The Times of India 22.09.2014
Civic body to measure human devpt index of city
NASHIK:
The civic body is planning to measure the city’s Human Development
Index (HDI), which it hopes will help gather social and economic details
of the people.
As part of this, the NMC has written to
Yashwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration, (Yashada) Pune
and All India Institute of Local Self Government (AIILSG), Mumbai.
A senior NMC official said, “We are planning to measure the HDI of the
city on the lines of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation. This will
help us get various information about the economic and social status
about the city’s people. We have written letters to Yashada Pune and
AIILSG, Mumbai for the HDI work and urged them to provide us with
details on how they would measure the HDI and its criteria.”
He
added, “Generally, the HDI survey is based on some basic indicators of
human development such as life expectancy, literacy rate, mortality rate
of infants and age.”
The official also said the civic body
would start the process once it received the replies from the
institutes. “The information we get will help us make better economic
and financial planning. We will finalise one of the institutes to
conduct HDI survey of all 122 prabhags of the city. The NMC would be the
second municipal corporation after the BMC to take up such initiative.
The proposal would be presented at the general body immediately after
the assembly elections .”
Currently, the population in the
municipal corporation’s limits is close to 18 lakh. The state government
has changed the status of the municipal corporation from ‘C’ to ‘B’ on
the basis of the population of the city and the per capita income over
Rs 5,000. The budget of the NMC has reached Rs 3,000 crore.
