Taluk Hospitals through

108-Arogya Kawacha.
In order to ensure rural people easy and

affordable health services at tertiary level,
there is a need for network linking through
IT in all Government health services viz.
PHCs, Junction hospitals and Taluk and
District Hospitals in order to ensure prompt
referral system, close interface, robust
surveillance and timely treatment.
Most of the rural poor are not aware of
medical insurance coverage of Vajpayee
Arogyashree Scheme, Yashaswini Health
Insurance Scheme, Sampoorna Suraksha
Scheme, Manipal Health Card, Rastriya
Swastya Bhima Yojane etc. There is a need
for periodical awareness campaign in this
regard.
Special Health services through Mobile

Units to remote tribal areas, forest areas,
Naxalite affected areas should be considered
to ensure easy access and effective reach to
the needy vulnerable section of the society.
Awareness campaigns and Medicare camps

should be organized periodically for chronic
diseases like diabetes, hyper-tension, blood
pressure etc. in rural areas to educate rural
people about these diseases and also provide
on the spot medical check-up and treatment
Urban health care comes under ULBs,

which do not have, at present, Health
Departments. With growing urbanization,
there is an urgent need to set up Health
Department in each ULB for taking care of
urban health care needs.
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Chapter 6
INCOME, POVERTY AND
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Income, Poverty And Employment

6.1 Introduction
The standard of living is the third most
important core dimension of human
development. A reasonably decent standard of
living depends mainly on people's command
over resources needed. The real per capita
income is considered as proxy for measuring the
standard of living as a dimension of HDI.
Adequate income enables people to acquire
required resources to improve standard of living.
It is a critical means for enlarging people's
choices, capabilities and well-being. It is an
input for other two dimensions of the HDI via,
health and education. The ability to lead a long
and healthy life and to be knowledgeable
depends, to a large extent on income. In fact,
these parameters interact and reinforce in
important ways; improving both health and
education increases income earning potential
and low achievement in education and health
causes low income and lower standard of living
and vice versa. Freedom of being able to meet
basic needs to survive such as ability to avoid
starvation, undernourishment, escape
preventable morbidity or premature mortality
etc centers around access to income.
The per capita income, as proxy to
standard of living, however, does not capture
non-market basic requisites of livelihood and
quality of well-being such as housing, basic
amenities, clothing, nutrition, sanitation and
safe drinking water. Employment and
unemployment, income distribution, inequality
of income and expenditure, and poverty and
human deprivation are among the many other
areas that also need to be considered while
considering income as a proxy for standard of
living. The drawbacks of per capita income only
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as a measure of well-being and its failure to

capture inequality, poverty and deprivation are
well known and aptly summarized by the Report
of the Commission on the Measurement of
Economic and Social Progress (Stiglitz et al,
2009).
Considering the multi-dimensional
characteristic of human development, there is a
need for broadening the HDI beyond these three
core dimensions. Recognizing the critical
importance of some of the above indicators of
standard of living, the Government of Karnataka
decided to consider them while preparing
District Human Development Reports. In this
chapter, an attempt is, therefore, made to
examine in depth the issues relating to income
focusing on sector-wise contribution to GDP and
per capita income growth, pattern of
employment and dimension of poverty in the
district and at taluk levels.
6.2 District and Taluk Income

The GDP measures total market value of
goods and services during a given year. Gross
National Income (GNI), on the other hand,
includes besides GDP, income accruing to
domestic residents from abroad. There are
international standards for its computation. The
GDP is estimated at both current market prices
and constant prices with a given year as base. Per
capita GDP or per capita income is the income
per head derived by dividing GDP by the total
population. The Central Statistical Organization
(CSO), Government of India estimates and
publishes national and state level GDP and per
capita income every year. Karnataka has been a
pioneer in estimating district income and the first
estimates were made in 1960-61. Since then,
district estimates have been computed at ten year

intervals till 1990-91 and thereafter, annual
estimates are being worked out regularly by the
Directorate of Economics and Statistics (DES),
Government of Karnataka. An attempt is also
recently made to estimate GDP and per capita
income at taluk level in the state.
For estimating GDP, the economy of the
district/taluk is divided into three sectors on
similar line as adopted for computing the
national/state GDP as under:
A) Primary Sector: includes agriculture and
allied activities such as horticulture,
livestock, forestry and fishing and
mining and quarrying.
B) S e c o n d a r y S e c t o r : i n c l u d e s
manufacturing both registered and unregistered, construction, electricity, gas
and water supply.
C) Tertiary or Service Sector: includes
transport, storage and communication,
trade, hotels and restaurants, banking
and insurance, real estate, ownership of
dwellings, business and legal services,
public administration and other services.
The GDP of Dakshina Kannada district was
Rs.19673 crore at current prices and Rs.14036
crore at 2004-05 constant prices during the
financial year 2010-113. The per capita income
was Rs. 84030 at current prices and Rs.67169 at
constant prices during the same year. The
primary sector has contributed Rs 2126 crore at
current prices and Rs. 1374 crore at constant
prices. The share of the primary sector in total
GDP works out to 10.8 percent. The contribution
of the secondary sector was Rs.4024 crore at
current prices and Rs. 2778 crore at constant
prices. Its share in the district GDP is 21.9
percent. The tertiary sector, on the other hand
3
contributed Rs. 11703 crore at current prices and

Rs.8534 crore at constant prices. Its share in the
district GDP works out to 67.3 percent.
Compared to state level average per capita
income of Rs.61073, the district per capita
income is 38 percent higher at current prices.
The district ranks third in per capita income
among 30 districts in the State. Its contribution
to the state GDP works out to 5.2 percent at
constant prices. In 1990-91, the district's
contribution to the total state GDP was 5.7
percent and in per capita income, it ranked
second in the state. There was a slight decline in
the share of district's contribution to the state
GDP.
The recent trends in the district's GDP and
per capita income together with the annual
growth rates during the Eleventh Plan period:
2006-07 to 2010-11 is shown in Table 6.1.
Dakshina Kannada district witnessed a slightly
lower average annual economic growth of 7
percent as against the state average of 8.8
percent during the period between 2006-07 and
2010-11. However, it should be noted that except
2008-09 and 2009-10, in other three years, the
district witnessed significantly lower annual
growth. During 2010-11 the annual growth was
2.5 percent as against the state level growth of
8.9 percent.
The district's per capita income at constant
prices has increased from Rs.51153 to Rs.67169
during the Eleventh Plan period, accounting an
increase of 30 percent. The comparative state
level increase in per capita income was 32
percent. An analysis of the sectoral growth in
Table 6.2 clearly shows poor performance of
agriculture and allied activities in particular and
primary sector in general during the last five
years.
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Table 6.1
Growth of District GDP and Per capita Income
Year
Total GDP
(Rupees in crore)
At Current At Constant
Prices
Prices
2006-07
2007-08
2008-09
2009-10
2010-11
11567
11933
14197
17735
19673
10404
10791
11561
13690
14036
Per capita Income

District GDP
(Rupee)
Annual
At Current At Constant Growth Rate
Prices
Prices
(Percent)
56869
51153
3.77
58008
52453
3.72
68253
55583
7.14
85728
66175
18.41
94145
67169
2.53
State GDP
Annual
Growth Rate
(Percent)
10.00
12.60
7.10
5.20
8.90
Source: Directorate of Economics and Statistics, GOK. Note: 2010-11 figure provisional estimate.
Growth rate is based on constant prices. Per capita is based on 2011 census population data for 2011.
There is no steady positive growth in the
primary sector. As against the state average
growth of 5.6 percent per annum, the district has
recorded only 2.7 percent average annual growth
in agricultural sector. The high growth achieved
in the primary sector during 2007-08 and 200910 was probably due to good monsoon, increase
in the contribution of forestry, fisheries and
mining and quarrying. The performance of

secondary sector is also relatively disappointing.
The secondary sector witnessed an average
growth rate of 5.8 percent as compared to the
state average of 8 percent growth per annum. In
tertiary sectors, the district achieved relatively
higher growth rate during the Eleventh Plan
period. The average growth of tertiary sector
Table 6.2
Sector-wise Annual Growth Rate of GDP (Percentage)
Year
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Overall
2006-07
-3.59
8.01
3.16
3.78
2007-08
9.33
9.89
-1.74
3.72
2008-09
1.71
25.54
-4.72
7.14
2009-10
12.45
-10.11
47.72
18.41
2010-11
-6.42
-4.14
8.51
2.53
District Average Growth Rate

(percent)
State Average Growth Rate (percent)
2.69
5.84
10.59
7.12
5.62
8.12
10.28
8.76
Source: Directorate of Economics and Statistics, GOK.
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was 10.6 percent as against the state average of

10.3 percent per annum. The high growth in
tertiary sector was mainly due to better
performance in transport, trade and hotels and
banking and infrastructure sub-sectors. Between
2006-07 and 2010-11, the district has an overall
average annual GDP growth of 7 percent as
compared to 9 percent at state level. Thus, during
the Eleventh Plan period, the economic growth

performance of the district lagged behind the
state level performance.
With the economic development, there is
normally structural shift in favour of initially
secondary and thereafter, tertiary sector. The
data in Table 6.3 demonstrate the change took
place in sectoral composition of the GDP.
Graph 6.1
Table 6.3
Change in Sectoral Composition in District GDP (at constant prices)
Dakshina Kannada
Karnataka
Sector
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
1999-00
22.47
24.19
53.34
28.30
24.30
47.40
Source: Directorate of Economics and Statistics, GOK.
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2006-07
13.51
42.35
44.14
17.41
30.63
51.96
2010-11
10.94
22.46
66.60
16.83
27.71
55.46
The analysis of income data in the table

shows wide inter-taluk disparity in the per capita
income. Mangaluru taluk has per capita income
at current prices RS.121317 and at constant
prices, Rs. 87906. This is more than double of
Bantwal taluk's per capita income and almost
double of Puttur taluk's per capita income. The
highest per capita income of Mangaluru taluk is
apparently due to Mangaluru City. Surprisingly,
Bantwal has the lowest per capita income of
Rs.52711 at current prices and Rs. 36442 at
constant prices. Puttur has the next lowest per
capita income of Rs.61313 at current prices and
Rs. 44659 at constant prices. It is worthy to note
that Sullia, which is mainly agricultural based
economy, has the highest per capita income next
to Mangaluru. It is mainly due to plantation
crops like areca nut and rubber. Similarly,
Belthangady, which is also agricultural based,
has significantly higher per capita income than
Puttur and Bantwal.
The primary sector which contributed 22.5

percent to the district's GDP in 1999-00 now
contributes only 10.9 percent. As against this,
the share of industrial sector, which increased
from 24 percent in 1999-00 to 42 percent in
2006-07, declined to 22 percent in 2010-11. The
tertiary sector dominated the district's economy.
Its share in 1999-00 was 53 percent. Though it
declined to 44 percent in 2006-07, it steadily
increased to 67 percent in 2010-11. The pattern
of change in the structure of the district economy
is almost similar to the pattern of change at the
state level. However, it is important to note the
significant decline in the contribution of primary
sector and also decline in the contribution of
secondary sector to the district GDP. This has
serious economic implications particularly in
terms of income distribution and employment.
Table 6.4 provides taluk-wise net income
(NTDP) and per capita income at both current
and constant prices for the year 2010-11.
Table 6.4
Taluk-wise Net Income (NTDP) and Per capita Income: 2010-11
Taluk
Taluk Net Income
Per capita Income
Current Prices
(Rs in Lakh)
208409
Constant Prices
(Rs. in lakh)
144083
Current Prices
(Rupee)
52711
Constant Prices
(Rupee)
36442
Belthangady
242146
156515
90831
58710
Mangaluru
1206618
874319
121317
87906
Puttur
176490
128537
61313
44654
Sullia
134356
96759
93203
66626
District
1968019
1400213
94179
67007
Bantwal
Source: Dakshina Kannada ZP. Note: Taluk net income computed as Net Taluk Domestic Product (NTDP).
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The analysis of the data in Table 6.5

shows that there is a significant difference in the
overall sectoral composition of GDP.
Table 6.5
Sectoral Composition of Taluk NTDP: 2009-10 (percent at constant prices)
Taluk
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
Agriculture Primary
10.74
13.77
13.97
17.87
1.00
5.27
10.10
15.50
38.18
41.10
6.85
10.97
Secondary
23.55
9.22
30.33
17.16
14.65
24.98
Tertiary
62.67
72.92
64.39
67.33
44.24
64.05
Total GDP
100.00
100.00
100.00
100.00
100.00
100.00
Source: Dakshina Kannada ZP.

Although the economy in all taluks is
driven by service sector, there is a wide intertaluk difference in sectoral composition of
NTDP. In Sullia taluk, Agriculture contributes
38 percent and primary sector, 41 percent to
taluk net income. Similarly, in Belthangady, the
contribution of agriculture is 14 percent and
primary sector, 18 percent. As against this,
Mangaluru taluk, has the lowest contribution of
agriculture (1percent) and primary sector (5
percent). The shares of agriculture and primary
sector are almost similar in the case of Bantwal
and Puttur. In the case of secondary sector,
Mangaluru taluk dominates with 30 percent
contribution, followed by Bantwal (24 percent).
Belthangady is industrially lowest developed in
terms of its contribution to NTDP (9 percent).
Puttur and Sullia are slightly better than
Belthangady in contribution of secondary sector.
In tertiary sector, except Sullia, others have its
contribution above 60 percent. Surprisingly,
Belthangady has the highest (73 percent)
contribution from service sector. This may be
due to religious tourism of Dharmasthala.

While discussing the district-income of
Dakshina Kannada district, the role of
remittance cannot be ignored. The district is one
among the five districts having the highest outmigrant populations in Karnataka State. There
has been continuous intra and inter-district, intra
and inter-state and outside country migration of
people in the district. The remittances from
migrant people play a major role not only in
maintaining a higher standard of living but also
assisting households in investing in housing,
health and education in the rural areas. Along
with neighbouring Udupi district, the district's
economy is considered as money order
economy. The flow of remittance takes place in
a number of ways viz. through money order,
bank transfer, bank drafts, NRI deposits, cash
payments and benami transactions. Besides
cash, households receive several things in kind
clothing, ornaments, jewellery and other
household things. No reliable data on remittance
income inflow at the district level is available.
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Graph 6.2
Box 6.1: Growth in Income in Dakshina Kannada District

Achievements
Areas of Concern
District ranks 3rd in total GDP and 3rd in per

capita income in the state.
Average annual growth of district's income lags behind

state level average. Primary sector's GDP contribution
declined to 10 percent but people living in rural areas are 52
per cent., it is still very high. Secondary sector growth also
witnessed decline. Tertiary sector contribute 67 percent to
GDP and people depending on them are only small
proportion of the population. This has serious implications
on ruralurban income disparity.
With traditional industries like tiles, beedi rolling,

cashew nut processing and emergence of MRPL,
MCF, CAMPCO and various industrial estates, the
district was the hub of industrial development in the
past. Setting up economic zone also expected to
boost industrial development. The district has good
also good potential for agro-processing with
backward and forward linkages with farming
community.
Traditional industries like tiles are facing crisis due to lack

of demand. Beedi industry is almost closing stage. Cashew
nut processing, rice mills and other agro processing depend
mainly on outside importation of raw materials without
benefitting local farmers. MSMEs in industrial estates are
in problem due to recession. All these will affect adversely
the scope for future growth. There is also growing
resistance of people for setting up large scale industries.
Contribution of tertiary sector for district's growth

was significant. The district is known for banking,
good network of transport, education and health
infrastructure and highly educated young
generation. The district has very good potential in
tourism, software, tertiary activities in rural areas
and to become hub of medical tourism, religious
tourism and higher education.
In spite of beautiful coastal belt, lush green Western Ghats,

known historical forts and good scope for religious
pilgrimage, tourist potential remained unexploited. In spite
of international airport and port facility, expected boost for
various tertiary activities have not taken place, Banking and
education sector are becoming very competitive and scope
for further expansion limited.
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6.3 Agriculture: Cropping Pattern,

Irrigation, Livestock and Fisheries
The majority of the population lives in
rural areas of Dakshina Kannada district. Out of
total population of 20 lakh, 10.94 (52 percent)
people either directly or indirectly dependent for
their livelihoods on agriculture and allied
activities be it crop farming, horticulture,
animal husbandry or fisheries. As shown in
Table 2.6 in chapter two, out of 2.09 lakh
farmers, 1.53 lakh farmers (73 percent) are
marginal farmers with land-holding less than
1ha. Small farmers with 1 to 2 ha constitute 18
percent of farmers and together, they account for
91 percent of farming community. The average
size of land-holding works out to 0.85 ha.
Challenge before the district is how to increase
income of the marginal and small farmers, who
constitute the majority of farming community, to
improve their standard of living.
i) Cropping Pattern
The scope for increasing agricultural income
through expansion of crop production appears to
be limited. Crop production in the district is
mainly concentrated on paddy. Other food crops
grown are pulses. Pulses grown are black gram,

horse gram, green gram and cowpeas. Sesamum
is the only oilseed grown in the district. Besides
seasonal food and oilseed crops, the cropping
pattern in the district also includes sugarcane,
plantation and fruits and vegetable crops.
Plantation crops grown are coconuts, areca nuts
cashew nuts and rubber. Major fruit crops grown
are mango, banana, pineapple, sapota, lemon
and guava.
As already explained in the chapter 2, the
district witnessed deceleration in the cropped
area during the last two decades. The area under
food production is steadily declining. During the
period between 2001-02 and 2011-12, the
cropped area under paddy declined from 62979
ha to 55166. The area under pulses declined from
3769ha to 3277 ha during this period. The
district has one of the lowest cropping intensity.
It is 1.18. It declined from 1.21 in the crop year
2001-02. The declining trend in food grains
production in the district is almost similar in all
taluks. Farmers in the district are abandoning
food crop production mainly because of labour
scarcity, high cost of cultivation and nonviability of growing these crops. Sugarcane
which was grown in more than 500 ha is now
almost abandoned due to the closure of the sugar
factory in Brahmavar. Thus, viewed from long
term perspective, the present mono-crop
dominated cropping pattern does not hold the
promise of propelling higher growth in farmers'
income.
The district is known for plantation crops
such as coconut, areca nut, rubber, cocoa and
cashew nut. The cultivated areas under these
crops are: areca nut, 27734ha, coconut, 16077
ha, rubber, 10564 ha, cocoa, 952 ha and cashew,
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30967 ha. The district also grows variety of fruits

and area under fruit crops is 6141 ha. Vegetables
flowers and spices are grown in about 3217 ha.
Sugarcane is grown only in 44 ha. The area under
plantation crops witnessed significant increase
during 1980s and 1990s. In recent years, except
rubber, the areas under other plantation crops are
almost remain stagnant and even some of them
started declining due to wide fluctuation and
uncertainty of product prices and increasing
production costs. The area under fruit and
vegetables also witnessed deceleration.
The district has good scope for
horticulture crops. Only way to increase farmers'
income in agriculture depends on the sustaining
the horticulture development in the district. All

taluks have suitable agro-climatic conditions to
grow horticulture crops like areca nut, coconut,
cashew, cocoa, rubber and variety of fruits,
spices and vegetables. There is also good scope
for growing medicinal plants. There is a growing
demand for ayurvedic medicine both in
domestic and export markets. Since all taluks
have well connected road network to
international airport and sea port at Mangaluru,
the promotion of fresh vegetables, fruits and
medicinal plants provide good scope for export
and thereby improving farmers' income. There is
also a large scope for value addition in crops like
fruits, cashew nuts, coconuts and spices. Though
Box No. 6.2: Varanashi Farm:

Water Conservation A Success Story
Varanashi Research Foundation (VRF) a charitable trust promoted by Dr. Varanashi Krishna Moorthy for
promoting agriculture and allied fields through research, education and extension with emphasis on
promoting eco-friendly and sustainable organic technologies. The Foundation is governed by dedicated
research experts from different agricultural disciplines drawn from Agricultural Universities, Government
Research Institutes and private organizations. The Foundation has farm land owned by Varanashi family to
undertake field experiments. The farm grows besides rice and pulses, cashew, areca nut, coconut, cocoa,
vanilla, pepper and several forest plants. The farm is 100 percent organic. It has also microbiology and
chemistry laboratory units. It has also sister concern: Varanahi Agro Sustainable Technology (VAST) centre
to provide required services.
The achievement of the VRF includes:
Improvement in cultivation methodology of oyster mushroom;
Development of eco-friendly efficient technology to recycle organic wastes like coir pith, rice mill
wastes, cocoa husks, coffee husks, etc. for composing.
Eco-friendly artificial pollination in areca nut.
Developing bio-control measures and using manures to combat pepper wilt.
Developing measures to control Kole roga (fruit rot) in areca and coconut.
Development of eco-friendly VRF method of composing.
With the support of GOK, the VRF has worked on a model organic village project during 2005-08 which
benefitted 360 farm families. In2006, VRF formed Varanashi Organic Farmers Society. With the financial
assistance from the National Centre for Organic Farming, Government of India, it helped 1500 farmers
from Dakshina Kannada district. In 2006, it won state level APJ Abdul Kalam environmental award. The
State Government has also honoured shri Moorthy with Krishi Pandith award and also best organic
farmer awards.
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the district has number of cashew nut processing

industries, they, at present, depend, for more
than 50 percent of their raw cashew on exports
from African countries. They do not provide
forward and backward linkages to farmers in the
district to increase their production and thereby
increase their income.
ii) Irrigation
The lowest cropping intensity in the
district is mainly due to lack of irrigation
facilities. Out of 157683 gross cropped areas,
only 26237 ha are under double cropped area
through irrigation. In the case of food grains
crops, the proportion of irrigated area works out
to only 20 percent of total cultivated area. The
total area irrigated in the district is 72378 ha,
most of which is used for horticulture crops like
coconut and areca nut. Out of 72378 ha irrigated
area, 41104 ha (57 percent) is irrigated by open
wells and 9916 ha (14 percent) by tube-wells.
The lift irrigation accounts for 2147 ha (3
percent). The remaining is mainly through tanks

and check dams. Taluk-wise, Belthangady has
the highest (20626 ha) irrigated area, followed
by Bantwal (16308 ha). Sulla has the lowest
irrigated area (11340 ha). Mangaluru taluk has
12124 ha and Puttur, 11980 ha cultivated area
under irrigation. In spite of many rivers flowing
and good scope for irrigation, there is no any
medium or major lift irrigation schemes in the
district.
iii) Livestock
Another important agriculture allied
activity for increasing famer's income in the
district is animal husbandry. The district was,
once, considered unsuitable for livestock
development based on the agro-climatic
conditions,. The situation has now changed.
During the last two decades, the district
witnessed white revolution. Recognizing the
economic benefits of dairy, the small and
marginal farmers and other weaker sections of
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the rural community have taken up dairy as a

viable option for their livelihood. Formation of
self-help groups particularly women and
availability of bank finance gave a fillip to the
dairy development in the district. Household
managed mini-dairies not only provided gainful
family employment but also supplemented
assured daily family income to improve their
livelihood.
According to livestock census 2012, the
district has 229838 indigenous cows, 166771
cross-bred cows and 15119 buffaloes.
Compared to 2002 livestock census data, there
was a significant decline in number of
indigenous dairy cows and buffaloes and
increase in the number of cross-bred cows. As
per 1997 census, the district had 355130

indigenous cows and 57209 buffaloes. The
livestock census 2002 records 230445
indigenous cows, 109047 cross breed and 26062
buffaloes. Taluk-wise, Mangaluru has the
highest number of cross-bred cows (47713),
followed by Puttur (40545). Sullia has the lowest
number of cross breed cows (18113). Milk is
procured from farmers by The Karnataka Milk
Federation which has a dairy processing plant at
Mangaluru. It has net work of more than 300
Milk Produces Societies and cooling centres in
the district and procures and processes more than
two lakh litres per day. There are also private
milk processing units in the district for
procurement and processing of milk.
Box No. 6.3 Dairy as an Enterprise or Self-employment

Muslims in the district usually engage more in petty trading activities in rural areas. Ahmed
Mustapha, son of Abdul Khader of Golthamajalu village, after his graduation was persuaded by his father
to enter his trading business. Mustapha wanted to stand on his own leg and do something on his own. He
was very much interested in agriculture. He decided to start his own dairy. Though he did not have
experience, he started the dairy by purchasing four cows. Initially he has to face many teething problems
and income generated from the dairy was too inadequate for a full time job. He contacted the Government
veterinary doctor at Kalladka and obtained information about dairy and facilities available from the
government and banks for setting up commercial dairy. With his advice, he approached Corporation
Bank, Panemangaluru. The Bank, on his request, has approved a loan of Rs.5 lakh. Under the guidance of
the Government veterinary doctor, he constructed modern cowshed
and other facilities required as well as purchased eight high yielding
cows. Understanding the importance of green fodder, under the
guidance of Veterinary Department, he started to grow green maize,
green grasses like N.B. 21, B.H.18 etc in one ha. In 2010, through
Corporation Bank, he got additional loan of Rs.1.25 lakh to expand
his dairy. With the income generated from his dairy, he could
diversify to set up organic coconut, areca nut and other crop
enterprises.
At resent he has 20 milk yielding cows and supplies 180
litres of milk daily to local milk society. He has mechanized milking
and harvesting of grasses and cutting. His farm has become now a
model for other youths to emulate. He proudly says that his success
was mainly due to timely assistance and guidance he gets from the
Dairy Farrming Source of livlihood
government's veterinary department.z
for the deprieved
Source: Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Department, Mangaluru.
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Other animal husbandry activities

include goat rearing and poultry. The meat
production in the district is, now, very
negligible, one of the lowest in the state. As per
livestock census data, the district has 25749
goats, 307 sheep and 5332 pigs. There is a
growing demand for meat production in the
district. The district mainly depends on other
districts for supply of meat animals. With the
increase in meat price, a few commercial goat
rearing farms have recently come into operation.
In the case of poultry, the district has 13.23 lakh
poultry birds. Traditionally, the backyard

poultry keeping was very common in the district
and not now. Except a few commercial poultries,
there is no expansion in the poultry sector. The
district depends on outside supply for poultry
birds and eggs. The major problems faced by the
sector include shortage of fodder, increasing cost
of livestock feed, difficulties of getting bank
credit for other than dairy, inhibition among
some communities particularly goat rearing and
absence of modern abattoirs and processing
facility.
Box 6.4: Milk Societies led White Revolution and

'Nandini' a Brand.
Agro-climatically, Dakshina Kannada district was, in the past, not a favoured destination for
promoting dairy. The monsoon heavy rainfall, extreme weather and hilly geographic terrain, all these
were considered unsuitable for high milk yielding exotic pure bred cows. The indigenous-bred cows
were low yielding with long dry period and commercially uneconomical. With urbanization and
growing demand for milk, many efforts were made in the past following the pattern of 'AMUL' for the
development of dairy but they failed miserably. The formation of Dakshina Kannada Milk Producer's
Union in 1980, in fact, paved the way for ushering white revolution in the district. A 100000 litre
capacity milk processing plant was set up in Mangaluru city to start with. In 1990s, milk producers
cooperative societies were formed and milk collection centres were set up in almost all villages. The
artificial insemination was used on local breeds to bring out high yielding indigenous cross-bred cows.
Small and marginal farmers and other weaker sections of the community were encouraged to set up
mini dairies with cross-bred cows with the help of government subsidy and bank finance. Self-help
Groups of women were promoted to undertake mini dairies. All these efforts led to white revolution in
the district. The milk collection which was 2500 litres per day in early 1990s increased to more than
2lakh litres per day. The District Milk Union today processes 2.70 lakh litres of milk per day and
produces other milk products like ghee, butter, curds, butter milk, pada and other sweets. All these
products are sold under brand name of 'Nandini', which is now popular brand for milk in the district.
The district has at present network of artificial insemination centres throughout the district. Almost all
villages are covered by more than 300 Milk Producer's Cooperative Societies. The beneficiaries of milk
revolution mainly belong to weaker section of the society including SCs and STs. Today mini-dairies
provide gainful family employment, daily assured income, nutritional security to the family and
revolutionized livelihood pattern of weaker section of the community in rural areas. This achievement
was made in a short period of last two decades. The role played by the Department of Animal
Husbandry, District Milk Union (KMF) Stree-shakti self-help groups and the nationalized Banks was
critical in this achievement.
Source: KMF, Mangaluru.
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iv) Fisheries
The coastal belt of 42 km comprises of
21 fishing villages in the district. Out of 53584
people living in the fishing villages, 30651
engage directly in fishing activity for their
livelihood. The annual fish catch has increased
from 47912 tonnes in 2001-02 to 138506 tonnes
in 2011-12. As stated in chapter 2, the district has
network of 60 purse-seiner boats, 890
mechanized traveller boats, 1206 gillnets, 60 ice
plants and 11 cold storages. There are 22
fishermen cooperative societies and 4
fisherwomen cooperative societies with
membership of 30651. There is, thus, good
scope for increasing fish catch and processing

for value addition. There is also good scope for
inland fish production as the district has 207
tanks for fisheries and many river tributaries.
The annual inland fish production is around
1150 tons. With a view to promote inland fishing
to increase farmers' income, the district's
Fisheries Department has set a fish breeding
centre at Pilikula. Considering the critical
importance of fisheries for nutritional security,
employability and livelihood of a vast majority
of coastal community and earning foreign
exchange, the government has initiated a
number of fishermen welfare schemes, details of
which are given in Box 6.5.
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6.5: Government's Fishermen Welfare Schemes

1. Mathsyavahini: Assistance to fish marketing - Financial assistance from banks is
provided for purchase of bicycle and insulated boxes with government subsidy of 50
percent subject to maximum limit of Rs.2000 per head and for two-wheeler with insulated
box with subsidy of 25 percent subject to limit of RS.10000 per head. To SHGs and
cooperative societies, for purchase of 3-wheeler tempo, 25 percent subsidy with maximum
limit of Rs.30000 and for 4-wheeler vehicle, 25 percent subsidy with maximum limit of
Rs.34000.
2. Motorization of Traditional Fishing Crafts: Under centrally sponsored scheme, 50
percent of cost is provided as subsidy subject to the maximum limit of Rs.30000 and the
balance provided by bank finance.
3. Modernization of Fish catch: Assistance to purchase fishing requisites to
motorized/traditional boats: 100 percent subsidy with limit of Rs.5000 per boat for
purchase of nylon nets, ropes, sinkers floats etc.
4. Matsya Mahila Swavalambana yojane: A revolving fund of Rs.10000 is provided to
SHGs of fisherwomen involved in fishing activities like marketing.
5. Matsya Ashraya Scheme: To provide houses to houseless fisher family at a cost of
Rs.60000.
6.Group Accident Insurance Scheme: Under this centrally sponsored scheme, premium
of Rs.14 per head is paid to the National Federation of Fisheries Cooperative Ltd. New
Delhi towards insurance coverage of Rs.100000 in case of death and Rs.25000 in case of
partial disability as a result of hazards of natural calamities during fishing.
7. Distress Relief Fund: To provide Rs.50000 per head as relief to fishermen and their
dependents in case of death/permanent disability while fishing.
Source: Department of Fisheries, ZP
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The main constraints for development of

fisheries sub-sector in the district are: lack of
infrastructure facilities such as hygienic landing
facilities, hygienic auction ward, water supply,
drainage, electricity, ice plant and cold storage,
unorganized market dominated by exploitative
middlemen, over-exploitation of inshore
fishing, absence of value addition through fish
processing, encroachment from deep fishing
enterprises in the offshore fishing and lack of
freezing container facilities for shipment. The
Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) Act provisions
also adversely affect the livelihood security of
the traditional fisher community living in 'no

development zone'. The CRZ Act prohibits
development activities such as setting up and
expansion of any industry, operation or
processes and manufacture or handling or
storage and construction of new houses in 200
metres from high tide line on the landward side
in the case of seafront and 100 metres along tidal
influenced water bodies or width of creek.
Consequently, the fisher community living in
these areas is deprived of any development
activities to improve their livelihood.
Mechanized Fishing
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6.4 BPL Households, MGNREGA

Poverty usually refers to deprivation of
income that is essential for obtaining a minimum
basket of goods and services that are required for
human existence. In broader sense, poverty is
multidimensional4. Besides income deprivation,
it should include social deprivation like
shortfalls in health and education, inadequacy of
shelter, vulnerability and exposure to risks and
social marginalization and exclusion due to
rigidities in social stratification. In human
development perspective, it refers to deprivation
of capabilities that provide a person access to
education, health, income, freedoms, choices
and opportunities to lead the life one values
most. Thus, poverty refers to not only low
income and consumption but also low
achievement in education, health, nutrition, and
other areas of human development. Considering
the multidimensional nature of poverty, UNDP
has introduced the Multidimensional Poverty
Index (MPI) in its 2010 HDR. Eradication of
poverty is also the first and foremost important
goal specified in the UN Millennium
Development Goals for developing countries.
Stage 1
The goal is to reduce poverty by half between the

base year 1990 and reference year 2015.
Poverty in Karnataka is one of the
highest among the states. Incidence of poverty
line estimated by the Planning Commission
based on NSS 66th round consumer expenditure
data (2009-10) shows that Karnataka has
poverty ratio of 18.5 percent with 10.87 million
poor. In rural areas, the poverty ratio was 15.8
percent with 5.87 million poor and in urban
areas, 23.5 percent with 5.09 million poor. The
district level poverty estimates as given in the
Economic Survey of Karnataka 2011-12, shows
that Dakshina Kannada district has the poverty
ratio of 2.5 percent in rural areas and 14.1
percent in urban areas. In other words, according
to this estimates, the poverty in the district is
more an urban phenomenon rather than the rural.
Under public distribution system (PDS),
in order to ensure food security to the people
below poverty line (BPL), the Government of
Karnataka directed districts to identify BPL
families based on 14 eligibility criteria. The
eligibility criteria to qualify as BPL families
included inter alia exclusion of income tax
Stage 2
Stage 3
Pond Reconstruction Work under MGNREGS

4
There are lot of controversies on definition of poverty and poverty line. No reliable data are available on poverty line at the district and
Taluk level. Without going into intricacies and measurement problems, an attempt is made to assess poverty incidence in the district, based
on data available on broad poverty indicators.
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payers, government/public sector/private sector

employees, professionals, land holders above 3
ha dry land or having irrigated land,
two/three/four-wheeler vehicle owners, houserented income earners and those who have
monthly electricity bill above RS.450. Based on
the district's survey, the BPL families identified
and cards issued are taluk-wise given in Table
6.6.
The total number of BPL Card holders in the
district is 175314. The percentage of BPL
families eligible for BPL card in the total number
of families in the district works out to 50.13

percent. Mangaluru taluk has the highest number
of BPL cardholders (68024), but as proportion of
total families, it has the lowest percentage
(40.8). Bantwal has the second highest number
(39492) and percentage of households (64) with
BPL cards. Sulla has the lowest number of BPL
card holders (14978).
The proportion of BPL cardholders to total
families in Sullia works out to 54.5 percent. In
Belthangady, it is 59.5 percent and in Puttur, 53
percent.
Table: 6.6
Taluk-wise BPL Families in the District
Taluk
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
BPL Families
(Number)
39492
27002
68024
25818
14978
175314
Total Families
(Number)
61789
45367
166424
48642
27473
349695
Percentage
63.91
59.52
40.87
53.08
54.52
50.13
Source: Food and Civil Supplies Department, ZP, Dakshina Kannada.

Total families from Census of India - 2011
Graph 6.3
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Well Constructed Under MGNREGS

Table 6.7 analyses different categories of BPL
cardholders in different taluks. Anthyodaya
Anna Yojana (AAY) covers poorest of poor and
considered those who are not able to afford two
square meals per day.
Table 6.7
BPL Card Holders in Dakshina Kannada District: 2011-12(number)
Taluk
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
Anthyodaya
others
Total
3184
3068
5018
2753
1858
15881
36308
23934
63006
23065
13120
159433
39492
27002
68024
25818
14978
175314
Anthyodaya as
% of Total BPL
Cards
8.06
11.36
7.38
10.66
12.40
9.06
Source: Food and Civil Supplies Department, Dakshina Kannada.

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BPL card holders

as % of Total Ration
Cards
55.35
52.24
42.26
46.42
49.25
47.38
They are the poorest segment of the BPL

population and mainly included landless
agricultural labourers, households headed by
widows, terminally ill persons, family affected
by HIV and elderly persons with no specific
income. In Dakshina Kannada district, they are
found to be 15881 households, which constitute
9 percent of the total BPL cardholders and 4.5
percent of total households. Taluk-wise the
percentage of AAY card holders in BPL
cardholders varies from 7.4 percent in
Mangaluru to 12.4 percent in Sullia. The BPL
card holders, on the other hand, constitute 47
percent of the total ration card holders in the
district. Taluk-wise, it varies from 42 percent in
Mangaluru to 55 percent in Bantwal.
With a view to alleviate poverty, the
National Rural Employment Guarantee Act was
enacted in Parliament in August, 2005 to provide
100 days guaranteed wage employment per year
to every rural poor household5. The Act is now

known as Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment
Guarantee Act (MGREGA). The objective of the
Act is to enhance livelihood security in rural
areas by providing employment entitlement of at
least 100 days every year to one adult member of
a poor household at a minimum wage. As per the
Act, the programme is to be implemented on
demand-driven basis and if the work is not
provided, within 15 days of the demand for work
by the applicant, then unemployment allowance
at the rate of 25 percent of the minimum wage for
the first 30 days and 50 percent for the remaining
period has to be paid. The MGNREGA program
is implemented as a centrally sponsored scheme
on cost sharing basis between the centre and the
state. With the guaranteed work and assured
income, starvation deaths, malnutrition and
related sufferings can be avoided among poorest
of the poor.
Road Construction Work under MGNREGS

5
The rural poor include those unemployed who are willing to work at a low level of productivity and wages. They have no or
low assets, no skill, poor risk bearing capacity, and poor credit worthiness, and labor as only asset.
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The MGNREGA programme came into

effect in 2008 in Dakshina Kannada district. In
the first two years of implementation, the
progress achieved under the program was
negligible as the GPs who were to implement the
program were not prepared for implementing
such a scheme. Even thereafter, however, the
programme has not taken off as expected. Table
6.7 highlights the performance of the
programme during 2011-12.
During the year 2010-11, the district has
issued 94884 job cards under the programme.
Out of those issued job cards, only 19124 ((20
percent) demanded employment under
MGNREGA. Though, almost all who demanded
worked under the programme, hardly 904
availed mandated 100 days employment. Talukwise comparison of implementation of
MGNREGA program shows that Bantwal has
performed better than other taluks. Out of 25321
job cards issued, 5521 demanded employment
and 5517 actually worked under the programme.

The number of families benefitted from the
mandated 100 days employment was 449. In
Mangaluru taluk, out of 15103 job card holders,
3629 have worked and only 261 benefited from
100 days employment. In Belthangady, Puttur
and Sullia, the performance under the
programme is relatively worse
The main reason for poor performance in
implementation of MGNREGA programme in
the district is mainly due to the prevailing labour
market condition. With the acute shortage of
labour in rural areas and resultant high wage rate
in the district, there is no demand for work at
minimum wage rate. As against the prevailing
daily market wage rate ranging between Rs.250
to Rs.400, the minimum wage rate under the
MGNREGA was Rs.204 per day6. The program
does not take into consideration diversity of
labour market conditions prevailing in different
districts. The statutory minimum wage rate does
not recognize the inter-district variations in
Table 6.8
Dakshina Kannada District: Implementation of MGNREGA Programme - 2011-12
Taluk
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
Job Cards
Issued
(Number)
25321
25660
15103
16163
12637
94884
Households
demanded
employment
(Number)
5521
4036
3644
2917
3006
19124
Persons/
Households
worked
(Number)
5517
4033
3629
2916
2999
19094
Source: ZP, Dakshina Kannada.
Now the wage rate under MGNREGA is revised to Rs. 204
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Families availed 100

days employment
(Number)
449
92
261
25
77
904
wage rates. Other reasons are: delays in

allocation of work to those who registered, delay
in wage payments and bureaucratic hassle. In
general, the MGNREGA program has not made
any significant impact on poverty reduction,
empowerment of women and improvement in
livelihoods of rural people. Instead, it has
indirectly benefitted the rural poor by causing
significant increase in rural wage rate in real
terms.
6.5. Landless Households

The land is the main income generating
asset in rural areas. Poverty is also closely
related to ownership of assets. For the landless
people, the labour is only their asset and wage
employment is the only source of survival. In
rural areas, the landless households usually
belong to landless agricultural labourers and
include SCs and STs. No reliable data is,

however, available on landless households. The
agricultural labourers in the district, as per 2011
census, are 24854. All agricultural labourers
cannot be treated as landless. The land holding
distribution pattern in different taluks in the
district is analysed in detail in chapter 2. The
marginal farmers cultivating below 1ha
constitute 73 percent of farming community.
The average size of land holding of marginal
farmers is 0.38 ha. With the present monocropping pattern and cropping intensity, these
farmers would not be in a position to earn a net
income of even US$1.25 per day, which is the
World Bank's indicator of poverty line for
classifying the poorest of the poor in the world.
Since the marginal farmers in the district have to
depend on labour for their livelihood, they can
be considered as constituent belonging to
landless households.
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Landless Agriculture Labourers
An attempt is also made to estimate

landless households in the rural areas as the
difference between total rural households and
number of agricultural land holders. Table 6.9
sets out taluk-wise data on the landless
households.
At the outset, it should be noted that there
is a possibility of one family owning more than
one agricultural land holding and to that extent,
the estimates of landless households are
underestimated. The total number of landless
households in the district as per this estimate is
16146, which works out to 7 per cent of the total
rural households. Taluk-wise Belthangady and
Mangaluru taluks have the highest number of
landless households. Puttur has the lowest
number of landless households. Sullia has 2195
households without land. It is also important to
note that among 20416 SC households in rural

areas, SC cultivators are 10959. Nearly 9457 SC
households are landless. Their percentage works
out to 46.3 percent. In the case of STs, out of
13111 households, 9618 households are
cultivators and 3493 are landless. The
percentage of ST landless households works out
to 26.6 percent. The landless households in STs
mainly belong to Koraga community who are the
poorest of the poor in Dakshina Kannada
district.
6.6. Employment and Unemployment

Employment is the cornerstone of
economic and social empowerment. Growth has
meaning only if it is translated into gainful job
opportunities for the people to improve their
livelihood. Since employment is the means to
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Table 6.9
Landless Households in Dakshina Kannada District
Taluk
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
Total Rural Households

