In grandiose fashion, he declared that India would contribute $10 million. In recent years, as some states have followed the populist lead of India’s Hindu nationalist prime minister, Narendra Modi, Kerala has maintained its focus on social welfare. The capital is Thiruvananthapuram. By February, she had a 24-member state response team coordinating with the police and public officials across Kerala. Life in Kerala reflects its Overall Best Big State crown: it's the safest, healthiest, most environment-friendly and only second-best in education and agriculture. Each team on his task force was increased from six people to 15. Stunting prevalence decreased in nine states/UTs and increased in 13 states/UTs. By March 28 it had more than 134,000 people under surveillance, with 620 in government care and the rest isolating at home.Every day, Nooh arrived at his office at 8:30 a.m. and didn’t leave until 9:30 p.m. Elsewhere in the country, people were taking WhatsApp rumors at face value—for example, spreading messages claiming that exposure to sunlight could protect against the virus. He held daily media briefings, got internet service providers to boost capacity to meet the demands of those now working from home, stepped up production of hand sanitizer and face masks, had food delivered to schoolchildren reliant on free meals, and set up a mental health help line. Sonia Faleiro is the author of Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay’s Dance Bars (2010). Twenty-three days earlier, Nooh had been faced with the “biggest ever challenge” of his career. And if Laxminarayan is correct, this was only the beginning. Kerala has achieved material conditions of living, reflected in indicators of social development comparable to those of developed countries, even though t… It is one of India’s smallest states but has almost the same population as California: the district of Pathanamthitta has more than a millionresidents alone. I feel like all I did in Kerala is eat and eat, and eat.  The food in Kerala is more seafood based than the North. And yet, Indians had no choice but to stay indoors. According to him, the first lesson the State apparatus learnt during the Nipah episode was to never underestimate the extent of a potential epidemic. That didn’t mean Kerala was coming through unscathed. Kerala have a better human development index HDI ranking than other states because of the following reasons:- ♠Sᴛᴀᴛᴇ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴍᴀxɪᴍᴜᴍ ʟɪғᴇ ᴇxᴘᴇᴄᴛᴀɴᴄʏ. I mean, seriously, where are they? In West Bengal, they beat a man buying milk. “We have been considering the possibilities for far longer,” she said. Kerala’s neonatal mortality rate is 6, which falls in the same bracket as the US at 4 and UK at 3. I hope to be there, sometime in 2021-22. The survey covered 17 large states that had a population of 20 million or more according to Census 2001. The information was circulated on social media, and people were asked to dial a hotline if it was possible that they had interacted with the family. Home >Opinion >Online-views >What Tamil Nadu, Kerala can teach other states Representational image. In a matter of hours they had learned a lot more about the family’s movements than they’d been told—and what they found alarmed them. Even so, Modi—perhaps concerned by the impact on the already lackluster economy—refused to issue public advisories and didn’t address the media. Geographically, Kerala roughly … Better case detection is the only factor distinguishing Kerala now from the rest of India,” he adds. This was unusual—but Kerala often goes a different route from the rest of India. Its own tax revenue as a percentage of total tax revenue is the highest in the country at 84 per cent. Although the government announced a $22.5 billion stimulus package, it was tiny relative to the needs of India’s population. His biggest concern seemed to be a plan to redesign the heart of the Indian capital, including parliament, at a cost  equal to $2.6 billion. My home! He gauged, correctly, that this family from Ranni would be intractable. Only states like Kerala, with the experience and aptitude to take on a crisis of international proportions, felt able to do so. The minister’s arrival in the district reassured Nooh. by the way, i just wanted to let you know, it’s “puttu” and it’s not coconut rice, it’s rice flour and coconut. Seventeen people had died, but the World Health Organization (WHO) called Kerala’s handling of the outbreak a “success story” since—despite technical shortfalls—the state’s health system had contained a potential disaster. There was no bridge, and Nooh had heard that relief supplies hadn’t gotten there. 