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.
“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.
Such growth, Kant said, was not possible if infant-mortality and maternal mortality rates were at very high rates and