(Number)
No of Agricultural land
holders (Number)
Landless
Households
54562
52151
44003
46647
27880
225243
54008
43375
39645
46384
25685
209097
554
8776
4358
263
2195
16146
Note: Landless households include urban households.
Graph 6.4
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secure livelihood entitlement, it is a crucial link

between the growth and human development.
Besides its critical importance for individual
well-being, it is the integral part of the many
broader social objectives, such as poverty
reduction, productivity growth, social cohesion
and inclusive development. For growth to be
broad-based and inclusive, it must create
adequate livelihood opportunities through
employment commensurate with the
expectations of a growing work force.
Employment is thus transformational
economy grows as people get productive and
quality employment opportunities and work
their way out of poverty and hardship through
better livelihoods not only for themselves but
also for future generation. As labour is the main
asset for a majority of the people, unless growth
is employment oriented, it will not contribute to
well being of people.
Dakshina Kannada district witnessed
increase in population from 18.98 lakh in 2001
to 20.90 lakh in 2011 (Table 2.4 in Chapter 2).
During the decade (2001-11), the district's
population increased by 191919. The decadal

growth rate in population works out to 10
percent. The relatively lower population growth
was mainly due to the high out- migration of
young people. There was a decline in population
living in rural areas from 1168428 to 1093563;
accounting for decline of 6.4 percent in the
decade. As against this, the urban population in
the district has increased from 729302 to
996086; accounting for an increase of 36.6. The
proportion of the urban population in the total
population increased from 38.4 percent to 47.7
percent. It is gratifying to note that contrary to
past trend of migration to outside district, the
migration during the decade is taking place from
rural areas to urban areas within the district.
Taluk-wise comparison, however, shows
that the rapid trend towards urbanization has
taken place more in Bantwal and Belthangady
taluks. In these taluks, urban population more
than doubled. Mangaluru taluk, on the other
hand, witnessed only 30.5 percent increase in
urban population. Increase in urban population
in Puttur and Sullia is only marginal; 27 percent
Table 6.10
Growth of Work Force in Dakshina Kannada District
Details
Dakshina
Kannada
District
Karnataka
State
Male
Female
Total
Male
Female
Total
2001
Number
Percent
546404
57.74
399986
42.26
946390
100.00
15235355
8299436
23534791
64.74
35.26
100.00
2011
Number
Percent
620903
62.23
376818
37.77
997721
100.00
18270116
9602481
27872597
Source: Census- 2001and 2011
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65.55
34.45
100.00
Decadal Growth
Rate
Percent
13.63
-5.80
5.42
19.92
15.70
18.43
and 11 percent respectively. Surprisingly in the

district, there was no significant change in the
gender composition and their growth. While in
rural areas, there was a decline in growth of both
male and female population, in urban areas,
there was an increase in both men and women
population. Taluk-wise, this trend is observed
only in the case of Bantwal and Mangaluru
taluks. In other taluks, there is an increase in
male and female population both in urban and
rural areas.
The dynamics of demographic profile of
the district as shown above more or less
determine the composition, work participation
and the pattern of employment in the district.
Table 6.10 sets out the growth in the workforce
in the district during the decade 2001-11.
The concept work force is different
from the conceptlabour force. The labour
force includes all people in the age group of 16 to
60 years, who are working and those seeking or
available for work. The workforce, on the other
hand, includes only people who actually
participate in work. It refers to employment ;
those who are fully or partially employed and
does not include unemployed As shown in the

table, the total workforce in the district has
increased from 9.46 lakh in 2001 to 9.98 lakh in
2011. The decadal increase in employment
works out to 5.4 percent. It is significantly lower
than the state decadal growth rate of 18 percent.
This is a matter of serious concern.
The composition of the workforce in the
table shows that while the proportion of male
workers in total work force increased from 58
percent in 2001 to 62 percent in 2011, there is a
decline in the share of female workers from 42.3
percent to 37.8 percent during this period. In the
state as whole, no such change in the gender
composition of employment has taken place. It is
also important to note that while the decadal
growth of male employment increased is 13.6
percent, the female employment declined by 5.8
percent during this period. Contrary to this at the
state level, the employment of both male and
female workers increased at 19.9 percent and
15.7 percent respectively.
The analysis of the data on growth rate of
workforce in different taluks in the district in
Table 6.11 clearly demonstrates wide inter-taluk
Table 6.11
Taluk-wise Growth of Work Force in Dakshina Kannada District
Taluk
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
Male
106244
70721
242507
83140
43792
546404
2001
(number)
Female
93180
57218
152804
67298
29486
399986
Total
199424
127939
395311
150438
73278
946390
Male
119378
81262
286488
88803
44972
620903
2011
(number)
Female
85925
56804
151797
58226
24066
376818
Total
205303
138066
438285
147029
69038
997721
Decadal Growth
(percent)
Male Female Total
12.36
-7.79
2.95
14.90
-0.72
7.91
18.14
-0.66
10.87
6.81
-13.48 -2.27
2.69
-18.38 -5.79
13.63
-5.79
5.42
Source: Census 2001 and 2011
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gender disparities in the employment of men and

women during 2001-11. In all taluks, women
employment declined, while employment of
men increased significantly during the last
decade. Sullia and Puttur witnessed highest
decline in women employment, whereas in
Mangaluru and Belthangady, the decline in
women employment was only marginal.
In the case of male employment,
Bantwal, Belthangady and Mangaluru have
achieved higher growth, whereas Puttur and
Sullia witnessed lower growth. In the case of
female employment, Belthangady and
Mangaluru have witnessed lower decline, while
Puttur, Sullia and Bantwal have higher decline.
For the district as a whole, there was an
employment growth of 14 percent in the case of
men, while women employment witnessed a
decadal decline of 6 percent.
During 2001-11, the district recorded a
decline in the rural workforce from 632222 to
568551, accounting for a percentage decline of
10 percent. As against this, the urban workforce

increased from 314168 to 429170, representing
an increase of 37 percent during this period. The
gender-wise employment data shows that the
rural areas witnessed decline in both male and
female workforce. The women workforce
declined from 289109 in 2001 to 232812 in 2011
and the male work force declined from 343113 to
335739 during the same period. However, it
should be noted that the decline in women
employment is significantly higher (19.5
percent) than men employment (2 percent).
Contrary to this, in urban areas, there was a
significant increase in employment of both male
and female workforce. While men employment
increased from 203292 to 285164, accounting
for an increase of 40 percent, the women
employment increased from110877 to 144006,
reflecting an increase of 30 percent. The decline
in the rural workforce and increase in urban
workforce, in the dynamics of economic
development, is a welcome trend.
Graph 6.5
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Unemployment occurs when people who

are eligible, available and seek work but have
not been able to find suitable gainful
employment. Usually, it is estimated as the
difference between labour force in the
productive age group of above 16 years and
below 60 years excluding those studying and
workforce actually employed. The
unemployment rate is the percentage of persons
not having work or unemployed in the total
labour force. National Sample Survey, the only
source of unemployment data, does not provide
district-wise data. In the absence of these data, it
is very difficult to determine the extent of
unemployment prevailing in rural and urban
areas in the district. The Census 2011 provides
data on non-workers. It includes children,
students and retired aged people, who cannot be
considered as unemployed. In absence of data on
age-wise distribution of the population, at
present, it is also not possible to determine the
non-workers in the age group of 16 to 60 years.
Notwithstanding above the census data
on non-workers shows to some extent the
magnitude of dependent and unemployed

people. Hence it can be considered as proxy to
unemployed. Table 6.12 sets out taluk-wise data
on non-workers in the district.
From the table, it may be seen that in the
district as a whole, the total number of nonworkers increased from 9.51 lakh in 2001 to
10.92 lakh in 2011. The decadal growth among
non-workers in the district works out to 14.7 per
cent. It is significantly higher than the decadal
growth in population (10 percent). It is also
slightly higher than the state average of 13
percent. Out of 10.92 lakh non-workers in 2011,
5.25 lakh (48 percent) are in rural areas and 52
per cent in urban areas. The women constitute 61
percent of the total rural workers. In urban areas,
women form 63 percent of urban non-workers.
The taluk-wise analysis of the data shows intertaluk differences in the growth of non-workers.
Puttur witnessed highest decadal growth of 22
percent; followed by Bantwal, 17 percent
.Belthangady has the lowest decadal growth of 8
percent. Mangaluru and Sullia have growth
percentage 14 and 13 respectively.
Table 6.12
Taluk-wise Growth of Non-workers in Dakshina Kannada District
Taluk
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
2001
(number)
2011
(number)
Decadal Growth
(percent)
162130
118555
487545
115634
67476
951340
190077
128523
556317
140822
76189
1091928
17.24
8.41
14.10
21.78
12.91
14.78
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6.7 Main and Marginal Workers

In the Census Data, the workers are
classified as the main workers, who are engaged
on full time basis and marginal workers, who are
part-time workers. Table 6.13 shows the
comparative data on the composition of
workforce in the district and the state.
The analysis of the data in the table
reveals the change in composition of the
workforce. In 2001, the district had 89 percent
Main workers and 11 percent marginal workers.
The share of the main workers in 2011 increased
to 92 percent. The share of marginal workers in
total workers reduced to 8 percent. During the
decade 2001-11, the numbers of main workers
increased by 9 percent, while the number of
marginal workers declined by 21 percent. The
growth of total workforce in the district took
place mostly in the increase in the main workers.
The comparative data at the state level shows
that there was only marginal increase from 82
percent to 84 percent among the main workers
and the marginal workers declined from 18
percent to 16 percent. However, it is important

to note that the decadal growth of main workers
in the district (9 percent) is significantly lower
than the state average (20 percent).
The gender composition of the
workforce shows that while the share of male
workers among main workers increased from 60
percent in 2001 to 64 percent in 2011, the share
of women workers in the main workers declined
from 40 percent to 36 percent during the decade.
In the case of marginal workers, on the other
hand, the share of the male workers increased
from 39 percent in 2001 to 46 percent in 2011,
the proportion of female workers declined from
61 percent to 54 percent during this period. The
decline in the share of women in both main and
marginal workforces was mainly due to decline
in the number of women in the total work force.
There was a decline of female workers in the
main workers category by 1 percent and in
marginal category, by 30 percent. As against this,
the number of male workers in the main category
increased by 15 percent and in marginal category
Table 6.13
Composition of workers and their Growth
Gender
Main
2001
(number)
Margl.
Total
Male
Female
Total
505962
335547
841509
40442
64439
104881
546404
399986
946390
Male
Female
Total
13897
5468
19365
1338
2832
4170
15236
8299
23535
2011
(number)
Main
Margl.
Total
District
582498
38405 620903
331978
44840 376818
914476
83245 997721
State (000)
16350
1920
18270
7047
2555
9602
23397
4475
27872
Source: Census: 2001 and 2011- Margl. = marginal
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Growth rate
(Percent)
Main Margl. Total
15.1
-1.1
8.8
-40.4
-30.4
-20.6
13.6
-5.8
5.4
17.6
28.8
20.8
43,5
-10.8
7.3
19,9
15.7
18.4
The data in Table 6.15 analyses talukwise gender composition of both main and
marginal workers in the district during 2011.
declined by 40 percent. The gender composition

of main and marginal workers in the district is
more or less on similar pattern as observed in the
state level.
During 2001-11, all the taluks witnessed

increase in the number of workers in the main
category. In the case of marginal workers, except
Mangaluru, all other taluks witnessed
significant decline. Inter-taluk differences are
very wide in both the cases. In the category of
main workers, Belthangady recorded 13 percent
increase, followed by Mangaluru, 10.6 per cent
and Sullia, 9.8 percent. Bantwal and Puttur have
the lowest increase of 5 percent each. As against
this, among marginal workers, Mangaluru
recorded 14.6 percent decadal increase, while all
other taluks witnessed decline ranging between
17 percent in Bantwal and 72 percent in Sullia.
From the table, it is also clear that the
composition of main and marginal workers in
total workers and gender composition differ
widely among taluks.
The rural and urban composition of main

and marginal workers is presented in Table 6.14.
shows that during the last decade, the number of
main workers in rural areas declined while in
urban areas it has increased significantly.
Similar trend is observed in the category of
marginal workers. The decline in women
workers in both the category is significantly
higher than male workers in rural areas. In urban
areas, on the other hand, though significant
increase of both male and female workers in the
main and marginal categories took place, the
increases in the case of male workers are more
than female workers. The move towards urban
employment is inevitable process with
increasing urbanization.
Table 6.14
Rural and Urban Composition of Main and Marginal workers in the District (Number)
Main Workers
Details
Rural
Urban
Total
Male
Female
All
Male
Female
All
Male
Female
All
Marginal Workers
Total Workers
2001
2011
Percentage
Change
2001
2011
Percentage
Change
2001
2011
Percentage
Change
312367
233571
545938
193595
101976
295571
505962
335547
841509
312594
200115
512709
269904
131863
401767
582498
331978
914476
0.07
-14.32
-6.02
39.42
29.31
35.93
15.13
-1.06
8.67
30746
55538
86284
9696
8901
18597
40442
64439
104881
23145
32697
55842
15260
12143
27403
38405
44840
83245
-24.22
-41.13
-35.28
57.38
36.42
47.35
-5.04
-30.42
-20.63
343113
289109
632222
203291
110877
314168
546404
399986
946390
335739
232812
568551
285164
144006
429170
620903
376818
997721
-2.14
-19.47
-10.07
40.27
29.87
36.60
13.63
-5.79
5.42
Source: Census 2001 and 2011.

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Table 6.15
Taluk-wise Composition of Workforce: 2011
Taluk/
District
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
Gender
Male
Female
Total
Male
Female
Total
Male
Female
Total
Male
Female
Total
Male
Female
Total
Male
Female
Total
Main Workers
Number
Percent
111901
59.14
77323
40.86
189224
100.00
75379
60.43
49353
39.57
124732
100.00
267945
66.21
136758
33.79
404703
100.00
83762
64.44
46225
35.56
129987
100.00
43511
66.10
22319
33.90
65830
100.00
582498
63.70
331978
36.30
914476
100.00
Marginal Workers
Number
Percent
7477
46.50
8602
53.50
16079
100.00
5883
44.12
7451
55.88
13334
100.00
18543
55.22
15039
44.78
33582
100.00
5041
29.58
12001
70.42
17042
100.00
1461
45.54
1747
54.46
3208
100.00
38405
46.13
44840
53.87
83245
100.00
Source: Census: 2001 and 2011.
Graph 6.6
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Total Workers
Number
119378
85925
205303
81262
56804
138066
286488
151797
438285
88803
58226
147029
44972
24066
69038
620903
376818
997721
The above analysis of data on the

employment evidently reveals that the changes
in employment pattern in rural and urban areas
and also gender-wise are consistent with the
dynamics of economic development of the
district. With the urbanization, employment
pattern in the district is moving towards main
category of wage employment. There is a steady
decline in marginal employment category as
well as rural employment. This is a healthy
trend.
6.8 Work Participation Rate

The work participation rate (WPR) is
usually computed as the proportion of total
number of workers to the total labour force.
Since no data on age group 16 to 60 available,
total population is taken into consideration as
proxy for computing work participation rate. In
Table 6.16, the trend in the WPRs for male and
female workforce for the district is compared
with the state.
It is important to note that in Dakshina
Kannada district, while there was a consistent
improvement in the WPR of male workers
during last two decades, there was a significant

decline the WPR of female workers during
2001-11. It declined from 42 percent in 2001 to
36 percent. This decline took place in spite of a
significant increase in WPR of female workers
during 1991-2001 from 32 percent to 42 percent.
The gender gap in WPR, which was reduced
from 17 percent in 1991 to 16 percent in 2001,
increased to 24 percent in 2011. This is a matter
of serious concern. In the same vein, though
during 1991, the district witnessed significant
increase in WPR of all workers from 41 percent
to 50 percent, during last decade, it witnessed
decline from 50 percent to 48 percent. Compared
to the state's average, the district has higher
WPR in both male and female workers.
The analysis of the rural and urban work
participation rates in Table 6.17 shows that the
WPR for both male and female workforce in
rural areas is considerably higher than those of
the urban areas. Interestingly, the female WPR in
rural areas was significantly higher than the
female WPR in urban areas. However, it is
important to note that while WPR of the male
workers increased from 60 percent to 62 percent,
the WPR of women workers declined from 49
Table 6.16
Work Participation Rate in Dakshina Kannada District (Percentage)
District/State
Dakshina Kannada
District
Karnataka State
Gender
Male
Female
Total
Male
Female
Total
1991
49.76
32.41
41.00
54.1
29.4
42.0
2001
58.22
41.70
49.87
56.60
32.00
44.50
2011
60.00
35.72
47.75
59.00
31.87
45.62
Source: Census: 1991, 2001 and 2011.

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percent to 42 percent. As against this, in urban

areas, the WPR of male workers increased from
56 percent to 58 percent, whereas the WPR of
women workers declined from 30 percent to 29
percent. Similar changing pattern in WPR took
place at the state level.
Table 6.17
Rural and Urban Work Participation Rates in Dakshina Kannada District (Percentage)
District/State
District
State
Gender
2001
Urban
55.88
30.33
43.08
53.85
16.37
35.67
Rural
59.71
48.69
54.10
58.10
39.87
49.09
Male
Female
Total
Male
Female
Total
Rural
62.00
42.17
51.99
59.76
38.75
49.38
2011
Urban
57.82
28.64
43.09
57.81
20.81
39.66
Source: Census: 2001 and 2011

The district has, however, relatively
higher WPRs for both male and female workers
as well as both in rural and urban areas. What is
disappointing is that with more urbanization, the
work participation of female workforce was
expected to increase but it has not taken place in

the district.
The inter-taluk comparison in the WPRs
of both male and female workforce is made in
Table 6.18.
Table 6.18
Taluk-wise Work Participation Rates in Dakshina Kannada District (Percentage)
Taluk
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
Male
59.47
58.31
55.79
62.61
61.68
58.23
2001
Female
50.95
45.70
34.10
50.49
42.27
41.70
All
55.16
51.90
44.78
56.54
52.06
49.87
Male
60.64
61.58
58.37
62.05
62.35
60.00
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2011
Female
43.25
42.19
30.13
40.23
32.92
35.77
All
51.92
51.79
44.07
51.06
47.54
47.75
analyse taluk-wise work participation rates of

male and female workers in rural and urban
areas.
From the analysis of the data, it may be

observed that there is no significant inter-taluk
variation in the work participation pattern. In all
taluks, the WPR of male workers is significantly
higher than the WPR of female workers. The
gender gap is very wide and differs significantly.
While the WPR of male workers increased
significantly, the WPR of female workers
declined in all taluks during 2001-11. Though
Mangaluru taluk is more urbanized,
surprisingly, it has the lowest WPR for both male
and female workers among taluks, Sulla has the
highest WPR (62.35) for male workers, followed
by Puttur (62.05) and Belthangady (61.58).
Among women workforce, Bantwal has the
highest WPR (43.25), followed by Belthangady
(42.19) and Puttur (40.23). Mangaluru has the
lowest WPR (30.13) for women, followed by
Sullia (32.92). What is disheartening is the
significant decline in the WPR for women
workers and the gap between two is widening in
all taluks. It is also surprising that urbanization
has not impacted to improve WPR of women
workforce in the district.
The data analysis in the table shows that

Sullia has the lowest WPR for both male and
female workers in both rural and urban areas in
the district. Bantwal has the highest WPR for
female workers both in rural and urban areas.
For male workers, in rural areas, Puttur has the
highest and in urban areas, Bantwal has the
highest WPR. It is also important to note that
contrary to general belief, in all taluks, the WPRs
for both men and women workers are
significantly lower in urban areas than rural
areas. The WPRs for both male and female
workers in both rural and urban areas in all talks
are higher than state average. The major areas of
concern are the lower WPR for female workers
in urban areas, wide gender gaps in the WPRs in
all taluks and the inter-taluk differences
particularly among women workers.
In Table 6.19, an attempt is made to
The qualitative composition of the

employment has been analyzed in terms of broad
6.9. Occupation Pattern
Table 6.19
Taluk-wise Rural and Urban Work Participation Rates: 2011(Percentage)
Taluk/District
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
State
Male
61.35
61.87
60.62
63.37
63.54
62.00
59.76
Rural
Female
45.55
42.67
40.24
43.28
34.74
42.17
38.78
All
53.40
52.17
50.24
53.26
49.10
51.99
49.38
Male
59.01
56.61
57.78
57.15
54.67
57.82
57.81
Urban
Female
37.69
34.20
27.37
28.84
21.75
28.64
20.81
All
48.36
45.26
42.41
42.94
37.75
43.09
39.66
Source: Census 2011

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employment status of the workforce. The census

classified occupation into broadly four
categories: cultivators, agricultural labourers,
household industry workers and others.
Cultivators and agricultural labourers constitute
workforce engaged in agriculture and other two
categories, primarily are non-agricultural
labourers. In Table 6.20, an attempt is made to
assess the occupation pattern and the change
took place during the decade 2001-11. In 2001,
cultivators constituted 5.2 percent of total
workers, agricultural labours, 4.5 percent; those
engaged in household, 21.2 percent and others
69 percent. Thus, agricultural workers
constituted 10 percent and Non-agricultural
workers, 90 percent of the total work force in the

district. There was a significant decline in the
number of cultivators and agricultural labourers
during 2001-11. The number of cultivators
declined from 49684 to 33810, accounting a
decline of 32 percent. Agricultural labourers,
also declined from 42566 to 29274, recording a
decline of 31 percent. Consequently, the share of
agricultural workers in the total workforce
declined from 10 percent to 5 percent. Among
non-agricultural workers, there was a decline of
6 percent in household industries. As against
this, other category of workers witnessed an
increase of 14 percent.
Basket Weaver
182
Table 6.20
Occupation Pattern of Workers in Dakshina Kannada District: 2011
(Numbers)
Occupation
2001
Female
Male
Total
Male
2011
Female
Total
Cultivators
35310
14374
49684
25302
8508
33810
Agrl. Labourers
28046
14520
42566
21384
7890
29274
HH industry
15985
184262
200247
16149
172058
188207
Others
467063
186830
653893
558068
188362
746430
Total
546404
399986
946390
620903
376818
997721

It is also important to note that the
decline was more among the female cultivators
and female agricultural labourers as compared to
male cultivators and agricultural labourers. In
the case of cultivators, as against decline of 28
percent of men, women cultivators declined by
41 percent. Similarly, the number of women
agricultural labourers declined by 46 percent as
against 24 percent among men. The decline in

agricultural labourers has adversely affected not
only the availability of labour supply and forced
farmers to abandon agriculture in the district but
also livelihood of rural women labourers. From
this, it is also evidently clear that agriculture in
the district is no more the main source of
employment for the population.
Graph 6.7
183
In the dynamics of economic

development the structural shift from agriculture
to non-agricultural sector in employment is an
inevitable process. In the category of nonagricultural labourers, there was a marginal
decline in employment in household industries
and significant increase in others, which are
mainly industrial and service sector
employments. The disaggregated analysis of the
data shows that there was a 7 percent decline
among women workers in household industries,
while among men there was an increase of one
percent. It is important to note that there was a
decline in the share of women workers in
household industries from 92 percent in 2001 to
91 percent in 2011. Men have increased their
share in the total employment in the households

industries. Similarly, in the category 'others', the
number of men workers employed has gone up
by 20 percent while, there was an increase of 0.8
percent among women workers. The decline in
employment of female workers in the nonagricultural labour has serious implications.
With the increasing number of self-help groups
of women, the employment of women in
household industries was expected to increase.
Only plausible explanation for this would be the
decline in women employment in beedi rolling.
Similarly, though there was a significant
increase in employment in other category, the
main beneficiaries were men workers and not
female workers.
A View of Infosys Mangaluru
184
The District has potential to increase

employment in secondary and tertiary activities.
The present main employment generating
industries are cashew nut factories, textiles,
mechanical engineering, electric and
electronics, food processing, automobile
workshops, printing, ceramics and rubber and
plastics. The district has also large industries like
MRPL, MCF and software companies like
Infosys. The employment in tertiary sector are

mainly in financial institutions, wholesale and
retail trade, restaurants, transport and
communication, education, health services and
public administration. With the setting up
economic Zones, establishment of international
airport, rejuvenation of port facilities, and
encouragement to tourism, the district has good
scope for increasing employment in industry and
service sectors.
Box 6.6: Problem of Migrant Workers

Dakshina Kannada district has growing migrant working
force. With the acute shortage of unskilled labour due to growing outmigration of local young people, significant decline in the working
force in rural areas and rapid urbanization, the increasing flow of
migrant population from outside is an inevitable process and required
for sustaining the economic development of the district. Mostly, they
migrate from Vijayapur, Bidar, Kalaburgi, Bagalkot, Rayachur and
Koppala districts of North Karnataka and Tamilnadu. In recent years,
increasing number of people come from Chattisgarh, Bihar and northeast. Most of them semi-literates belonging to poor SC/ST and OBC
communities. Occupation-wise, they can be categorized into three
groups: (i) permanently settled more than five years, (ii) Seasonal
migrants, who return back when agricultural season starts, and (iii)
Contract labourers moving from one place to others.
They are mainly engaged in building construction, road
works, mining, small industries, agriculture, hotels and other
informal activities as casual or contract workers without job security
and terminal benefits. Women are mainly engaged in construction and
household works. Their average family income is below Rs. 10000
per month. They stay in slums in the outskirts of Mangaluru city and
other towns without any basic amenities. They are also deprived of
BPL entitlement benefits as they have no permanent residency. They
live in a pathetic condition and their livelihood problems are matter of
serious concern from the human development perspective.
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The taluk-wise occupation pattern based on Census data is analyzed for the year 2011 in Table 6.21.
Table 6.21
Taluk-wise Occupation Pattern: 2011 (Number)
Taluk/
District
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
Gender
Male
Female
Total
Male
Female
Total
Male
Female
Total
Male
Female
Total
Male
Female
Total
Male
Female
Total
Cultivators
7032
2272
9304
8120
2039
10159
8180
3040
11220
1507
846
2353
463
311
774
25302
8508
33810
Agricultural
Labourers
7010
1719
8729
7076
2680
9756
6117
2997
9114
1007
377
1384
174
117
291
21384
7890
29274
Household
Activity
5618
53183
58801
2546
33040
35586
5904
53342
59246
1661
28285
29946
420
4208
4628
16149
172058
188207
Other
Activity
99718
28751
128469
63520
19045
82565
266287
92418
358705
84628
28718
113346
43915
19430
63345
558068
188362
746430
Total
Workers
119378
85925
205303
81262
56804
138066
286488
151797
438285
88803
58226
147029
44972
24066
69038
620903
376818
997721
Source: Census: 2011

Broadly the occupation pattern is same
in all taluks. However, in terms of relative
composition, there exist inter-taluk variations.
For example, agriculture (cultivators and
agricultural labourers) provides employment to
only 1.5 percent in Sullia, whereas in
Belthangady, it is 14 percent. In other taluks, it
varies from 5 percent in Mangaluru to 9 percent
in Bantwal. The employment in non-agricultural
occupations dominates the employment
scenario in all taluks. Sulla has the highest
percentage (98.5 percent) followed by
Mangaluru (95 percent) and Puttur (94 percent)
Belthangady has the lowest percent of workers
engaged in non-agricultural occupations. There

also exists inter-taluk variation in gender
composition in the occupation pattern. In the
case of cultivators, Sullia has the highest
percentage of women cultivators (40 percent)
followed by Puttur (36 percent) and Bantwal (28
percent) the other two taluks had relatively lower
percentage of women cultivators (38 percent).
Among agricultural labourers also, Sullia has the
highest percentage of women (40 percent),
followed by Mangaluru (33 percent) and
Bantwal has the lowest (20 percent). In all
taluks, women workers dominate in household
industries and men workers, in others.
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Box 6.7 : Employment Scenario in

Dakshina Kannada District : Major Highlights
Achievements
Areas of Concern
Population growth rate of 1.0 percent per

annum
Employment growth 0.54 percent per annum

as against the state average of 1.84 percent
Employment in agriculture and household

industries declining and secondary and
tertiary sectors at annual growth of 1.4
percent.
Decline in the share of agriculture to total GDP

(10 percent) and 52 percent of people still live in
rural areas.
Significant increase in male work

participation rate among main workers
Significant decline in women work

participation rate among main workers.
Dakshina Kannada has one of the highest

percentages of women cultivators in the
state.
District witnessed significant decline in women

cultivators and also agricultural labourers which
marginalize rural poor women.
Work participation of SC/ST workers is

higher than other category workers.
Problem of underemployment is mainly a rural

phenomenon and mainly among marginalized
community
15 percent decadal growth among nonworkers as against population decadal

growth of 10 percent. Nearly 62 percent of
non-workers are women
Significant increase in women (21 percent) as

against only 5 percent men among non-workers
particularly in rural areas.
6.10 Child Labour

Today's children are the future citizens of
the country. A healthy child is a valuable asset of
the nation. The UN Convention on Rights of the
Child has, therefore, set universal legal
standards for protecting children against neglect,
abuse and exploitation and guaranteeing basic
human rights ranging from survival to
development and full participation in social,
cultural, educational and other process
necessary for their growth and well-being.
International Labour Organization (ILO)
187
defines child labour as any work by a child under

age 12 or, for a child above age 12, any work that
impedes education or is damaging to health and
personal development. The Constitution of India
bans employment of children below 14 years.
The Child Labour Control and Prohibition Act
1986 also prohibit child labour below 14 years.
In reality, however, the child labour, in one or
other forms, is a persistent problem in India.
Child labour affects schooling, health,
behaviour and personal development. Children
are forced to work for diverse and complex
reasons. They range from household poverty,

illiteracy, compulsion of traditional community
occupation practices, the preferences of families
or parental compulsion and influence of
urbanization. All child work is, however, not
child labour. For example, agricultural activities
and household enterprises usually generate more
demand for family labour which often includes
child labour. They not only contribute to the
acquisition of skills but also do not come in the
way of schooling. The children can participate in
these activities along with family members at
their leisure and attend schools also. According
to ILO, prohibited child labour includes
hazardous work or worse form of labour, which
include any work that jeopardizes the health,
schooling, safety, morals of a child or all forms
of slavery, bondage, military conscription,
trafficking, or other illicit activities.
With the objective of making the state
child labour-free, the State Government initiated
number of pro-child development programs
besides strict enforcement of laws. The
programmes include awareness campaign,
rehabilitation of affected children, compulsory
and universal primary education, setting up
special schools, mid-day meal, financial help for
the affected families etc. The Government has
also recently set up a Child Labour Law Board
and Child Labour Planning Committee to ensure
strict enforcement of law on expeditious basis
and rehabilitation of children affected.
The district has as per 2011 Census,
208297 children of age group 0-6, out of which
101312 are female and 106985 are male. They
constitute 10 percent of the total population of
the district. As regards child labour, no reliable
statistics are available. The district is, however,
considered as one having the lowest number of
child labour. Child Rights and You (CRY), a

NGO recently carried out a survey of child
labour of age group 5 9 and 10 14 throughout
the state has found Dakshina Kannada district
free from abuse of child labour. The district is,
under the National Child Labour Removal
programme, running schools with hostel
facilities for rehabilitation of children affected
by child labour. Moreover, with one or two child
norm and universal access to primary and
secondary education, the district is not facing a
serious menace of exploitation of child labour.
However, with increasing migrant population
and acute shortage of labour, the exploitation of
child labour in unorganized sector particularly in
urban areas in the district cannot be ruled out.
6.11 Radar Analysis for Living Standard

With a view to graphically portray the
status of standard of living in different taluks, the
radar analysis is used by taking into account six
basic livelihood indicators viz. ratio of average
prevailing agricultural wage rate to the state
prescribed minimum wage rate, percentage of
agricultural labourers to total workers,
percentage of households dependent on
traditional fuel type, percentage of households
having pucca houses, percentage of BPL
households and percentage of households
having electricity connection. The indicators
like agricultural labourers, traditional fuel and
BPL households have negative influence as
higher the percentage value, lower the
development and vice versa. Other indicators are
positive in nature. Higher percentage indicates
higher development. The actual values of the
respective indicators and indices based on 10point scale of these indicators are set out in Table
6.22.
188
Based on the indices of six livelihood

indicators, radar graphs are drawn for each taluk
separately and for all taluks taken together in the
district to give a graphical comparative position
on status of living standard.
Table 6.22
Radar Analysis of Standard of Living
Indicators
Wage level
ratio
Agricultural
labour
ratio
HHs with
traditional
fuel
HHs with
Pucca
house
BPL HHs
HHs with
electricity
Bantwal
Value Index
Belthangady
Value Index
Mangaluru
Value
Index
Puttur
Value Index
Sullia
Value Index
District
Value Index
1.66
10.0
2.35
10.0
2.35
10.0
2.41
10.0
2.36
10.0
2.38
10.0
4.25
9.6
7.07
9.3
2.08
9.8
0.94
9.9
0.42
9.9
2.93
9.7
75.14
2.5
81.62
1.8
36.27
6.4
76.42
2.4
84.86
1.5
57.98
4.2
54.54
5.5
34.55
3.4
73.30
7.3
48.28
4.8
44.57
4.5
59.52
5.9
55.35
4.6
52.24
4.8
42.26
5.8
46.42
5.4
49.25
5.1
47.38
5.3
93.46
9.3
77.31
7.7
96.73
9.7
84.94
8.5
80.10
8.0
90.83
9.1

Bantwal Taluk - Standard of Living
Wage level ration
10
10
8
9.3
9.6
HHs
with electricity
Agricultural labour
ratio
4
2
0
2.5
4.6
HHs with
traditional fuel
BPL HHs
5.5
HHs with
Pucca house
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Belthangady Taluk - Standard of Living
Wage level ration
10
10
8
9.2
7.7
HHs
with electricity
Agricultural labour
ratio
2
0
1.8
4.8
BPL HHs
HHs with
traditional fuel
3.4
HHs with
Pucca house
Mangaluru Taluk - Standard of Living

Wage level ration
10
10
8
9.7
9.8
HHs
with electricity
Agricultural labour
ratio
4
2
0
5.8
6.4
BPL HHs
HHs with
traditional fuel
7.3
HHs with
Pucca house
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Puttur Taluk - Standard of Living
Wage level ration
10
10
8
8.5
HHs
with electricity
9.9
6
4
Agricultural labour
ratio
2
0
2.4
5.4
HHs with
traditional fuel
BPL HHs
4.8
HHs with
Pucca house
Sullia Taluk - Standard of Living

Wage level ration
10
10
8
HHs
with electricity
9.9
Agricultural labour
ratio
4
2
0
1.6
5.1
BPL HHs
4.5
HHs with
traditional fuel
HHs with
Pucca house
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Dakshina Kannada District Standard of Living Radar Chart
Bantwal
Sullia
10
8
6
4
2
0
Wage level ration
Belthangady
Agricultural labour ratio

HHs with traditional fuel
HHs with Pucca house
BPL HHs
HHs with electricity
Puttur
Mangaluru
The inter-taluk radar charts evidently

show that the standard of living status in
Mangaluru taluk is comparatively better than
other taluks. Among other taluks, Bantwal and
Sullia are better than Belthangady and Puttur. All
the three taluks are, however lagging in reaching
the maximum norms in regard to use of cooking
fuel, access to pucca housing and poverty
reflected in proportion of BPL households. In the
case of other three livelihood indicators namely,
electricity, wage level, and proportion of
agricultural labourers to total workers, all taluks
are nearer to maximum norms.
Dakshina Kannada district ranks third in
both per capita income and in total GDP among
30 districts in the state. The per capita income of
the district was Rs.84306 at current prices and
Rs.59429 at constant prices during 2010-11.

During the Eleventh Plan period (2006-11), the
district witnessed lower economic growth of 5
percent per annum as against the state average of
7 percent per annum. The major areas of concern
are the deceleration in growth in agriculture as
well as secondary sector. As against this, it is
gratifying to note that the tertiary sectors
witnessed remarkably higher growth than the
state average during the Eleventh Plan period.
The primary sector now contributes 10.9 percent
to the district GDP and the secondary and tertiary
sectors, 22.5 percent and 66.6 percent
respectively. Taluk-wise, Bantwal has the lowest
per capita income, followed by Puttur.
Mangaluru has the highest per capita income.
Though poverty incidence in Dakshina
Kannada district is considered as one of the
lowest in the state, BPL families as per the
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eligibility criteria stipulated by the state,

constitute nearly 50 percent of the families in the
district. Most of them are in rural areas and
concentrated among marginalized rural
communities, such as marginal farmers,
agricultural labourers, SCs and STs. With the
deceleration in agricultural GDP growth, most
of the families depend on the remittances, which
play major role not only in maintaining a higher
standard of living but also assisting households
in investing in housing, health and education in
the rural areas.
As regards employment is concerned,

the major area of concern is the significant
decline in the work participation rate among
women and significant increase in women nonworkers. Men dominate in the workforce and the
gap between men and women in WPR is very
wide. The employment in the agricultural sector
decelerated and in the secondary and tertiary
activities, it increased. The decline in number of
cultivators and agricultural labourers has created
acute shortage of labourers in rural areas, which
adversely affected the development of
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agriculture in the district. Though the structural

shift in the occupation pattern towards
secondary and tertiary sectors is a healthy sign,
the area of concern is the decline of agricultural
sector as source of employment when 52 percent
of the district population still lives in rural areas.
With the demise of traditional industries like
beedi and tiles factory, without the entry of new
industries, the secondary sector provides limited
scope for employment generation.
Considering the geographical potential,
the long coastal belt and the availability of
qualified and talented human resources, the
district provides a challenging potential for
diversification of agriculture into high value
addition, setting up agro-processing industries,
re-energization of small scale and tiny
industries, and tertiary activities such as tourism,
soft-ware and bio-technological park,
infrastructure development, communication
services, transport, construction etc. With the
Konkan railway, opening up of Mangaluru
airport for international airways and

commencement of Economic Zones, the district
has challenging potential for rapid economic
growth and increase in employment in the
future.
The recent technological spread of
communication technology to rural areas has
opened up opportunities to foster a variety of
secondary and tertiary activities in rural areas. In
the district, several rural centres have, in recent
years, emerged as rural towns. This process of
semi urbanization and associated improvements
in infrastructure also provide non-farm
employment opportunities both in the secondary
and in the tertiary sectors in the surrounding
rural areas. The formation of self-help groups of
women and promotion of micro finance in rural
areas can also play a crucial role in encouraging
women's participation in household industries.
This seems to be the only way to arrest out
migration and improve women work
participation in rural areas in the district.
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Chapter 7
STANDARD OF LIVING
The Guttu House
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Standard of Living
7.1 Introduction
It is difficult to define standard of living
and what constitute good life. The conventional
approach followed by economists to measure
standard of living focuses on people's command
over resources in terms of income. Standard of
living has, in fact, many dimensions. Income is
definitely an important determinant of living
standard. It determines purchasing power to
access resources required for a decent standard
of living. But, it alone cannot capture the various
basic dimensions of well-being of people. The
quality of living is a broader concept than mere
income and consumption. It includes a range of
both material and non-material factors which are
basic and influence value in living. There is now
a general consensus that standard of living
depends not only on income and consumption
but also on access to basic amenities such as
health, education, housing, water supply,
sanitation, security and freedom. A good shelter
is a basic need for household security as well as
to raise families. Similarly, access to safe
drinking water, electricity and sanitation is
essential to lead a healthy and decent standard of
living. In view of the critical importance of these
basic amenities for quality life, this chapter
Chapter 7
focuses on these dimensions of human

development in Dakshina Kannada district.
7.2 Housing Status

Good housing is a prerequisite for good
living. It provides shelter, security, amenities
and privacy which are essential for decent
standard of living. A pucca house is required to
protect family from adverse environmental
factors and to raise families. The availability and
quality of housing affects the physical and
mental well-being of occupants. The National
Housing and Habitat Policy, 1998 recognizes
housing activity as a basic necessity for the wellbeing of people in the country and provides the
framework for the implementation of housing
programmes in the country. Under the growing
population pressure, meeting the housing needs
of all the families is a real challenge. This is more
so particularly for the poor for whom good
housing could be beyond reach. They do not own
land and the cost of housing materials and
construction is beyond their affordability.
Nearly 90 percent of the housing shortage relates
to the poor and there is a need to increase the
supply of affordable housing to low income
Table 7.1
Rural-Urban Housing Status in Dakshina Kannada District (Percent)
Housing Status
Good
Livable
Dilapidated
All
Rural
37.82
55.16
7.02
100.00
2001
Urban
57.75
38.97
3.28
100.00
District
45.62
48.82
5.56
100.00
Rural
55.53
40.76
3.71
100.00
2011
Urban
72.11
26.28
1.61
100.0
District
63.51
33.79
2.70
100.00
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groups. Housing for the poor and down-trodden

assumes greater importance both in rural and
urban areas in housing policy of the state.
According to the 2011 census data,
Dakshina Kannada district has 439733
households, of which 214490 are in urban areas
and 225243 in rural areas. In Table 7.1, based on
the census data, an attempt is made to compare
the housing status in the district for the year 2001
and 2011.
In 2001, the district had 45.6 percent
good houses, 48.8 percent houses livable and
5.6percent dilapidated houses. As against this,
2011, the data shows significant improvement in
the housing status in the district. The proportion
of good status houses improved only by 18
percen; from 45.6 percent in 2001 to 63.5
percent in 2011. The resultant decline in liveable
houses is from 48.8 percent to 33.8 percent
during this period. There was also decline in

dilapidated houses from 5.6 percent to 2.7
percent. In absolute number, still the district has
12268 dilapidated houses, where people live. In
spite of various government housing scheme,
still substantial number of households live in
dilapidated is a matter of serious concern.
It is also important to note from the table
that both rural and urban areas witnessed
significant improvement in housing condition.
While in urban areas, the proportion of good
houses increased from 57.8 percent in 2001 to 72
percent in 2011, in rural areas, it increased from
37.8 percent to 55.5 percent during the same
period. In the case of livable status houses, the
urban areas have recorded reduction from 39
percent to 26 percent and rural areas, 55 percent
to 41 percent. Similarly, in urban centre, the
proportion of dilapidated houses declined from
Graph 7.1
Housing Status in Dakshina Kannada District
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3.2 percent to 1.6 percent, while in rural areas,

the reduction in dilapidated houses was from 7
percent to 3.7 percent. The rural areas have still
more dilapidated houses than urban areas.
As regards tenure status, 94 percent of
families in the district live in their own houses. In
rural areas, more families live in their own
houses than urban areas. In rural areas, 96
percent of families live in their own houses,
whereas in urban areas, it is 84 percent. In the
district areas, 11 percent of houses have one
dwelling room, 22.8 percent have two rooms and
63 percent of households have three or more
rooms. Only 2.2 percent have no exclusive
rooms. In rural areas, 10.7 houses have one
room, 22 percent have two rooms and 2.2 have
no exclusive room. Comparative housing status
in urban areas is that 11.5 percent have one room,
23.7 percent have two rooms and 1.7 percent has
no exclusive room. There no much rural and
urban differences in regard to number of
dwelling rooms. In both rural and urban area,
almost all houses have kitchen. Similarly, in
rural area, 92 percent of houses and in urban
areas, 98 percent of houses have bath rooms.
In 2011 Census, houses are classified
based on predominant materials of roof and wall.

