{"id":33781,"date":"2022-12-20T04:40:16","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T23:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=33781"},"modified":"2025-04-20T01:33:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T20:03:59","slug":"social-progress-index-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/social-progress-index-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Progress Index 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>About the Social Progress Index (SPI)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>News Summary<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The report, titled &#8216;<strong>Social Progress Index: States and Districts of India<\/strong>&#8216;, was recently released by Economic Advisory Council-Prime Minister (EAC-PM) chairman Bibek Debroy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Puducherry<\/strong>, followed by Lakshadweep and Goa, has bagged the top slots for its remarkable performance across the components like personal freedom and choice, shelter, and water and sanitation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is the Social Progress Index (SPI)?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Formulated by the Institute for Competitiveness and Social Progress Imperative,<strong> SPI is a comprehensive tool<\/strong> that can serve as a holistic measure of a country&#8217;s social progress at the national and sub-national levels.<\/li>\n<li>The index assesses states and districts based on 12 components across three critical dimensions of social progress &#8211; <strong>Basic Human Needs, Foundations of Wellbeing and Opportunity<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Basic Human Needs<\/strong> assess the performance of states and districts in terms of Nutrition and Basic Medical Care, Water and Sanitation, Personal Safety and Shelter.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Foundations of Wellbeing<\/strong> evaluates the progress made by the country across the components of Access to Basic Knowledge, Information and Communication, Health and Wellness, and Environmental Quality.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Opportunity <\/strong>focuses on Personal Rights, Personal Freedom and Choice, Inclusiveness, and Access to Advanced Education.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Based on the SPI scores, states and districts have been ranked <strong>under six tiers of social progress, with <\/strong>the Tier 1 indicating Very High Social Progress, while the Tier 6 indicating Very Low Social Progress.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is the significance of the Social Progress Index (SPI)?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>By evaluating change in the performance of some key indicators since 2015-16, the report presents <strong>a broad picture of the social progress<\/strong> in India.<\/li>\n<li>In addition, the report highlights progress made by the <strong>112 aspirational districts in the country.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>GDP is an incomplete measure of progress and endeavours such as the SPI, that weave in <strong>sociological factors into economic progress <\/strong>provides more robust and reliable analysis.<\/li>\n<li>The findings in the report <strong>will pave the way for policymakers<\/strong> to make informed decisions.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>News Summary:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/CqJuODxcn57s6kGvzsopNwodrpUlexCqsaHWQzUc14laCyr5xh990Ritnxspd0vq9bNlyuCoLHPsFu1qeFVdcPFTEpNx9dbRDgmpbpiDr8I_q4CRHpnV_ebQ7QYlmTmsJlPPotGCSKo56s6v-tP3xw\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Image Caption: State\u2019s rank in Social Progress Index<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The report also dwells on<strong> India&#8217;s performance based on the global SPI<\/strong> that is brought out by Social Progress Imperative since 2013.\n<ul>\n<li>In the latest (2022) report, India has been ranked 110th (out of 169 nations) on the index and India&#8217;s aggregate SPI score of 60.2 in 2022 is slightly lower than the world average of 65.2.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The report also highlights that Aizawl (Mizoram), Solan (Himachal Pradesh) and Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) have emerged as the top three best-performing districts.<\/li>\n<li>The index also highlights that <strong>27 out of 112 districts under the Aspirational District Programme <\/strong>(ADP) have scored above the national average on the SPI.<\/li>\n<li>It highlights that over 40% of J&amp;K districts belong to the &#8220;high social progress category&#8221;. Shopian has the highest SPI score of 63.1, attributable to the district&#8217;s achievements <strong>across water and sanitation, environmental quality, and inclusiveness.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1 Who releases Social Progress Index?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Social Progress Index (SPI) for States and Districts is made by the Institute for Competitiveness and Social Progress Imperative.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Q2) What are the components of the Social Progress Index?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The index assesses states and districts based on 12 components across three critical dimensions of social progress &#8211; Basic Human Needs, Foundations of Wellbeing and Opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/puducherry-lakshadweep-goa-best-performers-in-social-progress-index-jharkhand-bihar-worst\/article66285020.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Puducherry, Lakshadweep, Goa best performers in social progress index; Jharkhand, Bihar worst<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Progress Index aims to measure India\u2019s social progress at the national and sub-national levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":33782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}