Lok Sabha Question No. 2594 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-03-17
Subject: Human Development Index
Ministry: HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
Asked by: GOKARAJU GANGA RAJU

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2594 TO BE ANSWERED ON 17 TH MARCH, 2017

## HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN DEX

## 2594. DR. GOKARAJU GANGA RAJU:

Will the Minister of HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government is aware that Society for Socio and Economic Study has conduc a study in Andhra Pradesh and reported that living standards have fallen very drastica Andhra Pradesh has fallen down in Human Development Index (HDI);
- (b) if so, the details thereof;
- (c) the measures taken/proposed to be taken by the Government to increase the HDI and also post - bifurcation impact on HDI; and
- (d) if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE ( SMT. ANUPRIYA PATEL )

- (a) &(b):  According to the report 'Human Development in Andhra Pradesh' prepared for Government of Andhra Pradesh by Center for Econ omic and Social Studies in 2016, the rank of Andhra Pradesh in Human Development Index(HDI) among 21 major States of India was 12 in 2004 - 05 and 9 in 2011 - 12. Moreover, as per the said report, the district of Andhra Pradesh with a lower HDI in 2004 - 05 hav e improved their HDI status faster compared to the other districts by 2011 - 12.  This  reflects declining inequalities in HDI across the districts. The same is evident in case of the three components of HD standard of living, health and education.
- (c)&  (d): The  initiatives  taken  by  the  Government  to  further  increase  the  HDI  in country include:
- Promoting institutional deliveries,  strengthening of health infrastructure, tr service  providers  in  management  of  emergency  obstetric  care  and  skil led  birth attendance, providing ante - natal  and post -natal care, organising village health and nutrition  days,  engagement  of  an  accredited  social  health  activist  (ASHA)  in community, establishing referral systems including emergency referral transport

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training  of  service  providers  in  integrated  management  of  neo - natal  &childhood illness, training of ASHAs in Home based new born care, training of health providers in essential new - born care and resuscitation, providing new - born care at all levels, promoting exclusive breastfeeding and complementary feedin establish ment of nutritional rehabilitation centres, strengthening rou immunisation programme, focussing on reduction in morbidity and mortality due acute  respiratory  infections  (ARI)  and  diarrhoeal  diseases,  introduction  of based  web  enabled  tracking of  pregnant  women  &  children  (Mother  and  Child Tracking  System)  to  ensure  antenatal,  intra - natal  and  postnatal  care  to  pregnant women and care to new - borns, infants and children.

- Enactment  and  operationalisation  of  Right  of  Children  to  Free  and  Compulso Education  (RTE)  Act,  2009,  Sarva  Shiksha  Abhiyan,  Mid - Day - Meal  Scheme, National  Programme  for  Education  of  Girls  at  Elementary  level,  setting  up Kasturba  Gandhi  Balika  Vidyalaya,  Mahila  Samakhya  programme,  scheme  for providing quality education in Madar as s.
- Improving the purchasing power of the people through various income generati schemes including Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.
- The  National  Food  Security  Act,  2013  aims  to  provide  for  food  and  nutritio security in hu man life cycle approach, by ensuring access to adequate quantity quality food at affordable prices to people to live a life with dignity.

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