The state had not seen any industrial growth while the C-D ratio remains a matter of concern. This clearly exposes the state's inability to attract investments.

Though the primary and secondary education have seen more enrollment the scene in higher education is not so bright.

According to the Survey the enrollment for doctorate and M Phil programmes in the Faculty of Arts in the state dropped by 12.42 per cent in 2007-0-8 in comparison to the previous financial year. Research activities among girls came down by whopping 33.28 per cent during the period. For boys there was a marginal increase of 1.79 per cent.

What is ironic is that this had happened when the enrollment in the graduation and post-graduation Arts courses increased by 59.20 per cent in the same period.

Enrollment in Commerce faculty dipped by 11.84 per cent--22.52 per cent for girls and 9.34 for boys.

In Science, including Computer Science, the enollment figure declined at the post-graduation level by 13.23 per cent even though the enrollment for girls increased by 59.07 per cent. In the graduation courses girls encollment was higher than boys. Overall increase in enrollment for graduation and post-graduation science was reorded at 8.56 per cent.

Notwithstanding the attraction of mass recruitment the enrollment for graduation level teachers training programmes declined by 71.29 per cent. Howeverm the enrollment of girls was higher.

The above figures suggest that more and more students, especially boys, prefer to go outside the state for the PG or courses and research. The Survey said that the colleges had been hit hard with the allocations for higher education remaining below par.

Against the general perception the fact is that the health of the health department, is not so good. The patient-doctor gap increased in the same period. While the number of patients who visited the out patient departments (OPDs) in the government health-care centres in 2006-07 was 105 lakh it increased to 160 lakh in 2008-09, but that is not the case with the number of doctors. For example Siwan and Araria districts have only two doctors for one lakh population while Rohtas, Saran, Nawada, Muzaffarpur, West Champaran, Darbhanga, Madhubani, Madhepura, Purnea, Jamui have three doctors for one lakh population. Nine other districts have only four doctors for every one lakh population. Patna has six doctors for every lakh of population while the average of Bihar is four.

The vacancies of doctors had increased last year as compared to figures of 2008. While there were 1,931 vacancies of regular doctors against the sanctioned strength of 4,643 in 2008, the vacancies had risen to 2,176 against a sanctioned strength of 4,738 in 2009.

While there were 977 posts of contractual doctors vacant against the sanctioned strength of 2,369 in 2008, the number of vacancies had risen to 1,128 against 2,411 sanctioned post in 2009.

According to the Survey the Infant Mortality Rate has fallen from 61 in 2005 to 56 in 2009. The Maternal Mortality Rate has also gone down from 371 to 312.

Patna topped the district-wise medical expenditure in 2008-09. The figure was Rs 410.05 crore. The medical expenditure of Seohar was Rs 2.9 crore, Kaimure Rs 3.5 crore, Sheikhpura Rs 4.85 crore and Lakhisarai Rs 5.82 crore.

In the same way the district-wise per capita medical expenditure was as low as Rs 23.51 in Kaimur. The Survey said that a majority of the district fared poorly as agaubst the state's average per capita medical expendutre of Rs 106.92. The figure of Patna was Rs 752.50.

The per capita income rose from Rs 10,415 in 2008 to Rs 13,959 in 2009. According to the Survey the state's own tax revenue has remained static at 2.4 per cent and covers only one-fourth of its total revenue expenditure. Bihar is the second last state on this count. The Survey suggested that failure to gain self-sufficiency in its finance will leave the state more dependent on the central resources. This indicates Bihar is far from attaining self-sufficiency in its finance.

The state, according to the Survey, had witnessed a fall in inland money orders with post offices registering a fall of Rs 43.33 lakhs in deposits. This suggests that people residing outside the Bihar are using banks and other mediums to sent money. The Survey also pointed out that the wages of rural workers have not increased substantially in comparison to the national average as per the Consumer Price Index.