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India slips two spot to rank 131 in UN's human development index

December 17, 2020 12:13 pm

Human Development Index is the measure of a nation's health, education, and standards of living. India's HDI value for 2019 is 0.645 placing the country in the medium human development category.

With better development indicators, spectre of a Bangladeshi cross-over to India is ill-founded

February 14, 2020 11:07 am

In the last decade, on a range of social development indicators, Bangladesh has fared better than India. Even on the cricket pitch, Bangladesh beat India at the junior world cup. So why would Bangladeshis en masse want to leave their cherished homeland?

India ranks 129 in UNDP Human Development Index report

December 10, 2019 5:09 am

India’s HDI value has marginally increased from 0.643 in 2017 to 0.647 in 2018, shows the report, titled ‘Beyond Income, Beyond Averages, Beyond Today: Inequalities in Human Development in the 21st Century’.

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Millions out of poverty but glaring inequalities in India, reveals Human Development Index report

September 15, 2018 8:28 am

The UNDP report stated that with an HDI value of 0.64 compared to last year’s 0.636, India is categorised as a medium human development and that its rank rose one spot compared to the 2017 HDI.

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India ranks 130 in UNDP's human development index

September 14, 2018 11:14 pm

Between 1990 to 2017, India's HDI value saw a 50 per cent increase from 0.427 to 0.640, an indicator of the country's remarkable achievement in lifting millions of people out of poverty, the report said.

India loses a quarter of its human development value due to inequality, says UNDP

September 14, 2018 8:16 pm

India climbed one spot to 130 out of 189 countries in the latest human development rankings released Friday by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

As on December 31, 2017, legal action has been launched in at least 6,505 wilful default cases across the country. Out of these, 1,437 cases were registered in Maharashtra, followed by Delhi with 704, West Bengal with 593 and Gujarat with 439 cases.

Pune: Special cell to improve HDI in 21 districts

January 25, 2018 5:40 am

The ‘Action Room on Poverty’ will work mainly for the human resource development in areas such as education, sanitation, quality of life, health, among others, in 125 talukas.