Letter to BS: India's low score on Human Capital Index not an outlier

Despite the gaps, there is absolutely no justification for the government to be so indifferent to the findings and to the humiliating 0.44 score given to India

Apropos the column, “Don’t ignore” (October 19), notwithstanding some predictable inaccuracies in the World Bank’s new Human Capital Index (HCI), the reaction of the government is not understandable. Admittedly, the HCI would have used the metrics of the industrial era and perhaps not factored in the status of our human capital for the digital age. It is also possible that the HCI does not reflect our recent initiatives like Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan and Ayushman Bharat. Despite the gaps, there is absolutely no justification for the government to be so indifferent to the findings and to the humiliating 0.44 score given