Bihar - Fastest developing state???

Many People would have read in Newspapers, websites or may be heared in TV news recently that (it came as a Surprise for almost everbody) "Bihar is the Second Fastest Growing State". In 2008-09 it had a growth rate of 11.44%. Seeing the growth rate of Bihar even the CSO remarked that "Bihar is the new miracle economy of the country". Some Economist doubt the Data / Stats of this growth rate.

Recently i had a conversation with some of my friends and some third persons who are from Bihar. They said that no doubt Bihar is developing well. One of them said "In Bihar, the education system is also improving now. Especially, Girl students get some monetary benefits also for once in a 3 months time."

Today when i browsed the news there found an interesting headline "Lessons to be learnt from Bihar, says Bill Gates" when this came to my view i haven't surprised because before this i had already heard more positive things about bihar. I like to quote few things which Bill Gates said to some newspapers as follows:

"It's amazing how the state's immunisation rates have suddenly shot up from 11% to 60%. I never expected it. There is definitely some lessons of best practices to be learnt from here," he said.

"In 1960, 20 million children used to die. Last year, 9 million died. What do you think caused the dip even though 40% more children are born now every day? Vaccination. Better nutrition is the second factor but vaccination against new diseases is by far the most effective intervention," Gates said. "India hasn't introduced a single new vaccine since 1985. India should seriously consider using the pentavelent vaccine in its immunisation programmes

Narrating a personal story, Gates, whose foundation has given $1 billion to India alone for health projects, said, "Once, I showed my daughter a video about polio and what we do. Watching, she asked me what happened to the crippled girl in the film and how did we help her? I didn't know. I realised we talk about numbers and maps and eradication targets. But what about the real people? It is interesting to see the world through the eyes of children"

I felt initially since its about bihar, why should i put the second 2 quotes? but, later felt that this may be useful for someone (Dont have any idea to whom - :) ). Two interesting thing, which i would like to point out from Mr. Gates saying is that :

1 . "India hasn't introduced a single new vaccine since 1985. This is not only the surprising one, the other thing is still INDIA haven't produced any medicine for FLU (for any FLU).

2. I realised we talk about numbers and maps and eradication targets. But what about the real people? It is interesting to see the world through the eyes of children" This is one of the most important point, what about the Real People? and the Most beautiful Point in this is "It is interesting to see the world through the eyes of children"

This is one of the reason why i have put the last 2 quotes eventhough it doesn't matters with Bihar. This may make us to think and do things little differently.

I think atleast now few people who don't believe the CSO's data and Media report will believe Mr. Bill Gates words (will not be surprised even if they say that he is lying to make money for his foundations). I always have a strong belief that if INDIA has to Grow faster and become well Developed nation then it can happen only when States like Bihar, Arunchal Pradesh Prosper. I have strong belief that Bihar is a vital force and may become a driving force too for INDIA's Growth in future (Many of them may be surprised or even think this is ridiculous, but that rarely matters).

One Interesting think to point, not positive this time, about bihar is that their total production of sugarcane was 20 percent before independence which have now drastically fallen to only mere 3 percent. I would definetely like to know the reason for this, if anyone knows the infomation about this then kindly let me know (will also try to find out about it).