Assembly polls: How the 5 states rank on development

Take a look at how the five states currently holding assembly elections stack up on development.

Uttar Pradesh, with 403 seats is the poorest state, while tiny Goa, with 40 seats, is richest.

Major policy initiatives of the state budgets of 2010/11 in the five states

Urban Literacy Rate in the five states: Goa fares best and UP worst on this count too.

UP's demographic dividend and birth rate are both way ahead of the others