Human Development Index and Poverty:With Special Reference to India

Abstract

Present paper attempts to analyze the status of human development in the context of India. The trends of Human Development Index and its various components with special reference to India have been analysed. Present paper tries to analyze the various measures of poverty in India and finds out various reason of low human development. The secondary data published by UNDP and other reports of Government have been used for this purpose. Statistical tables have been prepared using various computer software.
The present paper deals with an important issue on human development. India’s HDI value was 0.345 in 1980 and it increased to 0.554 in 2012, where the growth of the HDI between 1980 and 1990 was 0.07 and between 2005 and 2012 is found to be 0.05. On other hand if we analyze Income Index in India we find that in 1980 this value was 0.321 and in 2012 it was 0.515. Health index value of India was 0.722 in 2012 and it is higher than Income Index and Education index values.