Health of India families
Indubitably, broader economic growth - involving improvement in physical infrastructure, favorable macroeconomic indicators, stronger geopolitical positioning, greater global acceptability etc., is most desirable for a developing economy like India. However, the importance of improvement in social indicators, quality of life and sustainability cannot be disregarded as less important. In fact, if someone asks me to choose between a more equitable, just and sustainable society and a rich but unequal and unjust society pursuing an unsustainable path of development, I would definitely choose the former over the latter, without giving it a second thought. India has seen consistent improvement in many social, quality of life and sustainability parameters in the past three decades particularly. All the governments have focused on improvement in factors like literacy, infant mortality, primary education, gender equality, poverty alleviation, regional equality etc. Several mission level...