The pucca house has machine made tiles, bricks,
stone slate, G.I.metal/asbestos sheets, and
concrete roof materials. In the case of wall
materials, the pucca houses envisage use of
stone packed with mortar, GI/metal/asbestos
sheet, burn bricks and concrete materials. Based
on pucca roof materials, 59.52 percent of houses
in the district can be classified as pucca houses.
The remaining houses have roof materials like
grass, thatch, bamboo, wood, mud, plastic
polythene or handmade tiles as roof materials
and grass, thatch, bamboo, plastic polythene
mud unburnt brick or wood as wall materials.
Taluk-wise, Mangaluru has the highest percent
of pucca houses (73.3), followed by Bantwal
(54.5 percent). Belthangady has the lowest
percent of pucca houses (34.5 percent). Puttur
has 48.3 percent pucca houses and Sullia, 44.6
percent.
7.3 Siteless Households

The problem of housing ultimately
centered around availability of land and
ownership of sites for construction of houses
particularly in the case of weaker sections of the
Table 7.2
Taluk-wise Houseless Households: 2011-12 (Percentage)
Taluk/
District
Bantwal
Belhangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sulla
District
Site -less
Households
33.31
25.89
41.35
16.46
18.29
30.76
Households
provided with
house sites
10.14
27.53
2.60
11.82
11.76
11.74
Houses Constructed
for houseless
52.18
57.25
24.74
36.66
68.28
47.80
Source: Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat.
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community. Land in urban areas is not only

scarce, but also beyond the reach of many.
Absence of required houses results in formation
of slums. Housing being a basic need for
survival of human being, there is no justification
for existence of home-less families in any
modern society. The problem of site-less and
home-less families, therefore, requires serious
and priority consideration in any government
policy.
The position of siteless households,
households provided with house sites and
houses constructed for allotment to houseless
poor in different taluks is shown in Table 7.2.
Surprisingly, there are about 135262
households in the district, who do not have house
sites for construction of houses. They constitute
30.8 percent of the total households in the
district. They are homeless families. The
majority of the siteless and houseless
households belong to the weaker sections of
SCs, STs and OBCs. Mangaluru taluk has the
highest percent of households without house
sites (41 percent), followed by Bantwal (33
percent). Puttur has the lowest percentage of
siteless households. Belthangady has

comparatively higher percent of households
without sites (26 percent).
The Government, under various
schemes, provided sites to 15880 siteless
householders to construct houses. Their
percentage works out o 11.74 percent of total
siteless households. Though Mangaluru taluk
has the highest percent of siteless households,
only 2.6 percent of siteless households were
given sites for construction of houses.
Belthangady has the highest site less household
beneficiaries in allocation of house sites. In other
taluks, the beneficiaries range between, 10
percent and 12 percent. The Government has
also constructed 33282 houses for allotment to
houseless poor. Their percentage in the total
houseless families in the district works out to
40.87 percent. Sullia, Belthangady and Bantwal
were the main beneficiaries in terms of allotment
of houses. Mangaluru has the lowest percentage
of houses construct by the government for
weaker section of the community. The district,
however, still needs to provide houses to 86200
families to make the district free from the
problem of homelessness.
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7.4 Schemes for Housing Facility

Housing being considered as the basic
necessity for human existence, the State
government has implemented various housing
schemes. A total of 33182 houses were
constructed and allotted to nearly 48 percent of
the homeless families in the district. The various
housing programs implemented by the
Government for providing houses to the
houseless poor and down-trodden families and
the number of houses constructed for the benefit
of various social groups are shown in Table 7.3.
From the table, it may be seen that the
focus of the government housing programs is to

provide good houses to SCs and STs. Out of
33282 houses constructed under various
schemes, 8406 are for SCs families, 3542 for STs
and 21334 for others including OBCs. The SC
and ST beneficiaries account for 36 percent of
Houses constructed. By taking into account the
total SC and ST households in the district, the
percentage of household-beneficiaries works
out to 31 percent in the case of SCs and 27
percent in the case of STs. Others include mainly
backward community and weaker section of
other social groups.
Table 7.3
Dakshina Kannada District: Housing under various Schemes: 2011-12 (Number)
Programs
Indira Awas Yojana
Dr. B.R, Ambedkar Scheme
Ashraya Scheme
Special Fisheries Scheme
Karnataka Housing Board
Total
SC
1845
1450
5107
4
8406
ST
751
459
2327
5
3542
Others
3217
18016
69
32
21334
Total
5813
1909
25450
78
32
33282
Source: Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat
Graph 7.2
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Out of 33282 houses constructed, 25450 (77

percent) houses are under the centrally
sponsored Indira Awas Yojane. The state
sponsored Ashraya scheme contributed 5813
houses, Ambedkar Housing Scheme, 1909
houses Fisheries Special Scheme, 78 houses and
Karnataka Housing Board's Housing
programme, 32 houses. Ambedkar Housing
Scheme is exclusively for SCs and STs. Table 7.4
shows the taluk-wise housing under various
government schemes.
Bantwal taluk, followed by Sullia, has
the highest number houses constructed under
various housing schemes. Out of 33282 houses
constructed, 9533 houses are in Bantwal talk.
Sullia has 7881 houses. Puttur has the lowest
number of 4898 houses. The respective number
of houses for Mangaluru and Belthangady are
5457 and 5413.
7.5 Households and Asset Status

Shelter is a broader concept beyond
dwelling unit. It includes basic amenities which
are essential for enhancing the quality of life of
people. In the present modern context, the
household assets such as radio, television,

telephone, bicycle or motor cycle etc have
become necessity for comfortable livelihood. In
Table 7.5, census data on the proportion of the
households having different basic household
assets in the district for the year 2001 and 2011
are given.
The analysis of data in the table clearly
demonstrates the rapid transformation taking
place in the basic amenities and life style of the
people in both rural and urban areas in the
district. In 2001, nearly two-third in rural areas
and more than half of the households in the
district were having radio or transistor as it was
then considered a basic necessity for news,
information and entertainment. Now the
scenario changed and radio was substituted by
Television. As per Census 2011 data, there is a
significant reduction in the households using
radio or transistor in both rural and urban areas.
The percentage of households having
radio/transistor was reduced from 66 percent to
41 percent in rural areas and from 59 percent to
28 percent in urban areas during 2001-11. As
against this, the percentage of households
Table 7.4
Taluk-wise Housing under various Schemes: 2011-12 (number)
Schemes
Ashraya
Ambedkar
Indira
Awas
Fisheries
KHB
Total
Bantwal
8087
801
623
Belthangady
4230
101
1172
Mangaluru
4774
54
575
Puttur
3457
136
1295
Sullia
4902
817
2148
District
25450
1909
5813
10
12
9533
10
5413
34
20
5457
10
4898
14
7881
78
32
33 282
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Table 7.5
Dakshina Kannada District: Households having Modern Amenities (Percentage)
Household Assets
Radio/Transistor
Television
Telephone
Bicycle
Two Wheeler
Car, Jeep and Van
Rural
2001
65.59
21.48
12.80
9.45
7.98
3.7
2011
40.89
53.35
84.60
18.96
17.36
7.36
Urban
2001
2011
58.84
27.85
62.91
81.93
39.96
92.48
12.00
13.72
21.09
28.98
9.16
15.34
District
2001
2011
62.93
34. 82
37.80
67.09
23.50
88.39
10.46
16.44
13.15
22.95
5.85
11.20
Source: 2001 Census and 2011 Census. Two wheeler includes Scooter, motor-cycle, and Moped
having Television has increased from 21 percent

to 53 percent in rural areas and from 63 percent
to 82 percent in urban areas during the same
period. The shift from radio to television took
place significantly in urban areas. Earlier,
Television was a luxury and now it is a necessity
even for rural households.
Similarly revolutionary change took
place in use of telephone. In 2001, only 23
percent of households had telephone in their
houses in the district. As per 2011 Census, the
percentage of households having telephone
increased to 88 percent. In the case of rural areas,

it increased from 13 to 85 percent and in urban
areas, from 40 percent to 92 percent.
Interestingly, the gap between the rural and
urban is fully narrowed down. In the case of
bicycles, scooters and motor cycles, though no
such revolutionary change took place, there is
significant improvement in the percentage of
households having these assets in both rural and
urban areas. The rural-urban differences in the
case of these household assets still remain very
wide. The comparison of the state level data and
the district data reveals that the district has
Graph 7.3
Households having Modern Amenities
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Table 7.6
Taluk-wise Household Assets: 2011(Percent of Households)
Household Assets
Radio/Transistor
Television
Telephone
Bicycle
Two -Wheeler
Car/Jeep/ Van
No Assets
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
37.94
62.35
87.18
16.59
14.53
6.84
6.08
43.20
48.00
85.10
23.52
18.88
7.63
7.24
28.50
80.21
91.49
13.29
27.08
14.08
4.13
39.55
54.67
85.00
20.39
23.03
10.37
7.05
43.37
48.1 7
82.55
17.61
22.61
10.34
8.88
34.62
67.09
88.39
16.44
22.95
11.20
5.62
Source: 2001 and 2011 Census
higher proportions of the households owning

these household assets than those of the state
average.
The comparative taluk-wise data on the
households having these basic household assets
based on 2011 Census data are analysed in Table
7.6.
The taluk-wise comparison of the data
on proportion of the households owning various
household assets shows wide inter-taluk
variation. Mangaluru taluk has relatively higher
percentage of households with television, twowheeler and four-wheeler. Belthangady and
Sullia have still higher proportion of households
with radio/transistors. In bicycle, Belthangady
has highest households owning it. In fourwheeler, next to Mangaluru, Puttur and Sullia
have higher proportion of households.
Surprisingly, Bantwal has the lowest household
percentage. Only 5.6 percent of households in
the district do not have any of these assets. The
proportion of households without any assts is
highest in Sullia (9 percent) and lowest n
Mangaluru (4 percent).
7.6 Drinking Water

Access to safe drinking water is another
basic necessity for existence of human beings. It
is required for a healthy life. Several diseases
like diarrhea, hepatitis, round-worm, hookworm infection, trachoma and guinea worm are
water related. In recent years, water quality has
deteriorated due to rapid industrialization and
resultant increasing quantities of industrial
waste water, population growth and increasing
domestic waste water and agricultural run-off.
Water being life line for survival of mankind, the
access to drinking water should be looked into in
terms of availability throughout the year,
proximity to water supply and quantity and
quality of water for safe drinking. In Dakshina
Kannada district, traditionally, the main sources
of drinking water are open well, ponds, spring,
river and lakes. With the urbanization, change in
life style and increasing pressure of population,
there is a growing demand for potable water
particularly in urban areas. The National Policy
for drinking water stipulates a norm for
providing potable drinking water of 40 litres per
capita per day (lpcd) within 500 metres of the
place of residence7.
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Table 7.7 provides data on main sources of drinking water and its location.
Table 7.7
Dakshina Kannada District:
Households by Main source of Drinking water and Location (Percent)
Source of water
Tap Water treated
Tap water Untreated
Covered Well
Uncovered Well
Hand pump
Tube well/Bore well
Spring
River/Canal
Tank/Pond/Lake
Other sources
Total
Within Premises
Near Premises
Away
Total
2001
2011
20.37
10.65
2.50
54.65
2.30
5.23
0.41
0.61
2.52
0.76
100.00
-
31.90
11.80
2.50
40.70
0.70
8.20
0.50
0.50
2.00
1.20
100.00
79.30
13.50
7.20
100.00
Source: 2001 and 2011 Census. Note: Percentage based on total households.
Historically, households in the district,

both in urban and rural areas, were dependent on
open well water for drinking. Most of the houses
had their own well within their premises for
supply of drinking water. As per 2001 census
data, 57 percent of the households in the district
used open wells for drinking water and 31
percent used both treated and untreated taps for
supply of drinking water. As against this, there is
a significant increase in treated tap water supply
user-households from about 20 in 2001 to 32 in
2011. There is also reduction in open well userhouseholds. The households depend on tube
well/bore well also increased from 5 percent to 8

percent during the same period. As regards
location of drinking water source, 2011 Census
categorized: 'within premises', where drinking
water source within premises of house, 'near
premises' where drinking water source is located
beyond 100 meters from the premises of houses
and 'away' if the drinking water source is located
beyond 500 metres. It is gratifying to note that
nearly 79 percent of the households have access
to drinking water within premises, 13 percent,
near premises and only 7 percent away from
premises.
Based on provision of 3 lit res for drinking water, 5 lit res for cooking, 15 lit res for bat hing, 7 lit res for washing utensils
and domest ic appliances and 10 lit res for ablut ion.
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As per Census definition, the safe

drinking water covers only treated tap water,
covered well, hand pump and tube/bore well
sources only. It excludes uncovered open wells
as well as other sources such as river, ponds etc.
As per this definition, the safe drinking water in
the district is enjoyed by only 220173
households out of total households of 425291
(51.77percnt) in the district. Nearly 105118
households still do not have safe drinking water
sources. Thus, the problem of drinking water in
the district is not the access but the quality of the
water, which is a serious worrisome issue. In
terms of safe drinking water supply, The district
is also comparatively in a worse position in the
state.
Among the social groups, as per 2011
Census data, SCs and STs have higher
percentages of households using safe drinking
water sources such as tap waters, hand pumps
and tube well/bore well. In the case of SC
households, 46.6 percent use tap water, 2 percent
hand pumps, and 8.5 percent tube wells. The
percentage of households using open wells is
35.5 percent. Only 7 percent depend on other
sources. In the case of STs, 30.7 percent use tap

water, 0.7 percent hand pumps, 7 percent tube
wells/bore wells and 50 percent open wells.
Those who use other sources constitute 12
percent of the total ST households.
Implementation of various schemes to provide
safe drinking water to these communities by the
state has made this difference.
The position of taluks regarding supply
of safe drinking water is given in Table 7.8
shows wide inter-taluk differences in access to
safe drinking water. Mangaluru taluk has the
highest percentage of households (64.8 percent)
covered under safe drinking water, followed by
Bantwal (47.9 percent) and Puttur (45.3
percent). Belthangady has the lowest percentage
of 27.5. Sullia has 29 percent households with
access to safe drinking water. Except Sullia,
there were significant improvements in access to
safe drinking water during 2001-11 in all taluks.
In Sullia, still 71 percent of households depend
on unsafe sources of drinking water.
It is really matter of concern that in spite
Table 7.8
Taluk-wise Households by Safe Drinking Water (Percent)
Taluk
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sulli a
District
Safe Drinking
Water Source
31.57
17.72
54.79
29.92
27.35
38.55
2001
Unsafe Drinking
Water Source
Safe Drinking
Water Source
68.43
82.28
45.21
70.08
72.65
61.45
47.87
27.46
64.83
45.33
29.18
51.77
Source: 2001 and 2011 Census.
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2011
Unsafe Drinking
Water Source
52.13
72.54
35.17
54.67
70.82
48.23
of various government schemes for providing

safe drinking water in both urban and rural areas,
nearly 50 percent of the households do not have
access to safe drinking water sources in the
district. The comparative state level position is
64 percent. The State Government has been
giving priority to rural drinking water supply
over the last three decades. In 1980s, the
emphasis was on bore-wells with hand pumps as
main source of water supply in rural areas. With
the depletion of groundwater level, most of the
bore-wells installed then have dried up.
Currently, the emphasis is on tap water schemes
in rural areas. But impact seems to be only
marginal.
75 percent of it runs as surface water and reaches

the sea through streams, rivers, rivulets etc.
Water holding capacity of the soil (laterite) is
poor. With the overexploitation of ground water
for irrigation in recent years through bore wells,
the ground water table in the district is depleting
resulting drying up of open wells, which creates
acute water scarcity during summer months. The
other major problem faced by the district with
regard to drinking water supply is contamination
of water and salinity in coastal areas. In most of
the coastal belt, the well water becomes saline
during summer. This poses a serious problem for
safe drinking water in coastal areas.
According to the Drinking Water Status

Survey conducted during 2011, 43 habitations
have 0-25 percent, 68, 25-50 percent, 615, 5075, percent, 876, 75- below 100 percent and
1869 with 100 percent coverage8. Thus, out of
3592 habitations, only 1873 habitations (52
percent) in the district have drinking water as per
the norms of 40LPCD with 100 percent
population coverage. As per this survey, the
water quality affected habitations were 121. It is
also important to note that the district has 79
percent of households having access to drinking
water within premises and 14 percent near
premises. The problem is not the access to water
supply but the quality of water in the open wells.
It is surprising why only a small proportion of
the open wells now covered when it is required
to ensure quality of water for drinking.
7.7 Electricity
Besides the quality problem, another

important problem in the district is the
availability of adequate drinking water during
summer. Though the district receives an annual
precipitation of around 3500 mm on an average,
8
In modern age, electricity for lighting is

another essential requirement for well-being of
people. The district receives power supply from
Varahi and Sharavati power stations. It also now
receives power from Udupi Power Corporation
Limited (UPCL) and Suzlon projects.
Mangaluru Electricity Supply Company
(MESCOM) distributes electricity through
electric sub-stations spread out through-out the
district. The National Electricity Policy (NEP)
stipulated energization of all villages, hamlets,
Harijan bastis and thandas
As per the data available, all 331 inhabited
villages in the district have been electrified. As
regards Hamlets, out of 2311 inhabited hamlets,
2277 (98.5 percent) are electrified. 34 hamlets in
Belthangady taluk are not yet electrified due to
extreme difficulties in extending the grid to these
hamlets. These hamlets are located near Western
Ghats. In Table 7.10, the data on households
using electricity and other sources for lighting in
the district during 2001 and 2011 are examined.
A habitation is a locality in a village where a cluster of 20 families totaling 100 persons reside.
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Table 7.9
Dakshina Kannada District: Households by Main Source of Lighting (Percent)
Source of Lighting
Electricity
Kerosene
Solar Energy
Others
No lightin g
Total
2001
2011
71.45
27.85
0.38
0.16
0.18
100.00
90.83
8.41
0.40
0.14
0.20
100.00
Source: Census-2001 and 2011
The district has made significant

progress in extending electricity at household
level during the last decade. In 2001, only 71
percent of households were electrified, which in
2011 increased to 91 percent. The number of
households using kerosene for lighting declined
from 28 percent in 2001 to 8 percent in 2011. The
households using solar energy are negligible; in
2001, they were 0.38 percent and in 2011, they
were 0.40 percent. In spite of efforts by solar
companies and banks, solar energy for lighting
has not yet become popular in the district. The
district has, however, 850 households living in

darkness without any source of lighting.
As per Census data, in 2001, 39 percent
of SC and 47 percent ST families were using
electricity for lighting. The scenario has now
changed significantly. In 2011, 67 percent of SC
and 77 percent of ST households adopted
electricity for lighting. This change is also
reflected in significant reduction in number of
households using kerosene for lighting during
the decade. In 2001, 60 percent of SC and 52
Table 7.10
Taluk-wise Households by Main source of Lighting 2011
(Percent)
Taluk/District
Electricity
Kerosene
Solar Energy
Others
No lighting
Total
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
93.46
6.04
0.09
0.13
0.26
100.00
77.31
20.52
1.60
0.23
0.33
100.00
96.73
2.9
0.05
0.10
0.13
100.00
84.94
14.49
0.21
0.08
0.22
100.00
80.1
17.59
1.73
0.32
0.24
100.00
90.83
8.41
0.40
0.14
0.20
100.00
Source: Census-2011
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percent of ST households used Kerosene for

lighting. In 2011, it reduced to 32 percent in the
case of SCs and 20 percent in the case of STs.
This clearly demonstrates that most of the
houses electrified during the last decade belong
to weaker section particularly SCs and STs.
Taluk-wise distribution of houses by
sources of lighting is given in Table 7.10.
From the table, it may be seen that there
is still wide inter-taluk gaps in electrification at
household level. In Belthangady and Sullia, only
77 percent and 80 percent of households are
electrified, whereas in Mangaluru, it is 97
percent and in Bantwal, 94 percent. In Puttur, it
is 85 percent. Belthangady, Puttur and Sullia are
below the district average of 91 percent. In these
taluks, still a significant proportion of
households depend on kerosene for lighting. In
Mangaluru taluk only 3 percent of households
use kerosene for lighting. Belthangady (0.33
percent) has the highest number of houses
without lighting, followed by Bantwal (0.26
percent). Mangaluru has the lowest percent of
households living in darkness.
7.8 Cooking Fuel

Fire-wood, crop residuals, cow-dung
cake, charcoal, and kerosene are traditionally
used for cooking in the district. In rural areas, the
most common fuel for cooking was fire-wood.
In urban areas, besides fire-wood, cow-dung
cake, charcoal and kerosene were also used. In
recent years, with the increasing income,
modern life style and more urbanization, the
modern sources of energy like LPG is gradually
replacing the use of firewood as cooking fuel. In
fact, the transition from the use of traditional bio
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fuels like fire wood to modern fuels is an

inevitable process with the increase in income
and urbanization as well as on the ground of
environmental conservation and health. The
LPG is the fuel of choice for cooking because it
is easy to use, clean and efficient. Firewood is
difficult to use and it emits smoke, which is
health hazard, requires storing space, human
labour for cutting, transportation etc. and not
environment friendly.
Table 7.12 contains comparative data on
distribution of households according to the type
of fuel used for cooking in the district for the year
2001 and 2011.
Table 7.11
Dakshina Kannada District:
Households using different type of
Fuel for Cooking (Percent)
Type of Fuel
Fire wood
Kerosene
LPG
Electricity
Bio -gas
Others
Total
2001
2011
67.13
5.06
25.17
0.10
0.83
1.72
100.00
55.67
1.51
41.21
0.04
0.77
0.78
100.00
From the analysis of data in the table, it is

clear that the firewood still continue to be the
main type of fuel for cooking in the district. As
per 2001 Census data, 67 percent of households
were using firewood as fuel for cooking. Only 25
percent were depending on LPG. The proportion
of households using firewood for cooking is
now reduced to 56 percent. The share of
households using LPG, on the other hand, has
gone up to 41 percent. Compared to the state
level average of 32.5 percent, the district has a
higher percentage of households using
LPG/PNG. Contrary to general belief that in
rural areas, with the government subsidy and
concessional bank loan, the biogas was
replacing the fire wood as fuel for cooking, the
data shows that the proportion of households
using bio-gas has declined from 0.83 percent in
2001 to 0.77 percent. In the case of kerosene,
there is a significant decline from 5 percent in
2001 to 1.5 percent. Kerosene is mainly used in
the urban areas.
Taluk-wise data on type of fuel used for
cooking for the year 2011 is given in Table 13.
The comparative analysis of the data shows the
rural urban divide in type of fuel use for cooking.
Mangaluru taluk, where the district head

quarter Mangaluru city is located, has the
highest proportion of households using LPG for
cooking. Nearly two-third of households uses
LPG for cooking in Mangaluru taluk. As against
this, in all other taluks, LPG users constitute less
than a quarter. In Sullia, only 13.6 percent and in
Belthangady, 17 percent of households use LPG.
More than three-quarter of families in these
taluks continue to depend on traditional type of
fuel like fire wood for cooking. Except
Mangaluru taluk, where 2.8 percent of
households use kerosene, in other taluks, only
negligible percentage of households uses
kerosene for cooking.
At the outset, it should be noted that most
of the households who use traditional fuel for
cooking both in rural and urban areas belong to
weaker section of the community. The main
reasons for this are inaccessibility and
unaffordability of modern fuel supply/services
particularly in rural areas. The rural areas do not
have good network of distribution of LPG.
Without easy access to modern energy sources
for cooking, it is impossible to achieve the
Millennium Development Goal in this regard.
Table 7.12
Taluk-wise Households using different type of Fuels for Cooking(percent)
Type of Fuels
Fire wood
Kerosene
LPG
Electricity
Bio -gas
Others
Total
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
73.87
0.45
23.92
0.02
0.90
0. 82
100.00
80.57
0.15
17.02
0.02
1. 33
0. 85
100.00
32.65
2.80
63.35
0.06
0.31
0. 80
100.00
75.55
0.26
22.27
0.03
1.27
0.6 0
100.00
83.87
0.26
13.61
0.02
1.49
0. 72
100.00
55.57
1.51
41.21
0.04
0.77
0. 78
100.00
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The goal of ensuring easy and affordable energy

access for the unreached and the vulnerable
sections of the society are imperative from both
gender development and human development
perspective.
7.9 Sanitation
Sanitation broadly means safe disposal
of waste. Cleanliness and sanitation go hand in
hand in ensuring good health and hygienic
conditions and thereby, well-being of the
community living in a particular area. Moreover,
access to toilet facilities within the home
premises provides privacy, dignity, and a sense
of security to family members especially female
members. With the increase in population and
urbanization, human waste is the main source of
waste posing a big menace and nuisance leading
to health hazard. Faecal contamination is the
prime cause for diarrhea, cholera, typhoid, and

other infectious diseases. Hence, the provision
of sanitation facility has been recognized as one
of the basic needs for well-being of people.
The Millennium Development Goal (7)
aims at halving by 2015 the proportion of people
without improved sanitation facilities from 1990
levels. The Government of India has launched
Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) in the year
2005 with the objective of achieving sanitation
for all. The primary objective of TSC is to
eradicate open defecation particularly in rural
areas by providing access to toilets for every
household in rural areas, schools and
anganwadis to render the villages clean and
manage solid and liquid waste efficiently. The
scheme also aims to create awareness among
public about disadvantages of unhygienic habits
to motivate them to construct and use toilets and
keep their environment clean.
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Till the 1990s, no concerted efforts were

made to improve sanitation at district level. In
1991, only 34 percent of households had toilets.
In rural areas, it was 20 percent and urban areas
69 percent, According to 2001 census data, the
proportion of households with toilets has
increased to 62 percent. In rural areas, it has gone
up to 47 percent and in urban areas, to 86 percent.
In other words, more than 50 percent of the rural
households did not have toilet facilities. With the
commissioning of the TSC, a lot of importance
was given to improving the sanitary conditions
in the rural areas. The State Government has
launched Nirmala Grama and Swatchata Grama
schemes to be implemented through GPs. BPL
families were given Rs.3700 as incentive
amount for construction of toilets. Awareness
campaigns were organized by the ZP in all taluks
with regard to sanitation and cleanliness. As a

result of various initiatives implemented by the
government, the district has made reasonably
good progress in sanitation as shown in Table
7.13
shows that nearly 93 percent of the households in
the district have now latrine facilities within the
premises. Only 7 percent depend on latrine
facility outside their premises. It is also
important to note that out of 425291 households,
29345 (6.9 percent) households still depend on
open defecation. However, it is worthy to note
that 71.5 percent of the households in the district
have flush latrine as against the state average of
37 percent. It clearly shows that the progress
achieved during the last decade in sanitation in
rural areas is remarkable. Notwithstanding the
Table 7.13
Dakshina Kannada District: Households by Type of Latrine Facilities (2011)
Location/Type of Facilities
Number
Percent
Within Premises:
Flush latrine -Piped sewer system
Flush latrine -Septic tank
Flush latrine Other system
Pit latrine -Slab/ventilated pit
Pit latrine -Open pit
Night soil disposed into open drain
Service latrine removed by human
Service latrine - serviced by animal
No latrine within Premises:
Public latrine
Open
394245
52736
248370
2977
89736
425
0
0
425
9782
17 01
29345
92.7
12.4
58.4
0.7
21.1
0.1
0.0
0.0
0.1
2.3
0.4
6.9
Source: 2011 Census
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remarkable progress achieved in sanitation,

29345 mainly rural households defecating in
open create problems of health and cleanliness,
apart from experiencing shame and loss of
dignity.
Taluk-wise status of sanitation is more or
less reflects the district's position. All taluks
have made significant progress in sanitation.
Mangaluru taluk has the highest percentage
households having toilets within premises (96.3
percent). The respective percentages for

Bantwal and Belthangady are 92.3 and 90.6.
Sullia has relatively the lowest percentage of
80.8 and Puttur has slightly higher percentage of
households with toilets within premises with 88
percent.
Under Rural Development and
Panchayat Raj programs, the toilets constructed
were 95010 for rural households, 70 community
toilets, 1236 school toilets and 505 anganawadi
Box 7.1: Hosangadi GP: A Clean Village Initiative

Hosangadi GP in Belthangady taluk has two villages in its jurisdiction with a population of 4402. Under
the State Government's Nirmala Grama and Swatcha Grama Schemes, the GP has decided set a mission
to achieve Swatcha Grama Arogya Dhama through 'Model House and sutainable self-sufficient
community' (Madari mane Susthira Swavalambi Samudaya). It set the following objectives to achieve
this goal:
* Every house to ensure cleanliness Clean House
* Evey house should have a toilet within their premises with regular water facilities, buckets and
other cleanling materials and ensure regular its use.
* Proper arrangement for solid waste segregation and collection - a compost well to convert
natural waste into manure.
The GP decided to undertake the programme with active involvement of local community.
It involved the Youth and women groups, women SHGs and other youth groups as well as Grama Sabha
to carry out awareness campaign, undertake workshops and participatory meetings to educate people,
make them aware the need for making village free from open defecation, unhealthy practice and
uncleanliness and also free from the menace of plastic and other solid wastages. The GP also held Grama
Sabha meetings to discuss the need to make their village clean. It has set up 18 plastic soudha to help
people use these soudhas to dump plastic and other solid wastes. With the help of government financial
assistance, it has achieved 100 percent sanitation. All families have now the toilets within their premises.
The GP was awarded Nirmala Grama Puraskar in 2010-11. It was also recognized as a model village for
cleanliness and total sanitation by the State Government. Netherland Rural Development team, Orissa
Government Rural Development Study Group, Andhra Pradesh Rural Development Study Team and
various committees and officials of Government of Karnataka visited GP and commended their
initiative. The Government of India also recognized the GP as a model GP for total sanitation.
Source: Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat.
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toilets.
The highest numbers of toilets
constructed for rural households are in Bantwal,
(23439) followed by Belthangay (20563) and
Mangaluru (18585). Sullia has the lowest
number of 13935. The number of toilets
constructed in Puttur is 18488. Since rural
houses in the district are spread out, the drainage
is not a serious problem in the rural areas. It is a
serious problem only in urban areas, which has
been discussed separately in chapter 11.
With a view to encourage 100 percent
coverage of total sanitation, the Government of
India has instituted the Nirmal Grama Puraskar
award at Grama Panchayat, Taluk Panchayat and
Zilla Panchayat levels. The criterion for such
puraskar is 100 percent toilet construction and
their use by households, schools, and
anganawadis and efficient management of solid
and liquid wastes. The State Government
instituted Nirmalya Award to encourage Grama
Panchayats, Taluk Panchayats and Zilla
Panchayats for acceleration and sustainability of
TSC. The awards range from Rs.1 lakh to Rs. 19
lakh for GPs, Rs.10 lakh to Rs.20 lakh for Taluk
Panchayats and Rs.30 lakh for the ZPs. During
2006 12, out of 203 GPs, 203 were awarded
Nirmal Gram Puraskar by the Central
Government.

Dakshina Kannada district has made
significant progress in housing status,
electrification of villages and households and
comparatively better than most of the districts in
the state. This remarkable progress was mainly

due to various government housing schemes for
the weaker section in rural areas. The
government's pro-active and pro-poor housing
policy significantly contributed in this regard.
Thus, the district is already reaching the goal of
houseless households in all sections of the
community.
As regards drinking water, the district,
historically, relied on open well. Nearly twothird of rural households still depends on open
wells for drinking water. However, the water
quality of which is considered unsafe for
drinking. The tap water treated is mainly
available in urban areas. Besides the quality
problem of open well water, the district is also
faced with the problem of availability of
adequate drinking water during summer. With
the overexploitation of ground water for
irrigation through bore wells, the ground water
table is depleted and open wells dry up during
summer months, which creates acute shortage of
water for drinking during summer. Thus, the
problem of safe drinking water centred not on
access but on quality and adequate supply
particularly during summer.
There exists wide rural and urban gap in
the types of fuel used for cooking. In rural areas,
nearly three-fourths of the households depend
on traditional bio-fuels like fire-wood for
cooking, whereas in urban areas, more than twothirds of the families use modern fuel type
mainly LPG. Inaccessibility and unaffordability
of modern fuel supply/services in rural areas
pose real problem in this regard. Rural based
bio-gas was expected to replace traditional fuel
for cooking, but it has not taken off.
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including weaker sections have flush latrine in
and entitlement policy and programs facilitated
this achievement. However, the menace of
emerging slums with the increasing number of

floating migrant labour families in and around
urban centres has potential to pose serious threat
to the sanitation in the district unless the
corrective steps are taken now.
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Chapter 8
GENDER
AND DEVELOPMENT
THE MEMBERS OF NAVODAYA SHG INVOLVED IN THE GROUP ACTIVITY
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Gender and Development

8.1 Introduction: Gender as a Concept
Conceptually gender has broader
meaning. It refers to the economic, social,
behavioral and cultural attributes, expectations
and norms associated with being a woman or a
man. Gender equality refers to how these aspects
affects women and men relation to each other
and to the resulting differences in rights,
entitlement, resources, social and economic
status and power between them. Gender equality
or gender balance is therefore a core human
development objective in its own right.
According to Sen (1999), the development is a
process of expanding capabilities, opportunities
and freedom equally for all people without
discrimination. The World Development Report
2012 also advocates that gender equality matters
intrinsically because the ability to live the life of
one's own choosing and be spared from absolute
deprivation is a basic human right and should be
equal for everyone, independent of whether one
is a male or female. Gender balance, thus, shapes
one's life chances and one's role in the home, in
society and in the economy irrespective of
whether one is man or woman. Since women are
historically the most deprived and
discriminated, the gender development and
equality cantered around mainly empowering
the women. Women constitute nearly half of the
society and hence, greater gender equality can be
enhanced only by ensuring well-being of
women.
By definition, the gender issues emanate
from the unequal gender relations between men
and women in respect of rights, decision making
process, resources, access to basic facilities,
power and institutional representations. The
effect of the unequal gender relations are inter
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CHAPTER 8
alia skewed sexual division of labour, absence of

property rights, unequal access of women to
basic resources, discrimination in education and
health, a limited political representation of
women, sexual violence against women and
other deprivation. All these not only constitute
women's subordinate position in the society, but
also affect a woman's access to and control over
resources, her active and productive
participation in society and her ability to
exercise her rights and lead a life she values
most. Persistence of gender inequalities or
disparities between individuals, groups, and
communities on the basis of their gender identity
like other forms of social discrimination is, thus,
a major area concern in human development.
Empowerment has recently emerged as
key policy strategy for gender development and
equality. Empowerment is a process by which
the powerless or marginalized not only get
control over the circumstances of their lives but
also involves changes in access to resources and
understanding of one's rights and entitlements
and conviction that gender equality is possible.
In this sense, the gender empowerment
addresses the issue of power and powerlessness
that the unequal gender relations perpetuate. No
country can be developed if half of its female
population excluded or severely disadvantaged
in terms of basic needs, livelihood options, and
access to resources, health, knowledge and
political voice. Economic, social and political
empowerment of women is therefore essential to
guarantee women equal opportunities to
development. All these would require policies
and programs aiming at addressing gender bias
and imbalances existing if any, and empowering
women, giving them greater choices, putting

them in charge of their future and making them
self-reliant and confident. The gender concerns
and issues, therefore, need to be mainstreamed in
human development approach and government's
developmental programs.
The Constitution of India confers equal
rights and opportunities to men and women in
the political, economic and social spheres. The
universal adoption of Convention on the
Elimination of the Discrimination against
Women (CEDAW) in 1993 and thereafter, the
Beijing Declaration as well as the Platform for
Action (1995) laid down critical areas of concern
for women development, which include women
and poverty, education and training, health,
violence against women, women in armed
conflict, women in power, and decision making,
human rights etc. In pursuit of these goals, the
Government of India announced the National
Policy for the Empowerment of Women in 2001
to bring about the advancement, development
and empowerment of women by eliminating all
forms of discrimination against women and
ensuring their active participation for
sustainable development. The 2010 Millennium
Development Goal (MDG) summit adopted a
resolution calling for action to ensure gender
parity in education and health, economic
opportunities and decision making through
gender mainstreaming in development policy
making. In view of the critical importance of
gender issues, UNDP, since 1995 made Gender
related Development Index (GDI) and now
Gender Inequality Index (GII) as an integral part
of human development index with a view to
measure gender disparities across countries.
In this chapter an attempt has been,

therefore, made to empirically examine patterns
and trends in gender disparities and assess how
effective the government's policies and
programs are in empowering women and
redressing gender inequalities at the taluk and
district levels. The focus is more on highlighting
gender inequalities wherever existing in various
dimensions of livelihood, in order to bring out
issues and problems faced by women in the
district.
8.2 Gender Differentials in the District
The demographic differentials show the
comparative profile of male and female in terms
of number, growth and sex ratio. As per 2011
census, out of the total population of 2089649 in
the district, 1034714 were males and 1054935
females (Table 8.1). Women in the district
constitute 50.5 percent of the total population as
against the state average of 49.3 percent. The sex
ratio works out to 1020 as compared to state
level 973. In 2001, the sex ratio in the district
was 1022. There was a slight decline in the sex
ratio and resultant decline in the share of female
population in the total district's population
during the census decade. Though the sex ratio is
higher than state average, it is significantly
lower than neighboring Udupi district (1095)
and Kerala State (1058). In neighboring Udupi
district females constitute 52.3 percent of the
total population as compared to 50.5 percent in
Dakshina Kannada district. The child sex ratio
(0-6 age group), which has also witnessed a
decline from 952 in 2001 to 947 in 2011. The
share of female children in the age group 0 6 is
48.6 percent. In neighboring Udupi district, the
comparative sex ratio is 958.
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Table 8.1
Key Indicators of Demographic Gender Differentials: 2011
Taluk
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
State (Lakh)
Population
(Number)
Male
Female
Total
Share
of
female
Percent
196708
131967
490797
143116
72126
1034714
309.67
198672
134622
503805
144735
73101
1054935
301.29
395380
266589
994602
287851
145227
2089649
610.95
50.25
50.50
50.65
50.28
50.34
50.48
49.31
Sex
Ratio
Sex Ratio
in 0 -6
Decadal growth
( 2011 over 2001)
Number
Number
Male
Female
1010
1020
1027
1011
1014
1020
973
945
962
941
945
967
947
948
10.10
8.80
12.90
7.78
1.59
10.26
15.12
8.63
7.52
12.42
8.59
4.79
9.97
16.09
Source: Census 2001 and 2011 * Sex Ratio of females per 1000 males.
Interestingly, in rural areas, the sex ratios
are higher than urban areas. It is 951 as against in
urban areas, 942.
Taluk-wise, Mangaluru has the highest
adult sex ratio (1027) and Bantwal has the lowest
(1010) adult sex ratio. In the case of child sex
ratio, Sullia has the highest (967) and Mangaluru
has the lowest (941). Taluk-wise differentials
are, however, not very wide. Besides declining
child sex ratio, what is disturbing is the
differential observed in the decadal growth in
male and female population. While at the state
level, decadal growth of women is higher than
men, in Dakshina Kannada district, it is lower.
As against 10.3 percent decadal growth in male
population, the decadal growth in female
population is 9.97 percent in the district. At the
state level, the decadal growth of men
population is 15 percent and female population,
16.1 percent. The comparative analysis of taluk
level data shows that Sullia and Puttur have
higher decadal growth of female population than
men, while in other three taluks, the male
population has higher decadal growth than
women. All these trends have serious
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demographic and economic implications for the

future.
Health profile is another important area,
which reflects the well-being and quality of life
of women. As per the data available for the year
2001-02, the life expectancy at birth for women
in the district was 68.5 years, which is higher
than men (65.9 years). There is, usually, no
practice of child marriage in the district. The
mean age at marriage of women in the district is
22 years as against mean marriage age of men of
about 28 years. The IMR in the district is one of
the lowest (19) in the state. The comparative
figure for the state is 38 and for the nation, 47.
Similarly, the child mortality below 5 year age
and MMR in the district are relatively lower. The
child mortality rate in the district is 22 and
MMR, 89. The MMR at the state level is 178.
The district has also the lowest fertility rate in the
state. As against the state average fertility rate of
2.4, the district fertility rate is below 1.5.
Institutional delivery is almost 100 percent in the
district. All these clearly indicate that gender
discrimination in demographic and health
dimensions is less in the district.
Graph 8.1
Gender Wise Decadal Population Growth
8.3 Patterns of Literacy and Enrolment

Education is critical for gender
empowerment and gender equality. The
education of women is also linked to capability
and job skill development, freedom of choice,
social, cultural and political participation, health
status and ability to fight against any
discrimination. The empirical studies have also
shown that education of women closely
correlated with reduction in fertility, delay in
marriage age, small family size and education of
children and more importantly ensuring wellbeing of the family life. Table 8.2 brings out
gender gap in literacy rates and various
education parameters.
As per 2011 census data, the literacy rate
of male population was 93.13 percent and
female 84.13 percent in the district. The
respective state average is 82.5 percent for male
and 68.1 percent for female. The gender gap in
literacy works out to 9 percent in the district as

against the state gap of 14.4 percent. The gap
between the district level and state level female
literacy rates is 16.03 percent. The gender gap in
literacy rate between 2001 and 2011 Censuses
has narrowed down from 12.5 percent to 9
percent. Dakshina Kannada district has the
highest literacy rate for female population next
to Bengaluru Urban (84.8 percent). The decadal
growth in female literacy was 9 percent as
compared to decadal growth 3.8 percent in the
case of male literacy. It is gratifying to note that
the gender gap in literacy rate is narrowed down
and in next five years will be completely wiped
out.
As regards rural-urban gender disparity
in literacy level, according to 2011 Census, the
female literacy rate in rural areas is 79.83
percent as against male literacy of 90.97 percent.
In urban areas, female literacy is 88.83 percent
as against male literacy of 95.5 percent. The
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Table 8.2
Gender Gap in Literacy and Education (Percentage)
Indicators
Literacy Rate
Literacy rate in rural area
Literacy rate in urban area
Decadal growth in literacy rate
Literacy Rate in Bantwal
Literacy Rate in Belthangady
Literacy rate in Mangaluru
Literacy rate in Puttur
Literacy rate in Sullia
GER at Primary Education
NER at Primary Education
Drop-out at Primary Education
GER at Secondary Education
Drop-out at Secondary Education
Pass in S.S.L.C.
Teachers Ratio
PUC: Students Ratio
Pass in PUC
Higher General Education Student ratio
Male
93.13
90.97
95.50
3.82
92.60
89.99
95.31
90.71
91.34
101.03
95.89
1.22
96.02
14.23
66.52
39.19
46.46
82.08
47.88
Female
84.13
79.83
88.83
8.98
81.02
77.99
88.15
80.51
81.44
100.36
95.06
0.55
101.20
5.38
82.69
60.81
53.54
89.36
52.12
Gap
-9.00
-11.14
-6.67
5.16
-11.58
-12.00
-7.16
-10.20
-9.90
-0.67
-0.83
0.67
5.18
8.85
16.17
21.62
7.08
7.28
4.24
Source: Census 2011.
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rural-urban gender disparity in literacy is

significantly high. It is 11.14 percent in rural
areas and 6.7 percent in urban areas. The
comparative data at the state level is 59.7 percent
female literacy and 77.6 percent male literacy in
rural areas and 81.4 percent female literacy and
90 percent male literacy in urban areas. The rural
urban disparity is 9 percent for female and 4.5
percent for males. Even in rural urban female
literacy levels, the district is relatively ahead of
most of the other districts in the state.
Though taluk-wise pattern in the male
and female literacy status is almost same, there is
a wide inter-taluk difference in gender disparity.
Mangaluru has the highest literacy rates for rural
females (84.67 percent) and urban females
(92.7percent). Belthangady has the lowest
female literacy rate (77.7 percent) in rural areas
and Bantwal has the lowest (86.2 percent) in
urban areas. The rural-urban gender disparity is
the highest in Puttur (10.14 percent), followed
by Belthangady (8.93 percent). Bantwal has the
lowest rural-urban gender inequality (5.8
percent). The disparity between rural-urban
female literacy in Sullia is 8.2 percent and in
Mangaluru taluk, 8.04
As regards education parameters in
terms of enrolment, drop-out and education
attainment are concerned, the gender disparities
are only marginal and in some areas, girl
students' performance is better than male
students. The enrolment at primary education
level is universal and hence no gender disparity.
The enrolment of girls in the secondary and
higher education increased significantly during
the last decade. The girls' GER in secondary
education was 101 percent as against boys' GER
of 96 percent. The drop-out of girl students at
secondary education is 5.4 percent as against

boys, 14.2 percent. The girls' pass out in SSLC
was higher than boys. Similarly, in PUC and
higher general education, the girl student's
participation ratio is higher than boys'
participation ratio. In PUC, they constitute 53.5
percent of total student population. In higher
general education, they constitute 52 percent of
the student population. SSA stipulates a norm of
50 percent female teachers at primary education
level. The district has 2287 female teachers out
of total 3761 teachers. The proportion of female
teachers works out to 61 percent. All these trends
evidently demonstrate that the district has
overcome gender discrimination in education in
the district.
Notwithstanding the above, in
professional education such as engineering,
medical etc., the participation of girls is
significantly lower than boys. The reasons for
this may be high fees structure for professional
courses, parental bias in favour of males for
professional courses, preferences of girls to
conventional higher education, non-availability
of professional jobs locally for women,
hindrance to start self-employment etc.
However, compared to the past, it is encouraging
to note that in recent years, there is a significant
improvement in the enrolment of girl students in
professional education in the district.
8.4 Work Participation Trends

Women work participation provides
insights on the key issues involved in women's
economic empowerment, their ability to access
resources required for well-being, exercise some
degree of personal freedom and share in decision
making process. In Chapter six, the work
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participation and occupation pattern were

analyzed in detail and hence, the discussion here
mainly focuses on gender inequality in work
participation.
Women in the district constitute slightly
more than half of the total population. Their
share in the total workforce is at present 37.8
percent. Out of 997721 workers, 376818 are
women workers. During the decade 1991-2001,
the total workers in the district increased from
6.79 lakh to 9.46 lakh, accounting for an increase
of 39 percent. The number of female workers
increased from 2.71 lakh to 4.00 lakh,
representing an increase of 48 percent during
this period. The women work participation rate
also increased significantly from 32 percent to
42 percent during this period. In 2011, the total
workers increased to 9.98 lakh and the decadal
growth in workforce was 5.5 percent. While
there was an increase of 13.7 percent in male
workforce, the women workforce witnessed the
decline of 6 percent; from 4 lakh to 3.77 lakh. As
a result, there was a significant decline in the
WPR of women workforce from 42 percent in
2001 to 38 percent in 2011 (see Table 6.16).
Contrary to this, at the state level, the share of

female workforce increased from 31 percent to
34.4 percent during this period. The downward
trend in women work participation in the district
is indeed a matter of serious concern.
Table 8.3 shows the gender gap in the
workforce measured as difference between the
share of male and female in total workforce in
different taluks.
During the decade 2001-11, all the taluks
witnessed decline in the number of women
workers and increase in male workers (see Table
6.16). The gender gap in workforce is the highest
in Mangaluru (30.74 percent), followed by
Sullia taluk (30.28 percent). Bantwal has the
lowest gender gap in workforce (16.3 percent).
Puttur taluk has 20.8 percent and Belthangady,
17.7 percent gender gaps. The district as a whole,
it works out to 24.5 percent. Taluk-wise, the
work participation rate (WPR) for female
workers is the highest in Bantwal taluk (48
percent), followed by Belthangady (47 percent).
Mangaluru taluk has the lowest WPR (33
percent). The respective WPRs for Puttur and
Sullia are 45 percent and 36 percent. For the
Table 8.3
Gender Gap in work Participation in Dakshina Kannada District
Taluk
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
Male Workers
Number
Percent
119378
58.15
81262
58.86
286488
65.37
88803
60.40
44972
65.14
620903
62.23
Female Workers
Number
Percent
85925
41.85
56804
41.14
151797
34.63
58226
39.60
24066
34.86
376818
37.77
Total
Number
205303
138066
438285
147029
69038
997721
Gender Gap
Percent
16.30
17.72
30.74
20.80
30.28
24.46
Source: Census-2011
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district as a whole, the WPR is 39.5 percent. As

against this, the taluk-wise WPRs for male
varies from the lowest 66 percent in Sullia to the
highest, 69.5 percent in Puttur. The WPR for
male workers in the district works out to 67
percent. The district level gender gap in WPR is
27.4 percent.
The gender composition of workforce in
rural and urban areas (see Table 6.17) evidently
shows rural-urban divide in employment of
women workers. While in rural areas, there was
a significant decline in the share of women in the
total workforce to the extent of 20 percent, the
urban areas witnessed 30 percent increase in
their share. In terms of number, the rural women
workers declined from 289109 in 2001 to
232812 in 2011. In urban area, their number
increased from 110877 to 144006 during this
period. This clearly shows the downward trend
of the female employment in rural areas and
upward moving trend of urban women
employment in the district. Though in the
dynamics of economic development, it is a
welcome trend, it is important to note that there
was a significant decline in the WPR from 48
percent in 2001 o 42 percent in 2011 for rural
women workers. As a result, the gender gap in
WPR in rural areas increased from 11 percent to
20 percent. In urban areas, it only marginally
increased from 26 percent to 28 percent.
The district is also undergoing structural
shift in employment pattern of women. In 1991,
about 24.4 percent of the women workforce was
engaged in agriculture and 76 percent in
household and other non-agricultural
occupations. As against this, in 2001, the women
workforce engaged in agriculture was reduced to
7.2 percent and their employment in household
and other non-agricultural occupations has

increased to 92.8 percent. In 2011, in agriculture,
women employment is further reduced to 4.3
percent. In 1991, the district has 24872 women
cultivators, which was reduced to 14374 in 2001
and 8508 in 2011. They now constitute 25
percent of the total cultivators in the district.
Similarly, there is a declining trend in women
agricultural labourers. In 1991, there were
28561 women agricultural labourers. In 2001,
their number was reduced to 14520. As per 2011
census, the district has now only 7890
agricultural labourers.
agricultural activities has gone up but
marginally. As against 186830 employed in
2001, the number of women workers in other
industries increased to 188362 in 2011. As
against 13.6 percent increase in the employment
of men, the employment of women declined by 6
percent during this period. Though there exist
inter-taluk variations in the gender composition
in occupation, the pattern is almost the same in
all taluks. Though in the dynamics of economic
growth, the pattern of employment is naturally
expected to shift structurally in favour of
secondary and tertiary activities and decelerate
in the agricultural activities, the decline in
women employment is a worrisome matter.
8.5 Marginalization of Women's Works

