India ranked 119th in the United Nation's Human Development Index due to poor social infrastructure, mainly in areas of education and healthcare. In the 'Human Development Report 2010' by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) that covered 169 countries and territories, India's position is way below China (89th spot) and Sri Lanka (91). India came in the 10th position as far as improvement in the income index was concerned but lagged behind neighbouring countries like Bangladesh and Pakistan in education and healthcare. This year's report assumes importance as it comes 20 years after the first Human Development Report released by UNDP yesterday. Reacting to the latest UNDP Human Development Report Chief Economic Advisor Kaushik Basu said that country's goal is to improve overall human development and not merely ensure economic growth. The Chief Economic Advisor said this during the launch of the report in New Delhi by the United Nations Development Programme. He, however, added that economic growth and rise in income levels are necessary for carrying out human development initiatives like providing access to education and health, gender equality, poverty eradication and so on. The UNDP report was released yesterday at various places across the world.Many of the poorest countries made the greatest gains in health, education and basic living standards in recent decades. According to a detailed new U.N. report released, the 2010 Human Development Report (HDR), entitled “The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development,” shows deep disparities between women and men on a wide range of development issues, and that wide inequalities exist among countries with a prevalence of extreme multidimensional poverty in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. The analysis challenged purely economic measures of national achievement and helped lay the conceptual foundation for the UN Millennium Development Goals, calling for consistent global tracking of progress in health, education and overall living standards. According to the report, “There is no automatic link between economic growth and human progress.” UNDP Administrator Helen Clark, who also attended the launch, said the report showed that “people today are healthier, wealthier and better educated than before.” The report shows life expectancy climbed from 59 years in 1970 to 70 in 2010. Other figures indicate that school enrolment rose from just 55 percent of all primary and secondary school-age children to 70 percent, and per capita GDP doubled to more than 10,000 U.S. dollars.