Summary: For a democratic nation like India to achieve the goal of high HDI (HDI of 0.800 and above), different stake holders like political leaders, Government officials, PRIs, the media, student community, NGOs, civil society, elected representatives, etc will have to be well acquainted with multi dimensional nature of human development and efforts needed to promote different components of HD. The dissemination of the message of human development should result in informed policy intervention and faithful execution. While some states have shown a lot of enthusiasm in implementing in project, the progress achieved by some states in first tier and most of the states in the second tier has been rather slow. Similarly some of the National Resource Institutions have not been able to produce the deliverables expected from them within the agreed time frame. This calls for more close monitoring of the project activities by the Planning Commission and the UNDP so that the lagging states /Institutions can catch up with others who are performing well. It is recognized that engendering human development is an important component of human development and accordingly it has been integrated into the project after the first year of the project. There is need to institutionalize gender development as part of the human development by forming a gender development unit in the Human Development Division in the Planning Department of each state to formulate action plans relating to gender development. This action plan should be prepared In consultation with institutions/ universities engaged in research in women studies, NGOs etc. As regards National Resource Institutions, to ensure timely deliverables expected from them, there should be a mechanism for mutual discussion and renewed understanding about the exact deliverables and the time frame for each of the deliverables. Lessons Learnt: The important lesson that can be learnt from the experience of implementing this Project,