Lok Sabha Question No. 2398 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-03-11
Subject: Human Development Index
Ministry: PLANNING
Asked by: YERRAM VENKATA SUBBAREDDY

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF PLANNING

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION No.2398 TO BE ANSWERED ON 11.03.2016

## HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX

## 2398.   SHRI Y.V. SUBBA REDDY:

Will the Minister of PLANNING be pleased to state:

- (a) whether as per the recently released report of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) India could climb only five places from 135th to 130th in 188 countries in Human Development Index for 2014;
- (b) if so, the reasons therefor;
- (c) the details of parameters where India is lagging behind; and
- (d) the efforts being made by the Government to address the issue?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) FOR MINISTRY OF PLANNING AND MINISTER OF STATE FOR DEFENCE

## (RAO INDERJIT SINGH)

(a)  to(c):  As  per  the  Human  Development  Report  (HDR)  2015  of  United  Nations  Development Programme (UNDP),  Human Development Index (HDI) value for India  was 0.609 in 2014 which improved from 0.604 in 2013. As per the HDR 2015 India was placed at 130 th  position out of 188 countries in 2014 whereas India's HDI rank was 131 in 2013. It has been clarified in the report that International Data Agencies continuously improve their data series. Therefore, year to year changes in the HDI values and rankings across different editions of the HDR are not strictly comparable.

India's HDI trends based on consistent time series data are given in the Table below.Over the years India has registered a consistent improvement in HDI value which increased from 0.496 in 2000 to 0.586 in 2010 and further to 0.609 in 2014. India has registered average annual HDI growth of 0.97 percent in 2010-14.

Table: India's HDI trends

|   Years |   Life expectancy at birth |   Expected years of schooling |   Mean years of schooling | GNI per capita (2011 PPP$)   |   HDI value |
|---------|----------------------------|-------------------------------|---------------------------|------------------------------|-------------|
|    1980 |                       53.9 |                           6.4 |                       1.9 | 1,255                        |       0.362 |
|    1985 |                       55.8 |                           7.3 |                       2.4 | 1,446                        |       0.397 |
|    1990 |                       57.9 |                           7.7 |                       3   | 1,754                        |       0.428 |
|    1995 |                       60.4 |                           8.3 |                       3.5 | 2,046                        |       0.462 |
|    2000 |                       62.6 |                           8.5 |                       4.4 | 2,522                        |       0.496 |
|    2005 |                       64.5 |                           9.9 |                       4.8 | 3,239                        |       0.539 |
|    2010 |                       66.5 |                          11.1 |                       5.4 | 4,499                        |       0.586 |
|    2011 |                       66.9 |                          11.7 |                       5.4 | 4,745                        |       0.597 |
|    2012 |                       67.3 |                          11.7 |                       5.4 | 4,909                        |       0.6   |
|    2013 |                       67.6 |                          11.7 |                       5.4 | 5,180                        |       0.604 |
|    2014 |                       68   |                          11.7 |                       5.4 | 5,497                        |       0.609 |

Source: 'Briefing note for countries on the 2015 Human Development Report, India'

(d):  The  Government's  strategy  of  achieving  high  growth  rate  by  generating  more  employment opportunities  and  strengthening  social  infrastructure  such  as  public  health  and  education  through implementation of flagship programmes like National Health Mission (NHM), Sarva Sikhsha Abhiyaan (SSA),  Integrated  Child  Development  Scheme  (ICDS),  Mid-Day  Meal  Scheme,  Mahatma  Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), poverty alleviation by providing wage and self-employment, safe drinking water, Swachh Bharat Mission, etc. have impacted the human wellbeing positively and are expected to further improve India's social indicators.

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