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Rajasthan Government preparing new Human Development Report

Special Correspondent

To facilitate planning for improving the standard of life of people

JAIPUR: The Rajasthan Government is preparing a new Human Development Report furnishing the data of education, health and livelihood at the district level to facilitate an effective intervention of planning to improve the standard of life of people at large. The previous report was formulated in the State in 2002.

The Secretary of the State Government's Planning Department, Veenu Gupta, stating this at a division-level workshop on human development in Bharatpur over the week-end, pointed out that the concept of development in the planning process would include factors such as better availability of education and health care and reduction in infant and maternal mortality rates.

The development process was not just about the construction of roads, power supply, water supply or erection of school buildings. The formulation of Human Development Index would ensure decentralisation of schemes in the districts to meet the needs of local population, said Ms. Gupta.

The one-day workshop was organised by the State Government's Planning Department in association with the Planning Commission and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Four districts of Bharatpur division -- Bharatpur, Karauli, Sawai Madhopur and Dholpur -- were covered in the workshop.

Divisional Commissioner P.K. Goyal said the Human Development Report would be drafted separately for each district of the State. The Director of Jaipur-based Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Sarthi Acharya, made a presentation on the U.N. Millennium Development Goals in the workshop and pointed out that development was a concept going beyond economic progress and included a multiplicity of factors.

Vidya Sagar of IDS explained the methodology of computing Human Development Index, while sociologist Kanchan Mathur threw light on gender discrimination and its impact on human development. A district-level training programme on human development for Zila Parishad members would be organised in Bharatpur in October to reach out to the rural populace.

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