Reviewing Important National Policies and Programs For Human / Social Development

Abstract

Sustainable development calls for building up individual/ human capabilities leading to emergence of social capacities in order to increase access to income, employment in a rapidly globalization world economy and foremost for creating an environment in which all people could expand their capabilities and opportunities. Societies/ nations must recognize that their real wealth is their people, an excessive obsession with creation of material wealth could obscure the objectives of enriching human life. Thus, human development is about pro-people, pro- job and pro- nature lending to creation of an environment where people can develop their full potentials and lead productive and creative life lives in accordance with their needs. Fundamental to enlarging their choices is building human capabilities have been globally accepted and  enunciated in Millennium Development Goals, as universal primary health care for all , severe malnutrition to be eliminated, family planning services to be extended to all eligible couple, safe drinking water and sanitation for commitment to human and social development. India's commitment to human and social development is well known and to translate the said objectives, it has undertaken a series of national policies and programme and in this article an attempt has been made to examine the progress of some important policies and programmes relating to education, health women empowerment, rural employment, food security, land acquisition, water and sanitation, youth, environment and transparency/ accountability. It has found that the human/ social development programme are progressing with varied pace at varied level and there in need for fullest people's participation, efficient project management and removal of rampant corruption to achieve the desired goal of human / social development.

The information and data used in this article has been taken from Human Development Report ( 2001- 2011) Human Development Report of India 2011, websites of concerned ministries, wikepedia site etc and access to information and material of this author as consultant of education, health and women empowerment project in Uttar Pradesh and neighbouring states.