Kerala, with lower per captia income has a better human development ranking than Punjab. Hence, per capita income is not a useful criterion at all and should not be used not be used to compere states. Do you agree? Discuss

It is Correct to say that per capita income is not a useful criterion at all and should not be used to compare states because money or higher income cannot buy all the goods and services that one needs to live well. There cannot be a pollution free environment in a colony of rich people unless the whole community takes preventive steps. Sometime, it is better to have collective services like security for the whole locality than to have individual security for one’s own house, Again a school may be opened for the children of whole community than for one or two children of a rich person. Kerala has a better human development ranking than Punjab because it has adequate provision of basic health and educational facilities. In Kerala, Infant because it has adequate provision of basic health and educational facilities. In Kerala, Infant Mortality Rate is 11 in comparison to 49 Punjab, where the per capita income is much more than Kerala. The states, therefore, cannot be compared on the basis of per capita income alone.