This note is on the MANUSH axioms (signifying Monotonicity, Anonymity, Normalisation, Uniformity, Shortfall Sensitivity, and Hiatus sensitivity to level), a set of characteristics that a Human Development Index (HDI) should satisfy. It also proposes a measure ℋα that for α≥2 satisfies the MANUSH axioms. A special case of this is the additive inverse of the distance from the ideal, the displaced ideal measure, when α=2. For its axiomatic advantages, we propose to make use of the displaced ideal measure, ℋ2, in the computation of HDI replacing the current geometric mean measure.