Conclusion
Structured social policy formulation and its robust execution by the Government of India in adherence with constitutional provision and through rule of law bring forth obtrusive and remarkable growth in the attributes of social sustainability, predominantly in education, employment, and gender empowerment and equality. Though the inclinations show acceptable performance for these attributes, but when it is measured comparatively with other nations on the global map, India’s achievement subjected to social sustainability is very negligible and can be understood from its raking as 135 in the human development index by UNDP in 2014, amongst 187 countries, even below its neighbor Sri Lanka (UNDP, 2014). Human Development Report of India 2012 pointed that the asset distribution in India is pathetic because 5 percent of households in urban areas owned 38.3 percent assets, 35 percent of households owned 51.5 percent of the assets, and rest of the 60 percent of households belonging to deprived classes owned a meager 10.2 percent of assets, and the somewhat same is the distribution of assets in rural areas. This chasm of inequality contradicts the notion of inclusive growth and it still prevails in India after 67 years of independence. Thus, it is pertinent that the Indian government come up with a comprehensive social policy framework in pace with current social changes so that it will wipe out all kinds of discrimination, provide access to resources to all, reduce gender inequality to a large extent and put greater emphasis on the annihilation of caste which is the root cause of all discrimination in India for establishing a socially sustainable system in the true sense.
