Political families of Uttar Pradesh

MPLADS Analysis

Document History

Original Publish Date: 18 June, 2020

Updated on: 07 September, 2020

## [1] "LS/RS: 15th Lok Sabha" "LS/RS: 14th Lok Sabha"

Summary stats

This mplads data is for the 14th and 15the Loksabha which commenced on 20004 and 2009 respectively. We matched it with Uttar Pradesh MPs for the same years.

Observations: 33177, 1

Years : 2009 and 2014 - 25 and 31 dynast MPs respectively.

Main variables : Type of project and the cost incurred. Main categories of type of projects are Road, Electricity, Education, Construction, Water, Others, Sanitation

Family v/s Non-family

This table shows the average number of projects and the cost for the family types. First table is forboth years and the second one is year by year break-up of the same.

Table 1: MPLADS prjects and spending
Type of constiuency Average number of projects Avergae expenditure per project
Non-family 321 349773
Family 432 317017
Table 2: MPLADS prjects and spending
Year Type of constiuency Average number of contracts Avergae expenditure per project
2004 Family 331 290796
2004 Non-family 345 304660
2009 Family 521 340058
2009 Non-family 285 420557

Days

When we looked at number of days that is required to finish a project was almost same for both the family types, on average they take 75 days to finish a project. When I looked at it by year, in 2004 dynasts took 12 days extra to finish the work compared to non-dynasts. Interestingly, in 2009 it reversed and dynasts took 12 day lesser than non-dynasts to finish the work

Projects

Question - Is there any difference in the project choices of family politicians?

This table shows the composition of the category of the projects they choose work on.

This chart shows the average number of projects of each categories according to the family type.

Expenditure

Question - Is there any difference in the spending patterns of family politicians?

Cost per project

Question : What’s the average cost of a project for each categories?

cost categories

We categorised the projects into three depnding upon the cost of the project:

Categories:

Low - 0-.2 mn

Medium - 2.2 mn - 5 mn

High - 5 mn+

Table 3: Project cost categories wrt politician’s identity
Cost Categry Politicians Identity Proportion of projects
Low Family 0.50
Low Non-family 0.40
Medium Family 0.29
Medium Non-family 0.37
High Family 0.21
High Non-family 0.23