Good Governance Index 2021

Context

The Government launched the Good Governance Index 2021 on Good Governance Day, December 25.

• December 25 is observed as the good governance day to commemorate the birth anniversary of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

What is Good Governance Index? 

• The index is prepared by the Department of Administration Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG).
• The GGI would help assess the status of governance in states and union territories.
• The objectives of GGI are:
  • to provide quantifiable data to compare the state of governance in all states and union territories
  • to enable them to formulate and implement suitable strategies for improving governance and shift to result oriented approaches and administration

Sector covered in the Index

The Good Governance Index, GGI 2021 Framework covered ten sectors and 58 indicators. 

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
10. Citizen-Centric Governance

Key-highlights of the Index

• Gujarat, Maharashtra and Goa top the composite rank score covering 10 sectors. 
• Gujarat registered 12.3 percent increase and Goa registered 24.7 percent increase over GGI 2019 indicators. 
• Gujarat has performed strongly in 5 of the 10 sectors including economic governance, human resource development, public infrastructure and utilities, social welfare and development, judiciary and public safety. 
• Maharashtra has performed strongly in agriculture and allied sector, human resource development, public infrastructure and utilities, social welfare and development. 
• Goa has performed strongly in agriculture and allied sector, commerce and industry, public infrastructure and utilities, economic governance, social welfare and development and environment.
• According to GGI 2021,Uttar Pradesh has shown an incremental growth of 8.9 % over GGI 2019 performance. 
• Among the sectors, UP has secured top position in the Commerce & Industry sector and has also shown increase in Social Welfare & Development and Judiciary & Public Safety. 
• Uttar Pradesh has also performed in citizen centric governance including public grievance redressal.
• According to GGI 2021, Jharkhand has shown an incremental growth of 12.6 percent over GGI 2019 performance. 
• Jharkhand has performed strongly in 7 sectors of the 10 sectors. 
• Rajasthan has shown an incremental growth of 1.7 percent over the GGI 2019 performance. 
• Rajasthan has topped the Other States (Group B) category in Judiciary and Public Safety, Environment & Citizen Centric Governance. 
• According to GGI 2021, North-East and Hill States category, Mizoram and Jammu and Kashmir have registered an overall increase of 10.4% and 3.7% respectively over GGI 2019. 
• Mizoram has performed strongly in commerce and industry, human resource development, public health and economic governance. 
• Jammu & Kashmir has performed strongly in the Commerce & Industry sector and has improved its scores in the Agriculture & Allied Sector, Public Infrastructure and Utilities and Judiciary and Public Safety sectors.
• According to GGI 2021, the Union Territories category, Delhi tops the composite rank registering a 14 percent increase over the GGI 2019 indicators. 
• Delhi has performed strongly in Agriculture & Allied Sectors, Commerce & Industry, Public Infrastructure and Utilities and Social Welfare & Development.
• The GGI 2021 says that 20 States have improved their composite GGI scores over the GGI 2019 index scores. 
• The sector-wise scores attained by the States and UT’s indicate strong performance in one or the other sector. 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 the positive direction.
• Top ranking States in the Sectors as well as in Composite Ranks is as follows-