No, Punjab is not one of the most prosperous states of India. It is a currently middling state that is steadily declining vis-a-vis other states. Give this a go, should help you get the crux of Punjab:I believe you. The reason will be the motivation. Which will have been to conceal the problem as opposed to address it. By launching this much touted 'swatch' or whatever project the intention was to be able to brag "100% defecation free". Query any Indian member here and watch how they will give the partly line.
In fact I hear so much about Shining India and amazing stats that I even begin thinking that India has left Pakistan way behind. Only then I will watch some European do a vlog where he crosses from Pakistan into India across the Wagah border. I am aware that Indian Punjab is one of the most prosperous states in India. Yet the scenes I saw look to be a country either at best equal to Pakistan or even slightly below. But then Indians will cry on about Mars, Pluto and the most expensive house in Mumbai.
Neither 'udta' nor 'padhta' Punjab. Question is how India's no. 1 state in 2003 fell to 13
Punjab, once India’s richest state, has slipped and fallen behind. MSP and subsidies should continue, but it needs to rediscover its entrepreneurial impulse.
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Also, I think you are not being nuanced. You're likely swinging between India has left Pakistan way behind and India is a dump. The answer is, as usual, more grey.