2,Christianity is high in Kerala and Christians are MOSTLY whites. “In an unprecedented situation, everyone must contribute,” he said. As of March 31, the Indian government had announced 1,637 cases of covid-19. It ranks 'second lowest' next only to Kerala in terms of Infant Mortality Rate (20) and birth rate (15.4). Unlike other states, Gujarat’s dependence on central government fund is very low. Compared to other states, social and economic disparity between the privileged and under-privileged are very negligible in Kerala unlike Bihar, UP, … Actually, I prefer the cuisine down in Kerala more than in Rajasthan!  Kerala is known as the land of palm trees so coconuts are very much a staple for food, skin and hair, and many other uses. ress_js("//z-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/onejs#MarketPlace=US&adInstanceId=25094609-a070-4a51-94d1-b6b8e35d0147"); I'm a travel blogger from New Zealand but now based in the small country of Albania. ♡ Kerala and Tamil Nadu have taken an enlightened, integrative view of health. On February 29, a family of three had arrived in the Indian state of Kerala from Italy, where they lived. Its own tax revenue as a percentage of total tax revenue is the highest in the country at 84 per cent. The Brainliest Answer! Yes, because at the micro level, communal passions are stronger and can be exploited better than at the Assembly and parliamentary levels. One of the main things you’ll realize why Kerala is different from other Indian states is the lack of cows! The first Indian to test positive for covid-19 was a medical student who had arrived in Kerala from Wuhan, China, at the end of January. The government later confirmed that the lockdown didn’t cover shops selling food, but many people chose to stay indoors to avoid crossing paths with law enforcement. Yet, states which have tested more widely than Bihar have not been able to keep cases as low as the state has (see chart below); in fact, higher testing drives … With 15 cases now confirmed across the state, Pinarayi Vijayan, the chief minister, ordered a lockdown, shutting schools, banning large gatherings, and advising against visiting places of worship. There will be a layer of one of these in the regular puttu,that’s how stuffed puttus are, still steamed. The callers ran patients through a questionnaire meant to assess their physical and mental health, but also to catch lies. Just some of my favourite dishes so far have been the Putta (coconut rice) with squashed bananas – a popular breakfast option.  The Palada Payasam is also a favourite which is a dessert usually made with rice ada, milk, sugar and ghee. It ranks 'second lowest' next only to Kerala in terms of Infant Mortality Rate (20) and birth rate (15.4). Health, Education and safety of women are other domains in which the state has made impressive strides. There were now more than 162,000 people in self-isolation in his district, as well as more than 60 community kitchens, eight relief camps to house and feed migrant workers unable to return to their home states, and a two-member documentation team taking notes in the event that the situation repeats itself. Nooh’s office was flooded with calls: the family had met with almost 300 people since arriving in town. It has a 94% literacy rate, the highest in India, and a vibrant local media. Kerala has the highest literacy rate in the country. So he set up a call center in his office, bringing in more than 60 medical students and staff from the district’s health department, whose job was to call everyone isolating, every day. It is a small state, constituting only about 1 percent of the total area of the country. But they also had support: Vijayan, the state’s  chief minister, was the first in the country to announce a relief package. It was a small number, but the virus was fast-moving—on average, one person was thought to infect two to three others. A traditional meal for the  Kerala region is served on a banana leaf like the picture above. The plan relied on consulting patients, mapping their movements to see who they’d interacted with, and isolating anyone in the chain with symptoms. Her new book The Good Girls will be published in January 2021. But in Kerala, people are different from other states as they have received a certain amount of education and have a general awareness of what is going on. A few years ago, when I went to the Indian states of Rajasthan and Delhi, cows were roaming all over the city centre. The food is delicious! One Saturday in March, Nooh took a long drive to Konni, a town on the edge of a forest that is famous for elephants. But in Kerala, most people realized the seriousness of the situation. In 2018, the state had dealt with an outbreak of Nipah, a brain-damaging virus that, like the coronavirus, had originated in bats and transferred to humans. As the virus spread across villages, towns, and cities and then lit into India’s—and Asia’s—largest slum, Dharavi, in Mumbai, the government continued to ignore calls for more testing and equipment. Kerala has got best health care in India ,because people are literate and aware of health .Secondly during British era itself Christian Missioneries