The United Nations Development Programme report on Human Development Index, HDI, says India has made steady progress on the Human Development Index. The resident representative of UNDP in India, Patrice Coeur-Bizot said that India's HDI value has gone up steadily from 0.556 in 2000 to 0.612 in 2007. This year India ranks 134 out of 182 countries. The report was released globally yesterday. This year, the report focuses on migration – ‘Overcoming Barriers: Human Mobility and Development’ – to cast a new light on some common misconceptions on the subject and propose a series of policies to increase people’s freedom and improve their lives. It was released in India by Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and goes on to highlight that nearly one billion of the world’s estimated 6.7-billion population are migrants with women making up for almost half of that.Talking to reporters following the release of the report, Mr. Ahluwalia said that he would suggest the UNDP to also look at how the report is perceived around the world. They should come out with these reactions also. He further suggested that the report include other parameters for checking internal migration within a country. He said, it is important to know migration within countries.Our correspondent reports that the UN ranking clearly shows India has slipped in comparative terms in ensuring a better quality of life for its citizens as in the previous index, published for 2007 and 2008 together, it ranked 128, while the position the year before was 126.