Good Governance Index 2021 launched on Good Governance Day by Union Minister of Home Affairs

What is the News?

The Union Minister of Home Affairs has released the Good Governance Index 2021 on Good Governance Day.

What is the Good Governance Index 2021?

Good Governance Index 2021 has been prepared by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG).

Aim: To create a tool that can be used uniformly across the States to assess the impact of various interventions taken up by the Central and State Governments, including UTs.

Sectors: The index covers ten sectors and 58 indicators. The sectors are 1) Agriculture and Allied Sectors, 2) Commerce & Industries, 3) Human Resource Development, 4) Public Health, 5.) Public Infrastructure & Utilities, 6) Economic Governance, 7) Social Welfare & Development, 8) Judicial & Public Security, 9) Environment, and 10) Citizen-Centric Governance. 

Categories: The index categorises States and UTs into four categories, i.e., (i) Other States – Group A; (ii) Other States – Group B; (iii) North-East and Hill States; and (iv) Union Territories.

What are the key findings of the index?

Gujarat has topped the composite ranking in the Index followed by Maharashtra and Goa. 

Delhi has topped the Union territories composite ranking category.

Around 20 states have improved their composite GGI scores over the GGI 2019 index scores. 

States and UTs such as UP, Jharkhand, Mizoram and J&K have shown incremental growth.

Analysis of scoring also suggests that there is a very marginal difference among the states in their composite governance scores. This indicates that overall governance in the states of India is moving in a positive direction.

Source: This post is based on the article ‘Good Governance Index 2021 launched on Good Governance Day by Union Minister of Home Affairs’ published in PIB on 25th Dec 2021.