As a report card of the last decade of the performance of the governments at the centre and the states, the India Human Development Report is a useful summary. Overlooking the problems that a ten-year summary can possess for a billion-plus population, the report is a good beginning. The major inferences that it draws show that the overall direction of the growth-led development in the country is headed in the correct direction. There is also an element of under-statement in the calculation of the country’s human development index. The rank is calculated on the basis of consumption expenditure and not income.