established best hospitals through out the state .Nursing Colleges also were established by them .The Kerala Kings gave top priority for education and Health .During Kings rule itself Govt hospitals were established . They even went to the police for help with paperwork. If we … Services were under severe pressure, and local doctors were stretched. Assembling a team to identity and isolate infections could be a crucial step in getting the city back to work. Other frequently asked questions about coronavirus, This story was part of our May 2020 issue. What's the right way to do social distancing? edited 3 years ago. Admirers started a Facebook fan page called Nooh Bro’s Ark. Kerala has lower per capita income but better human development ranking than Punjab because of many factors. In Kerala, a different style of leadership was on display. Now the teams had to track down these people, gauge their symptoms, and either send them to the district hospital for testing or order them to self-isolate at home. The trio skipped a voluntary screening for covid-19 at the airport and took a taxi 125 miles (200 kilometers) to their home in the town of Ranni. “Let’s see what we can do.”. The State now has the second highest active case pool in the country with 58,884 cases, behind Maharashtra, and accounts for nearly 20% of the nation’s active COVID caseload. It … Religious harmony, Electrification, Literacy, Less income disparity, Better political awareness, Less female feticides and … This in itself gave economic and social freedom to most and Kerala could concentrate on other areas of development. At this point, 31 people had tested positive for covid-19 across the country. The sun had already set on March 7 when Nooh Pullichalil Bava received the call. Its health-care system is ranked the best in India, with world-class nurses who are headhunted for hospitals in Europe and America; the state’s life expectancy figures are among the highest in the country. I feel like all I did in Kerala is eat and eat, and eat. Now, a whole week after taking off from Venice, all three—a middle-­aged man and woman and their adult son—had tested positive for the virus, and so had two of their elderly relatives. From my experience so far, this would be the perfect introduction for newbie’s into India!  As a backpacker, it can be a struggle and some people don’t think of coming to India a relaxing holiday. Anyway Kerala have high Per Capita income and High HDI than any other country. Even countries with advanced health-care systems were being overwhelmed, and India had just 0.5 hospital beds for every 1,000 people—a long way behind Italy, with 3.2 beds per 1,000, and China, with 4.3. Unlike the other states, Rajasthan is not overpopulated as its population is presently 201. Then it announced that it would start broadcasting reruns of the Ramayana, a 1980s TV show based on the Hindu epic of the same name whose central message is the triumph of good over evil. In the seven days since arriving in Kerala, the family had gone from one densely crowded place to another. He died. Nooh was still contact tracing, testing, and isolating, his team chasing down every potential patient. There, everybody gets out of the way to accommodate them and seeing these peaceful, hairy animals chewing on bits of plastic … It’s mainly because all the explorers, apostles, etc landed in the south first because that’s where the ocean is, and it’s right on the ocean. It is characterized by achievements in social indicators such as education, healthcare, high life expectancy, low infant mortality and low birth rate, by the creation of productive social infrastructure rather than materialistic infrastructure. Covid-19: Why Maharashtra, Kerala, Chhattisgarh are cause of fresh concerns All these three states are reporting more than 1,000 cases daily, with Kerala … Even when he was in bed, calls and messages about the situation streamed in. In Kerala, access is vastly better because the state changed its narcotic regulations almost 20 years ago. I do want to suggest a couple of places with hill stations and wild life such as munnar, the beautiful wayanad!, gavi in pathanamthitta, idukki! WHY NO.1 Kerala topped three categories-law and order, health and environment. It is also one of the first states to achieve a total fertility rate of 1.7 which it has been maintaining consistently. Above all that, Rajasthan’s financial and industrial advancement remains unsurpassed. Nazlin A. Salam, a 36-year-old GP at the district general hospital, found herself working 12-hour days. This spelled bad news for India. Then, on March 24, without warning, Modi declared that India would go into a 21-day lockdown—and it would start in less than four hours. After returning from work she would bathe before approaching her children, and refused to kiss them in case she unwittingly transmitted the virus. Multiculturalism. Kerala has a long history of migration