Indicus Analytics collaborates with The Indian Express, PRS Legislative Research and Liberty Institute to bring out a report card on all the MPs of India. It’s a public record of an MP’s performance in parliament. The objective of the publication is to inform the citizen and the voter in order to enable him/ her to make an informed choice.

New Delhi, 13th April, 2009

Indicus Analytics collaborates with The Indian Express, PRS Legislative Research and Liberty Institute to bring out a report card on all the MPs of India. It’s a public record of an MP’s performance in parliament. The objective of the publication is to inform the citizen and the voter in order to enable him/ her to make an informed choice.

The idea is to produce a well researched facts driven reference material for citizens, voters, researchers, analysts and the MPs and political parties themselves.

The report card highlights development indicators of the constituencies of each of the MPs and how they have moved during their term. The layout allows them to view the progress both in absolute terms and relative to other constituencies. The key indicators explored are literacy, health, electricity, water, roads and overall development.

This publication is attempting to fill the information gap, by using government data and estimating for each constituency the latest available socio-economic and development status.  For this exercise we include the very basic – literacy, health (immunization), household electrification, and habitations connected by pucca roads (data from Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, Rural Development Ministry, available for 2008).  For each constituency, we have estimated data on basic socio-economic variables (health plus education) and also on physical infrastructure (bijli, sadak, paani or electricity, roads and water).

Publishers – The Indian Express Ltd