District Human Development Report - Bankura (2007)

Abstract

A district human development report has to basically address the issue of formulation of a strategy, which will accelerate the pace of human development. Therefore, the objective of the present exercise is to build up a developmental path, which will address human development in Bankura. Normally a human development report covers three aspects related to human development— standard of living, health and education. Broadly the same format has been maintained in this exercise. However, a separate chapter has been kept for gender issues. The issue of vulnerability also requires special attention since it is not just the state and level of human development that matters. The capacity of people to cope with unfavourable circumstances and respond to adversity is equally important. In other words, vulnerability of a human being has to be reduced parallely with the advancement on the ladder of human development.