Abhinav National Monthly Refereed Journal of Research In Commerce & Management 63 Volume III, February’14 ISSN – 2277-1166 Available online on www.abhinavjournal.com A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX OF SELECTED INDIAN STATES Ashish Dhar Mishra 1 and Rahul Chaudhary 2 Research Scholar, Dayal Bagh Educational Institute, Agra, India Email: 1 ashish.mishra774@gmail.com, 2 rahul_chaudhari73@yahoo.com ABSTRACT The Human Development Index is a statistical tool used to measure countries overall achievements in its social and economic dimensions. The social and economic dimension of a country based on the people’s health, education level of people and their standard of living. At present time the overall average of HDI score of India is 0.55 (approx.) This paper tried to find out major factor of Human Development Index like health index, education index and income index. The objective of this study is found out the trend of human development of Indian states and to suggest measures for improving human development. In this paper researchers have prepared the human development index of states of India and providing the ranking on basis of human development index and also providing the ranking on the basis of sub index. Conclusion of the study as follows: In this study researcher found that some states have good health index and highest ranked like Kerala then Punjab, Maharashtra. Some states have good education index and highest ranked like Himanchal Pradesh has taken highest rank, Tamil Nadu then Kerala. Some states have good income index and highest ranking like Haryana, Maharashtra, and then Gujarat. Keywords: Human Development Index; Health Index; Education Index; Income Index; GDP INTRODUCTION “Human development is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which human beings live, which is only a part of it. Human development is a concept within the scope of the study of the human condition, specifically international development, relating to international and economic development. (AmartyaSen, Nobel Laureate, 1998) HDI is the abbreviated as Human Development Index. It was developed and launched by Pakistani economist Mahbub-ul-Haq, followed by Amartya Sen, an Indian economist, in 1990. Human Development Index, HDI, is a comprehensive tool devised by the United Nations for measuring the levels of social and economic developments of the different countries and ranking them accordingly. It is a comparative measure of life expectancy, education, literacy and standard of living. Essentially, Human Development Index, HDI, makes use of four parameters for measuring and ranking countries according to their social and economic development which includes the Life Expectancy at Birth, Expected Years of Schooling, Mean Years of Schooling and Gross National Income per Capita.