Chhattisgarh

Chhattisgarh is a mineral-rich state with abundant coal and iron ore resources whose coal production makes it energy surplus; but it is also one of India’s poorest states, with a poverty rate of 40 percent and low human development indicators. Long plagued by left-wing violence, with which it still struggles, Chhattisgarh’s government is trying to diversify the state’s economy by making it an attractive destination for non-extractive industries. Sharing a border with seven states with a combined market access to 520 million people, one strategy is to turn the state into a logistics hub.  The state is also known for exporting 17% of India’s total exports of herbs and medicinal plants making the development of a local wellness industry another focus-area of the government.

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Industry Policy: Industrial Policy (2019)

State Summary

  • Size
    52,198 sq. miles
  • Population
    25.5 million
  • State GDP
    $28.7 billion (USD)
  • Legislative Assembly Seats
    90
  • Rajya Sabha Seats
    5
  • Lok Sabha Seats
    14
  • Party Affiliation
    Indian National Congress (INC)
Tribal members from Chhattisgarh perform during a peace march at the India Social Forum (ISF) in New Delhi. (PRAKASH SINGH/AFP/Getty Images)
A view of Chitrakot Falls in Jagdalpur. (Vinay Nihal, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0)
Left: Tribal members from Chhattisgarh perform during a peace march at the India Social Forum (ISF) in New Delhi. (PRAKASH SINGH/AFP/Getty Images)
Right: A view of Chitrakot Falls in Jagdalpur. (Vinay Nihal, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0)
Climate Change

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Energy

India faces a complex energy challenge: it needs cheap and abundant energy to power high economic growth and lift its citizens into the middle class. But it also hopes to keep its commitments to the U.N. Climate Change Convention and achieve energy independence. India’s states have the resources to generate the energy India needs, but they take different approaches to fostering the growth of the industry. This section allows you to explore energy news from India’s states and offers the Wadhwani Chair’s analysis of India’s energy sector.

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U.S.–India Energy Cooperation Project TrackerThere is currently no data available for . (updated July 3, 2019)

Solar Performance Tracker — Chhattisgarh reaches 944.22 MW (updated March 31, 2021)

Wind Performance Tracker — Chhattisgarh achieves 0 MW (updated March 30, 2021)

Health

Health

While India’s healthcare system is expansive in terms of the number of beneficiaries covered, inequalities in access to high-quality yet affordable care continue to plague delivery systems and push citizens towards the more unregulated private sector. Similarly, while India’s National Health Policy of 2017 promises to reform this system, the responsibility to institute those reforms falls to the states who each have their own unique challenges and opportunities to meet the healthcare needs of their people. This section allows you to explore emerging healthcare policies and news covering new initiatives from India’s states and offers the Wadhwani Chair’s analysis of India’s healthcare sector.

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Chhattisgarh withdraws from Ayushman Bharat

The Chhattisgarh government announced it will withdraw from the center’s flagship universal healthcare scheme, the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY) or Ayushman Bharat. The government announced that it is planning to devise its own universal healthcare scheme to replace the PMJAY.


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Government to build six new hospitals

The Chhattisgarh government has decided to build six multi-specialty hospitals, with 100 beds each, on a public-private partnership basis in the state. Two of the hospitals would be built in Raipur and one hospital each will be built in Bhilai Nagar, Kurud (Dhamtari), Bhatapara, and Manendragarh.


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Arunachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Meghalaya, and Tripura undertake reforms in “ease of doing business” stipulated by the Ministry of Finance


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