FIGURE 2.1: PATRIARCHY AND HEALTH

For development planning the Planning Commission has divided all the states of India into two categories:

• Special Category States

• North-Eastern States ( Arunachal Pradesh , Assam , Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland , Sikkim and Tripura)

• Himachal Pradesh

• Jammu and Kashmir

• Uttarakhand

• Non Special Category States (all other states)

Among the second category states there is a very large variation in development. Among them Bihar is the poorest state. Punjab and Maharashtra are the richest states with the ratio of per capita income above 20. Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Orissa, and Madhya Pradesh are a few other backward states of India .