1. Human Development
Human development is a process of enlarging the range of people’s choices, increasing their opportunities for education, health care, income and empowerment and covering the full range of human choices from a sound physical environment to economic, social and political freedom.
Thus, enlarging the range of people’s choices is the most significant aspect of human development. People’s choices may involve a host of other issues, but, living a long and healthy life, to be educated and have access to resources needed for a decent standard of living including political freedom, guaranteed human rights and personal self-respect, etc. are considered some of the non-negotiable aspects of the human development.
1.1. Concept of Development and Indian aspects1.2. Measuring Human Development1.2.1. Human Development Index (HDI)Figure 1. Components of HDI1.3. Other Multi-dimensional measures of Human Development1.3.1. Inequality adjusted HDI (IHDI)1.3.2. Gender Inequality Index (GII)Figure 2. Components of GII1.3.3. Multi-Dimensional Poverty Index (MPI)Figure 3. Dimensions of MPIFigure 4. HDI progress of India1.5. India Human Development Report 20111.5.1. Human Development IndexFigure 5. HDI across states (2007-08)1.5.2. Income IndexFigure 6. Income Index across various states (2007-08)1.5.3. Education IndexFigure 6. Education Index across states1.5.4. Health Index1.6. Planning and Development