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A governance index computed by the Central government and released in Delhi yesterday places Goa in an unflattering position of 16 in company of four other worst governed States, including Odisha, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand.
Goa’s neighbours -- Maharashtra and Karnataka -- feature in the top three States at Rank 2 and 3 respectively.
Nevertheless, the Governance Index Report assesses Goa as the best governed State in human resource development giving it the first rank in the sector. In the Public Health sector too, Goa has been ranked at number two.
Meanwhile, PTI reports that the southern state of Tamil Nadu has bagged the top position in the composite ranking for good governance, followed by Maharashtra and Karnataka, according to data provided by the Personnel Ministry.
Chhattisgarh has got the fourth position, followed by Andhra Pradesh (fifth), Gujarat (sixth), Haryana (seventh) and Kerala at the eight rank, it said.
Madhya Pradesh is at the ninth rank, West Bengal at the tenth position, followed by Telangana (11th), Rajasthan (12th), Punjab (13th), Orissa (14th), Bihar (15th), Goa (16th), Uttar Pradesh (17th) and Jharkhand at eighteen position in the big states category.
The states and union territories have been divided into three groups -- big states, north-east and hill states, and union territories -- for the rankings based on certain indicators separately.
In the NE and hill category, Himachal Pradesh has topped the ranking followed by Uttarakhand, Tripura, Mizoram, Sikkim, Assam, Jammu and Kashmir (now divided into two union territories of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh), Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh.
Among the union territories, Pondicherry has got the first position, followed by Chandigarh, Delhi, Daman and Diu, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Lakshadweep.
“At present there is no uniform index to objectively assess the state of good governance in states. The good governance index attempts to create a tool which can be used to assess the states of governance and impact of various interventions taken by state govts and the UTs,” the Personnel Ministry has said.GOOD GOVERNANCE: Tamil Nadu has bagged the top position in the composite ranking for good governance, followed by Maharashtra and Karnataka, according to data provided by the Personnel Ministry
AGRICULTURE: Madhya Pradesh has got first position followed by Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh in the big states category. Mizoram has got the first position in north-east and hill states category and Daman and Diu has bagged the top slot in the UT category for the sector
COMMERCE: Jharkhand bagged the first position in big states category, followed by Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Among the north-east and hill states, Uttarakhand has achieved the top rank, whereas Delhi is at the first rank in the union territories category
ECO GOVERNANCE: Karnataka got first position followed by M’rashtra, Telangana, Gujarat and TN. Uttarakhand got the top rank in north-east and hill states category. Delhi got the first position in the union territories category for the sector