The gender composition of the
workforce shows that the share of male workers
among main workers increased and the share of
women workers in main workers declined
during the decade 2001-2011. The share of men
workers in total main workers increased from 58
percent in 2001 to 62 percent in 2011, while the
share of women workers in the main workers
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declined from 42 percent to 38 percent during

the same period. Among marginal workers, on
the other hand, the share of the male workers
declined by 5 percent and female workers by 30
percent. The share of female workers in total
marginal workers declined from 61 percent to 54
percent during this period. The decline in the
share of women in both main and marginal
workforces was mainly due to decline in the
number of women in the total work force. The
total women workers declined from 4 lakh in
2001 to 3.77 lakh in 2011; accounting a decline
of 6 percent, while total men workers increased
by 14 percent.
There was a significant increase in
women non-workers during 2001-11. In 2001,
women non-workers were 5.59 lakh, which was

increased to 6.78 lakh. This accounts for an
increase of 21 percent. As against this, men nonworkers increased by only 5 percent; from 3.92
lakh to 4.14 lakh. Taluk-wise trend is also the
same. The growth in main workers was mainly
due to significant increase in the male workers in
all taluks. The share of women workers in both
main and marginal workers declined in all
taluks. Similarly, all taluks witnessed significant
increase in women non-workers. The decline in
women workforce both main and marginal
categories and significant increase in nonworkers category, thus, evidently shows
marginalization and pauperization women
workforce in the district.
Box 8.1: Women Employment in Beedi Rolling

Daksina Kannada district is historically known for 'Mangalore Beedi'. Beedi rolling is mainly
done by women workers sitting at home on outsourcing basis. More than one lakh women were
engaged in beedi rolling in the district. They belong to poor and weaker sections of the society mainly in
rural areas. The beedi manufacturing companies have network of collection centres who provide raw
materials at the door-step of women workers and collect beedi rolled on daily basis. The women
workers at their leisure time do beedi rolling. The rolled beedies are collected by the nearby centres.
They are paid based on number of beedi rolled. It is highly labour intensive and gender-friendly.
Notwithstanding its health hazard
effects, the Beedi industry, in fact
significantly contributed to alleviate
poverty and improve the standard of
living of rural poor in the district.
Beedi working women are organized
and get certain benefits such as
provident fund etc. With the decline
in demand, the industry is now facing
crisis and rural poor women workers
are faced with the problem of
unemployment. Despite the harmful
effects of beedi rolling, its
contribution towards economic
empowerment of rural women
cannot be overemphasized.
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The gender disparity in wages is another

manifestation of gender discrimination and
gender bias in labour market. It mainly emanates
from an inequitable gender division of labour,
segregation in economic activity and
feminization of job market. The disparity
between wages among men and women in rural
and urban areas still persists and is widening.
The average daily wage rate for agricultural
labour for men varies from Rs.300 to Rs.350 and
for women Rs.200 to Rs.250. In urban areas,
daily wage rate for men range from Rs.300 to Rs
500 and for women, it varies from Rs.300 to
Rs.400. The difference of Rs 50 to Rs 100 in the
daily wage rates of men and women still persists
in both rural and urban areas.
In rural areas, women are mostly

engaged in agricultural labour, dairying, poultry
keeping and in informal household activities. In
urban areas, they are mainly involved in
construction activities and informal business
employment. In most of skilled job
opportunities, the women still lag men in both
rural and urban areas. The gender difference in
access to employment market is still persisting
mainly due to gender-wise segregation of
economic activity and entrenched gender bias in
functional roles and social norms. Equal
employment opportunities and equal earnings
for men and women at grass root level is required
in order to avoid gender discrimination, gender
inequality and marginalization of women works
space.
With deceleration in agricultural sector's
growth, agriculture is no more a major source of
employment for rural women workforce. The
main employment providing industries for
women workforce in the district are traditionally
beedi making, cashew nut processing and tile
factories. The decline of beedi making and tile
industries, in recent years adversely affects the
women employment particularly in rural areas.
Other gender sensitive industries in the district
are readymade garments, food processing,
paramedical services, education, banking etc
But only a small percentage of the families in the
district have working women in the organized
sector. The need for engendering women
employment in secondary and tertiary sectors
therefore needs hardly any emphasis.
8.6 Trends in Political Participation

Woman at Work in a Home Industry
The equality in gender participation at all

levels of power and decision-making in the
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governance is very crucial for gender

empowerment and development. In a
democratic set up, political space belongs to all
citizens on equal terms without any
discrimination. The Indian Constitution
reiterates equal rights and opportunities for both
men and women in the political, economic and
social spheres (Article 14). Since historically,
women were deprived of equal rights and
opportunities in political arena, it becomes
imperative for the government to bring quota for
women in the political representation at all levels
of governance. The increased representation of
women in public life and in leadership roles can
also bring necessary changes and progress in
their development and empowerment.
Karnataka was the first state in providing
reservations for women in all local bodies under
Zilla Parishad, Mandal Panchayat Act of 1983.
The 73rd and 74th Constitution Amendment in
1993 and 1994 also provided reservation of onethird of the seats for women at every level of
local government. Following these directives, in

this section, an attempt is made to evaluate the
extent of women representation at different level
of governance.
The three-tier structure of Panchayat Raj
in Dakshina Kannada district consists of Zilla
Panchayat (ZP) at district head-quarter,
Mangaluru city, five taluk panchayats (TPs) at
Bantwal, Belthangady, Mangaluru, Puttur and
Sullia, 203 Grama Panchayats (GPs), one City
Corporation, 4 Town Municipal Councils
(TMCs) and 3 Town Panchayats (TPs) Table 8.4
provides the gender-wise data on prevailing
representation of men and women in the local
governing bodies.
It is worthy to note that the participation
of women in the local governance since
inception of the Panchayat Raj system in the
district was relatively very good. From the table,
it may be seen that out of the total representative
members of 3271 in 203-GPs at present, 1475
Table 8.4
Gender-wise Representation in Panchayat Raj in Dakshina Kannada District: 2011-12
Institutions
Male Members
Number
Percent
17
48.57
15
45.45
11
45.83
19
51.35
9
40.91
5
38.46
1796
54.91
36
60.00
65
61.90
24
52.17
Zilla Panchayat
Bantwal TP
Belthangady TP
Mangaluru TP
Puttur TP
Sullia TP
Grama Panchayats
Town Municipal Councils
Town Panchayats
Female Members
Number
Percent
18
51.43
18
54.55
13
54.17
18
48.65
13
59.09
18
61.54
1475
45.09
24
40.00
40
38.10
22
47.83
Total
Number
35
33
24
37
22
23
3271
60
105
46
Source: Dakshina Kannada at Glance-2011-12

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are elected women members. This constitutes 45

percent as against 33 percent reservation quota
for women. At the taluk panchayat level, the
proportion of women representatives is more
than men in four taluks. Only in Mangaluru TP, it
is 48.6 percent. The districts as a whole, out of
139 TP members, 80 are women. Their
representation constitutes 57.6 percent. In the
case of Zilla panchayat, women representatives
are 18 out of 35; accounting 51.4 percent
representation as against 33 percent quota. Thus,
in the three-tier panchayat raj system, the gap
between men and women representation is only
marginal.
In the case of urban governance, in
Mangaluru City Corporation, out of 60
members, 24 are women. Their representation
constitutes 40 percent. In TMCs, out of 105
members, 40 are women, accounting 38 percent.
Similarly out of 46 TP members, 22 are women

(47.8 percent). Though the women
representation in urban governing bodies is
above the quota, the gap between men and
women representation is significant. It does not
consistent with their share in total population. It
is also important to note that there is only one
woman representation in State Assembly and no
representation in Parliament.
In the overall analysis, the political
women representation in the district is one of the
best in the state. With experience and selfconfidence gained, the women representatives at
all levels participate actively in the decision
making process and contribute significantly for
the development of the district. The women
representation in political arena has also become
a powerful agency and pressure group for
improving the status of women in the district.
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8.7 Community Attitudes and Social

Prejudices
The community attitudes, social norms
and code of conduct and historically deep rooted
social prejudices or gender biases have serious
implications on women's rights and freedom,
empowerment, access to resources and gender
equality. They also influence the way women
function and exercise their rights in a social set
up. The life expectations, values, behaviours and
gender outcomes broadly depend on them. They
may vary based on castes, tribes and religions
and their influence may also differ widely.
Culture also has influence on them. Every caste
or religion or tribe have traditionally embedded
social norms on acceptable behaviour for
women, their access to resources and role, codes
of modesty and code of honour as well as beliefs
about their safety in public spaces. The deeply
rooted general belief is that the women's role and
primary responsibility associate with
housework, childrearing, caring for sick and
elderly etc while men's main role is that of
provider and care-taker. This belief is still
directly or indirectly constraining women's
ability to make choices and control their lives.
There is also general community prejudice
suggesting that biologically, women are less able
than men to perform some functions. All these
come in the way of gender development and
equality.
The district had historically highest
respect for women from time immemorial. The
matriarchal family system is in vogue among the
majority of the community. It accords more
importance to women in inheritance of property
rights and family decision making process.
Under matriarchal system, the succession is
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through the 'female line'. The ownership of land

by women under matriarchal system has
contributed significantly in empowerment of
women in the district. Without the consent of
women, men cannot sell inherited landed
properties. Women headed households are very
common in the district. In all important
economic decision making processes, men and
women are equal partners. There is no practice of
child marriage and also 'sati'. The widow
marriages were practiced even in the past. The
girls' education is on parity with the boys. In fact,
girls' performance is better than boys in S.S.L.C.
and P.U.C. pass results. The health parameters
such as MMR, institutional delivery, fertility
rate etc also demonstrate absence of
discrimination in access of health care. The
district has one of the highest number women
cultivators (30.6 percent) in the state. The
women's representation in panchayat raj
institutions is more than reservation and in some
cases more than men.
There are, however, some customs such
as dowry, system of marriage etc which play
significant role in causing gender differential.
The dowry payments at the time of their
daughters' marriage are very common among
most of the communities in the district. In recent
years, it is increasing at an alarming scale. It has
become highly competitive and poses a serious
problem for marriage of girls among weaker
section of the community. There are also gender
biases, though relatively in minor form persists.
The preference of male child, professional
education for boys, bias in employment
opportunities, lack of access to credit for women
etc are among the few. Though with education
and empowerment of women, these biases will
be minimized, it is not easy to prevent gender

discrimination in some of these areas. The
gender inequities as a result of traditional social
customs also exist in different forms in rural
areas and among illiterates and weaker section of
the community.
Compared to those in the other districts
in the state, the community attitude and social
prejudices against women are minimal and do
not come in the way of women development in
the district. This is evidently reflected in their
access to property rights, increasing enrolment
in primary, secondary and tertiary education,
high sex ratio, small size of family, late marriage,
more number of women in both self and wage
employment, entrepreneurial nature of women,

number of organizations run by women, political
representation, and participation in family and
social matters. The gender-friendly environment
prevailing in the district has, in fact, enabled
women to rise from the age old traditional status
to a modern status. Various government
interventions for women empowerment also
facilitated this process.
8.8 Crimes against Women

The UN Declaration on the Elimination
of Violence against Women (1993) defines
'violence against women' as any act of gender-
Box No.8.2 Gender Friendly and

Enabling Factors in Dakshina Kannada District
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
Matriarchal family system historically provided women dominant

role in family matters and inheritance of property rights.
The district has highest respect for women from time immemorial.
Historically favourable sex ratio and importance given to girl child.
Good education infrastructure, easy access and equal importance to
girls education
Very good health infrastructure and health delivery system in the
district.
Gender-specific and gender-friendly job opportunities in traditional
beedi rolling, tile factories and cashew processing
No restrictions to mobility of women
Gender equality in social participation
Ample opportunities for Women participation in entertainment and
social and religious festivals
District has one of the highest number of women-headed households.
Cradle of banking paved way for educated women getting employed
Strong NGOs movement
Good network of womn SHG movement promoted by NGOs and
government
.Good network of communication and transport network
High rate of out-migration
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based violence that results in or is likely to result

in, physical, sexual or mental harm and suffering
to women, including threats of such acts,
coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty,
whether occurring in public or in private life. By
this definition, violence against women can
manifest in many ways and covers a wide range
of offences ranging from dowry deaths or
harassment, spousal abuse, rape, trafficking in
women, sexual harassment etc. They are the
most pervasive forms of human rights abuse. All
these have root in historically manifested men's
economic and social domination and social
prejudices. Karnataka State implemented the
Protection of Women from Domestic Violence
Act in 2007, which goes a long way in protecting
women from oppression.
In the past, Dakshina Kannada district
had one of the lowest registered crime data
against women in the state. In spite of the high
level of dowry system, the district had no dowry
deaths and very few divorces. The district had

also the lowest number of molestation and rape
cases. As per KHDR 2005, in the year 2003, only
2.64 crimes per one lakh female population were
reported as against the state average of 7.16. In
the same year, the women suicide cases were
11.89 per one lakh women population. As
against this, men suicide cases were 43.44 per
one lakh men population. But the trend has in
recent years slightly changed. Table 8.5 contains
number of cases registered on crime against
women during the last three years.
The year-wise data shows the increasing
trend in the crimes committed against women.
The highest number of crimes against women
relate to physical violence. In 2009-10, the
number of cases registered was 24 which
increased to 36 in 2011-12. Other major crimes
against women as per the registered cases were
sexual violence and harassment of women. In
2011, 28 rape cases were registered in
Table 8.5
Crimes against Women Registered in Dakshina Kannada District (Number)
Type of Crime
Physical violence
Mental torture
Financial harassment
Dowry related crime
Adultery
Family quarrel
Divorce
Rape
Property dispute and quarrel
Court cases registered
Sexual violence
Others
Total
2009-10
24
0
0
4
0
0
0
5
0
0
0
31
64
2010-11
20
25
0
15
0
0
0
28
0
9
24
44
165
2011-12
36
21
0
27
0
0
0
16
0
17
27
49
193
Total
80
46
0
46
0
0
0
49
0
26
51
124
422
Source: Police Department.

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Mangaluru city. Surprisingly, 16 cases of

harassment of women for dowry in the district
have been reported during last three years. 46
cases were also registered in the case of mental
torture. It is possible that in the past most of such
cases were not reported but now with setting up
Women Counseling Centres in taluk and
improved education level of women, the
reporting of such cases will increase.
With the implementation of Domestic
Violence Act of 2007, women have better
protection of law as the Act is stringent and
punitive. It goes a long way in achievement of
gender equality and saving women from
oppression. In order to provide shelter,
protection, counseling and free legal help, the
WCD Department of ZP has short stay homes
and Women Counseling (santwana) centres. One
Protection Officer has been provided for this
purpose in each taluk. The WCD Department
also organizes awareness programs for SHGs,
and local government bodies on women
protection, trafficking of women, violence

against women etc on regular basis.
8.9 Role of Women's Groups and SHGs

The provision of financial services to the
rural poor particularly women was the major
area of concern for a long period. They were, in
the past, considered not creditworthy and
bankable. The NABARD, as an apex body for
rural finance, conceptualized and
operationalized self-help groups (SHGs) as
instrument for provision financial service to
empower the poor and women. The formation of
SHGs of rural poor and women and linking them
with banks was considered cost effective,
transparent and appropriate besides solving
problems faced by banks viz. recovery of loans,
high transaction costs and inadequacy of
collateral security for loan. Box 8.3 contains the
operational guidelines issued by the
RBI/NABARD for formation of SHGs for
banking linkage.
Graph No. 8.2
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Kabaddi Empowered Women
Box 8.3: Operational Guidelines issued by

RBI/NABARD for formation of SHGs
SHGs are informal groups formed on voluntary basis to attain certain collective goals, both
social and economic.
Membership of the SHG group could vary between 10 and 20.
The Group should be in existence for at least six months with successful savings and credit
operations from their own resources.
The Group would be free to decide on selection of borrowers, interest rates and other terms and
conditions of loans to members.
The bank should finance Groups as distinct entities, quantum of loan related to savings could be
up to 4:1 without any collateral and savings should precede credit in the group
Support from voluntary/promotional institutions for group formation, training in group
dynamics, accounting, cash management and technical skills should be used.
The group is expected to meet regularly and all members are expected to participate in decision
making.
Three broad models of SHG-Bank Linkage propagated are as under:
Model-I: SHGs formed and credit linked by banks directly. Bank takes initiatives in forming the
groups, motivating and training them till they graduate to become eligible for bank financing.
Bank acts as both facilitator and financier.
Model-II: SHGs formed by NGOs, other agencies and government after graduation, become
eligible for bank credit linkage. Promoting agencies acts as facilitator and Bank as financier.
Model-III: SHGs formed and financed by NGOs directly with financial assistance from banks.
NGO acts as facilitator and financial intermediary. Bank lends to NGOs for on-lending to the
SHGs.
Source: NABARD
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One of the laudable objectives of the

SHG initiatives is the gender empowerment and
economic development of poor rural women.
The emergence and rapid multiplication of
women SHGs for microfinance is now gaining
increasing importance as strategic instrument
for social and economic empowerment of
women among the weaker section of the
community. The State Government also
considers SHGs as conduit for routing a wide
range of government sponsored schemes. NGOs
have adopted SHGs as a strategy to bring women
together for micro finance and other poverty
alleviation initiatives. As a result of forming
SHGs, the poor women can come together, form
solidarity group, open savings accounts with the
banks and deposit regularly and access bank
credit to meet their credit needs without any
collateral security. With the regular meeting and
accessing credit, SHG movement enables the
resource-poor women in rural areas socially and
economically empowered.
The SHG movement in the district is
primarily a women's movement of weaker
section of the community in rural areas. The
main agencies involved in promotion of women
SHGs are state government through the Women

and Child Development (WCD) Department of
Ziila Panchayat, NGOs and Banks. The Stree
Shakthi Programme launched by the State
Government aimed at empowering rural women
through the formation of SHGs. The WCD
Department is actively involved in promotion of
Stree Shakthi SHGs in the district. It provides
revolving fund for formation of groups and
enabling them to undertake income generating
activities. It also undertakes training for capacity
building and facilitates bank linkage for credit
access. In Table 8.6, the taluk-wise position of
SHGs promoted by the Department and number
of SHG members belonging to different social
groups is given.
As on 2011-12, the WCD Department
has promoted 3663 Stree-Shakthi SHGs with
total membership of 52439. Among members,
4953 were SCs, 3659, STs and 43827 belong to
OBCs. Total savings deposited in the bank by
these SHGs amounted to Rs.3292.94 lakh. They
availed total loan amount of Rs.16462.64 lakh
and benefitted from subsidy amount of
RS.177.05 lakh. Taluk-wise, Bantwal has the
highest number of SHGs (1237) with
Table 8.6
Stree-Shakthi Women SHGs in Dakshina Kannada District: 2011-12 (Numbers)
Taluk
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sulla
District
Number
1237
514
860
766
286
3663
SC
1126
879
863
1517
568
4953
Members
ST
Others
1518
14582
606
6352
307
12552
835
7952
393
2389
3659
43827
Source: WCD - Zilla Panchayat, Dakshina Kannada District.
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Total
17226
7837
13722
10304
3350
52439
membership of 14582 followed by Mangaluru

taluk (860) with membership of 12552. Sullia
has the lowest number of SHGs (286) with
members of 3350. Other Government
Departments involved in promotion of SHGs are
Watershed Department, RDPR Department and
Urban Development Department under SGSY.
The Urban Development Department has
promoted 96 women SHGs under SGSY.
Among NGOs in the district, Shri
Kshetra Dharmastala Rural Development
Project (SKDRDP) plays active role in
organizing rural women into self help groups for
implementing their rural development
initiatives. The SKDRDP not only involved in
promotion of SHGs but also involved in
financing, training, monitoring and even
arranging marketing of the products produced
by the SHGs. The members are encouraged to
undergo training programs in subjects of vital
importance such as nutritious food, child care,
health and hygiene, community welfare and
adult education besides capacity building in
income generating activities. Micro-credit

through SHGs provided opportunities for the
rural poor women to invest in income generating
activities and thereby become self-reliant and
free from poverty. The SKDRDP set up siri as a
unified marketing wing with a view to assist the
women SHGs to market their products. Besides
improving their wellbeing, the membership of
SHGs has brought changes in their attitudes,
communication skills, self-confidence,
entrepreneurial ability and aspirations. The
SKDRDP provided a full range of livelihood
assistance to their SHG members through
microfinance. In the district, as on 2012, the
SKDRDP has 18016 SHGs with total
membership of 181349. The total savings of
these SHGs amounted to Rs.4115 lakh and the
loan amount outstanding, Rs.27844 lakh.
South Canara District Central
Cooperative Bank (SCDCCB) has launched in
the year 2000 Navodaya SHG Project with
primary objective of social and economic
empowerment of poorest of the poor in rural
Graph 8.3
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areas. Under this initiative, the SCDCCB during

the last 15 years nurtured 7402 women SHGs
with total members of 85398 in the district. In
this initiative, the SCDCCB was supported by
Navodaya Grama Vikas Charitable Trust, an
NGO, located in Mangaluru. The trust has
played significant role in motivating and
drawing rural poor women in SHG movement
and enabling them to access bank finance to
improve their livelihood. It also provides
capability building training for undertaking
income generating activities. With their
initiatives and need based approach, the rural

poor women developed self-confidence, thrift
habits and financial self-reliance by engaging
themselves in income generating activities. The
Navodaya Project has, thus, proved as one of the
most successful experiment in social and
economic empowerment of rural poor women.
The public Sector Banks have
implemented SHG-Bank Linkage programme
since late 1990s. They have now 3614 SHGs
credit linked with the loan amount outstanding
of Rs.16.6 crore.
Box 8.4: Shree Gajanana Navodaya SHG,

Mangaluru A success Story
Sree Gajanana Navaodaya SHG is a SHG of urban poor women. Smitha Shenoy, who lost her husband
at early age with a child to take care of, without any means of livelihood, was the original initiator for forming
the SHG. Her determination and self-confidence inspired and motivated others in the neighborhood in
Mangaluru to join the group. The group was formed on 15th August 2007. It has 18 women members. The Group
was supported by the Navodaya Grama Vikas Charitable Trust, an NGO located in Mangaluru in providing
initial training in group dynamics and financial management. The Group meets every fortnight, collects
savings from members and deposit the amount collected with the SCDCCB branch. After six months of its
savings, it was credit linked to SCDCCB.
From the beginning, the members discussed about income generating self-employment ventures to
overcome their poverty. Smitha Shenoy, as a team leader, first obtained a loan for setting up a self-employment
venture of preparing variety of flower garlands and decorative flower products. From childhood, she was very
much interested in preparing flower garlands. Now she decided to make it a business venture. There was a
growing demand for flower garlands for daily usage by ladies and occasional uses like marriage and other
ceremonies, flower decoration of brides, flower decoration of marriage and religious ceremonies, etc.
Mangaluru being a city, marketing of flower garlands was not a problem. She trained other women-members to
make them partners in her business. The group also encouraged members to obtain loans for undertaking other
income generating activities such as manufacturing pappad, sandige, chakkuli and other consumer products.
Some members after obtaining training from NGVCT, undertook tailoring and preparation of artificial women
jewellary items like haralina hara, muthina hara etc. One member also took loan for setting up a shop.
As a result of her entrepreneurship, innovativeness and hard work, what started as hobby of interest,
now became a growing profitable business proposition. With the income earned, she purchased a new house
and educated her son as engineer, who is now working abroad. Other members also benefitted from this venture
and improved their standard of living.. All members are now engaged in income generating enterprises and
doing very well. It is also worth noting that all these activities are undertaken in their home. Self-confidence
and determination of the members are the key to success of this SHG.
Source: SCDCCB
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Box 8.5: Navodaya Grama Vikas Charitable Trust, Mangaluru

Navodaya Grama Vikas Charitable Trust (NGVCT) was formed as an NGO on Oct. 2004 in
Mangaluru. It was promoted by Dr. M. N. Rajendra Kumar, a dynamic and well-known leader of
cooperative movement in Karnataka State. The main objective of the NGVCT was to organize the
rural poor into voluntary self-help groups (SHGs), empower them by training and enable them to
access credit from the bank for income generating activities. The other objectives set out include
social empowerment through conducting awareness campaign, health check-up camps, provision
of financial help to poor patients suffering from cancer, cardiac diseases, kidney failures etc,
organizing exhibitions and fairs to market commodities produced, education program etc. In a short
period of ten years, the NGVCT successfully formed 27747 SHGs consisting 280865 members in
five districts viz. Dakshina Kannada, Udupi, Dharwad, Uttar Kannada and Shimoga. Out of the
280865 members, nearly 2 lakh (72 percent) are women. Most of the women members belong to
landless agricultural labourers, SCs and STs. The total savings of the women groups is
approximately Rs 104 crore. They have availed loans amounting more than 150 crore for emergent
needs such as education of children, repairs of house, medical expenses and various income
generating micro enterprises. The NGVCT has received best award for the year 2006-07, 2007-08,
and 2008-09 for best organization and management of SHGs in Karnataka State.
Source: A Cent ury of Creditable Banking: History of Sout h Canara Dist rict Cent ral Cooperat ive Bank
Ltd, SCDCC Bank, 2015.

The district is considered as one of the
most progressive districts in the state with regard
to women and their empowerment. This is
mainly due to prevailing gender-friendly
enabling factors such as matriarchal system,
favourable sex ratio, high literacy amongst men
and women, better infrastructure and access in
education, health, transport and communication,
scope for employment in labour intensive and
gender sensitive traditional industries like beedi
rolling, tile factories and cashew-nut processing,
a strong SHG movement and higher level of outmigration. Karnataka Human Development
Report-2005 has ranked the district second in
Gender Development Index (GDI) after
Bengaluru Urban among then 27 districts in the
state.
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The various government intervention

schemes such as Bhagya Laxmi Programme to
provide insurance cover for new born girl's
education and marriage of poor families, free
education for girls in government schools up to
the secondary level, provision of bicycles to
secondary school girls, Stree Shakthi SHG
model for empowering women and reservations
in political representation local governing
bodies contributed significantly in minimizing
gender imbalance and improving gender
equality in the district. Under Bhagya Laxmi
Scheme, 17216 girl children were covered and
out of them 12448 were already given LIC
bonds. The district has 2102 Anganawadis to
take care of nutritional requirement of children,
pregnant and adolescent women of the poor
section of the society. A good network of
Women SHG Members Involved in Income Generating Activities
banking system, NGOs such as SKDRDP and

NGVCT and good local governance also played
a pro-active role in social and economic
empowerment of rural poor women.
Declining female work participation and

casualization and marginalization of
women's employment in rural areas with the
declining of agriculture and beedi rolling
and demise of tile factories.
Notwithstanding these achievements, the

following gender related discrimination and
inequalities still persists and come in the way
gender balanced development in the district:
Increasing employment of women in

informal sector such as construction, shops,
hotels, and domestic servants etc. without
security of jobs and terminal benefits, which
endanger their vulnerability.
With the disintegration of joint family and in

the absence of any social security measures,
the life of widows and single old women in
poor families becomes miserable.
With the growing out-migration of married

men and increasing divorce, the number of
single woman living is increasing, leading to
the problem of insecurity.
As a result of out-migration of married men,

the possibility of poor and young women at
Traditionally rooted gender biased social

norms and customs on women's roles, codes
of modesty, code of honour and dowry
system as well as beliefs about women's
genetic ability to do some functions, which
men do still persists and it is more so among
rural community and SCs and STs.
The declining child sex ratio and its

demographic implications in future.
Preference of parents to boys rather than

girls in professional education.
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the productive age getting infected with

HIV/AIDS is more.
Increasing alcoholism among young

generation results in family quarrels, spouse
abuse etc.
Recent increase in theft, violence against
young women, sexual harassment,
molestation, abduction of young girls etc.
Increasing migrant families who are faced

with the lack of basic amenities,
malnutrition etc.
The sustainability and vulnerability of women

SHGs in future may adversely affect social and
economic empowerment of rural poor women.
Education Inspired with Nature

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Chapter 9
STATUS OF
SCHEDULED CASTES
AND SCHEDULED TRIBES
Basket Weaving by the Members of Koraga Community
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Status of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes

9.1 Introduction
Human development approach is
people-centric and inclusive and hence it has to
take into consideration well-being of all stratas
of society irrespective of caste, tribe, colour,
class or religion. The sustained human
development can be achieved only when all
individuals or social groups including the
historically deprived groups harvest the benefits
and access the opportunities generated through
development in various spheres of society. In
India, the caste system is historically in vogue
and determines the hierarchical social order of
the society9. Scheduled Castes (SCs) and
Scheduled Tribes (STs) are the most
disadvantaged and deprived social groups in the
caste system10. Because of their lowest status in
the traditional caste hierarchy, they were
exposed to an oppressive life characterized by
'untouchability' and a blatant deprivation of
choices and opportunities for development. The
Indian Constitution, therefore, accorded special
status to the SCs and STs with a view to bring
them on par with other communities. The life of
dignity, freedom of choices and well-being of
these communities could be ensured only when
they are brought into the mainstream in
consonance with the social and economic
justice, equality and fundamental rights
guaranteed by the Constitution of India.
Several steps have been taken over the
years to bridge the gap between the SCs/STs and
the rest of the population. In the Eleventh and
Twelfth Five Year Plans, the inclusiveness has
been a major concern and made a primary
objective along with achieving sustainable
CHAPTER 9
higher growth. Inclusive development is viewed

in terms of better health, quality education,
employment, access to basic amenities such as
housing, electricity, drinking water, sanitation,
banking facilities etc. Karnataka Government, in
its endeavour towards ensuring faster,
sustainable and more inclusive growth has
committed to itself for improving capabilities
and productive endowments among the
economically disadvantaged and socially
marginalized SCs and STs. In this direction, the
Government is implementing several multifaceted and multi-pronged programs for welfare
of SCs and STs. In spite of all these efforts, the
gaps still persist and become a major area of
concern. This chapter, therefore, focuses on the
status of the historically marginalized SCs and
STs in Dakshina Kannada district with particular
reference to basic dimensions of human
development.
9.2 A Demographic Profile of SCs and STs
The 'Scheduled Castes' refer to castes,
races or groups within such castes, races or tribes
as are deemed under Article 341 of the
Constitution of India. The 'Scheduled Tribes' are
tribes or tribal communities as are deemed so
under Article 342 of the Constitution. The
Constitution of India authorizes the President of
India to specify castes or tribes to be notified as
SCs/STs. The Scheduled Castes, in Dakshina
Kannada district, are people belonging to Ajila,
Bakuda, Bhaira, Godda, Holeya, Mogera,
Mundala, Nalkedaya, Parava, Pambada,
Raneyar and Samagara. They are traditionally
involved in such pursuits like scavenging,
leather work and agricultural labourers.
A caste foams a homogenous groups in terms of ritual status, customs and beliefs, food habits, habits and occupations.
Common belief is that families belonging to a caste descent from a common ancestor.
10
Schedule caste nomenclature was first time contained in the Government of India Act 1935.
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Amongst these communities, Nalkedaya,

Parava, Pambada and Raneyar are supposed to
be the most backward. They live in the villages
with others. Nalkedaya, Parava and Pambada
communities are the main communities who
participate in Bhoota Kola (act as possessed one
in spiritual tradition). Generally, Nalkedaya
population do not own lands, whereas, some
Paravas are landowners. They are mainly
involved in their traditional family pursuits
(Bhoota Kola) during 4-5 months in a year. Rest
of the time, they earn their livelihood through
labour. Amongst Raneyar community, majority
are labourers and work mainly as masons and
construction workers. This community is
relatively in small number.
The STs in the district include mainly
Koragas, Malekudiyas and Marathi Naikas.

Koragas are known as the original natives of
erstwhile Dakshina Kannada district. They are
distinctly different from others in the district in
life style, cultural habits and traditional
practices. They are described as a primitive tribe
of basket makers, a quiet and inoffensive race,
small and slight and black skinned. Their
principal occupation is basket making.
Normally they live on the outskirts of the
villages. In towns, they work as scavengers in
the sanitary departments. The women also
engage themselves in manufacturing of
handicrafts such as cradles, baskets, cylinders to
hold paddy, winnowing and sowing baskets,
scale pans, boxes, rice-water strainers, ring
stands for supporting pots, coir (coconut fibre)
rope, brushes for washing cattle etc.
The other two ST communities in the
district are Malekudiyas and Marathi Naiks. The
Malekudiyas mostly live in the periphery of
Western Ghat slopes in Belthangady and Sullia
taluks. Their population in the district is very
small. They are cultivators and plantation
workers. They have skill in making baskets,
mats etc bringing raw materials from the forest
like honey. They are hardworking people.
Marathi Naiks are originally from Goa and were
serving army traditionally. They came as
members of troops and gradually settled in
different parts of the district. Marathi Naiks are
very hard working people and mainly depend on
agriculture. They are better in social hierarchy
compared to other two tribes.
Bhootaradhane
In Tables 9.1 and 9.2, the comparative

data on gender-wise composition of population
of SCs and STs according to 2001 and 2011
censuses are analysed together with decadal
growth in different taluks.
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Table 9.1
Demographic Profile of SCs in Dakshina Kannada District
Taluk
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
State (lakh)
Male
8465
11018
20633
15877
9825
65818
43.40
2001
(number)
Female
8499
11257
20745
15132
9709
65342
42.24
Total
16964
22275
41378
31009
19534
131160
85.64
2011
(number)
Female
9675
12890
25013
16938
10338
74854
52.10
Male
9585
12426
24262
17102
9949
73324
52.64
Sex Ratio*
Total
19260
25316
49275
34040
20287
148178
104.75
2001
1004
1022
1005
953
988
993
973
2011
1009
1037
1031
990
1039
1021
990
Decadal
Growth
Percent
13.53
13.65
19.08
9.77
3.85
12.97
22.31
Source Census: 2001 and 2011. * Sex ratio per 1000 males
Table 9.2
Demographic Profile of STs in Dakshina Kannada District
Taluk
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
State (lakh)
2001
Male
7460
6334
5809
6563
5413
31579
17.56
Female
7389
6382
5730
6493
5363
31357
17.08
2011
Total
14849
12716
11539
13056
10776
62936
34.64
Male
10486
7733
8137
8773
5832
40961
21.35
Female
10426
7909
8109
8854
6009
41307
21.14
Sex Ratio
Total
20912
15642
16246
17627
11841
82268
42.49
2001
990
1008
986
989
991
993
973
2011
994
1023
996
1009
1030
1008
990
Decadal
Growth
Percent
40.83
23.01
40.79
35.01
9.88
30.72
22.66
Source Census: 2001 and 2011. * Sex ratio per 1000 males
According to the 2011 census, the
district has 148178 SC populations and 82268
ST populations. They constitute 7.09 percent
and 3.94 percent of the total district population.
The respective comparative figures at the state
level are 17.2 percent and 6.9 percent. The
decadal growth in the SC population works out
to 13 percent and for the ST population, 31
percent. The comparative decadal growth of
total population in the district was 10 percent.
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Incidentally, while the decadal SC population

growth in the district is significantly lower than
the state average of 22.3 percent, in the case of
ST population, the decadal growth at the district
level is significantly higher than the state
average of 22.6 percent. The district has one of
the lowest percent of the SC and ST population
among 30 districts in the state. Out of a total
number of 4.40 lakh families, the SC families are
26918 and the ST families 13111.
Graph 9.1
The women constitute 50.5 percent of

total SC population and among STs, they are
50.2 percent of total ST population. The gender
composition of SCs and STs is almost on parity
with the general population (50.5 percent). The
sex ratio of SC population is 1021 and ST
population 1008. They are relatively better than
the state average for SC and ST populations

(990). However, in the case of ST population, it
is significantly lower than district's general
population (1020). While the sex ratio of the
general population slightly declined from 1022
in 2001 to 1020 in 2011, in the case of both SCs
and STs, it has improved from 993 to 1021 and
993 to 1008 respectively during this period.
Graph 9.2
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Taluk-wise, Mangaluru taluk has the

highest percentage of the SC population (33
percent), followed by Puttur (23 percent) and
Belthangady (17 percent). Bantwal has the
lowest SC population of 13 percent. Sullia has
slightly higher SC population (13.7 percent). As
regards STs, Bantwal has the highest population
(25 percent), followed by Puttur (21 percent) and
Mangaluru (20 percent). Belthangady has 19
percent and Sulla has the lowest, 14 percent. As
regards the decadal growth is concerned, it is
interesting to note that while in the case of SCs it
varies from 4 percent in Sullia to 19 percent in
Mangaluru, in STs, it ranges from 10 percent in
Sullia to 41 percent in Bantwal and Mangaluru.
Surprisingly, inter-taluk variation in sex ratio is

very wide in both SCs and STs. In the case of
SCs, Belthangady, Mangaluru and Sullia have
higher sex ratios than the district average of
1021. But Bantwal and Puttur have lower sex
ratios of 1009 and 990 respectively. Similarly,
for STs, Sullia has the highest sex ratio of 1030,
followed by Belthangady (1023) and Puttur
(1009). Mangaluru and Bantwal have the lowest
sex ratios of 996 and 994. It is, however,
important to note that there was a significant
improvement in the sex ratio of both SC and ST
population in all taluks in the district In Table
9.3, the distribution of the SC and the ST
population in rural and urban areas in the district
as per 2011 Census is given.
Table 9.3
Rural Urban SC/ST Population: 2011
Taluk
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
Rural
(number)
S. C.
S. T.
Male
Female
Total
Male
Female
Total
Male
Female
Total
Male
Female
Total
Male
Female
Total
Male
Female
Total
7904
7948
15852
11736
12187
23923
7956
8019
15975
14524
14248
28772
8962
9253
18215
51082
51655
102737
9289
9185
18474
7520
7703
15223
3129
3150
6279
7552
7594
15146
5292
5430
10722
32782
33062
65844
Urban
(number)
S.C.
S.T.
1681
1727
3408
690
703
1393
16306
16994
33300
2578
2690
5268
987
1085
2072
22242
23199
45441
1197
1241
2438
213
206
419
5008
4959
9967
1221
1260
2481
540
579
1119
8179
8245
16424
Decadal Growth
(percent)
Rural
Urban
SC
ST
SC
ST
1.15
28.44 158.22 425.00
1.01
28.14 173.69 461.54
1.08
28.29 165.83 442.98
10.97
20.98
56.11
80.51
12.74
23.01
57.27
71.67
11.86
22.00
56.69
76.05
-9.60
5.67
37.80
75.84
-8.23
0.64
41.53
90.73
-8.92
3.09
39.68
82.95
5.53
30.07
21.95
61.29
9.22
31.04
28.89
80.52
7.33
30.56
25.40
70.51
1.12
6.78
2.60
18.16
5.65
10.50
14.09
28.95
3.37
8.63
8.31
23.51
2.54
20.6
38.99
85.54
4.95
21.24
43.89 101.69
3.74
20.95
41.45
93.31
Source: 2011 Census

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The majority of SC/ST populations live

in rural areas. 69 percent of the SCs and 80
percent of the STs are in rural areas. The
comparative share of rural population in total
population is 52.3 percent, which clearly shows
that SCs and STs are more rural based than
general population. Relatively, the proportion
of the SC population in urban areas is more than
STs. Between 2001 and 2011, the district
witnessed significant shift from rural areas to
urban areas in the SC and ST population in line
with the change took place in the total
population. In 2001, only 24.5 percent of the SCs
and 13.5 percent of STs lived in urban centres.
As per 2011 Census, 31 percent of the SCs and
20 percent of the STs are now in urban areas. The
decadal growths of both SC and ST population
are more in urban areas than rural areas and
interestingly it is more among females than
males. However, compared to urbanization of

general population (48 percent), their
urbanization are still on lower side.It is also
important to note that the decadal growth of SCs
in both rural and urban areas is lower than STs.
Taluk-wise comparison shows that out of
45441 SC people living in urban areas in the
district, 33300 or 73 percent live in Mangaluru
taluk. Similarly out of 16424 ST people living in
urban centres, 9967 or 61 percent live in
Mangaluru taluk. Next to Mangaluru, Puttur has
the highest number of SCs (5268) and STs
(2481) in urban areas. Belthangady has the
lowest number of SCs (1393) and STs (419). In
rural areas, Puttur has the highest number of SCs
(28772), followed by Belthangady (23923).
Bantwal has the lowest SCs (15852). In the case
of STs in rural areas, Bantwal has the highest
number (18474), followed by Belthangady
A Shop Established by the ST Community Member with the Assistance of Govt. Subsidy.
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(15223). Mangaluru has the lowest number

(6279). Mangaluru witnessed negative decadal
growth in SCs and lowest decadal growth in STs
in rural areas. In rural areas, Belthangady has
the highest decadal growth (12 percent) in SCs
and in STs, Bantwal has the highest decadal
growth (28 percent). In urban areas, Bantwal has
the highest decadal growth both in SCs and STs,
followed by Belthangady. Sullia has the lowest
decadal growth in both groups.
In both SCs and STs, there are sub-castes
having distinctly different traditions and culture
and hereditary pursuits. They are not socially
and economically same. Some sub-castes are of
higher status compared to some others. No data
are, however, available on these sub-castes.
Among the STs Communities, the Marathi
Naikas constitute the majority of the total ST
population. Next to them, Malekudiyas and the
number of their families are about 1474 in the
district. Koragas are the lowest in the social and
economic hierarchy in the district. They are
considered as primitive tribe. As per 2001

census, the total population of Koragas in the
district was 6337. In 2012, the ITDP, ZP carried
out a survey of Koraga community in the district
and as per their study the taluk-wise distribution
of the Koraga community is as given in Table
9.4.
Nearly 70 percent (3406) of the
community live in Mangaluru taluk. Sullia has
the lowest number of Koraga families (32).
Bantwal has 187 Koraga families, followed by
Puttur (113). Sullia has the lowest number of
Koraga families (32). Bantwal has 187, followed
by Puttur, 113 families and Belthangady, 100
families.
Since they were the original forest
staying tribe, they were granted by the State
Government forest rights to cultivate in the
forest where they stay. Since they were the
original forest staying tribe, they were granted
by the State Government forest rights to
cultivate in the forest where they stay.
Table 9.4
Taluk-wise Population of Koraga Community
Taluk
Mangaluru city
Mangaluru (Rural)
Bantwal
Belthangady
Puttur
Sullia
District
Families
(number)
271
503
187
100
113
32
1206
Male
621
1088
294
206
195
61
2465
Population
Female
583
1114
278
190
188
40
2393
Total
1204
2202
572
396
383
101
4858
Source: I.T.D.P. Zilla Panchayat, Dakshina Kannada District.
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Graph 9.3
Box 9.1: Malekudiya: A Tribal Community living in Forest

Malekdiyas are the people living mainly in Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and Chikamagaluru
districts. In Dakshina Kannada they live mostly in Belthangady taluk at the hill slope of Western Ghats
forests. 'Male' means mountain; 'Kudi' means top. They were historically living in forest in isolation as
community with distinct culture and life style. They were declared by the Government as STs in 1956. As
they were living in forest, in the past, they were deprived from access to all modern facilities like roads,
health, schools, electricity, water supply and other basic livelihood amenities. They were mainly engaged
in agriculture, rearing pigs, poultry and cattle besides forest products for their livelihood. They were also
plantation workers. They are not economically very poor. Unlike Koraga community, they are not
socially deprived or discriminated. Their mother tongue is Tulu. They have their own life style, traditional
beliefs and cultural practices. Being a small community, marriages within bali, in addition to inter-bali
marriages have become common among them. They worship Goddess Kali and Bhutas. Divorce and
widow marriages are permitted and the dead are mostly buried. Dr. Shivaram Karanth, a noted Kannada
writer, wrote his novel Kudiyara Koosu wherein he brought out lucidly their culture and traditions.
The problem of Malekudiyas is not social discrimination, but their refusal to leave forest and
settle to become a part of mainstream society. Since they were the original forest staying tribe, they were
granted by the State Government forest rights to cultivate in the forest where they stay. The ITDP, ZP, has
implemented number of programs to provide them basic amenities like proper housing, roads, schools
and health facilities. Since the areas they live are naxalite affected area, there are also special programs for
socio-economic welfare of this community. In the past, they suffered from alcoholism and smoking. Now,
with awareness campaign of SKDRDP, they are getting free from alcoholism and smoking. Under
SKDRDP, they also formed Pragati Bandu to undertake agricultural activities. They are now sending
their children to schools by using the Government hostel fcilities. All these, in fact, revolutionized their
living style and brought them on par with other communities.
Source: Compiled from Karnataka State Gazetteer and Various other sources.
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Box 9.2: Koraga Community:

Poorest of the poor
Koraga community is considered as 'adivasis' (aboriginal natives) of erstwhile undivided
Dakshina Kannada district. In 1956, the community was declared as STs and in 1986; they
were treated as Primitive Tribal Group (PTG). They lived in isolation mostly outskirts of
the village near the forest. Their principal occupation was basket-weaving and food
gathering. They have distinctly different life style, food habits, cultural habits and
traditional practices. Regarding origin of Koragas, there are a few legends. Once upon a
time, they were believed to be the rulers of the district. They were enslaved around 6th A.D
and made to live in isolation. They were the followers of female dominated matriarchal
family system and lived jointly. They were worshippers of spirits. Their daiva is called
Koraga Thaniya. They also worship major Hindu deities. They have sub-groups such as
Onti-Koraga, Soppu-Koraga, Mudu-Koraga, Kada-Koraga, etc. Divorce and widow
marriage are common among them and they bury their dead. Though they speak Tulu, they
have their own dialect. 'Ajalu paddathi' was one of the traditional practices followed by
Koraga tribe. It included drum beating at the outskirts of temples and at the time of funeral
of other communities, collection of left-over food during social and ritual functions, etc.
This practice has now been abolished. Koraga men beat drums, play flute and dance during
socio-religious functions. In recent years, they are employed by the sanitary department as
scavengers in urban areas.
With a view to bring the Koraga community to the mainstream and for all round
development economically and socially, the State Government has undertaken following
programs:
Allotment of housing site and houses and Rs1.25 lakh for housing facilities.
Establishment of Koraga community colony with all basic amenities and
infrastructure.
Allotment of agricultural lands and financial help to get engaged in agriculture.
Anthyodaya cards to all Koragas.
Nutritional Food (include pulses, millets, jaggery, edible oil and egg) for six months
from June to December to reduce malnutrition.
Free Medicare: all medical expenses born by the Government.
Free education even for higher and professional education:
Promotion of SHGs of Koragas to take up income generating self-employment
ventures.
Janashree Insurance has been extended to all Koragas.
Alcoholic-free awareness campaign/ workshops to minimize the consumption of
alcohol, gutka etc which is common among Koraga community.
In spite of all these government interventions, Koraga community remained poorest of the
poor in the district, suffering from malnutrition, alcoholic habits, severe anaemia among
women, unhealthy life style and traditional beliefs.
Source: Compiled from Various sources.
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9.3 Education Profile and Levels of

Enrolment and Dropout Rate
SC and ST populations were historically
deprived of access to formal education
opportunities. Since they are resource poor
communities, education only plays an enabling
role to improve capabilities and employability
endowments and thereby improve the wellbeing of these communities. Since
independence, the Government pursued proactive and affirmative intervention policies to
improve the education status of the SC and ST
communities. A number of initiatives and
several programmes were implemented by the
State Government, which include free
education, hostel facilities, free accommodation
and boarding, running special residential
schools, awareness and special training
programmes, post-metric scholarships,
providing admission to meritorious students in
prestigious schools etc.
Dakshina Kannada district has witnessed
a remarkable progress in education status among
all social groups since independence (Table 9.5).
The literacy rate of SCs increased from 54.90 in
1991 to 66.14 in 2001 and in 2011, it is 68.78

percent. The literacy rate of that of STs increased
from 62.70 to 72.95 during 1991-2001 and in
2011, it has gone up to 73.73 percent. During this
period, the literacy rate for total district's
population increased from 76.74 percent to
88.57 percent.
The gaps between the literacy rate of
general population and that of the SCs and the
STs which were 22 percent and 14 percent
respectively in 1991, was narrowed down to 17
percent and 10 percent in 2001. In 2011, in the
case of SCs, the gap has further widened to 19.8
percent instead of narrowed down. As regards
STs, it is 14.8 percent interestingly; the literacy
rate of STs is higher than SCs. The district's
literacy rates of the SC and the ST populations
were not only significantly higher than the state
averages for these communities, but also more
than the state average literacy rate for all
population. The district has, next to Bengaluru
Urban, the highest literacy rates for both the SC
and the ST populations among 30 districts in the
state. However, what is important to note is that
in spite of pro-active efforts and remarkable
Table 9.5
Literacy Status of SCs and STs in Dakshina Kannada District (percentage)
Details
District
State
S.C.
S.T.
All
S.C.
S.T.
All
Male
63.60
71.50
84.88
49.70
47.90
67.26
1991
Female
45.90
53.70
68.84
26.00
23.60
44.34
Total
54.90
62.70
76.74
38.10
36.00
56.04
Male
73.89
80.20
89.70
63.75
59.66
76.10
2001
Female
58.36
65.69
77.21
41.72
36.57
56.87
Source: Census of India 1991, 2001 and 2011
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Total
66.14
72.95
83.35
52.87
48.27
66.64
Male
74.42
78.90
93.13
74.03
71.14
82.47
2011
Female
63.26
68.60
84.13
56.58
52.98
68.08
Total
68.78
73.73
88.57
65.33
62.00
75.36
progress during last six decades, the literacy

rates of SC and ST populations still remained
significantly lower than literacy rate of the
general population.
The gender-wise literacy status among
the SCs and the STs also significantly improved
during last two decades. In 1991, SC male
literacy rate was 63.6 percent and female literacy
rate, 45.9 percent. There was a gender gap of
17.7 percent. In 2001, literacy rate of SC male
population increased to 73.9 percent and female
literacy rate to 58.4 percent. The gender gap was
reduced to 15.5 percent. In 2011, the SC male
literacy rate was 74.42 percent and female
literacy rate, 63.26 percent. The gender gap was
reduced to 11.46 percent. Similarly, in the case
of STs, the gender gap in literacy rates in 2011 is
10.3 percent. The gap in literacy rates between
the ST population and total population is 14.23
percent in men's literacy rate and 15.53 percent
in women literacy rates. Comparative literacy
rates of total population were 93.13 for male
population and 84.13 percent for female
population. The gender gap is 9 percent. The
need for bringing the SC and ST literacy rates for
both males and females on par with other
community needs hardly any emphasis.
The SC students constitute 6.9 percent

and ST students, 4 percent of total student
population at elementary education. In
secondary education, SC students form 5.3
percent and ST students, 3.9 percent of total
student population. At PUC level, SC students
were 9.5 percent and ST students, 1.8 percent of
total students enrolled. From this it clear that at
primary and secondary levels, both SC and ST
student's ratios are on par with their shares in
total population. At PUC level, surprisingly, SC
student ratio is higher and ST student ratio is
significantly lower. Table 9.6 provides the data
on social category-wise enrolment of students in
primary and secondary educations in the district.
The analysis of the data evidently shows
that the enrolment ratios of the SCs and the STs
are more or less on par with other community. It
is encouraging to see that in both primary and
secondary education, the enrolment is almost
universal in both the SCs and the STs and
comparable to other social groups.
The above trend is also reflected in Table
9.7, which compares taluk-wise the gross
enrolment ratios of SC and ST students in
primary and secondary schools with the general
category students.
Table 9.6
Enrolment of SC and ST Students: 2011-12(number)
Social Groups
SC
ST
OBC
Others
Total
Boys
9602
5057
98606
7686
120951
Primary (1-7)
Girls
9091
4803
92182
7391
113467
Total
18693
9860
190788
15077
234418
Boys
3593
2023
42529
4645
52820
Secondary (8-10)
Girls
3654
2044
39842
4754
50294
Total
7247
4067
82371
9429
103114
Source: Sarva Shikshana Abhiyana/DSE
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The taluk-wise and gender-wise

comparison of enrolment of the SC and the ST
school children shows only marginal inter-taluk
variations in enrolment ratios of SC and ST
students. There are also no inter-taluk
differences in gender-wise enrolment among
SCs and STs and also in comparison with other
category of students.
The district has also one of the lowest
drop-out rates in primary education among 30
districts in the state. In the year 2011-12, the total
drop-out students numbered only 137, which
accounts for 0.06 percent of total enrolled
students (Table 4.9 in Chapter 4). Out of 137
dropouts, the dropouts of SC students were 51.
The STs have the lowest dropout of only 6. The
number of drop-out of boys was more than girls
in both SCs and STs. Among 51 dropouts in the
case of the SCs, 29 were boys and 22 were girls.
Of the 6 ST drop-outs, 4 are boys and 2 are girls.

