TG ICET 2025 9th June 2025 Shift 1

Question Numbers : (186 to 190)
Comprehension Passage-1
As per the Human Development Report (HDR) 2011 published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) (which estimates the human development index UDI in terms of three basic capabilities; to live a long and healthy life, to be educated and knowledgeable, and to enjoy a decent economic standard of living), the HDI for India was 0.547 in 2011 with an overall global ranking of 134 (out of 187 countries) compared to 119 (out of 169 countries) in HDR 2010. We have to examine the major dimension of inclusive development like poverty alleviation, employment generation, health, education, women's empowerment and social welfare besides reviewing the progress of important government programmes in these sectors. Inclusive development includes social inclusion along with financial inclusion and in most cases the socially excluded are also financially excluded. Many a segment of the population like landless agricultural labourers, marginal farmers, scheduled castes (SCs), scheduled tribes (STs), and other backward classes (OBCs) continue to suffer social and financial exclusion. The government's policies are directed towards bringing these marginalized sections of the society into the mainstream as it also reflected in social-sector expenditure of the government.