{"id":5072,"date":"2022-12-16T04:23:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T22:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5072"},"modified":"2025-03-27T04:06:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T22:36:44","slug":"what-is-social-progress-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-social-progress-index\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Social Progress Index?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Social Progress Index (SPI):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>SPI is a comprehensive tool intended to be a holistic measure of the Social Progress made by the country at the national and sub-national levels.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The report has been prepared by <strong>Institute for Competitiveness,<\/strong> headed by Dr Amit Kapoor and the <strong>Social Progress Imperative,<\/strong> headed by Michael Green.<\/li>\n<li>It was mandated by <strong>Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>What is the objective of the SPI?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The report aims to provide a systematic account of the social progress made at all levels in the country with state and district-wise rankings and scorecards.<\/li>\n<li>The report also sheds light on the achievements of the districts that have performed well on the index and the role of the states in achieving social progress.<\/li>\n<li>A special section of the report provides an analysis of the Aspirational Districts of India, leading to a broader understanding of the social progress at the grassroots level.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The report will act as a critical enabler and tool for policymakers in the coming years for achieving sustained socio-economic growth.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Components:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>SPI assesses the performance of states and districts on three dimensions of social progress: <strong>Basic Human Needs, Foundations of Wellbeing, and Opportunity. Within each dimension, there are four components.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>dimension of Basic Human Needs <\/strong>assesses the performance of states and districts in terms of Nutrition and Basic Medical Care, Water and Sanitation, Personal Safety and Shelter.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>dimension of Foundations of Wellbeing <\/strong>evaluates the progress made by the country across the components of Access to Basic Knowledge, Access to Information and Communication, Health and Wellness, and Environmental Quality.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>dimension of Opportunity <\/strong>focuses on aspects of Personal Rights, Personal Freedom and Choice, Inclusiveness, and Access to Advanced Education.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) Which States\/UTs scored the highest and the lowest in the Social Progress Index?<\/h3>\n<p>Puducherry has the highest SPI score in\u00a0 the country while Jharkhand and Bihar scored the lowest in the country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1883826\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPI is a holistic measure of the Social Progress of the country at national and sub-national levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5072","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=5072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}