ABSTRACT
Life expectancy, per capita income, and completed and expected year of schooling are used for determining a country’s human development. Multi-dimensional poverty captures many other indicators from housing, sanitation, electricity, cooking gas, and so on. The Prime Minister declared on Independence Day that no deprived household should be left behind and that India must remain the fastest-growing economy in the world to enable the well-being of all. The governing council/National Development Council itself can be that body with exclusive meetings on human development at least twice a year. From the Gram Panchayat and urban local bodies (ULBs) to the Prime Minister’s council, the same indicators need to be monitored for outcomes, Panchayat/ULB-wise with ranking of performance. Naming and shaming alone does not work; handholding and constant monitoring of agreed targets at the highest level does. The Niti Aayog needs to lead this partnership for transformation.
