Odisha’s Bolangir Placed Second In Niti Aayog’s Aspirational Districts Ranking

New Delhi: Bolangir district of Odisha has been placed at the second position in the list of aspirational districts ranked by the government think tank Niti Aayog in December, 2019.

Chandauli district in Uttar Pradesh topped the list while YSR (Andhra Pradesh) got the third positions, Niti Aayog said in a tweet.

Sahibganj (Jharkhand) has been ranked at the fourth spot and Hailakandi(Assam) at the fifth place.

The delta rankings took into account incremental progress made by over 112 aspirational districts across six developmental areas in December 2019.

Health and nutrition, education, agriculture and water resources, financial inclusion, skill development and basic infrastructure were the development areas that were taken into consideration for the ranking.

Aspirational districts programme, launched in January 2018, aims to transform districts that have shown relatively lesser progress in key social areas and have emerged as pockets of under-development.

The ranking of aspirational districts is done every month.

With Agency input