Among taluks, the highest drop-out was in
Mangaluru; 27 SC students and 5 ST students.
Interestingly, there are no dropouts in SC girl
students in Bantwal and Puttur, while in the case
of STs, Bantwal, Puttur and Sullia have no dropouts in both ST boys and girls.
The drop-out rates in secondary
education level is the highest among SC and ST
community. The proportion of drop-out is also
quite high among SC and ST boys and girls; it is
15.49 percent among boys and 12.36 percent
among girls. Comparable figure for other
communities is 14.23 percent for boys and 5.38
percent for girls. During the year 2011-12, the
district has 89.55 percent pass in SSLC results.
Comparatively, the STs have the lower result of
79.45 percent and the SCs, 79.64 percent in
SSLC pass results. Though there was no much
Table 9.7
Taluk-wise GER of Students by Social Groups At Primary
and Secondary Education: 2011-12 (Percentage)
Taluk
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
Boys
Girls
Boys
Girls
Boys
Girls
Boys
Girls
Boys
Girls
Boys
Girls
SC
Primary Secondary
97.89
96.45
98.12
95.45
97.89
95.89
98.46
96.12
99.56
98.46
99.94
98.96
99.79
96.25
99.71
97.96
97.45
95.45
97.59
95.13
99.45
97.52
99.24
97.92
Primary
95.89
94.89
94.86
92.49
101.02
101.96
100.89
99.89
95.46
94.56
98.16
97.46
ST
Secondary
93.56
93.12
92.54
90.47
98.51
98.45
98.36
98.79
94.12
93.78
96.42
95.92
Source: Sarva Shikshana Abhiyana/DSE
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Others
Primary Secondary
99.54
97.59
98.89
97.58
98.12
96.23
99.15
97.41
105.45
100.60
104.56
100.40
104.69
99.56
100.98
99.92
97.42
96.45
96.48
96.45
103.24
99.89
101.32
99.35
matter of concern because high-end jobs in all

fields are linked to higher education. However,
there are a few success stories in the district: 272
SC students and 221 ST students graduated in
Engineering, 36 SC students and 34 ST students
became medical doctors.
difference between results of SC and ST

students, the gap between the results of SC and
ST students n SSLC is very wide; almost 10
percent. This is an area of concern.
Among taluks, Mangaluru taluk has the
highest SSLC pass result for SCs and
Belthangady taluk has the highest for ST
students. As against this, Sullia has the lowest
results in the case of SC students and Puttur has
the lowest for ST students. Inter-taluk variation
in the SSLC results in both the cases is not very
significant. The worrisome issue is that in all
taluks, the performance of SC and ST students in
SSLC is significantly lower than other
community students.
Education is the chief variable in social

and economic empowerment of hitherto
marginalized SCs and STs. The State
Government has, therefore, implemented
number of affirmative programmes through
Department of Social Welfare, Integrated Tribal
Development Program and the SC and ST
Development Corporations. In the field of
education, besides providing free education up
to secondary level, special incentive allowances,
pre and post metric scholarships, free hostel
facilities, special grants, training programs, free
higher education for students of Koraga
community, admission of meritorious ST
students in prestigious schools/colleges are
provided during the last ten years. Table 9.8
shows the number of the SC and the ST students,
who are provided with the hostel facilities and
residential school both at pre and post-metric
level.
Since the data are not available as

regards the enrolment of SCs and STs in higher
education and professional courses, it is very
difficult to arrive any conclusions as to their
performance in higher education. From the
findings of the various studies undertaken, it is
evident that enrolment of SCs and STs in higher
education and professional courses is relatively
not on parity with other community students.
The attrition rates of SC and ST students in PUC
level itself are found to be very high. This is a
Table 9.8
Government Hostels for SC and ST Students in the District (2011-12)
Details
Boys
Girls
Total
Hostels (No)
Students (No)
Hostels (No)
Students (No)
Hostels (No.)
Students (No)
SC Hostel
PreMetric
11
690
8
620
19
1310
PostMetric
4
324
4
319
8
643
ST Hostels
PreMetric
6
270
3
125
9
395
PreMetric
1
75
1
75
2
150
Morarji Desai
Residence School
PrePostMetric
Metric
3
563
375
938
-
Ashrama
School
12
421
341
762
Source: Department of Social Welfare/ITDP
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The district has 19 pre-metric, 8 postmetric hostels exclusively for SC students and 9
pre-metric and 2 post-metric hostels for ST
students besides 3 residential pre-metric Morarji
Residential Schools and 12 Ashrama Schools.
During the academic year 2011-12, the total
student beneficiaries of these facilities were
2343 boys and 1855 girls. The number of the SC
and the ST students benefited from the
government scholarship during 2011-12 is given
in Table 9.9. During the academic year 2011-12,
The SC Student-beneficiaries from scholarship
were 16020 at primary level and 6342 at
secondary level for SC category. Similarly, 3126
at primary level and 3473 at secondary level ST
students benefitted from the government
scholarships.
The State Government has also launched
under SSA innovative interventions for socially
disadvantaged SCs and STs. Chinnara Zilla
Darshana is one such programme, which is an
educational tour progamme, free of costs to the
children. This programme is planned with an
intention to supplement the classroom learning
of the children by integrating school activities
with outside world and society. During the year
2011-12, about 2303 SC students and 475 ST
students have benefitted under this programme.
At the outset it should be noted that since

among SCs and STs, many sub-groups exist with
different socio-economic hierarchy, the
beneficiaries of the government programmes
may not be same. For example, among the STs,
Marathi Naikas are more advanced in education
and many are in higher education. They appear
to be the main beneficiaries of the Government's
programmes. The education status of Koragas
and Malekudiyas, who are the most backward
ST communities in the district, requires special
attention. They are considered very backward
educationally. Despite significant improvement
in the literacy rate of ST population during the
last decade, the education status of Koragas,
might not have improved significantly. Nonattendance and drop-out percentage at the
secondary level is very high due to poverty, nonaccessibility as dwelling areas of Koraga
families are far away from high schools apart
from the lack of interest by the parent's. It is
important to note that the gaps between the
literacy rate of Koragas and other ST sub-casts
and also the population in general in the district
are very wide. This is definitely a major area of
concern in a progressive district like Dakshina
Kannada district.
Table 9.9
Government Scholarship to SC and ST Students (Number)
Social Group
SC
ST
Level of Education
Primary
High School
Primary
High School
Boys
7952
2539
2160
1253
Source: Department of Social Welfare/ITDP
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Girls
8058
3803
966
2220
Total
16020
6342
3126
3473
Graph 9.4
1.4
Health Awareness and Institutional
Delivery Rate
The health status of the SC/ST families
differs widely depending on the socio-economic
background of the various sub-castes. For
example, the health profile of Marathi Naikas is
more or less similar to other communities. As
against this, Koragas have relatively poorest
health status in the district because of their
cultural traditions and livelihood practices.
Korgas usually suffer from alcoholic, high
consumption of tobacco, malnutrition and
higher percentages of infant mortality and
maternal mortality rates. In the case of
Malekudiyas, who live in forest, they do not
have easy access to health facilities. As a result
of various healthcare programmes implemented
by the Government, there was a remarkable
improvement in almost all health indicators of
the SC/ST families in the district. Unfortunately,
the data on many RCH indicators for the SC/ST
families separately are not available.
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The Department of Health and Family

Welfare Services undertakes health awareness
campaign regularly particularly targeting the
SC/ST families. The officials from the DHFWS
and anganawadi workers also visit at least once
in every six months every household. As a result
of these health awareness campaigns, the SC/ST
families in the district are well aware of
healthcare facilities available. The centrally
sponsored NRHM programme has focused on
improving RCH among weaker sections in rural
areas. As a result, the RCH indicators such as
IMR, CMR and MMR are relatively lowest in
the district. Similarly, the pregnant women
receiving full ANC are 85.1 percent, pregnant
women with severe Anemia 33.9 percent,
children born underweight 12.3 percent,
malnourished children 21.23 percent, and child
mortality rare 22. From these data, one can
deduce that SCs and STs are also the
beneficiaries of RCH programmes. Though,
some of the RCH indicators might be relatively
higher than those of other communities, there
must have significant improvement in their RCH

indicators in recent years. The institutional
delivery in the district is 99.92 percent, which
clearly demonstrates that even among the SC/ST
families; the institution delivery is almost 100
percent. The health problems faced by the SC/ST
families are mainly centered around noncommunicable diseases such diabetes, coronary
diseases etc due to inaccessibility and nonaffordability.
The DHFW implements various national
and state health programs and also provides
comprehensive healthcare services targeted
particularly SCs and STs. Important among them
is the Janani Surakshana Yojane (JSY), which
aims at reduction of maternal and infant
mortality rate as well as to increase the
institutional deliveries of SC/ST families. Under
this programme, besides providing maternity
services like 3 antenatal checkups and referral
transport, cash assistance is given for deliveries
taking place in health institutions. In rural areas,
cash assistance to the mother for institutional
delivery is Rs.700 per mother and in urban areas
Rs.600. During 2011-12, the beneficiaries of this
programme were 8309 in the district. The
Madilu is another scheme launched by the State
Government to provide post-natal care for
mother and the child. The objective of Madilu
scheme is to encourage the SC/ST pregnant
women to deliver in health centres or hospitals.
Under this program, a kit is provided to women.
During the year 2011-12, 4972 kits were
provided to the beneficiaries. Under the Prasooti
Araike Scheme, the pregnant women of SC/ST
families also provided RS.1000 for the first two
deliveries to get nutritional food during the
antenatal care period. For Koraga community, is
indicated in Box 9.2, provide with free medicare
and nutritional food for six months. Since 200809, the ITDP provides through anganwadis,
from June to November, for each family, 15 kg
rice, one kg pulse, 2kg dal, one litre edible oil,
2kg jaggery and 30 eggs with a view to reduce
malnutrition among Koraga community. The
government has also special arrangement in
Wenlock Hospital as well as with recognized
private hospitals for medical treatment of
Koragas at free of cost.
9.5 Occupational Pattern and Livelihood

Opportunities
The livelihood status of SCs and STs
depends on their access to productive assets and
resources as well as the employment pattern.
Traditionally, the SCs were landless bonded
agricultural labourers. Their principal asset was
their labour. The STs were mainly a tribal
community engaged in subsistence farming in
forest areas, hunting and gathering forest
products and basket making. Nearly 76 percent
of the SC families and 85 percent of ST families
live in rural areas. At present, in rural areas,
nearly 48 percent of the SC families are landless
agricultural labourers. Out of 20416 SC rural
families, 10539 (52 percent) are having
agricultural landholdings. In urban areas, they
are mostly involved in sanitation and cleaning
and construction works. Among 11087 ST
families living in rural areas, 9618 (87 percent)
have agricultural land (Table 9.10). The number
of agricultural land holders among the STs is
more than the SCs mainly because Marathi
Naikas and Malekudiyas, who constitute the
majority of the ST families in the district, are
traditionally agriculturalists. Among Koragas,
only few families are agricultural landholders.
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"Aati Kalanje" - A folk art performed during monsoon season
Table 9.10
Agricultural Land Holding Pattern of SCs and STs
in Dakshina Kannada District: 2010-11
Size of Land
Holding
(Ha)
Number
Below 1
1 -2
24
4 10
10 and above
Total
9224
1171
140
4
10539
SCs
Area
(ha)
3483.23
1569.95
337.46
18.44
5409.08
Average size
(ha)
0.38
1.34
2.41
4.61
0.51
Number
7431
1825
336
26
9618
STs
Area
(ha)
3155.77
2474.72
828.41
126.36
6585.26
Average size
(ha)
0.42
1.36
2.46
4.86
0.68
Source: Dakshina Kannada District at Glance: 2011-12. As per 2010-11 Census
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As regards landholding pattern among

SCs and STs, 87.5 percent of the SC farmers are
marginal farmers with average size of
landholding of 0.38 ha. Marginal farmers and
small farmers having 1 to 2 hactares together
constitute 98.6 percent of total SC farmers. Only
144 SC families have landholding above 2 ha. In
the case of ST farmers, 77 percent are marginal
farmers with average size of land holding of 0.42
ha. Marginal farmers and small farmers having 1
to 2 ha, together constitute 96 percent of total ST
farming community. Out of 9618 ST famers,
only 362 have landholding above 2ha. From this
it is evident that almost all SC and ST farmers for
their livelihood have to depend on agricultural
labour. With the present non-viability of monocropping pattern and the slow-down in the
agriculture, the SCs and STs farmers in rural
areas are increasingly becoming marginalized
and entering into labour market for their
livelihood. In rural areas, out of 20416 SC
families, 9877 (48 percent) are the landless
households. Among STs, their number is 1469
(13 percent). Agricultural labourers constitute
12 percent of the total workers and the bulk of the
rural poor. With the declining trend in the
number of cultivators and the area under
cultivation, the opportunity for agricultural
labour is declining and thereby threatening
livelihood. The landless households in STs
mainly belong to Koraga community who are the
poorest of the poor in Dakshina Kannada
district.
Since 2011 census data on the SC and ST
workforce are not yet available, the discussion to
understand the work participation pattern by
these social groups is based on the available
2001 census data. Table 9.11 provides the work
Dhol - The Drum Beating

participation rates (WPRs) for SC and ST
population for both rural and urban areas in the
district.
During the period 1991 and 2001, there
was significant increase in the WPRs both
among SC and ST labour forces. While the WPR
for S.C workers has gone up from 52.7 percent in
1991 to 58.1 percent in 2001, in the case of the
STs, it has increased from 48.2 percent to 57.5
percent. The WPRs of both the SCs and the STs
in the district are slightly higher than the State
average WPRs for these communities. As the
labour is the main asset for the livelihood of the
SCs and the STs, their WPRs are also
significantly higher than other communities,
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Table 9.11
Work Participation Rates of the SCs and STs (Percentage)
Details
S.C.
Dakshina
Kannada
District
S.T.
S.C.
Karnataka
S.T.
Men
63.10
56.70
61.50
64.30
57.50
63.40
55.70
49.20
54.00
57.60
52.60
58.30
Rural
Urban
Total
Rural
Urban
Total
Rural
Urban
Total
Rural
Urban
Total
2001
Women
58.30
43.20
54.50
54.20
34.00
51.60
44.30
20.50
38.40
45.30
21.90
41.70
All
60.70
49.90
58.10
59.30
46.20
57.50
50.10
35.10
44.70
51.50
37.60
49.40
Source: Census Data, 2001/KHDR, 2005

which was 49.9 percent in 2001. Though the
female work participation rates in both rural and
urban areas were lower than male workers, they
were significantly higher than the WPRs of other
communities. The work participation rate for
male SC workers was 61.5 percent and for
female workforce, 54.5 percent in 2001. For the
ST workers, the respective WPRs were 63.4
percent and 51.6 percent. The gender-wise work
participation rates of both SCs and STs also were
considerably higher compared to the WPRs for
all other social groups in the district. The higher
WPR for SCs and STs evidently reflects their
dependence solely on labour for their livelihood.
It is also interesting to observe that the WPRs for
both the communities and for both male and
female workers are significantly higher in rural
areas than urban areas.
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Environmental Friendly Hat Making by a

Member of the Koraga Community
With a view to empower the unemployed

youth of STs and encourage them to take up selfemployment ventures, the Department of Social
Welfare, ITDP and SC and ST corporations,
Zilla Panchayat, have undertaken various
initiatives for their job skill development.
Koraga community members, who are faced
with the problem of declining, demand for their
basket products and thereby, their livelihood
occupation, are encouraged to take up
agriculture, dairy and other agricultural
enterprises. The district has already 4953 SC
women and 3659 ST women in self-help groups.
The Department concerned provided seed
capital of Rs.1 lakh to each self-help group to
take up income generating self-employment
ventures.
Notwithstanding the above, it is important to
note that the SCs and STs are at present mostly at
lower-end formal jobs. In rural areas, they are
agricultural labourers. In urban areas, they
mainly work in sanitary and construction. Most
of them work as casual labourers. In government
jobs, while Marathi Naikas and the SCs are
relatively well represented, in Koraga
community, very few are in government jobs.
Even in government jobs, excluding Marathi
Naikas, others are in low-end jobs. The problems

that are being faced by the Koraga community
include illiteracy, lack of requisite skills,
unemployment and underemployment,
landlessness and lack of demand for their
traditional occupations.
9.6 Housing, Drinking Water Facilities

and Sanitation
Access to basic amenities such as housing,
drinking water and sanitation is essential for
well-being of people. The present status of
housing, drinking water, sanitation and other
basic amenities in the district is discussed in
detail in Chapter 6,. Historically, the SC/ST
families were the deprived communities of these
basic amenities. They were living in isolation
without access to these basic facilities. Some
sub-castes of STs were mostly living in forests.
They were following primitive livelihood. In
order to bring them to mainstream and improve
their standard of living, the Government
implemented several right based intervention
programmes. Table 9.12 shows the housing
facilities provided for the SCs and STs under
various Government housing programmes.
Table 9.12
Housing for SCs and STs under various programs:2011-12(number)
Programs
House Sites allotted under Ashraya Scheme
House under Ashraya Scheme
Dr. B.R, Ambedkar Scheme
Indira Awas Yojana
Special Fisheries Scheme
Total
SC
497
5107
1450
1845
4
8903
264
ST
161
2327
459
751
5
3703
During 2011-12, under the state

sponsored Ashraya scheme, 497 housing sites
and 5107 houses were allotted to the needy SC
families. Similarly, 161 housing sites and 2327
houses were allotted to the ST families. Under
Ambedkar Housing scheme, 1450 houses were
constructed for SC and 459 for ST families.
Indira Awas Yojana, which was a centrally
sponsored scheme, provided 1845 houses to the
SCs and 751 houses to the STs. Under Special
Fisheries Scheme, 4 houses were allotted to SC
fisheries families and 5 to the ST fishing family.
Thus under the various Government housing
schemes, 8903 SC families and 3703 ST families
have benefitted. The 2011 Census data on
housing status for the SC and ST households is
not yet available. Since large number of SC and
ST families have benefitted from various
government housing schemes, there must have
been significant improvement in the housing

status of SCs and STs in the district.
During the last decade, there was a
significant improvement in electrification SC
and ST houses. In the case of SCs, in 2001, the
households using electricity for lighting was
39.23 percent, which increased to 67.23 percent
in 2011. The ST households electrified increased
from 46.4 percent to 77.17 percent during this
period. There was a significant reduction in
dependence on traditional sources of lighting
among both SC and ST families. Similarly, there
was a significant increase use of safe drinking
water such as tap waters, hand pumps and tube
well/bore well among SC and ST households.
SC households using tap water increased from
32.4 percent to 46.6 percent during the decade
2001-11. On the other hand, the ST households
Graph 9.5
Housing for SCs and STs under various programs ( In Numbers) : 2011-12
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using tap water has gone up from 18.9 percent to

30.7 percent during this decade. Implementation
of various schemes by the state government for
providing safe drinking water to these
communities has made this difference.
As already stated in chapter 7, the State
Government launched TSC, Nirmala Grama and
Swachata Grama schemes to achieve total
sanitation and complete eradication of open
defecation. Under these schemes, the SCs STs
and other BPL families were given Rs.3700 as
incentive amount for construction of toilets
within premises. The ZP has organized
aggressive awareness campaigns in all taluks
and implemented the programme effectively. As
a result, the sanitary status in the district
improved significantly during the last five years.
As per 2011 census, nearly 93 percent of the
households in the district have latrine facilities
within the premises. Only 7 percent depend on
latrine facility outside their premises. Nearly 72
percent of the households have flush latrine.
These data clearly demonstrate that most of the

SC and ST households have benefited from these
programmes and are now having toilet facilities
within their premises. However, the real
challenge is the utilization of these facilities and
development of healthy practices and hygienic
conditions at the community level in rural areas.
9.7 Radar Analysis of Marginalized Groups

In order to view the status of
marginalized groups through graphical portrayal
and disparities within taluks as well as between
taluks, the radar charts have been drawn by using
three indicators reflecting marginalization
dimension of human development. The
indicators used for computing indices are female
literacy, percentage of women elected
representatives and percentage of elected SC/ST
representatives. Table 9.14 depicts the actual
values of these indicators and indices computed
based on 10-point scale.
Table 9.13
Marginalized Groups: indicators for Radar
Taluk
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
Female Literacy
(Percent)
Actual
Value
81.02
77.99
88.15
80.51
81.44
84.13
Index
8.10
7.80
8.82
8.05
8.14
8.41
Women Elected
Representatives
(Percent)
Actual
Index
Value
45.60
4.50
46.14
4.61
43.86
4.39
45.18
4.52
49.40
4.94
45.50
4.55
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Elected SC/ST
Representatives
(Percent)
Actual
Index
Value
14.86
1.49
17.59
1.76
12.18
1.22
20.30
2.03
27.08
2.71
16.74
1.67
The radar charts prepared for each taluks and for all taluks together are shown below:
Bantwal Taluk - Margilised Groups
Female Literacy (Percent)
10
8.1
0
1.49
4.5
Elected SC/ST
Representatives
(Percent)
Women Elected
Representatives (Percent)
Belthangady Taluk - Margilised Groups

8
6
7.8
4
2
0
1.76
Elected SC/ST
Representatives
(Percent)
267
4.61
Women Elected

Mangaluru Taluk - Margilised Groups
10
8.82
5
0
1.22
4.39
Elected SC/ST
Representatives
(Percent)
Women Elected
Puttur Taluk - Margilised Groups

10
8.05
5
0
2.03
Elected SC/ST
Representatives
(Percent)
4.52
Women Elected
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Sullia Taluk - Margilised Groups
10
8.14
5
0
2.71
Elected SC/ST
Representatives
(Percent)
4.94
Women Elected
Dakshina Kannada District Marginalised Groups Radar Chart

Bantwal
10
8
6
4
Belthangady
Sullia

Women Elected
Elected SC/ST
Mangaluru
Puttur
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It is evident from radar charts that all

taluks have female literacy almost nearer the
maximum value and inter-taluk disparities are
o n l y m a rg i n a l . A s r e g a r d s p o l i t i c a l
representation of marginal groups especially the
SCs and STs, all taluks are at the bottom ends. It
is mainly because the district has one of the
lowest percentages of SC/ST population.
However, their representation in governance in
panchayat raj institutions exceeds their share in
the total population. In the case of women,
though all taluks have women political
representation above quota, it is still below their
percentage shares in the total populations. This
is not however reflected in the radar charts as
indices are computed based on 100 percent
representation as maximum value.
These Dalit-specific problems produce

disabilities among Dalits and the disabilities, in
turn, hinder their capabilities to absorb
development opportunities. It is therefore
argued that since the Dalit development
problems are quite different from mainstream
development problems, they should be treated
differently. The problems of Dalits mainly
centered around: untouchability, social
exclusion and social and economic
discrimination. These specific problems affect
Dalits' institutional, social and economic
inclusion, freedom, mobility, choices,
opportunities and political, cultural and
community participation. All this ultimately
lead to their capability deprivation, which
adversely affect their human development.
9.8 Composite Dalit Development Index

(CDDI) A Case Study
Keeping in mind the need for special

attention to Dalits' specific problems, an
attempt is made in the DHDR to conduct a case
study exclusively on Dalits, selecting one GP
and using both primary and secondary data to
compute a Comprehensive Dalit Development
Index (CDDI) by taking into consideration
various dimensions of social, economic,
cultural and institutional discrimination and
exclusion. For computation of the CDDI, the
following six dimensions were taken into
account:
'
Scheduled Castes' also referred to as
'Dalit, are traditionally deprived social group
involved mainly
in such pursuits like
scavenging, leather work, and manual labourers.
Historically, they were the disadvantaged
community and suffered through centuries from
social exclusion and discrimination. Socially
and economically, they still remain at the lowest
rung of the socio-economic ladder. Despite
constant, deliberate and conscious efforts to
eradicate negative and discriminatory practices,
there is still a general perception that the social
exclusion and discrimination of Dalit still persist
in the society. The Human Development Index
(HDI) which measures various dimensions of
human development, however, does not capture
various dimensions of discrimination and
exclusion, which are historically Dalit specific.
Inclusion: Institutional and Social

Inclusions,
Discrimination: Perception, Protest and
Resolution,
Freedom: Social, Political, Economic and
Cultural,
Standard of Living: Land holding, Nonagricultural source of income, Pucca House,
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Electrification, Two-wheelers,
Gender Dimension: Pre/post delivery rest,
institutional delivery, Reproductive support
and
Access to Basic Facilities: Education,
Drinking Water, Toilets, and Sanitation.
With a view to measure various dimensions for
constructing the CDDI, the following
indicators were selected:
Institution Inclusion: Representation of SCs
in Panchayat, School Development and
Management Committees (SDMCs),
J F M C s , Wa t e r S o c i e t i e s , F i n a n c e
committees and Village Health and
Sanitation Committee.
Social Inclusion: Perception of Dalits on
open entry into non-Dalits' residences,
address them respectfully like non-dalits,
inclusion of Dalits in festivals on par with
non-Dalits, free entry to village temples and
treatment in hotels like non-Dalits.
Perception of Discrimination: Perception of
Dalits on access to all sources of drinking
water like non-Dalits, Treatment of SC
children in schools on par with non-Dalit
children in matters such as sitting in the class
rooms, plates given for mid-day meal,
participation in curriculum and extra
curriculum activities, sports and cultural
activities, discrimination in health matters
such as number of visits by health workers,
paying attention, delivery of drugs,
emergency services, social discrimination in
terms of treatment hotels, temples, social and
religious functions in matters such as
invitation, seating arrangements, plates or
glasses used, meals served and disposal of
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used plates or glasses and Economic

discrimination in terms of treatment on par
with non-Dalit in matters such as temple
works, all works of festivals, mid-day meal
cooking, getting customers to Dalit hotels
and getting houses on rent.
Protest against Discrimination: In the case of
discrimination, whether Dalits protested
against discrimination in respect of Water,
Education, Health, Social and Economic
matters.
Conflict Resolution: If there is
discrimination, response of Dalits on
resolution of conflicts in respect of Water,
Health, Education, Social and Economic
factors satisfactorily or not.
Perception of Freedom: Perception of Dalits
on freedom to question all injustices meted
out, freedom to protest against
discrimination, freedom to mobility,
freedom to get all kinds of employment
opportunities and freedom to participate in
all the cultural activities on par with nonDalits.
Gender Dimension of Dalit Development:
Rest prior to delivery, Rest after delivery,
Rate of Institutional delivery, Health
Assistant visit, Reproductive health support
on par with Non-Dalits.
Standard of living: Proportion of Dalits'
holding land compare with general
population, Ownership of non-agricultural
establishments on par with general
population, Proportion of the Dalit
households having Pucca houses as
compared to general population, Proportion
of Dalit-households having electricity as
compared to general category of the
population, and owning two-wheelers

(Bike/Scooter) on par with the general
category of the population.
Access to Basic Facilities: Safe Drinking
Water of 55LPCD, Toilets and drainage
created in Dalit areas as compared to general
population.
Access to Basic Facilities Education:
Enrolment rate of Dalits as compared with
general population, Attendance rate of Dalits
as compared with Non-Dalits and Rate of
transition of Dalits as compared with General
population.
The scoring method was used for measuring
various indicators of deprivation of Dalits. The
scoring was done based on the perceptions of
Dalits on various indicators as compared with
non-dalits. If positive responses exceed 70
percent, scoring was given 2, if 50 69 percent,
scoring was 1 and if less than 49 percent, scoring
was zero. The actual value of development
attainment was divided by expected maximum
value of development attainment to compute the
various dimension indices. The expected value
of development attainment of indicators was
based on development attained by General
Population and development benchmarks
stipulated by the State and Central
Governments. The CDDI is the simple average
of all these dimension indices. The difference
between one and CDDI is the Dalit Deprivation
Index (DDI).
Ajjawar Gram Panchayat (GP) in Sullia
taluk was selected for the case study. It is in
remote area more than 25 km away from taluk
headquarter Sullia. The selected GP has 90 SC
households with population of 484. The total
households in the GP are 1388 and total

population about 5300. It is a multi-class GP. Out
of 90 SC households, 55 were selected randomly
for the study. All 55 SC households were
interviewed to collect primary data through
structured questionnaire. The secondary data
were compiled from the GP. Following the
methodology stated above as per the
Government Guidelines, indices were
computed. Table 9.15 contains the computed
indices of various dimensions, CDDI and DDI
for the GP selected for the case study.
The analysis of the various dimension
indices shows that as regards social inclusion,
perception of discrimination, protest against
discrimination, conflict resolution, and
perception of freedom, the indices are almost
one. The implication of this is that the SCs are
not facing any social exclusion and
discrimination in the GP selected for the study.
However it should be noted that these findings
are mainly based on the perceptions of the
respondents which are obviously subjective. The
Dalits, in fact, make every effort to avoid any
social discrimination and conflict particularly in
cases of entry to non-Dalit houses, participation
in festivals and religious functions. By and large,
the Dalits are treated on par with other
communities in the district. This has been
achieved partly due to the Dalit-friendly
Government interventions and regulations.
In the case of standard of living, access to
basic amenities, the gender dimension of
development and education, the indices are
below 0.750. Dalits are not comparatively on par
with other community. Since most of the Dalits
are resource poor and depend on low-end labour
jobs for their livelihood, they have still a long
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Table 9.14
Composite Dalit Development Index (CDDI)
Dimensions
Institutional Inclusion
Social Inclusion
Perception of Discrimination,
Protest against Discrimination
Conflict Resolution
Standard of Living
Perception of Freedom
Gender Dimension of Development
Access to Basic Facilities: Water/ Sanitation
Access to Education
Total
CDDI (Total/10)
Dalit Deprivation Index (DDI)(1 - CDDI)
way to catch up with other community in

standard of living and access to basic amenities.
Similarly, in the case of gender dimension of
development since most of them are land less
agricultural labourers in rural areas, they could
not afford required pre and post delivery rest and
leisure. Regarding Institutional Inclusion, the
dimension index works out to 0.500. The high
institution exclusion of 0.417 can be attributed to
the inadequate representation of Dalits in
committees such as SDMCs, JFMCs and Village
Health and Sanitation.
The comprehensive Dalit Development
Index, as shown in the table, works out to 0.787.
It can be considered 'very good'. As a result, the
Dalit Deprivation index (DDI) is only 0.213.
The Dalit deprivation is to the extent of 21
percent. With the increasing education among
SCs and Dalit friendly government
interventions, whatever the disparities between
them and other communities in terms of social
and institutional inclusion, which existed in the
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Maximum
Value
12
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
6
6
94
Actual Value
Index
6
9
10
10
10
7
10
6
3
4
75
0.500
0.900
1.000
1.000
1.000
0.700
1.000
0.600
0.500
0.667
7.867
0.787
0.213
past is gradually getting reduced. However, it

should be noted that the purpose of this study is
to understand the differences between the
perception and reality in a limited manner based
on a case study of one GP. The outcome of the
study therefore shall not be applicable for any
similar smaller or bigger geographical areas
(village, GP, taluk, district etc.) and for
generalization.

The SCs and STs are historically, socially
and economically deprived communities.
Hence, the social and economic development of
these communities requires prior attention and
special treatment. Without right-based or
entitlement approach particularly in education,
health, shelter and other basic livelihood
amenities, the well-being of these communities
is not possible. Since independence, both the
Central and the State Governments have
implemented several multi-faceted and multipronged programmes for social and economic
welfare of the SCs and the STs and thereby bring
them to the mainstream development. The
analysis of the available data clearly has shown
that most of the government social programmes
implemented have been successful in provision
of the basic livelihood amenities to the SCs and
the STs. They are not lagging very much behind
other communities as regards housing, drinking
water supply, electricity and sanitation. The
historically existing wide gaps between them
and the rest of the population in regard to
housing and basic amenities no more exist.
Notwithstanding remarkable progress made
in social empowerment, the SCs and STs still lag
behind the rest of the population in regard to
higher and professional education, access to
healthcare facilities, organized job market,
access to productive assets and credit,
entrepreneurship and business world and
standard of living. Most of them remained as
resource poor and in low-end labourers. Though
there are many government programmes to
improve the education and economic status of
these communities, the effect is only marginal as
regards skill development and economic
empowerment. The district has still relatively a
larger percentage of the SCs and the STs below
poverty level. They have higher dropouts in
secondary and PUC education. Their
representation in higher-end professional
employment is only marginal. The setting up
separate colonies for SCs and STs also adversely
affects their participation in mainstream society
and becoming integral part of the society.

programmes equally. For example, among the
STs, Marathi Naikas are more advanced and
Koragas are far behind economically and
socially. Unfortunately, there is, at present, acute
shortage of statistics on livelihood, education
and health status, occupation pattern, poverty
and other socio-economic indicators of Koraga
communities as well as other sub-castes. These
data are essential for focused demand driven
government interventions for the economic and
social uplift of this community. This requires a
comprehensive diagnostic study of Koraga
community and other sub-castes. The challenge
is to recognize such downtrodden sub-castes and
prepare a holistic action plan to bring them to the
level of the rest of the community.
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Chapter 10
GOVERNANCE ISSUES:
GOVERNANCE AND
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
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Governance Issues: Governance and Human Development

10.1 Introduction
A good governance is defined by the
World Bank as (i) the process by which
governments are selected, held accountable,
monitored and replaced, (ii)the capacity of the
governments to manage resources efficiently
and to formulate, implement and enforce sound
policies and regulations; and (iii) the respect for
the institutions that govern economic and social
interactions among them. The two basic
elements of good governance are: i) economic
role of the state, which includes enabling,
conducive and stable macro environment,
provision of essential public goods and services
such as healthcare, education and basic
infrastructure, protecting vulnerable, legal
framework for development and protecting
environment and ii) democratic governance,
t r a n s p a r e n c y, a c c o u n t a b i l i t y a n d
decentralization to ensure people's grass roots
participation and responsiveness to citizen's
needs and aspirations. By this definition, the
good governance means effective, efficient and
responsive administration that is committed to
improving the well-being of life of the people. It
also implies providing essential public services
such as health care, education and basic
infrastructure in a more participatory and
transparent manner. Good governance is,
therefore, considered a prerequisite for sound
and sustainable human development.
Decentralization in governance is
important to ensure grass root participation of
people in planning and implementation and
delivery of public goods and services. The
decentralized democratic governance ensures
effectiveness, greater transparency and
accountability and responsiveness to local
needs. With decentralized governance, the
ordinary citizen can effectively access the public
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services required by them. Instead of a distant

bureaucracy, under the decentralized system of
governance, the planning and implementation of
programmes would be at local level based on
resource endowment of the area and local needs
and aspirations of the local people and delivery
system of public goods and services shifts to an
elected neighborhood body. The human
development requisites can be easily met
efficiently and effectively through such
neighborhood governance. The decentralized
governance is, therefore considered as the handmaiden of human development at the grassroots
level.
In good governance, the role of
institutions and non-government organizations
(NGOs) also matters. In recent years, the NGOs,
community based civil societies and other
voluntary agencies are increasingly emerging as
key players in various human development
endeavors. If motivated by altruism and social
commitments, they can become the most
suitable catalyst for empowering and promoting
the sustainable human development among
weaker sections and in the rural areas. In view of
the critical importance of good governance for
human development, this chapter focuses on
analyzing interface between the governance at
the panchayat raj institutions (PRIs), Urban
Local Bodies' and human development at the
district level.
10.2 Local Governance Structure

The 73rd and 74th Constitution
Amendments in 1993 and 1994 mandated local
self governments in all states. The district
administration structure in Dakshina Kannada
district is as follows,he Minister-in-charge of the
district is overall in charge of the district. The
Deputy Commissioner (DC) is the chief

administrator of the district. The DC is
responsible for law and order, social justice,
revenue administration. The Zilla Panchayat is
an elected body for policy making. There are
various district level sectoral development
departments that come under the Zilla
Panchayat. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Zilla
Panchayat, being the administrative head
overlooks the administrative aspects concerning
the different sectoral development departments.
Taluk Panchayats (TPs) are the intermediate
second tier in the three-tier panchayat raj set up
which also has an elected body. Its role is to act
as the facilitator in the various development
functions of the GPs. The Grama Panchayats
(GPs) are at the bottom of the pyramid structure
of the panchayat raj set-up. Under the
decentralized set-up, they are the administration
units at the village level for planning and
implementing development programs as well as
delivery of public services in rural areas.
Dakshina Kannada district has 203 GPs,
five TPs and eight urban local bodies. The urban
local bodies (ULBs) include: Mangaluru City
Corporation, Town Municipal Councils (TMCs)
at Bantwal, Puttur, Ullal, and Moodabidri and
Town Pachayats (TPs) at Belthangady, Mulky
and Sullia. They have responsibility for urban
planning and development and provision and
administration of basic amenities such as
drinking water, lighting, roads maintenance and
sanitation.
10.3 Panchayat Raj Institutions: Structure

and Process
The 73rd Amendment to the Constitution
for the first time gave constitutional safeguards
and guarantees to panchayat raj institutions for
inter alia financial devolution and seat and

authority position reservation for weaker
sections. Following the Constitution
amendments, Karnataka State passed a new
Panchayat Raj Act in 1993 to set up a three tier
structure of panchayat raj system: Zilla
Panchayat, at district level, Taluk Panchayat at
taluk level and Village Panchayat (GP) at village
levels .With a view to adopting measures to
promote good governance and accountability
through enhanced people's participation,
citizen orientation, responsiveness, improved
service delivery, improved financial
management and greater downward
accountability the Karnataka Panchayat Raj
Act, 1993 was amended in October 2003.
At the state level, the functioning of the
panchayat raj institutions is coordinated and
monitored by the Department of Rural
Development and Panchayat Raj (RDPR).
Under the three-tier panchayat raj set up, each
body has mandated developmental and
administrative functions. The ZP is the apex
body in the three-tier panchayat raj set-up at the
district level. The major developmental
functions of all sectoral and other line
departments at the district level come under the
domain of the ZP. Being an apex body, it has also
responsibility for overall coordination in
planning and management and providing
capacity building and technical support to lower
levels of the PRI system. The organizational
structure of the ZP is outlined in chart 10.1.
The ZP President is the chairperson of
the elected ZP Council, which is the policy
making body at the district level. There are
Standing Committees represented by the ZP
members on finance, audit, general, social
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Chart 10.1
District Level Zilla Panchayat
justice, education and health and Agriculture and

Industries. In addition to these Standing
Committees, there is a District Planning
Committee (DPC). Under Section 310 of the
Karnataka Panchayat Act, it is mandatory for the
ZP Council to constitute a DPC to consolidate
the plans prepared by ZP, Taluk Panchayats, GPs
and ULBs and based thereon, prepare a
Comprehensive District Development Plan
(CDDP) and monitor and evaluate its
implementation. Administratively, the Chief
Executive Officer is the overall in charge of the
ZP. The CEO is assisted by Deputy Secretary on
administration, the chief Accounts Officer on
finance, the Chief Planning Officer on planning
and heads of sectoral departments on sector
development.
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Taluk Panchayat is an intermediate

second-tier and has the responsibility to act as
facilitator in the various functions of the GPs.
The TP is an elected body chaired by the TP
president. Likewise ZP, there are Standing
Committees on various matters.
Administratively the TP is headed by the
Executive Officer (EO). Under him, there are
line departments on accounts, planning,
Panchayat extension and backward class
extension.
The GPs are the administration unit at
the village levels, charged with responsibilities
of implementing developmental functions and
delivering public services directly to the people.
The important development functions assigned
to them include inter alia rural water supply,
Nirmala Grama Yojana, social forestry, housing

poor, micro-irrigation, poverty alleviation
schemes and implementation of MGNREGA
scheme.
the bureaucrats can interface and be made

accountable to the people for their actions and to
serve as a means of ensuring transparency in
administration.
The Grama Panchayat Council is chaired

by the Panchayat President, supported by Vice
President. The Act provides for setting up Grama
Sabha (village Assembly) and Ward Sabhas,
consisting of all eligible voters of the panchayat.
The Grama Sabha and the Ward Sabhas are
expected to provide forum to villagers to (i)
discuss and review all local developmental
problems and programmes formulated and
implemented in the village; (ii) select
beneficiaries for beneficiary targeted
programmes; and (iii) plan for development of
the village economy and its people depending on
local resource endowments and needs. The
Grama Sabha and the Ward Sabha were
conceived as a participatory mechanism to
provide opportunities to the people to voice their
needs and aspirations. They were also to become
a platform, where the elected representatives and
The district has 203 GPs serving 331

villages. Taluk-wise, Mangaluru has the highest
number of 49 GPs, followed by Bantwal, 47 and
Belthangady, 43. Puttur taluk has 37 GPs and
Sullia, 27 GPs. The GPs in the district differ
widely in terms of geographical area coverage
and population. Some GPs have one village,
many GPs, two villages and a few, more than
three. As per the mandated functions of the
panchayats, the GPs are involved in
implementing village specific schemes such as
water supply, sanitation, housing of poor and
village infrastructure development. During the
Eleventh Plan period, the major thrust areas of
development undertaken by the GPs in the
district were housing for weaker section, rural
water supply, rural roads, MGNREGA and
sanitation under both central and state sponsored
schemes.
The financial devolution and transfer of
resources from the state depends on the ability of
GPs to raise resources from the sources assigned
to them and local needs. The GPs are assigned to
levy house tax, non-motorable vehicle tax,
factory tax, entertainment tax other than cinema
halls, water tax, license fee, fee on fairs etc.
Though the record of the resource mobilization
by the GPs is not up to the mark, compared to
other districts, the performance of GPs in
Dakshina Kannada district in resource
mobilization is very good in the state.
Grama Sabha organised at Grama Panchayat
The three-tier structure of the panchayat

raj institutions under decentralized set-up is
responsible to implement development
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programs in their respective mandated areas.

