Assam, Bihar and J&K at bottom of Logistics Ease Across Different States (LEADS)
Assam, Bihar and Jammu & Kashmir featured on the bottom of the new Logistics Ease Across Different States (LEADS) index due to the lack of good transport facilities, scarcity of logistics services and bad track record in timeliness.
Best Performer – Gujarat, Punjab, Andhra Pradesh
The LEADS index is developed by the Commerce and Industry Ministry and Deloitte – ranks states in terms of the logistical support they provided to promote goods trade.
Assam and Uttar Pradesh – worst performers in Healthcare Access and Quality Index
The index is created by the Global Burden of Disease study and published in the medical journal The Lancet.
Best Performer – Goa and Kerala
Assam, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh are the laggards in UN’s India SDG index
Assam, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh are the laggards in the sustainable development goals (SDG) Index
Best Performer – Himachal Pradesh, Kerala and Tamil Nadu
Ranking of states released by federal policy think tank NITI Aayog and the UN.
The SDG India Index Ranking
India as a whole has a score of 58, showing the country has reached a little beyond the halfway mark in meeting the sustainable development goals adopted by India and 192 other nations in 2015.
Tamil Nadu topped the states in poverty reduction
Kerala topped in providing quality education
Kerala and Tamil Nadu also topped in facilitating good health and well-being.
Sikkim topped in Gender equality
National Annual Rural Sanitation Survey (NARSS) 2017-18
To check the progress in sanitation outcomes, including the open defecation free (ODF) status under Swacch Bharat Abhiyan.
Kerala and Mizoram are the best performing States, with 100% of open defecation free households
Kerala topped the Public Affairs Index 2018 by Public Affairs Centre (PAC)
Top 5 states – Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Karnataka and Gujarat
Bottom states – Bihar, Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh topped Ease Of Doing Business Ranking by DIPP & WB
Top 10 states – Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Haryana, Jharkhand, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Rajasthan and West Bengal.
Pune led the Ease of Living Index of Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs