Human Development Report: Union Territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli

Aims & Objectives: The Human Development Report of Daman and Diu discussed demographic features, economic features, employment and livelihood, education and literacy, health and health care, migration and social protection of Daman and Diu.

Methodology: Quantitative data for the HDR was collected, from a sample of households carefully and scientifically drawn from a sampling frame comprising rural and urban units (villages and towns/cities) of the UT. A multi-stage, stratified sampling approach to generate representative samples was applied. During the second stage, CEBs from each sample ward(s)/village were selected by adopting systematic random sampling. For this purpose, CEB maps were used to identify the exact location for collecting the desired primary information for the survey. Two reports were prepared at the end of the project namely: Human Development Report of UTs of Daman and Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli and a report on causes of declining child sex ratio in both the UTs.

Recommendation:

• There is a need to encourage sustainable growth of agriculture by increasing agricultural productivity along with the promotion of agro-processing units;
• Stagnating education sector has to be revived because it is critical in developing both skills and educated citizens;
• Declining overall sex ratio and child sex ratio require further examination;
• The shift of employment (from agriculture) observed in the last several years has increased the requirement of the training of workers in acquiring skill in non-agricultural occupations;
• The gender gap in literacy stands at close to 12 percentage points despite narrowing down from 2001. There is a need to focus on promoting female literacy;
• Health infrastructure along with the availability of medicine, doctors, water and electricity etc. needs to be taken care of for the smooth functioning of public health services;
• Inequality of income is more at the bottom half of the income distribution. Policy measures to bring down inequality at the bottom half of the income distribution are needed.