According to the UNDP’s Human Development Index that measures progress in life expectancy, education and adjusted real income, India is ranked near the bottom end of the ‘middle development category’ (nations are categorized as having high/medium/low human development). Over the last 13 years, India has moved only marginally on the development scale – it was ranked 130th in 1990 and it is ranked 127th now. How is the future going to be any different?

If we keep approaching our challenges of education, health and reducing poverty in the same way as we have in the last decades, the result will continue to be the same. What India clearly needs are ‘Innovative Strategies and Solutions’ that can make a quantum jump.

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