“That our State’s achievement in terms of human development is urban centric, the rural areas are not accessible to health care, schools and other basic amenities”, admitted the Chief Minister, while assuring to make Meghalaya able to harness its potential by making the most essential needs for human development reached to the rural areas.
“Meghalaya is considered as a state of unfulfilled potential and it is now time to transform it”, the Chief Minister while appreciating the independent and critical assessment made by the report promised to take those recommendations to enable the State address the shortcomings. He also said that a committee will be constituted to monitor the progress of the implemented Central and State Government schemes that aims at raising human development in the State. State Chief secretary Ranjan Chatterjee said that this research policy paper is a question of politics and economics. “This report will determine the marginalized people and also shape the government policies and programmes in reaching them”. Chatterjee is off the view that the report is crucial especially when the State is attempting to address the core issues of human developments in the State.
The State Human Development Report was finally published is part of the UNDP programme and its was finally published after soliciting the views from the Union Planning Commission, the various departments and other agencies.