and a constant flow of international travelers, and the new coronavirus was spreading everywhere. He declared a community kitchen scheme to feed the public, and free provisions including rice, oil, and spices. If anyone was caught sneaking out, “we had the police, the revenue department, and village councils ready to act,” Nooh says. Per Capita income is an old concept.Now new concept HDI (Human development Index). Meanwhile police officers, determined to be seen doing their job, chased down anyone who was outside, even trucks carrying essential supplies, couriers from Amazon Pantry, and of course the desperate migrant workers. The inside story of how one Indian state is flattening the curve through epic levels of contact tracing and social assistance. One of the reasons why Kerala is so good in education and health is because the state started from better percentage post independence as compared to the rest of the India. While the rest of India, along with countries such as the UK and the US, wouldn’t take stringent steps to limit movement for another two months, Shailaja had ordered Kerala’s four international airports to start screening passengers in January. A government health worker in Kerala checks a boy’s temperature. They were in isolation at the district hospital but didn’t want to declare the full extent of their movements. Jana Sena Party president Pawan Kalyan on Saturday said that Pakistan was better at protecting Hindu temples than the Y.S. Sociologists attribute these achievements to Kerala’s better healthcare, high literacy rate, and better standard of living compared to other Indian states. Many of its 1.4 billion residents live in large families and don’t have running water, making it difficult to sanitize things and maintain social distancing. The next day, India reported its first death. However, stunting increased in Kerala, Goa and Himachal Pradesh, i.e., states typically seen as ‘better performing’. It is small and densely populated, but relatively well-off. The number of people self-isolating quickly rose to more than 1,200. He had asked Indians, in a nationally televised speech, to come out on their balconies one Sunday to clap for health workers. … Share of central taxes and grants from the centre account for less than 30 per cent of overall revenue receipts for the state. “The seriousness of the government was amazing,” he says. With the shutdown just hours away, people rushed out to buy food and supplies: in many areas they quickly dried up. But if you would like to take things a little slower then come here, it’s perfect! Kerala did not underestimate the dangers of COVID-19. I was welcomed with open arms into Kerala – ‘Gods own country’, with flowers and a personalised sign.  I think I could get used to airport welcomes like this and now everywhere I go I will be expecting roses! It weighed about 35 pounds (16 kilograms). And do wander around some villages with amazing beauty! The Infant Mortality Rate of Kerala (11) is much less than Punjab (49). The nature is beautiful and this place is so clean!  I love nature so to travel through Kerala is like walking into a tropical paradise for me.  Palm trees, beautiful beaches and wild animals are all things you can expect.  Kerala is famous for its tea plantations.  I highly recommend a visit to the tea fields in Munnar.  The rolling hills of this region will make you never want to leave Kerala – everything is green! Kerala stretches for about 360 miles along the Malabar Coast, varying in width from roughly 20 to 75 miles. A few days earlier, the prime minister had proposed an emergency covid-19 fund for the eight member nations of SAARC, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation. Then, after flashing money at SAARC, he tweeted to solicit donations from the public for a fund he had set up to fight covid-19, but with little transparency about the fund’s legal framework and where the money might actually go. For most of March, India’s prime minister still hadn’t announced a plan to combat the pandemic. 1,Kerala is a state with high rate of mixing.Keralites live in the coast and they have lots of opportunities to mix with people of different races.It doesn't matter the color or caste of the person but we do mix a lot. edited 3 years ago. With more than 25 wildlife sanctuaries and national parks, Kerala is a … It had been used to limit the spread of Nipah, and on the medical student in January. He’d been expecting a call like this for days. In the seven days since arriving in Kerala, the family had gone from one densely crowded place to another. There are also so many different versions of puttu other than the transitional one, like chicken puttu, beef puttu, fish puttu, prawn puttu, other fruits puttus! Please click here to subscribe and support our non-profit journalism, How San Francisco plans to trace every coronavirus case and contact, Users, not tech executives, should decide what