Rohit Pawar has chosen to work on improving Human Development Index (HDI) as the newly elected MLA. NCP legislator and grandnephew of party chief Sharad Pawar has urged the Maha Vikas Aghadi government of the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress alliance to take HDI into account while implementing its development plans for the state.

The United Nations describes HDI as a "summary measure of average achievement in key dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, being knowledgeable and have a decent standard of living". "HDI was created to emphasize that people should be the ultimate criteria for assessing the development of a country, not economic growth alone," it adds.