Malappuram MLAs ask for population-proportionate plan share, citing one hospital bed for every 1,861 people

17 October 2026

At the State Planning Board's district consultation for the Fifteenth Five-Year Plan, Malappuram's MLAs submitted a written demand for population-proportionate distribution of resources and a special package to close the district's development backlog. The release records that Malabar, with about half the state's population, receives about one-third of resources. In government hospitals the state average is one bed for every 928 people and one doctor for every 5,570, while Malappuram has one bed for every 1,861 and one doctor for every 7,437. Only 11.7 per cent of the district's Plus Two passers get access to government or aided colleges and polytechnics, against about 42 per cent in many districts. The MLAs who placed demands were Adv. M. Rahmathullah, T.V. Ibrahim, Prof. Abid Hussain Thangal, T.P. Ashraf Ali, V.S. Joy and P.K. Navas.