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Economic Growth in Uttar Pradesh in Recent Years
This article critically scrutinises the tall claims of the state government using the official figures of the gross state domestic product, and shows that over the four years of the present government, the per capita income in UP has increased merely by 0.43% as against the claim of 100% growth. The analysis of growth rates at the sectoral level shows that the rates of growth in most of the sectors during the present government are lower than the growth rates registered during the previous government.
The author is thankful to the anonymous referee for his comments.
The Uttar Pradesh (UP) government has been proclaiming through front-page advertisements in leading newspapers that the per capita income in UP has doubled in the four years since the Bharatiya Janata Party government came into power. In an interview to the Economic Times (Gaur 2021), Yogi Adityanath, the chief minister of the state said, “the gross domestic product of the state was `10.90 lakh crore in 2015–16 (when the state was being run by the Samajwadi Party government) which has grown to `21.73 lakh crore in four years.” He went on to assert that “when we come to power after 2022, UP will become the largest economy.” In an interview to the Week (Awasthi 2021), he again stated that
At the time of independence, the per capita income in the state was at par with the national average. In the last 70 years, it became one-third (of the national average). In the last four years, it has more than doubled.
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