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Enlarging people’s choice and enhancing human capabilities”–the well-known definition propounded by Human Development report (HDR) 1990–led the path for many economists and researchers to turn the lime light on and foray in this direction against predefined notions of economic development and growth. Human development eventually has become a broader and more acceptable concept. Since then, tremendous amount of work has been done in this direction for countries across world. However, such indices for South Asian countries exclusively and comparison therein has remained unattended. The present paper intends to evaluate the human development indices and three key dimension of human development–health, literacy and income. In 2010, HDR, UNDP, proposed the Inequality Adjusted Human Development Index [1] which tried to gauge the subgroup inequality. The Atkinson Inequality Index …