(i) High National Income
(ii) High Per Capital income
(iii) High Standard of Living
(iv) Full Employment of Resources
(v) Dominance of Industrial Sector
(vi) High Level of Technology
(vii) High Industrialisation
(viii) High Consumption Level.
(ix) High Level of Urbanisation
(x) Smooth Economic Growth
(xi) Social Equity, Gender Equality and Low Levels of Poverty
(xii) Political Stability and Good 'Governance

It is an indicator of progress which measures sustainable development, environmental conservation promotion of culture and good governance.

(i) HDI was developed by the pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq and the Indian economist Amartiya Sen in 1990 and was published by the united nations development programme.
(ii) It is constructed based on life expectancy index, education index and GDP per capita.

Social infrastructure refers to those structures which improve the quality of manpower and contribute indirectly towards the growth of an economy.
Education:
(i) Education is in Concurrent List.
(ii) The Ministry of Human Resource Development decides the education budget and education policy.
(iii) India follows a six-level system - nursery, primary, secondary, higher secondary, graduation and post-graduation.
(iv) We have the 10 +2 pattern.
(v) The education department consists of schools, colleges and universities imparting education to all.
(vi) Though the budget share of education is 3% of GDP yet the per pupil expenditure for school students is the lowest.
Health:
(i) Health is a state-government responsibility.
(ii) The Central Council of Health and Welfare formulates various health care projects.
(iii) India has the ayurvedic medicine, unani, homeopathy, allopathy and yoga.
(iv) Medical practicing needs a licensing from the Ministry of Health. All medical systems now are under one ministry viz AYUSH.
(v) Health status is better in Kerala but generally India's health status is not satisfactory

Poverty and inequality:
Amartya Sen studied about poverty and inequality, distribution of income among the people below the poverty line.
The concept of capability:
(i) Capability is the ability to transform Rawlsian primary goods to the achievement of well-being
(ii) This was a better index of well-being then commodities.
Entitlement:
(i) Sen included the concept of entitlement items like nutrition, food, medical and health care, employment, scarcity of food supply in times of famine.
(ii) All this is included in Amartya Sen's Welfare Economics.