NITI Aayog , Union Health Ministry and World Bank recently released the fourth edition of the
“The Healthy states, Progressive India” between 2019-2020 .
19 large states, 8 small states and 7 union territories were the part of the survey. West Bengal and Ladakh were not included due to inadequate data.
The observations made among large states were:
- For the fourth time consecutively, Kerala tops the charts as the best performing state as far as health sector is concerned.
- Telangana and Tamil Nadu secured the second position.
- Uttar Pradesh was ranked the lowest, but it has seen improvements in 33 major health indicators.
- Assam was also placed at the bottom but showed significant improvement in health care as well.
- Rajasthan showed weak performance in both incremental ad overall performance.
In the smaller states:
- Mizoram secured the top position in overall and incremental performance.
- Nagaland was at the bottom.
- Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh fared badly in both overall and incremental performance.
States and UTs:
- Chandigarh was at the top.
- Dadra and Nagar Haveli were at number 2
- Jammu and Kashmir ranked last in overall performance but lead in terms of incremental performance. Delhi performed the same.
