GROSS NATIONAL HAPPINESS Tangilizing the

Intangible

Group 10

• Avishek Singh (Roll No.10 )

• Kumud Chandra (Roll No.20 )
• Nillohit (Roll No.30 )
• Sandeep Hishikar (Roll No.40 )
• Sulabh Manchanda (Roll No.50 )
• Sami Khan (Roll No. 60)
 Economics as if people mattered

• Well-being - People’s experience of their

quality of life
• What do we mean by well-being?
• Measuring happiness and well-being
• Re-thinking progress

• What can governments do?

 General Parameters for GNH
• Per capita income
• Life expectancy
• Infant and maternal mortality rates
• Health coverage
• School enrolment
• Literacy rates
• Social, emotional , physical &financial well
being
 GNH - A rational and human approach to development

• GNH stand for holistic need of the human

• GNH seeks to promote a conscious, inner
search for happiness.
• GNH recognises that happiness not as
competition against each other but for all.
 GNH in context of Bhutan
• New institutional structures and decision-making
processes that better reflect GNH
• Presentation of action plans or manifestos of political
parties and prospective candidates with GNH as their
organizing principle.
• Steady coverage of GNH issues by TV and
newspapers, both national and international
• Elaboration of GNH as a sound concept and the
construction of GNH indicators for application in plan
and policy formulation.
 FOUR PILLARS of Bhutan GNH

• Sustainable and equitable socio-economic

development
• Conservation of the environment
• Preservation and promotion of culture
• Good governance
 Possibilities of GNH in India and its
challenges
• Remote possibility of promoting GNH
• Large population
• Huge no. of population still below the
poverty line.
• Gap between rural and urban India
• Validity of Parameters of measuring GNH
• Too huge an exercise
 International approach to GNH
• Not widely accepted even after 3 decades of
its inception in Bhutan
• No international consensus or collaboration
for promoting and establishing GNH
• International comparison of well-being will
be difficult on this model
• Social and individual well-being are
remarkably transcultural
 Future of GNH
• GNH as a potential support for GDP
• GNH to be developed as a more
comprehensive indicator
• Parameters to be redefined
• Measurement of parameters to be redefined
• To be developed as over all tool for
accountability
THANK