❖ There are 19 districts in Tamil Nadu whose per capita income is lower than that of the State average (₹2,36,783) in 2019-20.

❖ The figures of the remaining 13 districts exceeded the State’s tally.

❖ Tiruvallur topped the list with around ₹3.64 lakh, followed by Erode (₹3.57 lakh), and Coimbatore (₹3.39 lakh). 

❖ In these districts, per capita income was higher than any of the major Indian States in that year, including Telangana, Haryana, and Karnataka.

❖ At the bottom were Perambalur (₹1,07,731), Tiruvarur (₹1,25,653), and Villupuram (₹1,30,103).

❖ But these districts levels were “higher than” that of Assam, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, and Odisha in the same year.

❖ However, the figures were lower than the all-India figure of ₹1.32 lakh for that year.