This calls for both empowerment and
accountability of the relevant authorities for
effective and efficient implementation of
development programs and delivery of public
services. They also need to be adequately
empowered through devolution of functions,
finances and functionaries. Dakshina Kannada
district being a progressive district has done
quite well in running the panchayat institutions.
All GPs are computerized with web-based
software... However, the problems faced by
them are many which include inadequate and
untimely allocation of resources, absence of
community interest and participation through
Ward Sabhas and Grama Sabha, lack of
knowledge and functional capability to plan,
implement and deliver services to the targeted
groups, political interference and vested
interests. The elected members lack orientation
and knowledge. There is a need to strengthen the
GPs by adequate devolution of functions and
finances. The devolution of functions has to be

accompanied by an activity mapping clearly
delineating the activities that can be done by
different tiers.
10.4 Urban Local Bodies: Structure, Issues

and Processes
Dakshina Kannada district is one of the
highest urbanized districts in the state. Nearly 48
percent of the population lives in urban areas as
against the state average of 39 percent. The
district has also witnessed a decadal growth of
37 percent during 2001-11. The rapid process of
urbanization is a natural dynamic process
associated with the economic growth. With the
rapid expansion of urbanization, the
development of requisite urban infrastructure
and good urban governance pose a real
challenge. A unified and effective administrative
framework is necessary in urban areas with clear
accountability to citizens. The urban governance
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is therefore very important from the district's

human development perspective.
The history of urban local self-governing
bodies, commonly called municipalities in
Karnataka dates back to more than a century.
Now the urban governance process in the state
comes under two important Laws: Karnataka
State Municipalities Act of 1964 (for city
municipalities, town municipalities and town
panchayats) and The Karnataka State Municipal
Corporation Act of 1976 (city corporations). As
per these acts, ULBs were classified as City
Corporations with above 3 lakh populations,
City Municipal Councils (CMCs) with
population ranging from 0.50 - 3lakh , Town
Municipal Councils (TMCs) with population
ranging from 0.20 0.50 lakh and Town
Panchayats (TPs) with population ranging from
0.10 -0.20 lakh.
The 74th Constitutional Amendment Act

1994 mandated the setting up of elected urban
local bodies as the institution of self-government
and allocated inter alia responsibility of
administration, economic development and
social justice. By this amendment, the urban
local bodies (ULBs) have become local
governments with clearly mandated functional
domains. This amendment also transformed the
ULBs from being mere service providers to
urban development bodies. The mandated
functional responsibilities of ULBs include safe
drinking water supply, quality all-weatherroads, maintenance of street lights, and scientific
way of solid waste disposal, underground
sewerage system and cleanliness of the city.
As stated above, Dakshina Kannada
district has eight ULBs viz. one city corporation
in Mangaluru, four TMCs at Bantwal, Puttur,
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Moodabidri, and Ullal and three TPs at Mulky,

Belthangady and Sullia. The broad governance
structure of ULB set-up is adumbrated in Chart
10.4. The Ministry of Urban Development is the
apex body for policy making and oversight
administration and monitoring urban
governance in the State. The ministry governs
Municipal Corporations through the Directorate
o f U r b a n D e v e l o p m e n t . T h e To w n
Municipalities and town panchayats come under
the Department of Municipal Administration. In
the district, the DC is over all in charge of the
urban governance. The DC's office has an Urban
Development Cell, which conducts urban
planning and looks after all the district's urban
affairs. Mangaluru City Corporation has
Commissioner as Chief Executive. Other ULBs
have Chief Officers responsible to govern in
their respective jurisdictions. Under the
Commissioner/Chief Officer, broadly, there are
departments such as Administration, Revenue,
Works/Engineering, Public Health and
Environment Protection, Poverty Alleviation
and Community Development, Public Relation,
Finance and Accounts and Town Planning

depending on the category of ULB.
Table 10.1 contains particulars of ULBs
in the district. Mangaluru City Corporation has
115036 families with total population of 499487
in the command area of 132.45 sq. km. It has 60
wards with 60 elected members. Ullal TMC, the
second biggest town, has population of 53773 in
an area of 11.80 sq. km. From the Administrative
perspective, it has 27 wards with 27 elected
members. Puttur TMC has population of 53061
in its jurisdiction of 36.11 sq. km. It has also 27
wards and 27 elected members in the town
council. Moodabidri TMC has population of
29431 in the area of 39.62 sq.km with 23 wards
and 23 elected members in the town council.
Bantwal TMC has population of 40155 in an
area of 27.05 sq.km. It has 23 wards and 23
elected members. Among Town Panchayats,
Sullia has the highest population of 19958 in
jurisdiction of 6.61 sq.km with 18 wards and 18
elected members. Mulky, the second biggest
Town Panchayat, has population of 17274 in the
command area of 11 sq. km.
Tale 10.1
Profile of Urban Local Bodies in Dakshina Kannada District
ULBs
Mangaluru CC
Bantwal TMC
Moodabidri TMC
Puttur TMC
Ullal TMC
Mulky TP
Belthangady TP
Sullia TP
Total
Total Area
(sq. km)
132.45
27.05
39.62
36.11
11.80
11.00
8.87
6.61
273.51
Wards
(number)
60
23
23
27
27
17
11
18
206
Household
(number)
115036
7939
6517
11378
9588
3962
1821
4194
160435
Total Population
(number)
499487
40155
29431
53061
53773
17274
7746
19958
720885
Source: 2011 Census/Urban Cell, DC Office
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Chart 10.2: Structure of Urban Local Bodies
Ministry of Urban Development

Department of Urban Development
/Directorate of Municipal administration
Urban Development
Cell in the DCs Office
City Councils
Commissioner/
Chief Officers
Administration
Department
Secretariat
Public health
And Environment
Protection
Revenue
Department
Works/
Engineering
Poverty
Alleviation/
Community
Public
Relations
Zonal Office
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Finance/
Accounts
Town
Planning
It has 17 wards and 17 representatives in

the council. Belthangady has, on the other hand,
population of 7746 in the area of 8.8 sq.km. It has
11 wards and 11 elected members in the TP.
10.5 Improving Service Delivery

Mechanisms
10.5.1 E-Initiatives
Electronic governance is fast emerging
as an important instrument for achieving good
governance especially with regard to improving
efficiency, transparency and making interface
with government user friendly. E-governance
involves application of IT to the processes of
government functioning in order to bring about
better governance. It can reduce delay and
improve ability to get things done on time

without waste of resources. E-governance is,
therefore, considered 'smart'; simple, moral,
accountable, responsive and transparent. It can
be used as an important instrument for more
effective strategic urban planning initiatives,
program management and monitoring and
timely delivery of services. It requires providing
broad band connectivity, networking,
technology up gradation and a package of
software solutions. The broad band connectivity
should be extended to all ULBs and panchayat
institutions to enable much better information
flow and allow stronger monitoring of
implementation of programs on the ground and
delivery of public goods and services to the
targeted beneficiaries.
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In Dakshina Kannada district, all ULBs have

computerized the system and implemented the
following initiatives in regard to E-governance:
Double entry accrual based financial

accounting. All ULBs in the district have
adopted web-based E-Gov Financials for
municipal accounting based on the NMAM
(National Municipal Accounting Manual)
prepared by the Comptroller Auditor
General (CAG) and Ministry of Urban
Development, Government of India. This
system is fully internet-enabled and
automates the end-to-end financial
operations of an urban local body by
providing an integrated system that
manages budgeting, asset management,
daily operational accounting and reporting.
The system is fully integrated to the ULB
city portal, which enables the ULB to
provide citizens information they require.
Geographic Information System (GIS)
based property tax collection system: The eGIS Property Tax system computerized the
revenue operations and fully integrated with
eGOV Financials. It automatically
calculates the property tax demand,
maintain property database, monitor
revenue collection and provide up-to-date
reporting of tax collections. Important
internal processes like web-based project
monitoring, payroll, procurement process,
payment of bills, file movement and fund
based accounting system as per Karnataka
Municipal Accounting and Budgeting Rules
(KMABR) 2006 have been computerized
enhancing transparency and administration.
Public grievance and redressal system: With
a view to effectively handle public
grievance, eGOV PGR was adopted. Under
this system, citizens can register their

complaints with ULBs either through
internet, phone or through writing. The
complaints are properly structured, autorouted to the concerned redressed officer
and track the complaint.
The Right to Information (disclosure of
information by authorities providing
municipal services) Rules 2009: All ULBs
have taken measures for periodic voluntary
disclosure of mandated municipal service
related indicators.
An online 'Tulana' for improving service
delivery levels: Under this system, all ULBs
disclose performance levels with 49
monitorable indicators set against
benchmarks on yearly basis in seven
sectors.
Birth and Death registration system: all
ULBs are implementing the eGOV
Birth/Death IT module for birth/death
registration and certification. For successful
execution, this, however, requires on-line
hospital integration.
City Portal: All ULBs in the district have
websites with state server maintained at
MRC. But broad brand connectivity and
networking have not been put in some
places. Unless these developments take
place, the optimum benefit of E-governance
cannot be realized.
10.5.2 Capacity Building

With the growing urbanization and
emerging urban issues, the urban governance is
increasingly becoming more and more complex
process. The range of functions that the ULBs
are expected to discharge are widening and
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becoming too technical. The administration and

management of urban development have to
become professional and competent. The district
has eight ULBs. It is common knowledge that
without a continuous development of
capabilities and competencies of employees, no
organization can function well. Human resource
development is, in fact, a process by which the
employees of an organization are required to
continuously and in a planned way acquire and
sharpen their capabilities and competencies to
perform various functions effectively and
efficiently. Training and retraining is a very
critical not only to perform their functions
efficiently but also to cope up with emerging
urban issues. The capability building also
required to be extended to the elected members
of the Municipal Councils as they come from

diverse backgrounds. The elections to the ULBs
usually held once in five years but these bodies
must be invigorated and enabled to discharge
their responsibilities.
As regards the three-tier structure of
rural governance, Zilla Panchayat at district
level, five Taluk Panchayats at taluk level and
203 GPs at village level are responsible to plan
and manage development programs in their
respective areas as per the Amendment of the
Constitution. Unfortunately they have not been
able to perform their respective mandated
functions as envisaged therein mainly due to
lack of capability particularly at panchayat level.
The ZP has technically qualified professional
staff in sectoral departments as well as in its
A Service centre and Rajiv Gandi Seva Kendra at Kolthige Gram Panchayat - Puttur
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office. The Taluk Panchayat as an intermediate

tier can easily avail the needed technical and
professional support from the ZP. The GPs at the
grass root level do not have required
professional competence to perform their
mandated functions effectively and efficiently.
The GPs are the focal points for local
planning and delivery of public services. The
need for improving governance at the GP level
needs hardly any emphasis. Empirical studies
revealed that the lack of professional capacity,
transparency and accountability at the GP level
are the weakest aspects of the Panchayat Raj
system. Most of the Secretaries have no
professional qualification and capability to
administer the task assigned to them. The recent
appointment of the Panchayat Development
Officers (PDOs), was to some extent filled this
void. However, they are new and require
requisite skills in grassroots planning,
management of development programs and
monitoring and evaluation.
Similarly the elected members of the
GPs are the key players and decision makers at
the grass root level. Production Committees,
Social Justice Committees and infrastructural
Committees are the most important Standing
Committees in GPs. In order to make them
effective, the members of the committees
require requisite capability in rural
development. The Grama Sabhas and Ward
Sabhas were conceived as forums to provide
opportunities to people to participate in planning
and monitoring of development programs. The
Grama Sabhas and Ward Sabhas have not yet
become effective. The need to develop requisite
capability at panchayat level and strengthen the
Grama Sabhas and the Ward Sabhas to make
them effective forums in need assessment,

priority setting, oversight monitoring and social
audit therefore requires hardly any emphasis.
10.5.3 Good Governance Practices

Good governance is about providing an
efficient and effective administration that is
committed to improving the quality of life of the
people in a more participatory and transparent
manner. The main ingredients of good
governance at grassroots level are: (i) Efficient
and effective delivery of public services, (ii)
simple, easily accessible and people-friendly
rules and procedures, (iii) transparency,
accountability and sound financial management,
(iv) responsive to local needs and aspirations and
(v) stringent anti-corruption measures, absence
of rent seeking behaviour and strictly adhere to
right to information. Good governance is, thus, a
people-friendly, people-caring, peopleparticipatory and responsible and responsive
panchayat raj system.
The Constitution Amendment rightly
made the PRI system as an appropriate
institutional framework for local governance.
Under this framework, the decentralized the
panchayat raj institutes are expected to ensure
people's participation in governance and provide
effective, capable and responsive local
administration for delivery of public services.
Dakshina Kannada district has done quite well in
running the panchayat raj institutions as per the
Amendment Act. Some of the successful good
governance practices adopted in the district are
the following:
Successful Total Sanitation Campaign
(TSC): Though total sanitation programme was
launched in 2000, no progress was made until
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2005. In 2005, the ZP undertook a need based

diagnostic survey to assess sanitation status and
identify families having no toilets. First step the
ZP took was awareness campaign and training of
the members and officials of GPs. The ZP also
took the help of school teachers, anganwadi
workers, health workers, SHGs and NGOs in
awareness campaign. Since the subsidy of Rs
1200 for BPL family was not enough to construct
a toilet, the model adopted by Ira GP in Bantwal
taluk of using shramadan of people was
propagated. The local cricket team, bajan
mandals and other youth groups and SHGs
became torch bearers for shramadan. A
sanitation policy was drafted for all GPs and was
circulated to all households. Some donors were
also persuaded to provide materials for

construction of toilets. In Golthamajal GP, a
record 110 toilets were constructed in one day
through shramadan. By 2009, the district has
attained the status of 'open defecation free
district' under the TSC programme and all GPs
were awarded Nirmal Gram Puraskar. The
district also bagged the Nirmal Gram Puraskar
Award in 2012.
Sanitation Policy: All GPs have adopted
sanitation policy which as a package involves
compulsory use of toilets, ensure every house
has bathrooms and toilets, proper waste disposal
from public premises, hotels and restaurants etc,
discourage use of plastic bags and instead
encourage use of cotton bags,
Defined Objectives of a Gram Panchayat Painted on a wall at Sangabettu Gram Panchayat, Bantwal
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Eco-friendly waste disposal initiative:

The ZP took initiative to set up eco-friendly
waste disposal units in five GPs viz. Kurnadu,
Laila, Golthamajalu, Mennabettu and Kadaba
on pilot basis. The waste from residential and
commercial places is collected and processed in
the bio-plants using organic solutions to produce
organic manure. The organic manure produced
is marketed with respective panchayat names to
generate revenue. Based on the experience, the
scheme has been extended to 8 more GPs. Now
ZP has prepared an action plan to replicate this
initiative in all 203 GPs.
Rural Water Supply System: The ZP
initiated metering the rural water supply at GP
level. When the ZP received the World Bank
funded rural water project, the ZP initiated a
pilot project in Kinnigoli, Haleyangadi, Thokur
and Golthamajalu GPs. A Water and Sanitation
Committees were formed, which held
discussion with communities and Grama Sabha
regarding metered safe drinking water supply.
After obtaining community approval, the GPs
included in their bye-laws metered drinking
water supply initiative as a programme. The GPs
purchased meters and installed them and
households were asked to pay in installments the
cost. For SCs and STs, the meter cost was met
from their welfare fund. The GPs have fixed the
water charges to be levied after approval in their
general body meetings. The success of this
initiative motivated the ZP to implement it in all
GPs. All GPs were asked to visit the GPs
implemented the pilot scheme and discuss in
their general body meeting to initiate metered
safe drinking water supply. The ZP also
motivated GPs to go for computerized water
billing system called 'Jaladhara'. By using
handheld machines linked to computer, the

billing is made easy and transparent. 135 out of
203 GPs in the district have successfully adopted
metering of drinking water supply so far.
There are, however, many areas of
concern which need to be addressed to improve
good governance at the panchayat level. The
GPs have at present no financial and functional
autonomy. The decentralization entails
devolution of political, fiscal and administrative
powers to grassroots governing institutions. This
has not yet taken place. The GPs act as grassroots
government body for mere implementing
government schemes imposed by the State and
Central Government. They have not been
empowered to raise resources adequately locally
and plan and execute development programs
based on local needs and aspirations of the
people. Though as per the Act, the GPs are free
from politics, divisive politicization of GPs is
taking place which come in the way of their
effective and transparent functioning. Unless the
GPs are empowered and made autonomous in
terms of functions, finances and functionaries,
the good governance at the GPS level cannot be
ensured.
10.6 Role of NGOs and Other Voluntary

Groups
Non-government organizations (NGOs)
and voluntary groups refer to formal and
informal association of people for common
good. A strong network of societal organizations
is considered essential for holistic and inclusive
development. Non-government agencies
(NGOs), voluntary agencies and societal
associations or groups such as Self-help Groups
(SHGs) play vital roles in the process of
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development. They are perceived to be

motivated by altruism and social commitments,
making them the most suitable catalyst for
empowering and promoting the sustainable
development. Altruistic concern plays important
role in education, health, poverty alleviation and
development of disadvantaged community.
Their contribution in health, education, women
empowerment and other social sectors is well
recognized worldwide. There are also many
social issues which the government alone cannot
handle. Hence the comparative advantage of
NGOs and voluntary groups in certain areas of
development cannot be ignored.
with a good number of NGOs, Voluntary
Agencies, Mahila Mandals and informal groups
such as SHGs. which are actively involved in
various developmental initiatives 11. The known
NGO's of the district include: Sri Kshetra

Dharmasthala Rural Development Project
(SKDRDP), Navodaya Grama Vikas Charitable
Trust, Nagarika Seva Trust, Bhoomi Foundation
Ramakrishna Seva Samaj, Seva Bharati and
Child Aid and Research Trust. Some of the
NGOs are helping the district/state
administration in implementing their
programmes particularly related to the weaker
section of the society.
The main programmes taken up by these
organizations include poverty alleviation,
promoting self help groups for microfinance,
women's empowerment and executing
programmes such as housing, sanitation,
creation of awareness and certain services in the
field of health, education and vocational training
for weaker section of the community.
Paddy Training Camp
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The most notable among the NGOs in the

district is SKDRDP initiated and supported by
DR. D. Virendra Heggade, Dharmadhikari of
shri Kshetra Dharmasthala (Box 10.1). The
primary focus of the SKP is to ameliorate the
living conditions of weaker section of rural
community whom the development process has
bypassed. Started in 1982 in Belthangady the
SKDRDP is spread in most of the villages in
Dakshina Kannada district and also as many as
16 districts in the state. The key element of the
project is formation of SHGs for men (Pragathi
Bandhu) and women (Jnana Vikas). These SHGs
have proved to be the most successful 'models' of
SHGs in the country. The achievements of these
SHGs are remarkable. Pragathi Bandhu men's
SHG has objective of sustainable agricultural
development. With the scarcity of labour,
agriculture was increasingly abandoned in the
district which adversely affected livelihood of
farming community. Pragathi Bandu aims at
labour sharing activity to carry out agricultural
operations. The members of Pragathi Bandu
work in the farm of members in rotation. This
initiative has proved very successful in revival of
agriculture in the district. The purpose of women
SHGs is to empower socially and economically
the women of weaker section in rural areas. In
Dakshina Kannada district, the SKDRDP has
18016 women SHGs with the total membership
of 181349 in most of the villages as on 2012. The
total loan amount outstanding was Rs.27844
lakh. Out of the total members, 9901 are SCs and
5944 are STs. The SHGs under the SKDRDP are
woven into Federations, which are functioning

effectively. The most of the SHGs are involved
in income generating micro-enterprises. The
marketing of their products is done by a
centralized marketing agency called Siri
Navodaya Grama Vikas Chaitable Trust
(NGVCT), an NGO promoted by Shri M.N.
Rajendra Kumar and located in Mangaluru, a
well-known leader of cooperative movement,
has main objective of organizing the rural poor
to empower them by training and providing easy
access to finance to enable them to undertake
income generating activities. The other broader
objective set out include social and economic
empowerment of women through organizing
them SHGs and conducting awareness
campaign, health check-up camps, provision of
financial help for those suffering from cancer,
cardiac diseases etc organizing exhibitions and
fairs to market commodities produced. In short
period of ten years, the NGVCT successfully
formed 15576 SHGs with total membership of
133169, out of which 85398 were women
members. Most of the women members belong
to landless agricultural labourers, SCs and STs.
The NGVCT has received best award from
NABARD for the year 2006-07, 2007-08 and
2008-09 for organizing and managing SHGs in
Karnataka State.
Nagarika Seva Trust, Guruvayankere,
Belthangady taluk, is another known NGO
working in the district. It is a Trust established in
1976. The vision of the Trust is to build a
peaceful and environment friendly society
11
Voluntary sector and NGOs are generally understood to be not- for-profit, professional intermediary agencies,
which manage programmes in the areas of economic and social development and engage in welfare, relief,
rehabilitation and training. Sometimes, voluntary sector organizations and NGOs are synonymously used and
sometimes differently under the umbrella of civil socity organizations or community based organizations.
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without any discrimination based on caste, class,

ethnicity, religion, language, sex and age. To
achieve this mission, the Trust undertakes
various development initiatives to empower the
poor, marginalized and backward people
towards self-sustainable development processes
and to facilitate the people to secure social,
cultural, political, economic justice and human
dignity. It has organized women SHGs to
empower them in the district. It has promoted

peoples' organizations such as Krishikara
Vedike (45,000 members), Karavali Mahila
Jagruthi Vedike (25,000 members), D.K.
Parisarasakthara Okkoota (300 members). The
Trust has given a lot of importance for activities
connected with eco-protection. In this
connection, it has organized struggles and
campaigns on environmental concerns.
Box 10.1: SKDRDP: A NGO Model for Replication

Shri Kshetra Dharmasthala Rural Development Project (SKDRDP) initiated, supported and led by Dr.
D.Veerendra Heggade, Dharmadhikari of Shri Kshetra Dharmasthala has completed three decades of its service to
integrated rural development. The mission objective of the SKDRDP is to ameliorate the living conditions of the
neglected and marginalized weaker section of rural community through integrated rural development. Started in
1982 in Belthangady taluk of Dakshina Kannada, the SKDRDP has spread in the villages in sixteen districts
including Dakshina Kannada. The project is now hailed, nationally and internationally, as one of the most
successful experiment of rural development initiative in the field of poverty alleviation, women empowerment and
integrated rural development implemented by any NGO in the country. The SKDRDP used the self-help groups
(SHGs) and microfinance as powerful tools not only to alleviate poverty alleviation and empower the women, but
also to reach the hitherto unreached rural poor Some of the programs implemented under the SKDRDP include:
Pragathi Bandhu: Promote agricultural production through labour sharing by forming SHGs of farmers called
Prgati Bandu. In the context of acute shortage of labour and abandoning of agriculture, this programme facilitated
revival of agricultural development. Through microfinance, the programme helped thousands of small and
marginal farmers in the district. The Government of India approved the model for the implementation of SGSY
project. By 2011, as many as 27797 Pragati Bandus were formed with 181837 members.
Pragathi Nidhi: A consolidated fund created for providing credit, both for production and investment through
Pragati Bandu SHGs for agriculture, infrastructure development, group enterprises, non-farm sector development,
income generating activities and practically all needs of the weaker section of the society and thereby integrated
rural development.
Jnana Vikas Kendra: JVK Centres for imparting information for socio-economic empowerment of rural poor
women without landed property on health, family welfare, hygiene, children education and income earning
opportunities. As on 2011, there were 4580 JVK centers in 6500 villages having membership of 1177909.
Gelathi: Centre for the women who need counselling, motivation and guidance in times of family conflict with a
view to promote good family life.
Jana Jagruthi: A program to create awareness and movement to root out alcoholism. This has now become a
powerful and successful social movement.
Navajeevana Samithis: A forum for people to come together to express their gratitude to God for liberating them
from alcohol and other vices to lead a good life.
Sampoorna Suraksha: A unique micro health insurance scheme for women upto Rs.25000 for meeting
unexpected medical expenses. It is integrated with Pragathi Nidhi and Pragathi Bandu
Jeevana Dhama: Program for construction of houses for destitute families
Suraksha: A health and sanitation program
Jnana Deepa: To help primary school going children and teachers to spread the message that knowledge is light.
Compiled from Inclusive Rural Development in Reality: Triumph of SKDRDP by Dr.G.V. Joshi and Dr.Suprabha
K.R. JKSH Institute of Management, Nitte, 2012.
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The district has also many voluntary

organizations such as Rotary Clubs, Lions Clubs
etc. They contribute to various social sector
areas such as health, education etc. There are
also active Youth Clubs and Mahila Mandals in
the district.
There are many other NGOs functioning
in the district focusing welfare of down-trodden
sections of the society. Some are very active in
health related matters and others in integrated
rural development programmes for the welfare
of rural communities. Seva Bharati, Children
Aid and Research Society and Nirmal Social
Welfare Centre joined hands with other
voluntary organizations and the government
bodies to provide SHGs as informal voluntary
groups have recently emerged as active players
in the social and economic empowerment of
particularly women. In fact, the SHG movement
today represents as a powerful grassroots
voluntary agency to reach out to the poor and
weaker section and for poverty alleviation,
human development and social empowerment.
Their coverage, both in terms of geographical
and households is very wide. There is scarcely a
village in the district, where an SHG has not been
functioning. Almost all NGOs are involved in
the SHG movement, besides the Government
and the banks. A research study undertaken by
Justice K.S. Hegde Institute of Management,
Nitte for NABARD on micro-finance in
Dakshina Kannada and other districts revealed
that SHG as an institutional mechanism is found
to be the most appropriate and cost effective
credit delivery system to reach the rural poor,
particularly women12.
10.7 Representation of Women and

Marginalized Sections in Governance
Good governance under Panchayat Raj
system implies that local bodies are
representative; their functioning is participatory
and the decision-making process is responsive to
the needs and aspirations of all section of the
society. The representation of all section of the
society in the governance is therefore very
important. Since Indian society comprises of
various social groups with diverse social and
economic background, it is necessary to ensure
representation of all sections of the society
particularly of marginalized and disadvantaged
section of the society, who were deprived in the
past and may not have capability to compete
with upper section of the society. In participatory
democratic governance, representation to these
sections of the society is a must in order to
achieve inclusive development. Karnataka
Panchayat Act 1993 has therefore mandated
reservation of seats to the SCs, STs and OBCs
depending on their population and one-third
seats to women at all levels. The reservation is
also extended to the offices of President and
Vice-President in favour of women, SCs, STs
and OBCs. After the promulgation of the
Karnataka Panchayat Raj Act, 1993, three
elections for local government have been held.
The last election to GPs took place during 2010.
In most of the GPs, the voting was more than 75
percent and in some 100 percent voting was
recorded, which clearly shows peoples' interest
in local self-governance. Table 10.1 contains the
present composition of representatives in GPs
by social class in different taluks.
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Microfinance and Rural Employment: An Appraisal of the Potentialities, Research Study submitted to NABARD, Mumbai,
October, 2004.
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Table 10.2
Taluk-wise Composition of GP Elected Members: 2012
Taluk
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
SCs
STs
OBCs
Others
No.
%
No.
%
No.
%
No.
%
Male
9
1.08 11
1.32 423 50.78 14
1.68
Female 51 6.12 55 6.60 265 31.81
5
0.60
Total
60 7.20 66 7.92 688 82.59 19
2.28
Male
18 2.91
5
0.81 121 19.58 192 31.07
Female 43 6.96 43 6.96
84 13.59 112 18.12
Total
61 9.87 48 7.77 205 33.17 304 49.19
Male
16 1.71
4
0.43 189 20.15 319 34.01
Female 49 5.22 48 5.12 124 13.22 189 20.15
Total
65 6.93 52 5.54 313 33.37 508 54.16
Male
30 5.33
7
1.24 111 19.72 164 29.13
Female 39 6.93 38 6.75
75 13.32 99 17.58
Total
69 12.25 45 7.99 186 33.04 263 46.71
Male
18 5.64 12 3.76
47 14.73 86 26.96
Female 30 9.40 28 8.78
29
9.09
69 21.63
Total
48 15.04 40 12.54 76 23.82 155 48.59
Male
91 2.78 39 1.19 891 27.24 775 23.69
Female 212 6.48 212 6.48 577 17.64 474 14.49
Total
303 9.26 251 7.67 1468 44.88 1249 38.18
Total
No.
%
457
54.86
376
45.14
833 100.00
336
54.37
282
45.63
618 100.00
528
56.29
410
43.71
938 100.00
312
55.42
251
44.58
563 100.00
163
51.10
156
48.90
319 100.00
1796 54.91
1475 45.09
3271 100.00
Source: Zilla Panchayath, Dakshina Kannada.
Though, SC/ST population in the district

constitutes 11 percent; their representation in
GPs in the district as a whole 17 percent. Talukwise, in Sullia, their representation is the highest
(27.5 percent) and in Mangaluru taluk, it is the
lowest (12.5 percent). In Puttur, it is 20.2 percent
while in Belthangady and Bantwal it is 18
percent and 15 percent respectively. In all taluks,
it is significantly higher than their share in the
total population of respective taluks. However,
it is still slightly below the minimum of 18
percent prescribed in the ACT. Interestingly,
both among the SCs and STs, the women
representation is significantly higher than men.
As against the men's representation of 4 percent,
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the representation of women in all GPs is 13

percent. This trend is found in all taluks.
Contrary to this, in the case of OBCs and other
communities, the men representation is
significantly higher than the women
representation. As regards women's
representation in GPs, it works out to 45 percent
for the district as a whole. Their representation is
considerably higher than their one-third quota
reservation. The similar trend is found in all
taluks.
In the case of Taluk Panchayats, out of
total 129 elected members, 16 belong to SC and
ST community. Their share in TP representation
works out to 12.4 percent. It is slightly more than
Graph 10.1
their share total population. In the case of SCs,

they have one male and one female
representative in four taluks. In Puttur they have
two women representatives beside one male.
Among STs, there is only one female
representative and no male representative in all
taluks. The representations of women in TPs are
more than men. Out of 129 elected members, 70
are women. Their share works out to 54 percent.
It is not only above stipulated one-third quota but
also slightly above their share in the total
population. Except Mangaluru taluk, in all other
taluks, women representatives are more than
men representatives. In ZP also, similar trend is
found. In Out of 35 elected members, 18 are
women, which works out to 51.4 percent. The
SC and ST representation in ZP, on the other
hand is found to be higher than their population
share in total population. Out of 35 ZP members,
3 are SCs and 2 are STs. Mangaluru taluk has no
SC and ST representation, while Sullia has no ST
representation in ZP.
In the Mangaluru City Corporation, out

of 60 elected members, 4 are SCs and one STs,
12 OBCs and 20 others. The women
representatives are 24, above the reserve quota.
In Town Municipal Councils, out of 105, five are
SCs and five, STs. The women representatives
are 40. They constitute 38 percent of total TMC
members in the district. In all taluks, their share
in TMC representation is above prescribed
quota. In Town Panchayats, on the other hand,
women representation constitutes 43.5 percent.
Out of 46 members, 22 are women. The SC
members in TMCs are 4 and STs, 3. Taluk-wise,
in Belthangady, out Town Council has 23
members elected; out of them, one each from SC
and ST, 8 from OBCs and 13 from others.
Women members are 9, which works out to 39
percent as against the reserve quota of 33
percent.
To sum up, Dakshina Kannada district
has at all levels of Panchyat Raj institutional setup more than reserved quota representation for
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women and marginalized communities like SCs

and STs. However, the representation is one
thing and effective participation is another. The
challenge is to ensure effective participation of
women and other marginalized social groups in
the governance and decision making process.
Unless they effectively participate, their needs
and interests cannot be adequately taken care of
in all the development programs implemented
and in delivery of public services.
Good governance is about providing an
efficient and effective administration that is
committed to improving the well-being of
people without discrimination. The basic tenets
of good governance accordingly should be
efficient and timely delivery of system of public
services, simplicity and easy accessibility of
systems and procedures, accountability,
transparency and sound financial management,
active people's participation, autonomy in
decision making process and strict enforcement
of right to information. Whether the present
system of governance fulfils these tenets of good
governance is a matter of concern. Though 73rd
and 74th Constitution amendments provided a
framework for decentralization in governance at
local administration level, there has been a very
little effective devolution of power, funds and
control over functionaries. A fundamental
requirement for achieving quality is that the
responsibilities should be effectively devolved
to bodies responsible for implementing public
programs and they must be suitably empowered.
Dakshina Kannada district by all
standards has done relatively better in
governance than most of other districts in the
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state. However, there are many grey areas, which

are mainly systemic and require civil reforms.
The PRIs have not been able to perform as was
envisaged in the Constitutional Amendment of
the Act. The ZP, TPs GPs and ULBs are charged
with a number of devolved developmental
functions and responsibilities, which calls for
empowerment, professional competence,
accountability and effective monitoring. The
devolution of functions and finance has not
taken place as expected and as result, they do not
have adequate revenue raising powers. The GPs
have not yet able to enhance participation and
empowerment as effectively as would be
desired. Though the Act provided framework for
decentralized planning, the top-down approach
still in vogue for planning and resource
allocation. Consequently, most of the
programmes are imposed from the above
without considering the area specific needs and
feasibility and the ability of the local
administration to implement the programmes
effectively. Moreover, the local administration
that should manage these programmes is not
adequately equipped.
The Constitution Amendment Act and
The Karnataka Panchayat Act have already laid
down the required framework for decentralized
governance. What is required is the agenda for
improving governance at local administration
level. It requires capacity and capability
building, leveraging IT technology in
governance, devolution of functions and
finance, active people participation,
involvement of civil society especially
voluntary agencies in implementation of
programmes and the crucial right to information.
The agenda also includes civil service reforms
a i m e d a t i m p r o v i n g t r a n s p a r e n c y,
accountability, efficiency and procedural reform
to make them user-friendly. Special attention
should be given to the capacity building at GP
level for need assessment, priority setting,
formulation of projects/programmes, and
effective implementation of programs, sound
financial management, transparency and
accountability as well as right to information.
The Grama Sabhas and Ward Sabhas are at

present not active. They should be empowered to
participate effectively and act as watch-dogs at
the GP level. In ultimate analysis, for the
inclusive and sustainable human development,
what matters are the local governing
institutions? They should be made
professionally capable, responsible, peoplefriendly and responsive.
The ZP President Receiving the Award of Senior Citizen Services
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Chapter 11
URBAN ISSUES IN
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Mangaluru City Overview
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Urban issues in Human Development

11.1 Introduction
Urbanization is the driving force for
economic development. It stimulates the growth
sectors- manufacturing and services. As
economy grows, the towns and cities expand
rapidly in size both in terms of geographical area
and population. The contribution of the urban
sector to the GDP and employment also grow as
the cities become hub of economic activities.
That is why the urbanization is considered as an
index of economic transformation from
traditional rural economy to a modern industrial
one. Though the urbanization is integral to the
dynamics of economic development, it presents
difficult challenges in terms of civic
infrastructure and delivery of basic services such
as power supply, water supply, housing,
sewerage and drainage, solid waste
management, parks, open spaces and transport.
The problems of traffic congestion, pollution,
poverty, development of slums etc in alarming
proportions are closely associated with the
urbanization. All these have serious implications
for human development. Though urban areas has
potential to provide gainful employment in
secondary and tertiary sectors and thereby
contribute to human development, the
sustainability of human development depend on
better availability of basic civil services for all
sections of the society.
Urbanization in India is fast catching up.
India's urban population, which was about 285
million in 2001, has increased to 377 million in
2011. It is projected to go up to over 600 million
people by 2030. Karnataka state is one of the five
highly urbanized states in the country. About 39
percent of the total population in the state live in
urban areas. This is expected to increase to 50
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percent in near future. This will create immense

pressure on the urban economies with their
already massive deficits in infrastructure and
civic amenities. Recognizing the critical
importance of the urban development, the
Government of India has launched number of
urban development initiatives under the
Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal
Mission (JNNURM). The 74 Constitution
Amendment mandated the setting up of Urban
Local Bodies (ULBs) as the institutions of selfgovernment and allocated inter alia
responsibility of preparation of plans for
integrated urban development and social justice.
In this chapter, an attempt is made to look into
the urban issues in Dakshina Kannada district
particularly from the human development
perspective.
11.2 Service Delivery Issues

Dakshina Kannada district is heading
towards rapid urbanization. It witnessed
increase in urban population from 601795 in
2001 to 720885 in 2011. During the last two
decades, the urban population increased by
19.79 percent. The annual growth rate of urban
population in the district works out to 3.7 percent
as against the state level annual growth rate of
3.1 percent. The share of urban population in the
total district population increased from 38.4
percent in 2011 to 47.7 percent. The total
population of ULBs constitutes 72.4 percent of
the total urban population. The balance 27.6
percent are in the smaller towns in peri-urban
areas and not in the statutory eight ULBs in the
district.
Table 11.1 shows the growth in
population of ULBs in the district.
Table 11.1
Growth of Population in ULBs in Dakshina Kannada District
ULBs
Mangaluru CC
Bantwal TMC
Moodabidri TMC
Puttur TMC
Ullal TMC
Mulky TP
Belthangady TP
Sullia TP
Total
2001
(number)
399565
36830
25713
48070
49895
16389
7305
18028
601795
2011
(number)
499487
40155
29431
53061
53773
17274
7746
19958
720885
Among eight ULBs, Mangaluru city, the

district head quarter, has population of 69.3 percent
of the total ULB populations. It has witnessed the
highest decadal growth in population. The
population of Mangaluru city increased from 399565
in 2001 to 499487 in 2011, accounting an increase of
25 percent. It is the biggest urban centre in the
district. Among the four TMCs, Moodabidri and
Puttur witnessed higher decadal growth in
population. Among TPs Sulla has higher decadal
population growth. Contrary to this, the population
growth in peri-urban towns almost doubled during
the census decade. It increased from 1.27 lakh in
2001 to 2.75 lakh in 2011.
Mangaluru city has 115036 households

with population of 247903 males and 251584
females. It has 132.45 sq.km areas in its
corporation limit with density of population of
3771 per sq.km. Mangaluru is also port city and
has international airport. AmongTMCs, the
number of households living varies fom11378 in
Puttur TMC to 6517 in Moodabidri. Ullal TMC
has 9588 households and Bantwal, 7939
household. Their jurisdiction range from 11.8
sq.km in Ullal to 39.62 sq.km in Moodabidri.
TPs have smaller jurisdictions and lower
number of households. Sullia has 4194
Graph 11.1
Decadal Growth
(Percent)
25.01
9.03
14.46
10.38
7.77
5.40
6.04
10.70
19.79
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households, followed by Mulky with

households of 3962 and Belthangady, 1821.
With the growing population pressure and rapid
growth of industrial and service sectors, there is
tremendous s train on exis ting civic
infrastructure systems, particularly water
supply, sewerage and drainage, solid waste
management, parks and open spaces and roads
and transports.
The urban agenda for improved
liveability centered around provision of basic
civic services for creating healthful urban
environment. The basic civic services normally
required in urban areas are mainly:
Street lighting and

Maintenance of city roads and parks.
Supply of safe drinking water,
Sewerage collection and disposal
Sanitation, Improved water management
including recycling of waste water.
Solid waste management,
Preventive public healthcare and
hygiene,
Without these basic services, it is not

possible to ensure quality living conditions in the
cities. It is also important to ensure that the urban
poor have access to these basic facilities at
affordable cost. Since urbanization is a dynamic
process with migration of people from rural
areas and growing expansion of secondary and
tertiary sectors, expansion and improvement in
the provision of these services on continuous
basis is very important. Still recently, ULBs in
the district were lacking modern quality basic
civic services. With rapid urbanization and
growing population, the existing facilities could
not cope up with the growing demand. In recent
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years, the Government has taken number of

initiatives for development of basic
infrastructure, improving service delivery
standards and improvement of urban
governance. The challenge still remains not
only of providing high standard basic urban
infrastructural facilities for the growing
population but also dealing with the backlog
from the past. The basic infrastructure such as
housing, roads and street lights create a
conducive and enabling environment for
improving liveability in the cities. Table 11.2
sets out the basic infrastructure indicators of
ULBs in the district. In subsequent sections, the
status of basic amenities such as supply of
drinking water, sanitation and solid waste
management is discussed.
At the outset, it should be noted that ULBs in
the district are of different categories in terms of
population and geographical jurisdiction and
hence cannot be compared. From the table it is
apparently clear that in terms of physical
infrastructure, the ULBs in the district are
relatively better than most of the ULBs in the
state. In terms of housing, only small numbers of
families are either houseless or living in
dilapidated traditional houses. Most of them are
migrant families. The road net work in Bantwal
ULB is the lowest, followed by Belthangady and
Mulky TPs. Other ULBs have comparatively
better road network. Depending on road network
and density, street lights were provided in all
ULBs.
11.3 Water Supply and Sanitation

Water is the basic requirement for human
living. The problem of water supply is in terms
of availability, proximity, quantity and quality.
Table11.2
Basic Infrastructure Indicators of ULBs
ULBs
Households without own or

dilapidated houses
(Number)
Mangaluru CC
Bantwal TMC
Moodabidri TMC
Puttur TMC
Ullal TMC
Mulky TP
Belthangady TP
Sullia TP
2313
539
151
423
685
302
160
208
Water is also required for domestic use, industry,

and others in urban areas. As per the norms of
water supply suggested by the Central Public
Health and Environmental Engineering
Organization (CPHEEO), the cities with a piped
water supply and sewerage collection systems
should have a maximum water supply per capita
of 135 liters per day. The Government of
Roads
(Km)
Road
Road per
Length
Sq. km
1029
7.77
86
3.18
142
5.57
205
5.68
269
22.79
47
4.22
40
4.51
136
20.57
65231
2344
2700
4234
4969
1500
1118
2180
Karnataka came out with an Urban Drinking

Water and Sanitation Policy in 2002. The main
objectives of the policy are to ensure demand
based universal coverage of water supply,
commercial, domestic, economic sustainability
of operations and minimum level of services to
all citizens in the urban areas.
Vented Dam at Thumbe - A source of water supply to the Mangaluru city

Street
Lights
(number)
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Table 11.3 shows the coverage of urban households with tap drinking water supply and the per capita
water availability per day.
Table 11.3
Households with Tap Water with meter and Per Capita Water Supply (LPCD)
Urban Local Bodies
Mangaluru CC
Bantwal TMC
Moodabidri TMC
Puttur TMC
Ullal TMC
Mulky TP
Belthangady TP
Sullia TP
Households with
Safe Drinking Water
Number
Percent
72748
63.24
4546
48.41
4803
49.35
4297
48.23
3187
29.00
2560
51.19
1131
47.14
3272
90.00
LPCD
135
100
114
100
70
70
126
100
Source: Urban Development Cell, DC Office
In Mangaluru City, 63.24 percent of

households have tap drinking water. Nearly
44254 households still do not have safe drinking
water supply in the city. Among TMCs,
Moodabidri has the highest percent of
households (49.4 percent), followed by Bantwal
(48.4 percent). Puttur TMC has 48.2 percent of
the households having tap water connections.
Ullal TMC has the lowest percent of households
with tap water supply. IN the case of TPs, Sullia
has the highest proportion of Households (90
percent) with tap water connections. Mulky TP
has 51.2 percent houses and Belthangady, 47
percent of houses with tap water supply.
With the growing population, the
growing demand for portable treated water is
inevitable. Water being lifeline for survival of
people, quantity and quality of water has been a
matter of concern. At present, the substantial
number of households in all ULBs depends for
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their drinking water supply on traditional open

wells, where the water is not treated. Another
area of concern is water supply duration and
frequency. The water is not supplied 24 hours in
required quantity in Mangaluru city. Though the
scheme for 24 x7 supply of water was launched,
it still remains unfinished agenda. Mangaluru
city gets drinking water supply from Tumbe
vented dam. The demand for water per day in
Mangaluru city is estimated at 73 million litres.
During the summer, when the water source
(rivers) for portable water gets dry, the acute
water shortage is a serious problem in the city.
Similar situation prevails in other ULBs also.
There is also the problem of tap water supply for
unauthorized migrant settlements (slums).
Ensuring the provision of portable treated
drinking water 24 hours in required quantity
throughout the year for all sections of the
communities in all ULBs is the real challenge
before the urban authorities in the district.
The well-being of urban community is

closely linked to the good practices that prevail
in sanitation service. Sanitation services are one
of the basic civic and environmental services
provided by the Government in urban areas. All
ULBs have made remarkable progress in
sanitation during the last decade. More than 90
percent of the households have toilets facilities.
Mangaluru city has 64 percent of the households
covered under sewerage and drainage facility.
Even in the case of other ULBs, the households
covered under sewerage and drainage facility
range from 40 percent in Belthangady to 66
percent in Puttur. As per the Sanitation Plan of
the Urban Development Ministry, Government
of India, Mangaluru city is the eighth cleanest
city in India and Second cleanest in Karnataka.
The City Corporation has vision of achieving
Swatch Hasiru Swatch Mangaluru Nagara

(Clean and Green Mangaluru City).
In spite of remarkable achievement in
safe sanitation, ULBs are now faced with the
emerging sanitation problem of growing slums
of migrant population, who live in make-shift
temporary houses without toilet facilities and
water supply and defecate in the open. The
district has 5515 households with population of
27168 living in slums outskirt of urban centres.
The challenge is to provide appropriate
infrastructure for sanitation to this population.
11.4 Solid and Liquid Waste Management

It is estimated that the urban area
generates per capita waste of 500gm per day.
With increasing population in urban areas, the
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coping with the collection and disposal of the

ever growing quantity of solid waste generated
pose a real challenge to urban authorities. Unless
the waste generated is collected and disposed in
time, uncollected waste littered all over garbage
bins and in open areas make the streets
unhygienic and create unhealthy environment
coupled with health hazard. Traditional mode of
open dumping and garbage burning not only led
to air pollution and hygienic problems but also
required more and more land for dumping
growing waste. Many alternative methods are
now propagated for disposal of solid waste
collected. They include: aerobic composting,
anaerobic composting, bio-methanation and
waste-to-energy. However, the success of these
methods depends on segregation of waste at
primary source. There was also question of
efficacy of public sector solid waste
management. The public sector management
could not alone cope up with the growing task.
Since it is a merit good, the government has
responsibility to ensure proper solid waste
management. The actual implementation can be,
however, left to professional private providers.
The public-private partnership is now
increasingly advocated for effective solid waste
management.
The Government of India has come up
with Municipal Solid Waste (Handling and
Management) Rules, 2000, which require all
ULBs to handle their solid waste as per the
guidelines issued by the Ministry of
Environment and Forestry. Karnataka State was
the first state in the country to introduce an
integrated solid waste management policy in
2004. In the past, Mangaluru city adopted
dumping method and dumped collected waste at
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dumping ground at Pachchanady, Vamanjoor.