constitutes free speech online, How an internet lie about the Capitol invasion turned into an instant conspiracy theory. In Kerala, 215 people had tested positive. Do try jackfruit puttu, it’s pretty rare and super yummy! States with more than two crore population were considered large. On March 11, the who declared the covid-19 outbreak a pandemic. By March 29 at least 22 of them had died on the way. It was clear to Nooh and his colleagues: the only way to control transmission was to break the chain. It is small and densely populated, but relatively well-off. 1. At the water’s edge, he rolled up his sharp blue trousers and hoisted a jute sack full of provisions over his shoulder. That evening, Kerala’s health minister, KK Shailaja, arrived from the state capital. Agricultural best is Kuttanad, and the Venice is Alappuzha! And, as with covid-19, there was no vaccine and no cure. Greatest reduction occurred in Sikkim, Manipur and Bihar. One part of the forest is inhabited by an indigenous community of 37 families, separated from the town by a river. All those with symptoms were taken to a government facility, where they were tested and isolated; their samples were flown to the National Institute of Virology 700 miles away. Kerala did not underestimate the dangers of COVID-19. By 3 a.m. the team had settled on a WHO-recommended plan of contact tracing, isolation, and surveillance. The Gross Enrolment Ratio in higher education at 42 percent is … I have noticed in the last week of my travels in Kerala, people are so friendly and always smiling.  Whether it’s in 5-star luxury, the streets or along the backwaters, people are more than happy to be waving and saying hello to you.  Keralites are incredibly friendly and will welcome you into their region with open arms! If you visit the Waynard Wildlife Sanctuary in Muthanga you will see true Kerala wildlife including elephants!  During my time there we saw a beautiful family of elephants roaming free.  There is also tigers, buffalos and lots more!  You will see plenty of monkeys, nearly in your hotel room if you don’t shut your window as I did!  Make sure you keep your accommodation shut so you don’t have any unexpected visitors. Net Attendance Ratio of Kerala (91) is higher than that of Punjab (81). Now, despite being severely overworked, he saw an opportunity. The Kerala model of development is a model of development based on the practices adopted in the state of Kerala, India. “We can respond best by coming together, not growing apart—collaboration, not confusion; preparation, not panic,” he said, during a video conference with regional leaders. To keep numbers down, the district administration would have to continue contact tracing and testing. Everyone around her knew the number to call if they developed symptoms, and they weren’t acting heedlessly by rushing to the hospital at the first sign of a dry cough. Lessons learnt from Nipah. In 2018, when a flood swept through the district and left more than two dozen people dead and 20,000 houses damaged, he had led relief efforts, and got no more than two or three hours of sleep at night. This was now ground zero for the covid-19 crisis in India. By March 23, the number of confirmed cases in Nooh’s district had risen from five to nine, but the containment efforts were judged successful. Manju Sara Rajan, the editor of an online design magazine in the district of Kottayam, told me she felt safer living in Kerala than anywhere else in India. Nooh, who is 40, with a thick head of hair that he combs dutifully to one side, is a soft-­spoken man who lives with his wife, a medical student, close to his office. Life in Kerala reflects its Overall Best Big State crown: it's the safest, healthiest, most environment-friendly and only second-best in education and agriculture. There were other reasons why Kerala was better equipped to deal with the crisis than most places. So rather than rely on them, he turned to old-style detective work and technology to piece together where they’d been and who they’d come in contact with. In Kerala, access is vastly better because the state changed its narcotic regulations almost 20 years ago. And women are treated much better than in any other state, of that I'm certain; possibly because of education and older matrilineal systems that once existed. The country had “missed the boat on testing,” said Ramanan Laxminarayan, director of the Centre for Disease Dynamics, Economics, and Policy, in a TV interview. You may also see colourfull painted elephants walk the streets, but unfortunately, these elephants are not free in the wild.  