Kerala - God's own Country

Population:32 Million
Population Density: 819 / km2
Language: Malayalam

• Number 1 state in Technology Diffusion Index, April 2002
• Number 1 State in Human Development Indices (HDI) by Planning Commission, GoI April 2002
• Number 1 State in Law & Order, Sept. 2000
• Number 1 In terms of Peaceful & Pristine Environment
• The life expectancy for an American, with all his chairs and cushions, is 77 years, while the life expectancy for a Keralite male is 73 compared to 64 years in India.

                                             Life Expectancy                 HDI
               Kerala                           73                                0.64
               India                             63                                0.59
               China                            71                                 0.72
               USA                              77                                 0.94

• After the latest in a long series of literacy campaigns, the United Nations in 1991 certified Kerala as 100 percent literate. Your chances of having an informed conversation are at least as high in Kerala as in Kansas. Its current adult literacy rate is 91 per cent compared to India’s 65 and the US's 99. Ernakulam was declared as the country's first totally literate district in 1991.

           Literacy  
                             M               F              Total
          Kerala          94             88                91
          India            76              54                 65
          China           95               86               91
          USA             97               97                97

• Kerala’s birth rate is 14 per 1,000 females and falling fast. India's rate is 25 per 1,000 females and that of the U.S. is 16.

• Kerala’s infant mortality rate is 15.3 per 1,000 births versus 57.0 for India and 7 for the US.

• According to the India State Hunger Index, Kerala is one of the four states (AP, Punjab and Assam) where hunger only "serious"

• Malappuram district is India’s first computer literate district

• 1st wireless district in the country

• Rated as the most baby friendly state with the lowest infant mortality rates and the best Health Care Model by UN.
  
  
  

Though Kerala is mostly a land of paddy-covered plains, statistically Kerala stands out as the Mount Everest of social development; there's truly no place like it.

Few good brians from the state include: 

• FORMER PRESIDENT OF SINGAPORE MR.CHENGARA VEETIL DEVAN NAIR
• The first non-Tamil Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu - Makkal Thilakam, MG Ramachandran (Ramachandra Menon)
• Chief Justice of India
• Indian Foreign Secretary
• Indian Defence Minister
• Chief of "Chandryaan' , the Indian Space programme
• The first individual oscar winner Rasool Pookkutty (A.R.Rahman is the second)
• Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister
• Chief of the new National Investigation Agency -"Radha Vinod Raju"
• Principal Secretary to Prime Minister
• The only Indian to contest for the UN Secretary General's Position
• The chief of Staff for Security to UN Secretary General
• Mr. V K K Menon, the 1st Defence Minister of india.
• The man behind White Revolution- Mr. Varghese Kurian.
• The man behind Green Revolution - Mr. M S Swaminathan
• The brain behind National Integration is Mr. V P Menon who assisted Sardar Vallabhai Patel.
• The man who recalculated the distance to moon for 1st manned mission - Dr. Sudhakar.
  
  
  

Reference: 

http://www.ashanet.org/library/articles/kerala.199803.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala_model#Human_resource_development_indices