With the rapid expansion of the city, this method
could not solve the problem. The huge collected
waste and landfills catching fire caused
pollution and hygienic problems to the
surrounding areas. The city generates on an
average 200 tons of garbage every day. It is
expected to go up with the growth of the city.
With a view to adopt scientific and healthy
practices of collecting and disposing solid waste,
the city has adopted revolutionary change in
solid waste management. It adopted threepackage solid waste management scheme
wherein professional agencies that are
experienced were bought in or day-to-day solid
waste management. Under the scheme, 60 wards
are divided into south with 31 wards and north
zone with 29 wards. The agency contracted
collect solid waste from door-steps, transport the
collected waste in hydraulic GPS vehicles to
dumping yard at Pachchanady, where scientific
solid waste disposal plant was set up. The second
package of the scheme is mechanized sweeping
and cleaning. The successful bidder undertakes
the daily task of mechanized street sweeping,
vegetation cutting, cleaning roads and beaches
and other sanitary works. The third package
covers operation and maintenance of solid waste
compost plant and landfill site at Pachchanady
and disposal of end-products. People do not pay
user-fee to contractors for collecting solid waste
from their door steps. The user-fee is clubbed in
the annual property tax. Mangaluru city was
awarded with the Green Leaf Award for
improved sold waste management.
This public-private initiative is first of its
nature and implemented successfully in
Mangaluru city. Under the scheme now
mechanized sweeping of 25 km stretch of roads

is done daily in South zone and about 200 tons
solid waste is collected from door steps every
day and transported to compost solid waste plant
at Pachchanady. With implementation of this
scheme, door-to-door collection of solid waste
instead of dumping in neighborhood and
deployment of hydraulic operated vehicles for
collection and transportation of solid waste
instead of transportation in open trucks came
into practice.
The total quantity of solid waste
generated in TMCs and TPs ranges from 2 tons
per day in Belthangady TP to 16.5 tons per day in
Ullal TMC. In TMCs, sanitary method and in
TPs, pits methods are adopted for dumping solid
waste collected. All TMCs and TPs in the district
have landfill sites for treatment and disposal of
solid waste. Bantwal TMC has landfill site at
Sajipanadu, Moodabidri TMC has in Karinje
village, Puttur TMC has at Nekkila, Mulky TP
has at Mulki- Bappanadu village, Belthangady
TP has in Koyyur and Sullia has at Kalcharpe.
Ullal TMC does not contain its own landfill site,
instead transport the waste generated to
Mangaluru City landfill site for processing and
disposal. With effective awareness programme,
these ULBs have started doorstep waste
collection and achieved a minimum of 70
percent collection efficiency. However, source
segregation is still a challenge in these ULBs.
Similarly, they have not yet adopted the GPS
system for tracking waste transportation.

During the last two decades, the ULBs in
Dakshina Kannada district have achieved
remarkable improvement in the development of
urban infrastructure and in the provision of basic

civic services. With the outsourcing of water bill
collection water supply service has improved.
Similarly, by outsourcing, the primary collection
of solid waste and mechanized sweeping and
cleaning of roads and parks, the cleanliness and
healthy environment in Mangaluru city
improved significantly. It is gratifying to note
that the Managaluru city and some TMCs earned
awards for their best performance in delivery of
basic civic services. Notwithstanding the
progress already achieved in development of
urban infrastructure, there are still some grey
areas where the scaling-up of delivery of civic
amenities and provision of utilities with
emphasis on universal access and quality of
services to ensure high standard liveability
conditions in cities are required. The following
are some of these areas of concern in urban
infrastructure development which need
immediate attention:
At present, substantial number of the
households in all ULBs in the district depend on
open well for drinking water. In Mangaluru city,
only 63 percent of the households have treated
tap water supply. Nearly 42288 households are
deprived of the safe drinking water facility. Most
of them belong to weaker section of the urban
population. In other ULBs also, more than 50
percent of households depend on open well for
drinking water supply. There is also question of
supply of adequate quantity of water supply
throughout the year. The need to ensure that all
households in the municipal areas have access to
adequate portable treated water supply
throughout the year requires hardly any
emphasis.
The manual scavenging and open
drainage still in vogue in almost all ULBs. Only
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about 50 percent of the households are not

covered under UGD. The need to cover all
households by UGD and use of mechanical
device like jetting and sucking machines for
cleaning of septic tanks cannot be
overemphasized. Though primary collection of
solid waste is 100 percent, the segregation of the
solid waste at primary source is still a dream in
all ULBs. In order to ensure scientific solid
waste management and facilitate proper
treatment of solid waste, there is a need to ensure
scaling up segregation of solid waste at primary
source. This requires aggressive awareness
campaign. With the acute shortage of labour,
increase in migrant population particularly
among unskilled labour is an inevitable process.
These migrant populations, mostly living in
slums, suffer from multiple deprivations that
include lack of access to basic amenities such as
water supply, sanitation and decent housing.
There is an urgent need to address their basic
civic service needs.
With rapid urbanization, the ULBs are
going to be under immense pressure to meet the
growing demands and aspirations of their

citizens. The ULB will grow not only in terms of
population growth but also geographically in
future. In this changing scenario, the ULBs need
to build their capacities in terms of skills,
knowledge and resources to cope up with the
emerging issues and challenges. It also warrants
a unified and effective administrative set up in
all ULBs with clear accountability to citizens.
This requires empowering the ULBs in
planning, management and monitoring. The
'whole city' approach to planning and
improvement must be adopted to address
systemic issues taking into account all necessary
and inter-connected development parameters.
Adequate emphasis should be given on long
term strategic urban planning to ensure that the
agenda is not limited to only 'renewal' mission of
ULBs, but also to anticipate and plan for
outgrowth and expansion. The administrative
focus should be shifted more towards an
outcome-based approach based on effective and
efficient service delivery rather than an approach
aimed at merely management of investment and
asset creation.

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The Way Forward

12.1 Introduction
Since the conventional development
approach measured in terms of increasing GDP
and per capita income did not capture basic
aspects of human well-being. UNDP, in its first
Human Development Report in 1990 had
advocated people-centric development and
made the well-being of people as the primary
goal of development. Accordingly, the objective
of the development is to create an enabling
environment for people to lead a long and
healthy life, to acquire knowledge and to have
access to resources needed for a decent standard
of living. The HDI became a yardstick to
measure well-being of people across countries.
It has taken into account three core dimensions
of human development viz. health, education
and standard of living. The human development
being multi-dimensional, the UNDP 2010 HDR
has made HDI broad-based beyond three core
dimensions and suggested users to take into
consideration other key human development
concerns also. The Government of Karnataka
brought out the first HDR in 1999 and second
HDR in 2005 to high light regional level
imbalances in various dimensions of human
development in the state. Recognizing the
critical importance of human development
concerns at grass root level, the State
Government has decided to undertake DHDRs
in all 30 districts in the state. The main purpose
of the DHDRs is to capture all the key
dimensions affecting well-being of people at the
taluk and district levels. With a view to achieve
this objective, a broader approach to take into
account most of the key factors affecting human
development at taluk level was suggested.
Accordingly, Dakshina Kannada DHDR is the
outcome of this initiative.
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In the earlier chapters, attempts were

made to measure present status of various
dimensions of human development and to carry
out disaggregated analysis of various
dimensions of human development. It also
brought out disparities and deprivations in
human development at the taluk and social levels
and emerging key issues thereon from human
development perspective. The concluding
chapter, therefore, aims at recapitulating the
findings and issues and concerns discussed in
these chapters and charting out the way forward
agenda for enhancing comprehensive, equitable
and sustainable human development at taluk
level in the district.
12.2 Key Findings & Issues

12.2.1 Outline of Human Development and its
Measurement
The computation and analysis of various
district levels are quite revealing and of policy
relevance. Six different indices computed
together provide a comprehensive view of
human development at the grassroots level. The
indices computed also bring out disparities and
the relative position of taluks in various
dimensions of human development within the
district. For any planning or policy to succeed, it
has to take into consideration prevailing
disparities in various dimensions of human
development at the grassroots level and tackle
them at that level.
The HDI of Dakshina Kannada district
works out to 0.687. There exists overall human
development deficit of 31 percent in the district.
The district has relatively higher index values in
regard to education (0.809) and living standard
(0.708), but it has lower index value in health

(0.567). Taluk-wise comparison of HDIs has
brought out wide inter-taluk variations in human
development outcomes. Mangaluru taluk has the
highest HDI of 0.830 and is very good category.
It ranks first in the district. As against this,
Belthangady ranks the lowest and has HDI of
0.399.The HDIs of other taluks were also below
0.500. All these taluks lag behind Mangaluru
taluk in human development significantly. In all
three dimensions, the inter-taluk differences are
also very wide. Mangaluru ranks first in
education and standard of living, while
Belthangady ranks first in health but lowest in
education and standard of living.
The district is in 'very good' status in
gender equality. The GII for the district works
out to 0.043. The district is in 'good' status in
CDI (0.518), FSI (0.571) and DCDI (0.661).
Taluk-wise comparison has shown the wide
divergence in ranking pattern in various indices
and also in dimension indices. In GII,
Belthangady ranks first (0.026), followed by
Mangaluru (0.034) and Sullia (0.046). Bantwal
has the lowest index value (0.061) showing the
highest gender inequality. In CDI, Bantwal
ranks first (0.847), followed by Mangaluru
(0.493) and Sullia (0.449). Belthangady has the
lowest position in CDI. In FSI, Mangaluru ranks
first (0.62), followed by Sullia (0.593). Puttur
has the lowest FSI index (0.385). Similarly, the
inter-taluk variations in various dimensions of
these indices are found to be very wide. In UDI,
Mangaluru CC has the highest index value of
0.690, followed by Sullia TP (0.636) and Puttur
TMC (0.562). Other ULBs have indices below
0.500 showing wide urban development deficits.
The overall performance based on all the
six indices and their dimensions shows that the

district is still not in very good status in human
development. The district is in very good status
only in GII. Most of the taluks are either in 'good'
or 'average' status. In some dimensions of human
development, they are in 'poor' category.
Moreover, the inter-taluk disparities are
significantly high. The gap between the highest
ranked taluk and the lowest ranked taluk is very
wide. The analysis of dimension indices also
shows no close correlation between various
dimensions. In the case of HDIs, the taluks
which have higher education index values have
lower health index values. Similarly, the taluks
which have lower standard of living index values
have higher education and health indices. This
empirically proves that for human development
in the distinct, all dimensions are equally
important. The development of one dimension
cannot automatically take care of development
of other dimensions.
In the ultimate analysis, human
development is the outcome of economic
growth, social policies and right based poverty
reduction interventions at taluk level. The five
indices computed clearly shows that the taluks
which perform better in these indices are also
better in economic and social development
outcomes. Mangaluru taluk is the top achiever in
some human development related indices
because it has more industries, higher scope for
non-farm employment, higher urbanization and
easy access to educational and health
infrastructural facilities. As against this,
Belthangady taluk is more agricultural based has
the lowest rank in most of these indices. In the
case of health and education, easy access to
infrastructural facilities matters more than
income. In the case of income, nearness to urban
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centres and major industries, scope for nonagricultural employment and diversification of
agriculture apparently played a significant role.
Whatever the gaps observed in values of indices
and their dimensions are mainly due to gaps in
the key performance indicators selected to
measure various human development
dimensions. The policy or strategic intervention
programmes for sustainable human
development should take into consideration
spatial, social and economic disparities observed
in these key parameters
12.2.2 Education Component

In the field of education, the discussion
and analysis mainly centered on access,
enrolment, retention, teacher-student ratio,
quality, equity, educational attainments and
infrastructure at different level of education. The
achievement of the district in most of these
indicators, as shown in this study, is quite
impressive. The district has also made
remarkable progress in higher education during
the last two decades. It is ranked as one of the
best in education attainment in the state. It is
almost on the way to universal literacy and also
universal primary and secondary education.
Even in the education attainment in terms of pass
percentage in SSLC and PUC, the district is
always one among top ranked districts in the
state. The disparities between taluks, rural and
urban and across social groups and gender do
exist but are not very significant. The district
also witnesses a gradual upward movement of
the students in the ladder of education and
particularly towards professional courses. The
programmes such as Sarva Shiksha Abhiyana
(SSA), the Mid-Day Meal programme and now
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Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan

(RMSA) have all contributed significantly to
this achievement.
Despite considerable improvement in
the field of education, there still exist many areas
of concern particularly in the transition to higher
level of education, quality of education at all
levels and persistent social, rural-urban and
gender inequalities in access to quality
education. Most of the schools in rural areas are
still short of the RTE norms of provision of
requisite school infrastructure, all-weather
school buildings, one teacher per class room and
various other infrastructures such as an officecum-store-cum head teacher room, separate
toilets for boys and girls, drinking water, barrierfree access, library, playground and boundary
wall. Since the district is already on the way to
universal primary and secondary education, the
challenge would be now not on expansion but
improvement in quality, equity in educational
attainment and equipping children with lifeskills required to compete at the higher levels in
all spheres.
There are also some emerging areas of
concern, which require attention. They are
briefly summarized below:
The gender gap, social inequity and ruralurban disparity in literacy rates and
enrolment at ph. The missing out on school
attendance due to compulsion providing
livelihood support is an issue among the SC
and ST students, which adversely affects
their performance.
The rural-urban divide in primary and

secondary education is widening in the
district. While in urban areas, children have
easy access to private nursery schools, in
rural areas, children are deprived of pre-
schooling. Moreover, the urban children are

benefiting from mushrooming tuition
classes in secondary and PUC level. The
rural students do not have easy access to
tuition classes and also it is beyond their
affordability.
The district has favorable pupil-teacher ratio

but in many rural lower primary schools due
to lack of students, a mandatory number of
two teachers have to manage classes I to V.
With the declining population and
enrolment in the district, the number of such
schools in rural areas will increase in near
future. This has serious implications on the
quality of education in rural areas.
The private English medium schools are

increasingly becoming popular and thereby
threatening the sustainability of Kannada
medium government schools. It creates
inequality in education; English medium for
elites in urban areas and Kannada medium
for poor and socially disadvantaged sections
in rural areas. The affordability of English
medium schools in terms of fee is also an
area of concern particularly for
economically weaker sections.
School infrastructure matters in quality

education. Most of the government school
buildings in rural areas were constructed in
1950s and 1960s and require major repairs.
A substantial number of schools have no
playgrounds, ramps and compound walls.
Computer assisted instruction through

setting up computer aided laboratories in all
primary and secondary schools is still a
distant dream. Only few upper primary
schools are brought under CALC but
without computer teachers. Leveraging

computer technology in the education
system has to be mainstreamed at the
formative years of schooling.
12.2.3 Health component

Health is another important ingredient of
human development. It is the basic factor
shaping both the longevity and the quality of
people's lives. Health factors impacts not only
health outcomes but also learning outcomes,
functioning capability and earning capacity of
the people. Dakshina Kannada district is blessed
with good health infrastructure and enviable
public-private initiatives in provision of
healthcare service. The district has 11 privately
run medical and dental colleges and a number of
para-medical and nursing colleges. All of them
played a catalytic role in building up necessary
health infrastructure and delivery of high quality
health care services in the district. In rural areas,
the government is the dominant player in rural
health services. Public sector health care
infrastructure through PHCs, CMCs and taluk
and district level hospitals renders health care
services mainly to the weaker section of the
community throughout the district. Under the
NRHM initiatives, the district has made
remarkable progress in most of the RCH
indicators like IMR, CMR and MMR and stands
out as one of the districts to achieve the UN
millennium development goals in time.
In health sector the district has problems;
some of which are institutional in nature and
others emanate from the changing environment
like aging population and modern life style and
food habits. Institutional problems are mainly
due to more urban orientation of private health
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infrastructure, scarcity of qualified doctors in

government hospitals particularly in rural areas,
scarcity of paramedical staff and absence of
networking between PHCs/CMCs and tertiary
health facilities mainly located in urban centres,
while in rural areas, only available healthcare
services are from PHCs. The PHCs and CMCs
lack qualified doctors and nurses as well as
timely supply of required medicines. They also
do not provide health services to rural people
round the clock. There is, thus, a growing ruralurban divide in the provision of healthcare
services, which creates stumbling blocks
towards achieving the dream of 'health for all'
and universal comprehensive quality health
coverage.
The district is now faced with
unrelenting burden of the old and emerging
threats of new diseases. Though good progress
was achieved in RCH indicators, the maternal
and child health care and nutrition are still
continuing to be a problem among weaker and
marginalized section of the population. The
declining child sex ratio in the district, which has
at present a favourable male-female ratio till
now, has serious future demographic
implications. The revival of malaria and filaria,
rising incidence of Dengue Fever and
HIV/AIDS, aging population, chronic noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes,
hypertension, heart ailments, growing mental
diseases, alcoholism among the youth and
increasing unnatural deaths such as road
accidents and suicides are the emerging new
health problems in the district. The district is also
faced with the problem of endosulfan infected
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illness in endosulfan sprayed areas. All these

require specialists' treatment at affordable costs.
The health service network in rural areas is at
present not geared to cope up this requirement.
The cost of non-communicable health services
of private hospitals in urban areas is beyond the
affordability of rural people. Though effective
surveillance and preventive measures have
succeeded to some extent in controlling
communicable diseases, their recent revival is a
major health threat. The problem is compounded
by to some extent, ignorance, prejudice and
discrimination.
The high morbidity and mortality rates
slum areas are also posing problem. They have a
very poor health profile compared with the other
communities. The current influx of massive
number of floating migrant workers because of
the rapidly growing urbanization and acute
shortage of labour resulted in rising urban slums
without basic amenities. These slums are
characterized by temporary houses crowded
together without access to safe drinking water
and sanitation. As a result of the unhygienic
conditions, these slums are increasingly
becoming a breeding ground for communicable
diseases.
12.2.4 Livelihood and Quality of Living

Indicators
Living standard is directly linked to per
capita income, employment status, ownership of
assets and basic livelihood amenities. Dakshina
Kannada district ranks second in per capita
income and 3rd in total GDP among 30 districts
in the state. However, during the last decade, the
district witnessed lower growth compare to the

state's average. While considering the scope for
increasing per capita income in the district, the
major areas of concern are the deceleration in
growth in agriculture as well as near stagnation
in the secondary sector in recent years. The
tertiary sectors, however witnessed remarkably
higher growth. Employment oriented traditional
industries like tiles and beedi rolling are almost
in closing stage. Besides this, the economic
growth in the district is mainly driven by mainly
cities, particularly Mangaluru city. In rural areas,
with the abandoning of agriculture, most of the
families in the district depend on the remittances
from outside district not only to ensure higher
standard of living but also to invest in housing,
health and education of children. Though
poverty incidence in the district is considered as
one of the lowest in the state, BPL families as per
the eligibility criteria stipulated by the state,
constitute nearly 50 percent of the families in the
district. Most of them are in rural areas and
concentrated among marginalized rural
communities, such as marginal farmers,
agricultural labourers, SCs and STs.
As regards employment is concerned,
the major area of concern is the significant
decline in the work participation rate among
women and increase in women non-workers.
Men dominate in the workforce and the gap
between men and women in WPR is very wide.
Though the structural shift in the occupation
pattern towards secondary and tertiary sectors is
a healthy sign, the area of concern is the decline
of agricultural sector as source of employment
when 52 percent of the district population still
lives in rural areas. The slow demise of
traditional gender-friendly industries like beedi
rolling and tiles factory adversely affected the

employment and income of weaker section of
the community particularly women in rural
areas.
As regards living standard, Dakshina
Kannada district has made significant progress
in basic livelihood amenities such as housing,
safe drinking water, electrification and
comparatively better than most of the districts in
the state. The district is in fact in the process of
reaching the goal of houseless households in all
sections of the community. Similarly, almost all
inhabited villages in the district are electrified
and nearly three-fourth of households uses
electricity for lighting. The government's proactive and pro-poor housing policy significantly
contributed in provision of quality houses fully
electrified in the case of weaker section of the
community.
In the case of safe drinking water, the
district, historically, relied on open wells. More
than half of rural households still depend on
open wells for drinking water. Even in urban
areas, one-third of the households use open wells
for drinking water. The water quality of open
wells is now considered unsafe for drinking. The
tap water treated is available mainly in urban
areas. The district is also faced with the problem
of availability of adequate drinking water during
summer. With the overexploitation of ground
water for irrigation through bore wells, the
ground water table is depleted and open wells
dry up during summer months, which creates
acute shortage of water for drinking during
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summer. Thus, the problem of safe drinking

water centred on not on access but on quality and
adequate supply particularly during summer.
There exists rural and urban divide in the
types of fuel used for cooking. In rural areas,
nearly three-fourths of the households depend
on traditional bio-fuels like fire-wood for
cooking. As against this, in urban areas, more
than two-thirds of the families use modern fuel
type mainly LPG. Inaccessibility and
unaffordability of modern fuel, absence of
supply/services network in rural areas pose
problem in this regard. Rural based bio-gas was
expected to replace traditional fuel for cooking,
but it has not taken off as expected.
including weaker sections have flush latrine in
and entitlement policy and programmes
facilitated this achievement. Now the emerging
problem is their effective use particularly in rural
areas and among weaker section of the
community. The menace of growing slums with
the increasing number of floating migrant labour
families in and around urban centres also poses
serious threat to the sanitation in the district
particularly in urban areas.
12.2.5 Marginalized Sections

The marginalized section refers to
hitherto vulnerable and deprived groups like
women, SCs and STs. The inclusive human
development is not possible unless the
marginalized sections are bought into
mainstream on equal basis economically,
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socially and politically. The district is hailed as

one of the most progressive districts in the state
with regard to women and their empowerment.
As a result of various gender-friendly enabling
factors such as matriarchal system, favourable
sex ratio, high literacy amongst men and women
etc have contributed significantly to the gender
development in the district. The various
government schemes such as Bhagya Laxmi
Programme to provide insurance cover for new
born girl's education and marriage of poor
families, free education for girls in government
schools up to the secondary level, provision of
bicycles to secondary school girls, Stree Shakthi
SHG model for empowering women and
reservations in political representation local
governing bodies have contributed significantly
in gender development and improving gender
equality in the district.
Notwithstanding these achievements,
the women in the district are still suffer from
some traditionally rooted gender biases such as
social norms and customs on women's roles,
codes of modesty, code of honour and dowry
system as well as women's ability to do some
jobs. The parents' preference for boys rather than
girls in professional education still persists.
Declining sex ratio, declining female work
participation, feminization of employment and
casualization and marginalization of women's
employment in informal sectors without any
social security are some of the emerging gender
issues in the district. The disintegration of
undivided joint family, increasing divorce and
out-migration of husbands, the life of widows
and single women living also lead to the problem
of insecurity and vulnerability. Adding to this is
the increasing alcoholism among young
generation which result in family quarrels and

spouse abuse.
adversely affects their integration into

mainstream society.
The SCs and STs are historically,

socially and economically deprived
communities. Since independence, both the
Central and the State Governments have
implemented several multi-faceted and multipronged programmes for social and economic
welfare of the SCs and the STs and thereby bring
them into the mainstream development. The
analysis of the data in Chapter 9 has clearly
shown that most of the government social
programmes implemented have been successful
in provision of the basic livelihood amenities to
the SCs and the STs in the district. They are not
lagging very much behind other communities as
regards housing, drinking water supply,
electricity and sanitation. The historically
existing wide gaps between them and the rest of
the population in regard to housing and basic
amenities no more exist.

programmes equally. Among the STs, Koragas
are still far behind economically and socially
compared to other ST groups. There is also at
present, absence of statistics on livelihood,
education and health status, occupation pattern,
poverty and other socio-economic indicators of
various sub-casts in SCs and STs. These data are
essential for focused demand driven government
interventions for the economic and social uplift
of this community. The challenge is to recognize
such downtrodden sub-castes and prepare a
holistic action plan to bring them to the level of
the rest of the community.
The SCs and STs, however, still lag

behind the rest of the population in regard to
higher and professional education, access to
healthcare facilities, organized job market,
access to productive assets and credit,
entrepreneurship and business world and
standard of living. Most of them remained as
resource poor and in low-end labourers. There
are many government programmes to improve
the education and economic status of these
communities, but the effect is only marginal. The
district has still relatively a larger percentage of
the SCs and the STs below poverty level. They
have higher dropouts in secondary and PUC
education. Their representation in higher-end
professional employment is insignificant. The
setting up separate colonies for SCs and STs also
Good governance means efficient and

timely delivery of public services, simplicity and
easy accessibility of systems and procedures,
accountability, transparency and sound financial
management, active people's participation,
autonomy in decision making process and strict
enforcement of right to information. The 73rd and
74 t h Constitution Amendment provided
decentralization framework through the PRI
system as an appropriate institutional
framework to ensure grassroots participation of
the people and effective delivery of public
services. Dakshina Kannada district, by all
standards, has done relatively better in
governance than most of other districts in the
state. However, there are many grey areas, which
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are mainly systemic and require civil reforms.

The ZP, TPs GPs and ULBs are charged
with a number of devolved developmental
functions and responsibilities, which calls for
empowerment, professional competence,
accountability and effective monitoring. The
devolution of functions and finance has not
taken place as expected and as result, they do not
have adequate revenue raising powers. Though
the Act provided framework for decentralized
planning, the top-down approach still in vogue
for planning and resource allocation. The
programmes are imposed from the above
without considering the area specific needs and
feasibility and the ability of the local
administration to implement the programmes
effectively.
GPs are the bottom of the pyramid
administrative units for delivery of
developmental services for the well-being of
people. The GPs in the district are plagued with
numerous problems, which include inter alia
inadequate allocation of resources, political
interference, absence of community
participation, lack of knowledge and capability
of representatives, corruption, lack of
accountability and transparency etc. The GPs
have at present no financial and functional
autonomy. The decentralization entails
devolution of political, fiscal and administrative
powers to grassroots governing institutions. This
has not yet taken place. The Grama Sabhas and
Ward Sabhas are at present not active. They are
not empowered to participate effectively and act
as watch-dogs at the GP level.
As against this, the ULBs in the district
have better record of performance. They have
achieved significant improvement in the
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development of urban infrastructure and in the

provision of basic civic services during last
decade. With outsourcing water bill collection,
road sweeping and cleaning and solid waste
collection and disposal, there was a significant
improvement in these areas. However, there are
still issues in provision of these basic civic
services. They are mainly centered around
supply of portable tap water in required quantity
throughout the year to all households,
segregation of solid waste collection at primary
stage, UGD coverage for all households etc.
Besides these issues, there is also problem of the
basic needs of migrant population who suffer
from multiple deprivations that include lack of
access to basic amenities such a water supply,
sanitation, decent housing and electricity.
12.3 The Way Forward Strategies

The ranking of taluks and divergences
between rankings based on various human
development related indices and in their
components have serious implications for the
way forward policies and strategies for
development in the district. They bring out the
major thrust areas for the future policies and
strategies. The future policies and strategies
should not be restricted to merely on eliminating
disparities across gender, social class and
regions in respect of various dimensions of
human development, but they should aim at
enhancing all round wellbeing of all people in
the district. The recommendations to address the
key areas of concerns identified in different
dimensions of human development have been
already suggested in detail in the relevant
chapters. In this section, an attempt is made to
recapitulate the key recommendations to chart

the way forward agenda from human
development perspective.
At the outset, it is important to note that
the five human development indices computed
provide comprehensive view of human
development and hence, they should be
considered in totality and not in isolation. The
human development deficits observed in various
indices within the district and spatial disparities
existing among the taluks provide thrust areas
for action in various dimensions of human
development. It is also important to consider all
dimensions equally important for enhancing
well-being of people. To focus on mere one
dimension cannot take care of development of
other dimensions. There is thus a need to have
holistic approach to achieve sustainable and
more inclusive human development in the
district.
12.3.1 Future HD Strategy for Education

Sector
The primary objective of education
policy should be to ensure that all children across
gender, social class, rural-urban or differentlyabled have equal access to educational
institutions and quality education. This requires
a holistic approach and concerted efforts to
strengthen the system at all levels of education:
elementary, secondary and higher education.
Since the district is already on the way to
universal elementary and secondary education,
the challenge would be now not on institutional
expansion but improvement in quality,
curriculum, social equity in educational
attainment and equipment of students with lifeskills required to compete at the higher levels in
all spheres.
The primary and secondary education is
the foundation for integrated and holistic
development of the school-going children. It
should facilitate realization of all innate
potentials of children. The curriculum pedagogy
should not be limited to learning text book
subjects only. It should be extended to nonscholastic areas through innovative studentfriendly extra curriculum activities. The
emphasis in the education process should be
accorded more towards innovative exploration,
project work, experimentation; fields based
experiential learning and interactive
/communicative learning rather than mere class
room text book teaching. This would enable a
child to continuously pursue excellence in
his/her respective sphere of life.
The Government is the main primary and
secondary education provider in rural areas.
With the declining population growth and
declining number of students in the rural areas,
there is no justification for continuing lower
primary schools with one or two teachers and
depriving the children quality education at the
foundation level. Instead of spreading thinly the
scarce resources to number of schools, it would
be ideal to consider one model higher primary
school to one GP of population below 5000 to
provide required quality education. Since the
district is on the way to universal elementary
education, the emphasis should be now accorded
to universalization of secondary education and
PUC education. To improve employability and
skills of those who cannot pursue higher
education, there is a need for incorporating
vocational education at secondary and preuniversity courses.
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Based on the analysis of the present education

status in the district, the following are also
considered the critical elements of way forward
strategies in the education sector:
Operationalising the requirement of RTE to

establish good quality elementary education
in rural areas,
Achieving universalisation of secondary

and PUC education,
Focus on increasing transition rate from

secondary to PUC and PUC to higher
education particularly students of SCs and
STs and other weaker sections
Achieving zero drop-out and out-of-school

till PUC education,
Create IT-based teacher support tool to

provide both content and pedagogical
support. To ensure effective use of IT tools,
provide free broadband internet to schools.
Periodical training of teachers to update

their knowledge and professional skill is
critical for quality education.
Incentivize teachers for creativity, research

and extra-curricular activities.
Providing pre-schooling opportunities for

children in rural areas by integrating preschool education into primary schooling in
all government schools
Developing skill and employability of

students by offering pre-vocational courses
at secondary and PUC level either as an addon or alternative subject to facilitate
mobility options for vocational courses to
students who do not go for higher education.
Involving community partnership without

political interference not only to provide
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financial support but also to ensure good

school governance and act as watch-dog.
12.3.2 Future HD Strategy for Health Sector

The health care system in the district has to
be comprehensive, easily accessible and
inclusive. The accessibility, availability and
affordability are critical in health care system.
The Twelfth Five Year Plan envisages
achievement of Universal Health Coverage
(UHC) over next decade. The ultimate goal of
UHC is to guarantee affordable easy access to a
package of quality health services to all citizens.
Based on the analysis of health status carried out
in chapter 5, the following are considered
important for future strategy in the district's
health sector:
Considering the prevailing public-private

mixed institutional health system in the
district, there is a need for public and private
health sectors to work in tandem to provide
appropriate, equitable and affordable health
care services at all levels. As the district has
11 medical colleges, a close collaboration
of private medical colleges with Taluk and
District Hospitals is needed to ensure access
to quality and super specialty health
services in public sector system.
The primary health care in rural areas

should be strengthened to provide
comprehensively preventive, curative and
rehabilitative health care services. This
requires upgradation of PHCs and CMCs as
per IPHS standards. Every PHC should
have one qualified doctor, a staff nurse, a
pharmacist, a health inspector and other
supporting staff. The PHC should have a
vehicle to provide mobility support to the
doctor to do the field work. Every PHC subcenter should have its own building and one
staff nurse. PHCs should be made round the
clock medical services to rural people.
It is worth considering the Tamil Nadu

Model of mapping geographically and
setting one Junction Hospital for a group of
PHCs instead of CMC. The Junction
Hospital should have specialist doctors and
adequate number of nurses and their
services should be made available to the
rural people round the clock. Such junction
hospitals could be linked to Taluk Hospitals
through 108-Arogya Kawacha.
In order to ensure rural people easy and
affordable health services at tertiary level,
there is a need for network linking through
IT in all Government health services viz.
PHCs, Junction hospitals and Taluk and
District Hospitals in order to ensure prompt
referral system, close interface, robust
surveillance and timely treatment
With the mushrooming of private hospitals,
there is a need to regulate affordability of
private medical services and ensure quality
medical services to even weaker section in
urban areas.
To enable weaker section to access health
care facilities from both private and public,
there is a need to provide health insurance
cover. Most of the rural poor are not aware
of medical insurance coverage of Vajpayee
Arogyashree Scheme, Yashaswini Health
Insurance Scheme, Sampoorna Suraksha
Scheme, Rastriya Swastya Bhima Yojane
etc. Yashawini Health Insurance Scheme
can be extended to include marginalized
SCs, STs, people below poverty line,
disabled, and abandoned elderly people in

rural areas. There is a need for periodical
awareness campaign to ensure rural poor
get the benefit of them.
Special Health services through well
equipped Mobile Units to remote tribal
areas, forest areas, Naxalite affected areas
should be considered to ensure easy access
and effective reach to the needy vulnerable
section of the society.
The revival of communicable diseases like
Malaria, TB and Dengue Fever is becoming
a serious health concern in urban areas.
There is also endosulfan infected disease
problem. All these warrants strengthening
of monitoring and surveillance as well as
preventive measures. Similarly the
prevalence of HIV/AIDS requires both
preventive and curative measures.
Awareness campaigns and Medicare camps
should be organized periodically for
chronic diseases like diabetes, hypertension, blood pressure etc. in rural areas to
educate rural people about these diseases
and also provide on the spot medical checkup and treatment
Urban health care comes under ULBs and
most of them do not have, at present, Health
Departments. With growing urbanization,
there is an urgent need to set up Health
Department in each ULB for taking care of
urban health care needs.
Health profile of Koraga community is
relatively very poor and therefore requires
special attention. A comprehensive health
package should include health
consciousness campaign, monitorable
health indicators for the community,
medical insurance coverage etc.
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12.3.3 Future HD Strategy for Livelihood

Sector
The human development closely related
to economic growth. Income, asset ownership
and basic amenities not only determine the living
standard but also functionally linked to
education, health and other dimension of human
development. There is, thus, a need to strengthen
the virtuous cycle of linking human
development with economic growth.
Considering the geographical potential, the long
coastal belt and the availability of qualified and
talented human resources, the district provides a
challenging scope for higher economic growth.
It has potential for diversification of agriculture
into high value addition, setting up agroprocessing industries, re-energization of small
scale and tiny industries, and tertiary activities
such as tourism, soft-ware and bio-technological
park, infrastructure development,
communication services, transport, construction
etc. Mangaluru city is the cradle of banking and
hub of education institutions. With the Konkan
railway, opening up of Mangalore international
airport, upgrading of port facilities and
commencement of Economic Zones, the district
has challenging potential for rapid economic
growth and increase in employment in the
future.
The recent spread of communication
technology to rural areas has also opened up
opportunities to foster a variety of secondary and
tertiary activities in rural areas. Several rural
centres have, in recent years, emerged as rural
towns. This process of semi urbanization and
associated improvements in infrastructure also
provide good scope for non-farm employment
opportunities both in the secondary and in the
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tertiary sectors in the surrounding rural areas.

The formation of self-help groups of women and
promotion of micro finance in rural areas can
also play a crucial role in encouraging women's
participation in household industries. The way
forward strategy for human development in
livelihood sector should, therefore, focus on
virtually linking human development with
achieving higher, sustainable and more inclusive
economic growth in the district. This seems to be
the only way to arrest out migration and improve
women work participation in rural areas in the
district.
12.3.4 Strategy for Dalits and Tribals

Human development has to be inclusive.
For inclusive human development, all sections
of the society should receive adequate
education, health, food and nutrition, housing,
social participation, equal treatment, and
freedom from discrimination and violence. In
the district, SCs and STs are historically
deprived and marginalized section of the society.
To achieve inclusiveness of the SCs and STs in
all human development dimensions without
deprivation or discrimination require multiple
right based interventions. The various
Government schemes like, Anthyodaya for food
security for the poorest of poor, free education
up to secondary level for SC and ST students,
RCH initiatives for welfare of SC and ST women
and children, reservations in political
participation, promotion of Stree Shakthi SHG
model for empowering SC and ST women etc
have contributed significantly for social
empowerment of these marginalized and
deprived section of the community in the
district. As already shown, the discrimination
and professional education should be

now given highest priority. Unless they
enter higher and professional education
on par with other communities, they
remain in low-end jobs and cannot be
closer to other communities
economically.
and deprivation of these communities in some of

areas still persist. They are also still lagging
significantly on economic front, All these result
in their under performance in almost all human
development indicators and therefore require
immediate remedial interventions.
The well-being of these communities is
not possible only through social empowerment.
In all government interventions, so far the
emphasis was given on social welfare focus education, health, shelter, basic amenities such
as electricity and sanitation. No doubt these
initiatives are essential and need to be
strengthened. What is now required is the
economic empowerment as they are still in
lowest rung of socio-economic ladder. They
require capability building to actively
participate in productive sectors and other
economic activities. They should graduate from
their low-end traditional occupations to highend professional occupations on par with other
communities.
The following strategies are therefore
recommended for improving the well-being of
the SCs and STs in order to bring them closer to
other community:
There is a need for stock-taking and

diagnostic exercise on livelihood,
education and health status, occupation
pattern, poverty and other socioeconomic indicators of all sub-castes of
SCs and STs. These data are required for
planning sub-cast focused demand
driven government interventions with
monitorable indicators for their
economic and social uplift.
Entry of SC and ST students to higher
Those who completed secondary or PUC

education and do not want to pursue
higher education shold be motivated and
incentivised to go for vocational training
for skill development and employability
to enable them to undertake various
income generating micro enterprises as
well as to enable them to enter organized
job market. .
SCs and STs should be encouraged to

enter productive ventures like
agriculture, livestock enterprises, small
and medium industries and business
world. This requires empowering their
youth and development of
entrepreneurship among them and
providing them soft loans.
12.3.5 Future HD Strategy for the Gender

Development
The emancipation of women from
persisting gender bias and gender inequality can
be achieved only through empowerment of
women in all human development dimensions.
The process of empowerment involves not only
equity in access to and control over resources but
also development of functional capabilities to
access one's rights and entitlements on equal
basis. The empowerment of women has to
therefore go beyond mere capacity building to
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get control over the circumstances of their lives,

but also address the problems of women's
agency, their rights and freedom and their wellbeing and self-esteem. Poverty reduction, access
to livelihood resources, capability building,
security against vulnerability and equality of
gender relations in all spheres of activities have
to be considered integral part of the gender
planning. The interventions and programs
should be therefore context-specific based on
ground realities and by taking into consideration
gender differential needs and related emerging
issues.
Fostering women self-employment

ventures: Specific women focused
strategies are required for organization
of women SHGs, capacity building,
business skill development, credit
linkage, provision of industry specific
inputs and organization of marketing
networks to enable women in rural areas
to take up income generating micro
enterprises.
Developing women as entrepreneurs:

Through enhancing skill and
management training, capacity building,
access to credit, industry-specific
technology support, marketing- help,
and providing incentive such as seed
capital, women could be enabled to take
up entrepreneurial activities in new and
emerging business fields.
Improving amenities for poor urban

w o m e n : Wi t h t h e i n c r e a s i n g
urbanization, more and more women
from rural areas move to urban areas for
low ladder jobs mostly in construction
and informal sectors. There are also
growing single women employees in the
organized sector. It is important to focus
on providing enabling living conditions
to these women through proper hostel
facilities.
With this perspective, the following

strategies for gender empowerment in the
district are recommended:
Social empowerment of women: The

thrust areas as hitherto should continue
to be laid on improving health and
nutrition, education, relief and
rehabilitation of women in distress,
women concerns in employment, access
and control over resources and
enhancing women's capacity to
participate effectively in community and
political decision making process.
Empowering women in agriculture: A
multi-pronged strategy through
independent land rights for women,
strengthening women's agricultural
capacities, improving women's access to
credit, extension and marketing
facilities, designing women-friendly
technologies and promoting genderfriendly diversification of agriculture is
required to empower women in
agriculture in the district.
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12.3.6 Future HD Strategy for Local

Governance
The good governance at local
institutions matters for inclusive and sustainable
human development. The main ingredients of
good governance at grassroots level are: (i)
efficient and effective delivery system for public

services, (ii) simple, easily accessible and
people-friendly rules and procedures, (iii)
transparency, accountability and sound financial
management, (iv) responsive to local needs and
aspirations and (v) stringent anti-corruption
measures and absence of rent seeking behaviour.
Good governance should therefore enable a
people-friendly, people-caring, peopleparticipatory and responsive administration.
The Constitution Amendment Act and
The Karnataka Panchayat Act have already laid
down the required framework for decentralized
governance. What is required is the agenda for
improving governance at local administration
level. It requires capacity and capability
building, leveraging IT technology in
governance, devolution of functions and
finance, active people participation,
involvement of civil society especially
voluntary agencies in implementation of
programmes and the crucial right to information.
The agenda also includes civil service reforms
a i m e d a t i m p r o v i n g t r a n s p a r e n c y,
accountability, efficiency and procedural reform
to make them user-friendly. Special attention
need to given to the capacity building at GP level
for need assessment, priority setting,
formulation of projects/programmes, and their
effective implementation, sound financial
management, transparency and accountability
as well as right to information.
The Grama Sabhas and Ward Sabhas are
at present not active. They should be empowered
to participate effectively and act as watch-dogs
at the GP level. In ultimate analysis, for the
inclusive and sustainable human development,
what matters are the local governing
institutions? They should be made
professionally capable, responsible, peoplefriendly and responsive.

