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How is it that the average person in Haryana has more income than the average person in Kerala but lags behind in these crucial areas?

The reason is — ……………………………………………….. that you may need to live well.

So, …………………….. by itself is not a completely adequate indicator of material goods and services that citizens are able to use.

For example, normally, your money cannot buy you ………………………………. or ensure that you get ………………………………, unless you can afford to shift to …………………………. that already has all these things.

Money may also not be able to protect you from …………………………., unless the whole of your community takes preventive steps.

Actually for many of the important things in life the best way, also the cheapest way, is …………………………………………………………..

Just think – will it be cheaper to have collective security for the whole locality or for each house to have its own security man?

What if no one, other than you, in your village or locality is interested in studying?

Would you be able to study?

Not unless your parents could afford to send you to some private school elsewhere.

So you are actually able to study because many other children also want to study and because …………………………………………………………….. so that all children have a chance to study.

Even now, in many areas, children, particularly girls, are not able to go to high school because ………………………………………………………………………

………………….. has a low Infant Mortality Rate because ………………………………………………………….

Similarly, in some states, the …………………………………. functions well.

Health and nutritional status of people of such states is certainly likely to be better.

Isn’t it surprising that a small country in our neighbourhood, …………………., is much ahead of India in every respect and a big country like ours has such a low rank in the world?

Table 1.6 also shows that though ………………………………………… have low per capita income than that of India, yet they are better than India in ……………………………….

Many improvements have been suggested in calculating ……………… and many new components have been added to the ……………………………. but, by pre-fixing Human to Development, it has made it very clear that …………………………………………………...

…………………………………………………………, that is most important.

Do you think there are certain other aspects that should be considered in measuring human development?