New Delhi, Jul 28 (DIN NEWS)<\/b> Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant has said the country needs to improve its human development index (HDI) to achieve a growth of around 10 per cent.<\/p>\n
We are growing at around 7.5 per cent and if our ambition is to grow at high rates like 10 per cent over a three-decade period, (then) it is not possible to do this if we don’t improve the HDI for India, Kant said at an event by child-rights organisation Plan India here on Friday.<\/p>\n
Such growth, Kant said, was not possible if infant-mortality and maternal-mortality rates were at very high rates and if one in three children was stunted.<\/p>\n
In the 2016 UN Human Development Report, India had slipped one place to rank 131st among 188 countries in the HDI.<\/p>\n
Stating that there were around 200 backward districts in India, Kant underlined that it was not possible for the government alone to transform.<\/p>\n
Therefore, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) play a very important role, he added.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the event, veteran actor and social activist Shabana Azmi said since India is a multi-religious, multi-cultural and multi-lingual society, any effort for the country’s development needs to be made by all stakeholders, like the government, NGOs and community workers.<\/p>\n
But, above all, to actually impact change at the level where it is required, it cannot happen without the last-mile frontline workers, the actor added.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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