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Human capital is an essential element for sustainability in the knowledge economy. Human capital index (HCI) is a measure of the quantity and quality of education, health and survival components of the human capital of a country or a region. This study aims to calculate HCI for 28 states and seven union territories of India and explore disparity among these on different HCI indicators.

The World Bank methodology is used to calculate survival and education components of the HCI whereas, health component is based on secondary data due to data limitations. Based on control charts of mean with three sigma limits, the performance of each state and union territory is assessed for a given HCI parameter and classified as good, average or below average.

For survival parameter of HCI, 10 states are above average limit, 10 are within the average limit and 15 states are below the average limit. Contrary, 15 states are within the average limit in the education parameter of HCI. The states are almost equally divided in all the three categories for health parameter of HCI. Overall, Kerala tops the list, but Uttar Pradesh and Bihar have the worst performance in all three parameters of HCI.

This attempt to identify disparity in state wise HCI is a significant contribution that can guide policymakers to formulate effective and specific policies that are inclusive of different perspectives and promote country’s growth.

Construction workers’ health and safety (CWHS) research in India has not gained much attention among researchers. This study aims to review articles related to CWHS research in India using a science mapping approach.

A total number of 64 journal articles published between 2004 and 2019 were extracted from the Scopus database using keywords including “construction safety,” “occupational health,” “ergonomics in construction,” etc. VOSviewer software was used to examine the influential keywords, documents, sources and authors in the field of CWHS.

The study found that most of the current work focuses on safety management, safety climate, safety performance, musculoskeletal disorders and behavior-based safety. The result indicates no theoretical basis for the theories and learning methods for the existing studies.

The findings open up a research gap that researchers explore to enhance workers’ health and safety within the Indian construction environment.

The paper is the first article to provide a better understanding of current research in the field of CWHS in India by analyzing its growth through the science mapping approach.