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Under the Cabinet Secretary’s Global Indices for Reforms and Growth (GIRG) initiative, the country’s performance is being monitored across 29 global indices including Human Development Index (HDI), Global Hunger Index (GHI), Global Competitiveness Index (GCI), Human Capital Index (HCI), Global Innovation Index (GII), among others.

Aim

This exercise is aimed at leveraging the monitoring mechanism of important social, economic, and other internationally recognised indices, enabling the utilisation of these indices as tools for bringing about reforms to improve outcomes and correspondingly reflect them in India’s performance in these indices globally. 

Details

• Under this initiative, NITI Aayog is the nodal Ministry for the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI).
• According to Global MPI 2021, India’s rank is 66 out of 109 countries.
• The National MPI Project is aimed at deconstructing the Global MPI and creating a globally aligned and yet customised India MPI for drawing up comprehensive Reform Action Plans with the larger goal of improving India’s position in the Global MPI rankings. 

National Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)

• Baseline Report based on NFHS-4 (2015-16) has been developed by NITI Aayog in consultation with 12 Line Ministries and in partnership with State governments and the index publishing agencies –Oxford University’s Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
• NFHS is conducted by the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.
• The baseline report that was developed by the NITI Aayog included a thorough consultation with
  ministries, state governments and the publishing agencies like the Oxford Poverty and Human
• Development Initiative and UNDP (United Nations Development Programme).
• This intends to reduce the proportion of men, women, children of all ages living in poverty by half
  as envisaged by 1.2 of the SDG.