They have owners who look after them and use them for festivals or tourism purposes. Nooh wore a mask, scattered bottles of hand sanitizer around the office, and reverted “to the old model of namaste” rather than shaking hands. It wasn’t even clear how and when it would get food into people’s hands. They were as common as pedestrians or rickshaws. For representational purposes. It found place among top five states in five out of 10 categories. The small coastal state at the country’s southern tip is steeped in communist ideas and governed by a coalition of communist and left-wing parties. There was, however, one obstacle. At the same time, hundreds of thousands of migrant workers who were now out of jobs tried to find their way home, but with state borders sealed and trucks and buses suspended, they had no option but to walk hundreds of miles to their families. Kerala is so very different than the rest of India, beauty, culture, literacy, celebrations, movies, music, art, culture, food everything is a lot different than the Indian culture, it’s very interesting! They’d given his district officers scraps—an address here, a name there—but Nooh’s task force expanded it dramatically, using GPS data mined from the family’s mobile phones and surveillance footage taken from the airport, streets, and stores. Kerala has a unique quality that India, nay, the world still struggles to achieve. Equipment shortages left some desperate doctors wearing raincoats and motorcycle helmets instead of coveralls and protective masks. For some, this wasn’t their first time fighting a deadly epidemic. The rest of India wasn’t quite as lucky. There are so many different religions than the rest of the India, it’s very balanced with them all as well. Kerala's human development indices — elimination of poverty, primary level education, and healthcare — are among the best in India. She christened her turquoise blue Nissan Micra the “Covid Car”—nobody else in her family would go near it—and sanitized it every night. But the carrot was as important as the stick: his office also delivered groceries to those in need. If you’re an art lover do visit Trissur, it’s rich with our art culture and history, people here live in art! It’s a lot more chilled than further north :p. We are so happy that Kerala is one of your favorite tourist location….Keep writing about Kerala.. I backpacked for 6 weeks from Delhi to Mumbai and the constant hassling can get overwhelming if you are not used to this sort of thing.  In Kerala, I have had not one person come up and try to sell me something or shout ‘rickshaw, rickshaw!’, NOT ONE. According to him, the first lesson the State apparatus learnt during the Nipah episode was to never underestimate the extent of a potential epidemic. "Why are Keralites fairer than other South Indians" Because . One of the main reasons why people come to Kerala is because of the backwaters in Alappuzha.  I highly recommend doing an overnight stay on a houseboat while you cruise peacefully down the water.  The price to do a houseboat overnight stay includes full dinner and breakfast which I was blown away by.  This should be at the top of your Kerala bucketlist. He wasn’t on his own; the machinery of the entire state was at his disposal. PB Nooh, as he is known, is the civil servant in charge of the district of Pathanamthitta, where Ranni is located; his boss is the state health secretary. Kerala is gorgeous, it gave me a perfect first impression of India 🙂. Kerala's coast runs some 580 km in length, while the state itself varies between 35–120 km in width. Keralites were prepared for this national closure, since they had already been living in an informal lockdown for weeks. Also, stores like ‘Pulimoottil silks’, ‘chennai silks’ etc will have the best quality sarees etc for way less money than other places, quality comes first in the south! I would definitely include Kerala, on any visit to India. At 11:30 that same night, Nooh joined his boss and a team of government doctors on a video call to map out a strategy. He even moved up the date of state pension payments. There were other reasons why Kerala was better equipped to deal with the crisis than most places. Kerala, southwestern coastal state of India. It is true that Kerala doesn’t feel like it is part of India. What are the ingredients of Pfizer’s covid-19 vaccine. “Containment is not an option anymore.” The lockdown would slow the spread of the virus, but, he said, there could be 300 million to 500 million cases by July:  “Eventually everyone in India will get covid.”, What was needed now was to proactively test anyone over the age of 65 who was showing symptoms, and for the public sector to start making ventilators “on a war footing.”. - Issue Date: Nov 14, 2016 Its sumptuousness, wildlife, beauty and much more make it better than the other states in India. You will be welcomed with palm trees, coconuts and a chilled vibe that is unlike any other region in India. They’d visited a bank, a post office, a bakery, a jewelry store, and some hotels. The experience taught him not just how to manage people in a crisis, but also how to read them. Zubair, 55, had a series of amputations to his … 🙂 Have a wonderful time! 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