UP tops in Commerce and Industry sector
Gujarat, Maharashtra and Goa emerged as the top three States while Delhi stood number one in the list of Union Territories (UTs) in the Good Governance Index (GGI) 2020-21 released by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances on Saturday.
Andhra Pradesh topped list of States in the Agriculture and Allied Sector while Telangana was number one in the Commerce and Industry sector. Uttar Pradesh has secured top position in Commerce and Industry sector and also shown increase in Social Welfare and Development, Judiciary, Public Safety and citizen Centric governance.
Gujarat topped the composite ranking in the 58 indicator index followed by Maharashtra and Goa. Gujarat registered an over 12 per cent increase and Goa registered a nearly 25 per cent increase over the indicators recorded by these states in the last index issued in 2019.
Gujarat has performed strongly in economic governance, human resource development, public infrastructure and utilities, social welfare and development, judiciary and public safety, while Maharashtra scored in agriculture and allied sector, human resource development, public infrastructure and utilities, social welfare and development. Goa's showed good performance was in agriculture and allied sector, commerce and industry, public infrastructure and utilities, economic governance, social welfare and development and environment.
While the States have been divided in four separate groups, Uttar Pradesh ranked at fifth position in Group B which is led by Madhya Pradesh. Uttar Pradesh which has shown incremental growth of nearly 9 per cent over its 2019 performance and secured the top position in the commerce and industry sector, which was one of the 10 sectors of good governance that were covered by the index.
Uttar Pradesh has registered an 8.9 per cent improvement in the GGI indicators in the period 2019 to 2021 which Jammu and Kashmir registered an improvement of 3.7 per cent in the same period.
In the union territories category, Delhi tops the composite rank registering a 14 per cent increase over the GGI 2019 indicators. Delhi has performed strongly in agriculture and allied sectors, commerce and industry, public infrastructure and utilities and social welfare and development.
The report said that Jharkhand has shown an incremental growth of 12.6 percent over GGI 2019 performance. Jharkhand has performed strongly in 7 sectors of the 10 sectors. Rajasthan has shown an incremental growth of 1.7 percent over the GGI 2019 performance. Rajasthan has topped the Other States (Group B) category in Judiciary and Public Safety, Environment & Citizen Centric Governance.
The score and ranks for GGI 2020-21 are computed based on 58 indicators and 10 sectors instead of 50 Indicators and nine sectors of GGI 2019. The sectors are agriculture and allied sectors, commerce and industries, human resource development, public health, public infrastructure and utilities, economic governance, social welfare and development, judicial and public security, environment and citizen-centric governance. As many as 20 states have improved their composite GGI scores in 2021.
In the Northeast and Hill States category, Mizoram, and Jammu and Kashmir have registered an overall increase of 10.4 per cent and 3.7 per cent respectively over GGI 2019. Mizoram has performed strongly in commerce and industry, human resource development, public health and economic governance. Jammu and Kashmir has performed strongly in commerce and industry sector and has improved its scores in agriculture and allied sector, public infrastructure and utilities and judiciary and public safety sectors.
The GGI 2020-21 categorises states and union territories into four categories, -- other states - Group A; other states - group B; North-East and hill states and union territories.