The Malkangiri district has come first among Aspirational Districts of the State in the NITI Aayog First Delta Ranking (incremental progress) for the Aspirational Districts.
In fact, Collector Manish Kumar Agarwal along with his staff have worked hard during the last two months to improve the socioeconomic status of the Aspirational District.
Delta Ranking is based on self-reported data of districts between March 31, 2018 to May 31, 2018 across five developmental areas of health and nutrition, education, agriculture and water resources, financial inclusion and skill development and basic infrastructure.
Apart from emerging first in the State, Malkangiri is 27 th in the country with an improvement of Delta 8.1, revealed a report of the NITI Aayog.
Malkangiri is amongst the top most improved districts in the field of agriculture with an all India rank 3.
Focus given on aspects like productivity, price realisation, quality seed distribution, soil health cards and institutional support in form of crop insurance has helped in improving income of farmers.
Recently, the district administration has successfully helped farmers in getting a good price for groundnut by ensuring procurement at MSP through the Markfed.