Urbanization is a dynamic process and
expected to grow at rapid rate in terms of
population living in cities. Hence, it is important
to strengthen urban governance from human
development perspective. In order to ensure
good governance in ULBs, there is a need for
unified and effective administrative set up with
clear accountability to citizens. This requires
empowering the ULBs in planning,
management and monitoring. It is also important
to give adequate emphasis on long term strategic
urban planning to ensure that the present agenda
is not limited to its present jurisdiction. It must
anticipate and plan for outgrowth and expansion.
The governance focus should be shifted towards
an outcome-based approach that is based on
effective and efficient civic service delivery
rather than an approach aimed at management of
investment and asset creation.
Notwithstanding the progress already
achieved in development of urban infrastructure,
there are many areas where the scaling-up
delivery of civic amenities and provision of
utilities with emphasis on universal access to the
urban poor is needed. The following are the
priority areas in urban governance from human
development perspective:
Safe Drinking Water: At present, more

than 40 percent of the households
depend on open well for drinking water
in all ULB areas in the district. There is a
need to ensure that all households in the
municipal areas have access to portable
treated water supply and requisite
quantity throughout the year.
Underground drainage system: UGD
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does not at present cover majority of the

municipal area. The need to cover all
households by UGD cannot be
overemphasized from health point of
view.
Solid Waste Management: Though with

outsourcing, the primary collection of
solid waste is 100 percent in most of the
ULBs, the segregation of the solid waste
at source is negligible in all ULBs. In
order to ensure scientific solid waste
management and facilitate proper
treatment of solid waste, there is need to
ensure scaling up segregation of solid
waste at primary source.
Slums: The migrant populations are
growing and most of them live in slums.
They suffer from multiple deprivations
that include lack of access to basic
amenities such as water supply,
sanitation and decent housing. There is
an urgent need to address their basic
civic service needs.

Dakshina Kannada district has achieved
relatively good progress in most of the human
development indicators. However, comparing to
developed countries and neighboring Kerala
State, it is still a long way to catch up with what
they achieved in various dimensions of human
development. The district's vision should be to
catch up and reach the top level inclusive,
equitable and sustainable human development.
The society in the district is diverse comprising
different social and religious groups and in
different level of development in various
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dimensions of human development. The study

has attempted to identify development gaps in
various dimensions of human development and
grey areas in achieving high level of well being.
There also issue of persisting disparities in
achievements across social groups and taluks.
Thus the district has still many challenges to
overcome in human development endeavor.
An essential part of human development
is equity. Every person has the right to live
according to his or her own values and
aspirations. No one should be doomed to
miserable life because of his belonging to
particular caste, gender, religion or region. The
fundamental human development ingredients
like higher education, high quality health care
provisions and economic growth are at present
skewed towards the better-off and those who
badly need the weaker sections of the
community are excluded. The human
development in the district should therefore
envision enhancing human capabilities and
enlarging choices and opportunities to all people
irrespective of caste, religion or gender to lead
the life they value most. Since such a
comprehensive sustainable and equitable human
development is a long term process, the way
forward strategies require both short term and
long term.
The district provides challenging
opportunities for all round progress in human
development. The findings and
recommendations of the DHDR provide a
framework to evolve a strategic vision and to
plan both short term and long term action plans
by taking into consideration the district's
potential. It is important that the strategic plans
of action should be bottom-up process and take
into consideration inter-taluk disparities and

needs and aspirations of local people. Each taluk
should build on its strengths and opportunities.
In ultimate analysis, the human development in
the district can be driven mainly by education,
health and economic growth. Though the district
is in the forefront in education and health, it has
to go a long way to catch up in economic growth.
Hitherto, the district depended on 'money order
economy'. It may dry up in future considering
the declining population growth and outmigration. The acceleration in human
development in future mainly depends on
increase in employment opportunities and per
capita income in the district itself.
In conclusion, human development
concerns are numerous and challenging. An
agenda for sustainable and equitable human
development is broader, multi-faceted and
multi-dimensional. The agenda should address

both social and spatial human development
deficits and inequalities in various dimensions
of human development, institutional failures,
social, religious and cultural barriers,
vulnerabilities and emerging concerns affecting
the well-being of people. To formulate and
implement such an agenda, each taluk should
prioritize human development goals, identify its
strengths and weaknesses and prepare strategic
interventions required. The agenda for human
development should be made an integral part of
the Comprehensive District Development Plan
backed by adequate funds and monitoring
mechanism with monitorable human
development signposts. Only with proper
planning, involvement of local authorities and
community participation, inclusive, equitable
and sustainable human development is possible
and can be achieved in the district.
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ANNEXURE
TECHNICAL NOTES
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Technical Notes
Annexure
1. Methodology for Construction of Indices

UNDP Framework:
An index is a summary measure of
selected indicators of a particular theme. The
human development indices are thus summary
measures of human development indicators
reflecting various human development
dimensions. For computation of human
development index (HDI), UNDP adopted three
dimensional framework of Health, education
and standard of living. HDI is the average of
achievement in these three dimensions. Human
development being multi-dimensional,
measuring involves choosing multiple
indicators of three dimensions and capturing
them in an aggregate index. For each dimension,
separate indices are constructed. Minimum and
maximum goalposts are set in order to transform
the different indicators chosen into index values
lying between 0 and 1; 0 indicating the lowest
index value and 1 indicating the highest index
value. Geometric mean is used to average the
dimension values to derive the composite human
development index.
The computation methodologies
followed for calculation of six human
development related indices in Dakshina
Kannada HDR are briefly adumbrated below:
Minimum and Maximum values have been set

for each indicators based on observed taluklevel minimum and maximum indicators to
transform them into indices. The indicators
chosen are intrinsically either positive or
negative in contribution to human development.
In the case of positive indicators, the minimum
value is considered as 10 percent less than
observed minimum value in taluk level. In the
case of negative impact indicators, the
maximum value is adjusted by 10 percent more
than the observed maximum value. The
formulas used were:
For positive indicators:
Dimension Index Value= (Actual value Min,
value)/ (Max. value Actual value)
For Negative Indicators:
Dimension Index Value = (Maximum value
Actual Value) / (Maximum Value Minimum
Value)
For per capita income, the minimum and
maximum values were converted into natural
log values prior to converting into the index. For
computing dimension indices, geometric means
of the indicator indices were calculated. HDI
was computed as geometric mean of three
dimension indices.
Human Development Index (HDI):

Three dimensional framework of UNDP
was adopted to derive HDI. Seven indicators for
standard of living, two indicators for health and
two indicators for education as stated in the text
are adopted for computation of composite HDI.
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Gender Inequality Index (GII):

GII measures women's disadvantage in
three dimensions: Reproductive Health,
Empowerment, and Labour Market. Three
female related health indicators for
Reproductive Health, six indicators for Women

Empowerment and six indicators for Labour
Market participation were considered to
compute dimension indices. Likewise HDI,
maximum and minimum values observed at
taluk level for indicators were adjusted for
positive and negative indicators. In computing
GII, four steps were involved: first, computing
arithmetic mean index for each indicator;
second, aggregating across dimensions for
female and male group using geometric mean of
indicator indices, third aggregating across
gender group using harmonic mean and fourth,
computing GII by comparing the equally
distributed dimension indices of each gender
group to the reference standard. The GII value
ranges from zero (no gender inequality across
dimensions) to one (total inequality across
dimensions)
Child Development Index (CDI):

Three dimensions of child development
are: Health, Nutrition and Education. One health
indicator, two nutrition indicators and one
education indicator were used for computing
dimension indices. The formula for computing
dimension indices was the same as HDI except
instead of geometric mean Arithmetic mean was
used. CDI is the average of three dimension
indices.
Food Security Index (FSI):

Three basic parameters considered were:
Availability, Accessibility and Absorption.
Seven indicators for availability, six indicators
for accessibility, and six indicators for
absorption were considered for computing
dimension indices. The dimension indices were

computed as average of respective indicator
indices after identifying their positive and
negative values. The FSI is the arithmetic
average of all three dimension indices.

(CTDI):
68 indicators were considered for three
dimensions: Livelihood Standard, Health and
Education. In the case of standard of living, five
sub-section indices: Demography, Livelihood
and Employment, Housing and Assets and
Participation and for Health three sub-section
indices: Health, Sanitation and Drinking Water
were considered for computing sub-section
indices. Indicator indices are calculated
following the same formulas as used for HDI for
both positive and negative values.
The
dimension/sub-section indices are arithmetic
mean of respective indicator indices. The CTDI
is the average of three dimension indices. The
methodology for DCDI is same as CTDI.
Urban Development Index (UDI):

Eleven urban infrastructure development
and civil service indicators were chosen for
computation of UDI. In this case, three
dimensional framework is not applicable. Each
indicator index reflects dimensional index.
Indicator indices are computed following
formulas used for HDI for both positive and
negative indicator values. This is done to ensure
the index values unidirectional. The composite
UDI is the average of the indicator indices.
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2. Data Availability, Quality and Limitation

Data for taluk and district indicators has been
compiled from different secondary sources. For
demographic indicators, livelihood and
employment and housing and asset indicators,
Census 2011 data were used. Wherever 2011
Census data were not yet available, 2001 Census
data were used. The data oh health indicators
were compiled from the District Health and
Family Welfare Department. For IMR, CMR
and MMR, SRS, 2011 has provided the required
data. For sanitation and drinking water, 2011
Census data were used. The District Education
Department provided the requisite data on
education. Since the DHDR involved in-depth
analysis of all dimensions of human
development, the data required for various
dimensions were collected from line
departments of ZP and other Government
Departments. The data on urban developments
were collected from Urban Cell of DC office and
concerned ULBs. For small area and micro studies
and partly for Composite Dalit Development Index
(CDDI), primary data compiled through rapid
appraisal survey were considered. .
Since the data collection involved

several agencies and various sources, a thorough
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cross checking of data was undertaken to

validate the base period for which they have
been collected and to ensure their
reasonableness and quality. The Data compiled
were discussed with the concerned Departments
as well as in the Core Committee Meetings as to
their correctness and validation. A thorough
checking of the data quality was also done by
HDD, PD. In the case of primary data collection
for CDDI, and small area/micro study, the
interview and participant observation methods
through structured schedules were used to
collect both quantitative and qualitative data.
It should be noted that the data on
demography, housing, drinking water,
electricity, cooking fuel, sanitation etc were
compiled from 2011 Census. In the case of
official data for various sectors/sub-sectors, in
spite of their validation, overestimation and
underestimation bias are obvious. Similarly, in
micro study are based on rapid appraisal method
and perceptions. The primary data collected
have thus their own limitations. However, these
limitations in computation of indices have
limited impact and no way vitiate conclusions
drawn.
3. Note on IMR, CMR and MMR

(Source: SRS, 2011):
The service statistics on mortality

indicators are grossly underestimates
particularly at younger ages. This is also true of
maternal mortality rate. There are two types of
service statistics on mortality are available with
the Department of Health, Karnataka (DHO).
First, the data provided by the respective health
institutions and entered into the Health
Management Information System (HMIS)
portal. However, as this is a facility based
reporting, the mortality indicators are higher in
those districts and sub-districts with more
facilities and does not represent the performance
of a particular area. Moreover, the facilities not
reporting the deaths as well as the deaths taking
place at home will not become part of the HMIS
in most cases. Second, the mortality information
is also kept for respective geographical area
based on the ANM reporting. This is found to be
grossly underestimates. For instance, as per this
information, Infant Mortality Rate for
Karnataka is only 12 for the year 2012 as against
the Sample Registration System (SRS)
estimates of 35. Thirdly, the Civil Registration
System (CRS) also provide data on mortality.
The analysis of this data also showed gross
underestimate particularly the infant mortality
rate (IMR), child mortality rate (CMR) and
maternal mortality ratio (MMR). The IMR
estimated from CRS for the year 2011 is 6.0.
Thus it is essential to rework the estimates by
adjusting for underestimation to find out the real
IMR and MMR in different regions of
Karnataka.
SRS estimates on mortality indicators

are widely accepted but they are available only
at State levels. Reliable estimate of IMR at the
district level are available only from 2001
census. As the District level Human
Development Reports (DHDR) requires district
and sub-district level estimates of these
indicators, a method is developed to provide
reasonable quality estimates of IMR, CMR and
MMR at the district and sub-district level.
Methodology
Indirect estimates of infant and child
mortality is feasible using the information on
children ever born and children surviving by age
of the mother from surveys and census. The
census estimates of IMR and CMR are based on
this information. District Level Household
Surveys (DLHS) conducted in 2007-08 have
collected this information. Ram et al (2013)
have already estimated neonatal mortality rate
and CMR using this information and adjusted
the estimate for the year 2012 using a ratio
method of distributing the total deaths computed
for India to states and districts. But the estimates
they used are from the UN estimate of neonatal
and child mortality for India for the year 2012.
The neonatal and child mortality rate are
estimated by Ram et al (2013).
Ratio method is adopted here for
estimating district and sub-district IMR, CMR
and MMR for Karnataka. We have used the SRS
estimate of IMR, CMR and MMR for Karnataka
and distributed the corresponding deaths across
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district and sub-districts. First, the IMR, CMR

and MMR for Karnataka are obtained from SRS
for the period 2011 which has been 35, 40 and
144 respectively.
Second, we have distributed the same
number of deaths across districts using ratio
method. The ratio is obtained considering the
neonatal and CMR estimated by Ram et al
(2013) across districts of Karnataka. For
distributing IMR and CMR, data from Ram et al
(2013) on CMR is used while for MMR the
neonatal mortality rate from the same source is
used. Thus we have computed the IMR, CMR
and MMR across districts of Karnataka
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considering that the state level is same as the

SRS figures for 2011.
Third, the corresponding district IMR,
CMR and MMR are distributed across subdistricts using ratio method. The ratio is obtained
from the data gathered from the DHO on these
three indicators across sub-districts. Thus the
IMR, CMR and MMR obtained from DHO have
been adjusted upward to match with the district
IMR, CMR and MMR computed for the district
based on the similar methodology. IMR.CMR
and MMR estimated for districts in the state are
presented in Appendix Table 16.
4. Process of DHDR Preparation

Background
Karnataka was the second state to
prepare HDRs in 1999 and 2005. Recognizing
the critical importance of preparing HDR at
micro level, the state government initiated four
pilot projects in the first phase in Vijayapur,
Kalaburagi, Mysuru and Udupi for preparing
district human development reports (DHRDs).
The objectives this pilot projects were to:
a.
Capture variations in the state of human

development at the district level,
b.
Enable Government to take a holistic view

of the state's development outside the
normal governmental functioning and
c.
Assess the strengths and weaknesses of

existing department policies
The pilot projects were published in 2010.

Encouraged by the experience gained, the
Government of Karnataka has decided in the
second phase to undertake DHDRs for all 30
districts focusing taluks in the state.
Rationale for DHDRs

Since the state level HDRs has only
revealed regional imbalances, they did not
reflect spatial and social disparities in human
development within the districts. The following
were also considered justification for preparing
DHDRs:
?
73rd and 74th Constitution amendment
mandated decentralized micro-level
planning.
?
Districts and taluks are the focal points in
PRI system and for bottom-up planning

process
?
Within state level and district level
aggregate/average do not capture
grassroots level and spatial disparities/
deprivations in human development
concerns.
?
Classifying taluks and ranking based on
performance in different dimensions of
human development are of great
relevance for policy and decentralized
planning.
The CEOs of ZPs were made responsible
to coordinate the preparation of DHDRs. The
preparation of DHDRs has been entrusted to
Lead Agencies indentified in Each District. The
Lead Agencies were mainly represented by the
senior faculty members, consultants and
professionals from locally based universities,
Institutes of Social Science Research and NGOs.
The Lead Agencies were identified by the CEOs
of ZPs. The preparation of the DHDRs being a
huge responsibility, care was taken that no Lead
Agency was assigned more than two districts.
To coordinate the preparation of DHRs in 30
districts in the state, a State Level Coordination
Committee (SLCC) was set up under the
Chairperson of Principal Secretary, Planning
Department, Government of Karnataka,
comprising of the Chief Coordinator of the
Project as Secretary, and Members of Quality
Management Groups on DHDRs. At the district
level, for proper supervision, guidance and
monitoring of preparation of DHDRs, a District
Core Committee (DCC) was constituted under
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the Chairperson of the CEO of the District ZP

and the Chief Planning Officer (CPO) of the
District ZP as Member Secretary. The DCC
included the representative of the Lead Agency,
Heads of the Departments of ZP and subject
experts locally available. The DCC also set up
Subject-matter Specialists' Sub-committee for
technical guidance. The DCC met every month
to review the work. The SLCC met periodically
to review the overall progress.
With a view to ensure common
understanding of the concepts, methodology,
issues and tasks between all Lead Agencies and
Government Officials involved in preparation of
DHDRs, a 4-day Basic Training Programme for
capacity building on the preparation of DHDR
was organized to representatives of Lead
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Agencies, CEOs of ZPs, Heads of the

Departments of ZPs and representatives of
ULBs in 16 batches. These trainings were
planned to sensitize participants on the concepts
of human development, collection of data for
various indicators and the rationale for
preparation of DHDRs. Subsequently, a 3-day
Technical Training Programme was exclusively
planned to the representatives of Lead Agencies,
CPOs of ZPs, and District Statistical Officers in
four batches on collection and validation of data,
measurement of indicators to be used,
methodology and computation of various
indices and their analysis and chapter plan for
DHDR. A detailed Guideline Document on
preparation of DHDR was provided by HDD,
PD for all Lead Agencies and ZPs.
5. District Human Development Report Core Committe Details /

List of Meeting and Workshop Conducted
a. District Human Development Report Core Committe Details
President
Chief Executive Officers

Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat, Mangalore
Member
Secretary
Chief Planning Officer
1)
2)
3)
Deputy Secretary, Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat, Mangalore

District Statistical officer, Dakshina Kannada , Mangalore
Deputy Director, Public Instructions, Education Department, Dakshina
Kannada, Mangalore
District Health and Family Welfare Officer, Dakshina Kannada, Mangalore
District Social Welfare Officer, Dakshina Kannada, Mangalore
Deputy Director, Women and Child Development Department, Dakshina
Kannada, Mangalore
Joint Director, Agriculture, Dakshina Kannada, Mangalore
Deputy Director, Food and Civil Supplies Department, Dakshina Kannada,
Mangalore
Project Director, Urban Development Cell, District Collector's Office,
Dakshina Kannada, Mangalore
Assistant Director, Social Securities Scheme, District Collector's Office,
Dakshina Kannada, Mangalore
District Officer, Integrated Tribal Development Program
Executive Officers, Taluk Panchayat, Mangalore / Bantwal/ Puttur, Sullia,
Belthangady
Deputy Project Co-ordinator, SSA, Dakshina Kannada, Mangalore
District Programme Officer, Women & Child Development Dept., Dakshina
Kannada, Mangalore
Dr N S Shetty, Principal Consultant, Professor Emiratus, Justice K S Hegde
Institute of Management
Mr Vinod Dixit, Consultant
Members:
4)
5)
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
11)
12)
13)
14)
15)
16)
b. HDR Workshop Details

Date
Particulars of Meeting /Workshop
Place
22/10/2014
11.00 A.M.
District level workshop

(D.K.Z.P.members, Mangalore &
Bantwal Taluk)
Nethravathi Hall,
D.K.Z.P.Mangalore
24/10/2014
11A.M.
24/10/2014
3.00 P.M.
08/11/2013
Taluk level workshop
Taluk Panchayath Hall

Puttur
Sullia
Belthangady

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APPENDIX
STATISTICAL TABLES
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Table 1
Dakshina Kannada District Profile: Basic Statistics (2011-12)
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344
345
Source: Census of India 2011 and Dakshina Kannada Dist rict at Glance 2011-12.
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Table 2
District wise Area & Population
Sl
N
o
District
Area
(in
Sq.Km)
2011 Population
Total
Male
Female
Decadal Change (Percent)

2001 -2011
Total
Male
Female
Bagalkot
6594
1889752
950111
939641
14.40
13.89
14.92
Bengaluru ( R )
5815
990923
509172
481751
16.45
16.39
16.51
Bengaluru ( U )
2190
9621551
5022661
4598890
47.18
46.58
47.85
Belagavi
13415
4779661
2423063
2356598
13.41
12.70
14.15
Ballari
8419
2452595
1236954
1215641
20.99
20.13
21.88
Bidar
5448
1703300
870665
832635
13.37
12.92
13.85
Vijayapura
10475
2177331
1111022
1066309
20.50
19.93
21.10
Chamarajnagar
5685
1020791
512231
508560
5.73
4.55
6.95
Chikaballapur
1255104
636437
618667
9.23
8.88
9.60
10
Chikkamagaluru
7201
1137961
566622
571339
-0.26
-1.44
0.94
11
Chitradurga
8388
1659456
840843
818613
9.33
8.33
10.37
12
D. Kannada
4843
2089649
1034714
1054935
10.11
10.26
9.97
13
Davangere
6018
1945497
986400
959097
8.63
7.49
9.83
14
Dharwad
4230
1847023
937206
909817
15.13
13.85
16.49
15
Gadag
4657
1064570
537147
527423
9.54
8.84
10.27
16
Kalaburagi
16224
2566326
1301755
1264571
18.01
17.23
18.82
17
Hassan
6814
1776421
883667
892754
3.18
2.86
3.50
18
Haveri
4851
1597668
819128
778540
11.02
10.62
11.44
19
Kodagu
4102
554519
274608
279911
1.09
-0.08
2.26
20
Kolar
8223
1536401
776396
760005
10.77
10.65
10.89
21
Koppal
8458
1389920
699926
689994
16.21
16.01
16.40
22
Mandya
4961
1805769
905085
900684
2.38
1.92
2.86
23
Mysuru
6269
3001127
1511600
1489527
13.63
12.41
14.90
24
Raichur
5559
1928812
964511
964301
15.51
14.57
16.47
25
Ramanagar
1082636
548008
534628
5.05
4.44
5.69
26
Shivamogga
8465
1752753
877415
875338
6.71
5.64
7.80
27
Tumkur
10598
2678980
1350594
1328386
3.65
2.80
4.52
28
Udupi
3598
1177361
562131
615230
5.85
7.64
4.27
29
Uttara Kannada
10291
1437169
726256
710913
6.17
5.73
6.62
30
Yadgir
1174271
590329
583942
22.81
22.39
23.24
6109529
7
3096665
7
3012864
0
15.60
15.12
16.10
Karnataka
191791
Source: Census of India 2011
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Table-3
District wise Rural and Urban Population
Sl
N
o
District
2011 Population
Total
Rural
Urban
Decadal Change (Percent)

2001 -2011
Total
Rural
Urban
Bagalkot
1889752
1291906
597846
14.40
10.10
24.94
Bengaluru (R)
990923
722179
268744
16.45
9.65
39.73
Bengaluru (U)
9621551
871607
8749944
47.18
12.16
51.91
Belagavi
4779661
3568466
1211195
13.41
11.45
19.60
Ballari
2452595
1532356
920239
20.99
16.06
30.19
Bidar
1703300
1277348
425952
13.37
10.35
23.51
Vijayapura
2177331
1675353
501978
20.50
18.75
26.73
Chamarajnagar
1020791
845817
174974
5.73
3.48
18.15
Chikaballapur
1255104
973985
281119
9.23
4.96
27.19
10
Chikmagalur
1137961
898453
239508
-0.26
-2.15
7.54
11
Chitradurga
1659456
1329923
329533
9.33
6.94
20.16
12
D. Kannada
2089649
1093563
996086
10.11
-6.41
36.58
13
Davangere
1945497
1316487
629010
8.63
5.49
15.84
14
Dharwad
1847023
797484
1049539
15.13
10.40
19.01
15
Gadag
1064570
685261
379309
9.54
8.83
10.85
16
Kalaburagi
2566326
1730775
835551
18.01
16.54
21.17
17
Hassan
1776421
1399658
376763
3.18
-1.22
23.66
18
Haveri
1597668
1242167
355501
11.02
8.95
18.89
19
Kodagu
554519
473531
80988
1.09
0.07
7.44
20
Kolar
1536401
1056328
480073
10.77
7.51
18.68
21
Koppal
1389920
1156216
233704
16.21
15.88
17.86
22
Mandya
1805769
1497407
308362
2.38
1.11
9.07
23
Mysuru
3001127
1755714
1245413
13.63
5.84
26.81
24
Raichur
1928812
1438464
490348
15.51
15.18
16.52
25
Ramanagar
1082636
814877
267759
5.05
-0.07
24.50
26
Shivamogga
1752753
1129026
623727
6.71
5.37
9.23
27
Tumakuru
2678980
2079902
599078
3.65
0.12
18.11
28
Udupi
1177361
843300
334061
5.85
-6.91
61.89
29
Uttara Kannada
1437169
1018188
418981
6.17
5.43
8.01
30
Yadgir
1174271
953594
220677
22.81
20.23
35.34
61095297
37469335
23625962
15.60
7.40
31.54
Karnataka
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Table 4
Human Development: Comparison of Dakshina Kannada with Other Districts
In Karnataka State
Districts
Bagalkot
Bengaluru Rural
Bengaluru Urban
Belagavi
Ballari
Bidar
Vijayapura
Chamrajnagar
Chikamagalur
Chitradurga
Dakshina Kannada
Davangere
Dharwad
Gadag
Kalaburagi
Hassan
Haveri
Kodagu
Kolar
Koppal
Mandya
Mysuru
Raichur
Shivamogga
Tumakuru
Udupi
Uttara Kannada
Karnataka
HDI-1991
Value
Rank
0.505
20
0.539
11
0.623
4
0.545
9
0.512
18
0.496
23
0.504
21
0.488
24
0.599
7
0.535
13
0.661
1
0.548
8
0.539
10
0.516
17
0.453
25
0.519
16
0.496
22
0.623
3
0.522
15
0.446
26
0.511
19
0.524
14
0.443
27
0.584
5
0.539
12
0.659
2
0.567
6
0.541
HDI-2001
Value
0.591
0.653
0.753
0.648
0.617
0.599
0.589
0.576
0.647
0.627
0.722
0.635
0.642
0.634
0.564
0.639
0.603
0.697
0.625
0.582
0.609
0.631
0.547
0.673
0.630
0.714
0.653
0.650
Rank
22
6
1
8
18
21
23
25
9
16
2
12
10
13
26
11
20
4
17
24
19
14
27
5
15
3
7
Source: KHDR-2005
349
Table 5
Taluk and District Level Key Human Development Indicators for HDI
(2011-12)
Sr.
Indicators
No.
Standard of Living
1
Percentage of HHs
having access to
Cooking fuel
2
Percentage of HHs
having access to Toilet
3
Percentage of HHs
having access to Water
4
Percentage of HHs
having access to
Electricity
5
Percentage of HHs
having access to Pucca
house
6
Percentage of Non
agricultural workers
(main + marginal)
7
Per-capita Income
(Rupees)
Bantwal Belthangady Mangaluru Puttur
Sullia
District
24.86
18.38
63.73
23.58
15.14
42.02
92.58
90.65
96.33
88.02
80.81
92.66
47.87
27.46
64.83
45.33
29.18
51.77
93.46
77.31
96.73
84.94
80.10
90.83
54.54
34.55
73.30
48.28
44.57
59.52
91.22
85.58
95.36
97.46
98.46
93.68
54572
50267
94716
53245
81882
74528
24
27
28
33
14
22
122
47
44
89
103
89
86.71
84.06
91.50
86.02
86.69
88.57
86.70
85.76
90.94
92.18
85.91
89.22
Health
8

(No)
Maternal Mortality
Rate (No)
Education
10
11
Literacy Rate (Percent)

Gross Enrolment Rate
(Percent)
(Primary+secondary)
350
Table 6
Key Indicators for Gender Inequality Index (GII) (2011-12)
Sr. No.
Indicators
Reproductive
Health
1
Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR)
Share of Institutional deliveries (ID)
Share of pregnant women with severe

Anemia (ANE)
Empowerme
nt
4
Share of female elected

representatives in PRIs and ULBs
(PRF )
Share of male elected representatives
in PRIs and ULBs (PRM)
Share of female children in the age

group 0-6 years (CHLDF)
Share of male children in the age

group 0-6 years (CHLDm)
Share of female literacy (LITF)
Share of male literacy (LITm)
Labour
Market
Participation
10
11
12
Share of female Work Participation

Rate (WPRF)
Share of male Work Participation
Rate (WPRm)
Share of female workers in the non
agricultural sector (NAGF)
13
Share of male workers in the non

agricultural sector (NAGm)
14
Female Agricultural wage

rate(WAGE F)
Male Agricultural wage
rate(WAGEm)
15
351
Bantwa
l
Belthan
gady
Mangalur
u
Puttu
r
Sullia
District
122
47
44
89
103
89
99.91
99.93
99.90
99.90
99.93
99.92
42.36
26.80
37.87
41.52
21.29
33.96
45.55
46.28
43.43
44.98
49.15
45.29
54.45
53.72
56.57
55.02
50.85
54.71
48.57
49.03
48.49
48.59
49.16
48.64
51.43
50.97
51.51
51.41
50.85
51.36
81.05
78.34
88.13
80.79
81.90
84.13
92.48
89.93
94.99
91.34
91.57
93.13
48.15
47.02
33.14
44.70
36.45
39.51
68.10
69.09
64.78
69.49
66.39
66.93
95.36
91.69
96.02
97.90
98.22
95.65
88.24
81.30
95.01
97.17
98.58
92.48
300
290
290
300
295
295
350
340
340
340
340
345
Table 7
Key Indicators for Child Development Index (CDI) (2011-12)
Indicators
Health:
Bantwal
Belthangady
Mangaluru
Puttur
Sullia
District
24
27
28
33
14
22
19.06
25.59
17.89
22.89
31.54
21.23
5.90
9.24
20.73
10.41
15.04
12.26
89.50
84.30
87.98
86.14
86.45
86.87

1.Percentage of Malnourished Children
Nutrition:
Education:
2.Percentage of children born

underweight
Percentage of drop-out children at
Primary and Secondary School
mainsreamed
Table 8
Key Indicators for Food Security Index (FSI) (2011-12)
Sr.
Indicators
No.
Availability
1 Cropping Intensity
2 Percentage Change in
NSA(Net Sown Area)
over the years (2001
Bantwal Belthangady Mangaluru Puttur
Per capita food grain

production (Kg)
4 Per Capita forest cover
(Ha)
5 Irrigation Intensity
6 Percentage of area
degraded to TGA
7 Percentage of leguminous
crops in the GCA
Accessibility
8 Percentage of BPL
families in the Taluk
9 Per capita income
District
102
120
7.06
-2.19
14.24
0.298
62.94
0.061
125
120
141
113
3.79
0.62
-20.52
-0.64
89.86
130.94
40.60
39.70
0.013
101.76
0.188
101.42
0.003
106.29
0.009
100.44
100.48
101.97
13.60
3.62
11.35
3.02
3.79
6.40
0.49
2.49
4.50
1.28
1.35
2.02
55.35
54572
52.24
50267
42.26
94716
46.42
53245
49.25
81882
47.38
74528
98.46
93.68
1.04
0.90
2011)
Sullia
10
11
Percentage of Nonagricultural workers to

total workers
Average size of holdings
(Ha)
91.22
85.88
95.36
97.46
0.95
0.96
0.83
0.80
352
12
Percentage of Agriculture
labourers to total workers
13 Percentage of villages having
PDS outlets within the village
Absorption
14 Child Mortality Rate
15 Percentage of households with
access to drinking water
16
17
18
19
4.25
7.07
2.08
0.94
0.42
2.93
100
100
100
100
100
100
24
27
28
33
14
22
47.87
27.46
64.83
45.33
29.18
51.77
42.36
26.80
37.87
41.52
21.29
33.96
19.06
25.59
17.89
22.89
31.54
21.23
5.9
81.05
9.24
78.34
20.73
88.13
10.41
80.79
15.04
81.89
12.26
84.13
Percentage of pregnant women

with Anemia
Percentage of Malnourished
Children
Percentage of children born
underweight
Female Literacy Rate
353
Table 9
Key Indicators for Urban Development Index (UDI)(2011-12)
Sr.
No.
1
5
6
9
10
11
Indicators
Percentage of
urban
population to
total
population
Percentage of
HHs without
Own Houses
Percentage of
Slum
Population to
total
population
Percentage of
HHs with tap
water
connection
Sewerage/
Drainage
No. of
Hospital
Beds per
1000
population in
urban area
Growth Rate
of Own
Resources
Mobilisation
Per capita
expenditure
on
Development
Works
Road Kms
per sq. Km
Crime Rate
per 10000
Population
Road
accidents per
10000
population
Mangaluru
CC
Bantwal
TMC
Puttur
TMC
Ullal
TMC
Moodabidri
TMC
Belthangady
TP
Mulky
TP
Sullia TP
50.21
10.15
18.44
2.62
1.35
2.90
0.86
13.74
1.22
6.68
9.40
0.00
0.01
9.01
0.01
7.06
0.24
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
61.53
13.66
50.78
25.44
49.64
44.68
45.46
50.40
63.83
53.81
65.76
29.67
15.59
40.37
86.87
62.45
10.00
7.40
0.00
33.00
26.00
2.80
15.00
4.00
90.84
38.95
81.02
55.95
41.82
23.40
19.82
25.59
1667
290
220
281
265
167
177
225
9.58
3.18
5.62
7.78
3.57
4.51
4.22
20.57
52.20
51.94
23.81
51.85
56.74
20.29
57.26
22.58
61.83
8.74
35.86
4.97
19.05
15.29
8.04
11.89
354
Table 10
Key Indicators for Composite Taluk Development Index (CTDI)(2011-12)
355
356
357
Table-11
District wise Change in Sex Ratio 2001 2011(Per 100 males)
Sl
No
District
Sex Ratio
Child Sex Ratio (0 -6 years)
2001
2011
2001
2011
Bagalkot
980
989
921
934
Bengaluru (R)
945
946
939
950
Bengaluru (U)
908
916
943
944
Belagavi
960
973
921
934
Ballari
969
983
947
960
Bidar
949
956
941
942
Vijayapura
950
960
928
931
Chamarajnagar
971
993
964
953
Chikaballapur
966
972
952
953
10
Chikmagalur
984
1008
959
969
11
Chitradurga
955
974
946
947
12
D. Kannada
1022
1020
952
947
13
Davangere
952
972
946
948
14
Dharwad
949
971
943
944
15
Gadag
969
982
952
947
16
Kalaburagi
958
971
931
943
17
Hassan
1004
1010
958
973
18
Haveri
944
950
957
946
19
Kodagu
996
1019
977
978
20
Kolar
977
979
965
962
21
Koppal
983
986
953
958
22
Mandya
986
995
934
939
23
Mysuru
964
985
962
961
24
Raichur
983
1000
964
950
25
Ramanagar
964
969
945
962
26
Shivamogga
978
998
956
960
27
Tumakuru
967
984
949
959
28
Udupi
1130
1094
958
958
29
Uttara Kannada
971
979
946
955
30
Yadgir
982
989
952
951
Karnataka
965
973
946
948
358
Table-12
District wise Change in Literacy Rate by Sex: 2001 2011 (Percentage)
Sl
No
District
2001
2011
Total
Male
Female
Total
Male
Female
Bagalkot
57.30
70.88
43.56
68.82
79.23
58.40
Bengaluru (R)
69.59
78.99
59.67
77.93
84.82
70.63
Bengaluru (U)
82.96
87.92
77.48
87.67
91.01
84.01
Belagavi
64.21
75.70
52.32
73.48
82.20
64.58
Ballari
57.40
69.20
45.28
67.43
76.64
58.09
Bidar
60.94
72.46
48.81
70.51
79.09
61.55
Bijapur
57.01
69.94
43.47
67.15
77.21
56.72
Chamarajnagar
50.87
59.03
42.48
61.43
67.93
54.92
Chikaballapur
59.24
69.80
48.33
69.76
77.75
61.55
10
Chikkamgaluru
72.20
80.29
64.01
79.25
85.41
73.16
11
Chitradurga
64.45
74.66
53.78
73.71
81.37
65.88
12
D. Kannada
83.35
89.70
77.21
88.57
93.13
84.13
13
Davangere
67.43
76.37
58.04
75.74
82.40
68.91
14
Dharwad
71.61
80.82
61.92
80.00
86.37
73.46
15
Gadag
66.11
79.32
52.52
75.12
84.66
65.44
16
Kalaburagi
54.34
66.18
42.06
64.85
74.38
55.09
17
Hassan
68.63
78.37
59.00
76.07
83.64
68.60
18
Haveri
67.79
77.61
57.37
77.40
84.00
70.46
19
Kodagu
7.99
83.70
72.26
82.61
87.19
78.14
20
Kolar
65.84
75.99
55.46
74.39
81.81
66.84
21
Koppal
54.10
68.42
39.61
68.09
78.54
57.55
22
Mandya
61.05
70.50
51.53
70.40
78.27
62.54
23
Mysuru
63.48
70.88
55.81
72.79
78.46
67.06
24
Raichur
48.81
61.52
35.93
59.56
70.47
48.73
25
Ramanagar
60.71
69.88
51.22
69.22
76.76
61.50
26
Shivamogga
74.52
82.01
66.68
80.45
86.07
74.84
27
Tumakuru
67.01
76.78
56.94
75.14
82.81
67.38
28
Udupi
81.25
88.23
75.19
86.24
91.41
81.58
29
Uttara Kannada
76.60
84.53
68.47
84.06
89.63
78.39
30
Yadgir
39.90
51.35
28.32
51.83
62.25
41.38
66.64
76.10
56.87
75.36
82.47
68.08
Karnataka
359
Table-13
District wise Rural-Urban Literacy Rates by Sex : 2011 (Percentage)
Sl
No
District
Rural
Urban
Total
Male
Female
Total
Male
Female
Bagalkot
64.20
75.77
52.58
78.58
86.55
70.65
Bengaluru (R)
75.16
83.06
66.80
85.37
89.57
80.95
Bengaluru (U)
78.21
84.54
70.92
88.61
91.66
85.27
Belagavi
69.28
79.12
59.20
85.56
91.10
79.95
Ballari
61.81
72.42
51.02
76.63
83.58
69.62
Bidar
66.73
76.28
56.82
81.81
87.42
75.88
Vijayapura
62.81
74.03
51.10
81.33
87.80
74.79
Chamarajnagar
57.95
64.80
51.06
78.39
83.29
73.54
Chikaballapur
66.39
75.41
57.10
81.57
86.01
77.06
10
Chikkamagaluru
76.95
83.82
70.15
87.93
91.40
84.51
11
Chitradurga
70.68
79.19
61.91
85.89
90.22
81.55
12
13
D. Kannada
Davangere
85.33
71.77
90.97
79.63
79.83
63.69
92.12
84.02
95.50
88.19
88.83
79.77
14
Dharwad
72.09
80.98
62.72
85.92
90.49
81.31
15
Gadag
71.86
82.83
60.62
80.94
88.01
73.92
16
Kalaburagi
58.09
69.08
46.86
78.61
85.12
71.91
17
Hassan
72.79
81.41
64.29
88.36
91.94
84.81
18
Haveri
75.69
83.05
67.89
83.39
87.39
79.29
19
Kodagu
81.09
85.94
76.37
91.48
94.41
88.58
20
Kolar
69.08
78.11
59.82
86.13
90.05
82.18
21
Koppal
66.05
77.12
54.85
78.03
85.48
70.59
22
Mandya
67.78
76.34
59.21
83.24
87.78
78.75
23
Mysuru
63.29
70.64
55.78
86.09
89.50
82.67
24
Raichur
54.11
66.01
42.37
75.12
83.10
67.10
25
Ramanagar
65.26
73.96
56.36
81.54
85.47
77.51
26
Shivamogga
76.37
83.14
69.60
87.79
91.35
84.24
27
Tumakuru
71.66
80.48
62.71
87.32
90.93
83.67
28
Udupi
83.91
89.85
78.65
92.13
95.22
89.21
29
Uttara Kannada
81.31
87.63
74.87
90.73
94.49
86.91
30
Yadgir
47.05
58.02
36.05
72.01
80.03
63.92
Karnataka
68.73
77.61
59.71
85.78
90.04
81.36

360
Table-14
District wise IMR, CMR and MMR: 2011 2012
Sl No
District
IMR
CMR
MMR
Bagalkot
43
49
163
Bengaluru (R)
27
31
119
Bengaluru (U)
15
17
73
Belagavi
37
42
155
Ballari
55
63
227
Bidar
31
35
134
Vijayapura
34
39
135
Chamarajnagar
34
39
142
Chikaballapur
34
39
137
10
Chikkamagaluru
22
25
94
11
Chitradurga
42
49
170
12
D. Kannada
19
22
89
13
Davangere
38
44
163
14
Dharwad
35
40
157
15
Gadag
50
57
215
16
Kalaburagi
49
56
182
17
Hassan
20
23
98
18
Haveri
35
41
163
19
Kodagu
29
33
101
20
Kolar
34
39
140
21
Koppal
58
66
236
22
Mandya
26
30
111
23
Mysuru
39
44
155
24
Raichur
67
77
244
25
Ramanagar
27
31
114
26
Shivamogga
24
27
106
27
Tumakuru
34
39
124
28
Udupi
11
13
50
29
Uttara Kannada
25
29
99
30
Yadgir
49
56
186
35
40
144
Karnataka
Source: SRS, 2011, Note: IM R and CM R per 1000 live birt hs and M M R per 100000 live birt hs.
361
Table-15
District wise Sectoral Composition of Gross District Domestic Product (GDDP)
At Current Prices: 2010-11 (Rs. Lakhs)
Sl No
Bagalkot
299830
184669
362080
846579
Per Capita
GDDP
(in Rs.)
45776
Bengaluru (R)
163583
378498
464883
1006965
105685
Bengaluru (U)
165802
4310273
8340770
12816846
175122
Belagavi
691427
623438
1005994
2320859
49187
Ballari
782947
419146
759995
1962087
86455
Bidar
170797
141961
306345
619102
36808
Vijaypura
347552
189795
361714
899061
44442
Chamarajnagar
145125
70328
165984
381437
35289
Chikaballapur
155667
95786
221463
472916
36763
10
Chikkamagaluru
311130
103779
336572
751482
58834
11
Chitradurga
331499
134131
380996
846626
49819
12
D. Kannada
239365
498360
1230292
1968018
92630
13
Davangere
319957
182045
456888
958890
47820
14
Dharwad
163684
360861
870975
1395520
77697
15
Gadag
129853
102185
245459
477496
43887
16
Kalaburgi
252190
241590
529761
1023541
42040
17
Hassan
359563
177030
454977
991570
51441
18
Haveri
201030
120575
281934
603538
37459
19
Kodagu
263678
65164
243774
572616
93230
20
Kolar
211091
241124
386869
839085
54030
21
Koppal
189744
162076
245020
596839
44570
22
Mandya
296705
179605
309419
785729
39792
23
Mysuru
323662
547296
1046830
1917788
64860
24
Raichur
231506
167954
336456
735916
39364
25
Ramanagar
160979
151564
476579
789122
68399
26
Shivamogga
297313
243953
467332
1008597
54848
27
Tumakuru
439975
371639
574504
1386119
47900
28
Udupi
189018
278355
472895
940268
75511
29
Uttara Kannada
204397
195241
406679
806317
53205
30
Yadgir
98794
68957
181638
349389
32641
8137863
11007378
21925075
41070316
69411
District
Karnataka
Primary
Sector
Secondary
Sector
Tertiary
Sector
GDDP
Source: Directorate of Economics and Stat ist ics, GOK.
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DAKSHINA KANNADA DISTRICT

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT

Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat

Planning, Programme Monitoring

Dakshi na Kannada Di stri ct Human Devel opment Repor t - 2014

Dakshina Kannada District

Planning, Programme Monitoring and

Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat

Dr. N. S. Shetty, Emeritus Professor,

Sudhakar Yermal, Vijaya Karnataka, Mangalore

Ultra Design, Mangaluru

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preparation of these reports. I heartily congratulate the Zilla Panchayats

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ASHA THIMMAPPA GOWDA KUNDADKA

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livelihood standards, empowerment of women, status of marginalized sections, urban development

DAKSHINA KANNDA DISTRICT - HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT - 2014

Chief Executive Officer

Dakshina Kannada District Human Development Report 2014 is the outcome of

DAKSHINA KANNDA DISTRICT - HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT - 2014

DAKSHINA KANNDA DISTRICT - HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT - 2014

COORDINATION AND EDITORIAL COMMITTEE

Dr. K. N. Viajaya Prakash

Sri Mohammed Nazir

DAKSHINA KANNDA DISTRICT - HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT - 2014

Concept and Methodology ...........................................................................................019

Chapter 2: District Overview

Chapter 3: Computation of Indices

Chapter 4: Literacy and Education

DAKSHINA KANNDA DISTRICT - HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT - 2014

Higher Education .........................................................................................................101

Chapter 5: Health and Nutrition

Chapter 6: Income, Employment and Poverty

Chapter 7: Standard of Living

DAKSHINA KANNDA DISTRICT - HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT - 2014

Housing Status .............................................................................................................197

Chapter 8: Gender and Development

Introduction: Gender as a Concept...............................................................................219

Chapter 9: Status of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes

Chapter 10: Governance Issues Governance and Human Development

DAKSHINA KANNDA DISTRICT - HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT - 2014

Representation of Women and Marginalized Sections in Governance ........................294

Chapter 11: Urban Issues in Human Development

Chapter 12: The Way Forward

Annexure : Technical Notes

Methodology for Computation of Indices....................................................................333

DAKSHINA KANNDA DISTRICT - HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT - 2014

LIST OF TABLES, GRAPHS, FLOW CHARTS AND BOXES

Taluk-wise Geographical Area and Rainfall....................................................................035

Land Utilization: 2011-12 ...............................................................................................037

Growth of Population in Dakshina Kannada District......................................................039

Gender Composition of Population in Dakshina Kannada District ................................040