Abstract

The famous quote about the India is “unity in diversity”. India is a country with 28 states and 8 union territories. Since its independence, the country is struggling with many fundamental problems such as poverty, unemployment, infrastructure, poor health and education. As the development schemes were initiated in the various sectors, different dimension of quality of life got improved. Many people got the fruits of the development. The pace of development became fast after the implementation of 1991 policy changes. In the recent years there are tremendous changes have seen in the country. Human development is a multidimensional phenomenon and depends on various subjective and objective dimensions such as health, education, standard of living, satisfaction etc. So here the question arises whether there is any convergence or divergence in human development across various states and UT for the time period of 2009-2019. This study would try to find out the trends and pattern of human development among the Indian states from 1990 to 2019. The data for the time period of 29 years from 1990 to 2019 has been taken from the global data bank for the present work.

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