According to the Human Development Report of the State, Dehradun tops the list with Tehri district at the bottom of the list. This was revealed at a stakeholders consultation on the Human Development Report presided over by the State’s Finance and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Prakash Pant here on Monday.
The State’s Human Development Report has been prepared on the basis of survey in the districts’ urban and rural areas. According to the initial estimation of the report, as per Human Development Index, Dehradun district is ranked number one followed respectively by Haridwar, Udham Singh Nagar, Chamoli, Pauri, Pithoragarh, Nainital, Bageshwar, Almora, Uttarkashi, Rudraprayag, Champawat and Tehri. This index was prepared based on the indicators of health, education and living standards. The main reason for good ranking of Dehradun, Haridwar and Udham Singh Nagar is the high per capita income.
Similarly, regarding the Gender Development Index, it was informed that Uttarkashi, Rudraprayag and Bageshwar were ranked first, second and third positions respectively, while Udham Singh Nagar, Dehradun and Haridwar were ranked 11th, 12th and 13th position respectively.
Further, Multi-dimensional Poverty Index (MPI) has been prepared in accordance with the state of education, health and the living standard of life. Information about living standards, property, housing, domestic fuel, sanitation, drinking water, electricity, institutional delivery, education, school attendance and school availability were compiled for its assessment.
In MPI, Chamoli, Champawat and Pithoragarh were ranked first, second and third respectively while Haridwar, Udham Singh Nagar and Dehradun were ranked at 11th, 12th and 13th positions respectively.
Pant informed that as per the Human Development Report 2018 released by UNDP, the ranking of India is consistently improving in the last four years.
While linking HDR with Vision 2030, in order to bring desired results, formulation of implementation policy is a must. For this, each department has to monitor the situation of the outcome budget regularly according to the budget demanded by them, which is necessary to be regularly monitored by the planning department, in order to make effective use of the budget being made available to the departments.
Instructions were issued by the Finance Minister to work in mission mode to improve main indicators of health-enrollment in institutional delivery, vaccination, infant mortality rate and secondary education. Planning secretary Amit Singh Negi stressed that for the effective implementation of Vision 2030, work plans should be drafted on the basis of data contained in the Human Development Report.