10% GDP growth not possible without improving HDI: NITI Aayog CEO

Such growth, Amitabh Kant said, was not possible if infant-mortality and maternal mortality rates were at very high rates and if one in three children was stunted

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