Needed: A PM's council for human development

Leave no one behind with sustainable growth and well-being

Life expectancy, per capita income, completed and expected years 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 well-being of all. There is a strong case for a PM’s Human Development Council with representation from the chief ministers for the following reasons:

First, providing opportunities to every citizen of India to develop their fullest human