Indian Government’s Think Tank Niti Aayog released the fourth Health Index on Monday, and once again Kerala has emerged as the top-ranking state in terms of overall health performance among larger states.
This latest edition of the Health Index took into account the period 2019-20 (reference year). Following Kerala in the ranking is Tamil Nadu and Telangana which have emerged as the second and third best performers, meanwhile BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh is the worst. The report has been prepared in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare with technical assistance from the World Bank.
At the same time, the report also mentioned that Uttar Pradesh ranked at the top in terms of incremental performance by registering the highest incremental change from the base year (2018-19) to reference year (2019-20).
PTI said “Among the smaller states, Mizoram emerged as the best performer in overall performance as well as incremental performance, while among UTs, Delhi and Jammu & Kashmir ranked among the bottom UTs in terms of overall performance but emerged as the leading performer in terms of incremental performance.”