: Kerala retains top rank in Niti Aayog’s sustainable development goals index, Bihar worst performer #IndiaNEWS Kerala has retained the top spot in Niti Aayog’s Sustainable Development Goals Index

Kerala retains top rank in Niti Aayog’s sustainable development goals index, Bihar worst performer #IndiaNEWS
Kerala has retained the top spot in Niti Aayog’s Sustainable Development Goals Index for the year 2020-’21, a report released by the government’s think-tank on Thursday showed. Bihar was the worst performer among all the states.The report assesses the progress of states and Union Territories on several parameters, including social, economic, and environmental. For this year’s report, the states were evaluated on 16 Sustainable Development Goals on a scale of zero to 100. Kerala came out on top with a score of 75, while Himachal Pradesh and Tamil Nadu came second, scoring 74 each. Andhra Pradesh was placed next in the list with 72 points. On the other hand, Bihar, Jharkhand and Assam were the worst-performing states this year with 52, 56, and 57 points, the report showed.Mizoram, Haryana and Uttarakhand were the three fastest-moving states, in terms of improvement of their respective scores since the last report. India’s overall score across sustainable development goals improved marginally by six points, from 60 in 2019-’20 to 66 in 2020-’21, the Niti Aayog said. The report added that 22 states and Union Territories were in the “front runner??? category (states with overall scores of 65 to 99). This is an improvement since the 2019-’20 report, in which...Read more

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