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1. Human Development Index ...................................... 17 25. World Climate and Security Report 2020 ................. 27
8. Gender Social Norms Index ...................................... 21 32. International Religious Freedom Report ................... 29
9. A New era for girls: Report ....................................... 21 33. Freedom in the World Report .................................... 30
10. Ease of Doing Business Index ................................... 21 34. Henley Passport Index ............................................... 30
11. Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index.............. 22 35. QS Indian University Rankings ................................. 31
14. World Employment and Social Outlook Trends 2020 38. Composite Water Management Index ....................... 32
(WESO) ............................................................................. 23
39. India Justice Report 2019 .......................................... 33
15. Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS)................ 23
40. India Internet 2019 .................................................... 33
16. Sustainability Index and Flourishing Index ............... 24
41. Good Governance Index ............................................ 33
17. Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) 2019 42. State Energy Efficiency Index 2019 .......................... 34
Global Report ..................................................................... 24
43. Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) ............. 34
18. Services Trade Restrictiveness Index ........................ 24
44. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health Report......... 35
19. International Intellectual Property Index ................... 25
45. India Child Well-Being Report ................................. 35
20. Global Health Security Index .................................... 25
46. School Education Quality Index ................................ 36
21. World Air Quality Report 2019 ................................ 26
47. All India Survey on Higher Education 2018-19…. .. 37
22. Business-to-consumer E-commerce index ................ 26
48. Municipal Performance Index 2019 .......................... 38
23. World Water Development Report............................ 26
49. Ease of Living Index ................................................. 38
24. Statement of the State of the Global Climate in 2019
50. World Happiness Report ........................................... 38
Report ................................................................................ 26
TARGET 2020
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Financial Organisations
4. Remittance Report
World Bank
8. Energy Efficiency Implementation Readiness
18. Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report World Economic Forum (WEF)
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38. Global Financial System Report Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
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45. Sustainability Index and Flourishing Index WHO, UNICEF and THE LANCET
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70. State of World Population Report United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
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/ UN Environment
84. Global Environment Outlook
103. World Intellectual Property Report World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)
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106. Asian Infrastructure Finance Report 2019 Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)
110. Red Book (Uranium Report) IAEA+ Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA)
Non-Profit Organisations
117. The Energy Report & Living Planet Report World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)
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135. Financial Secrecy Index Tax Justice Network, UK based advocacy group
138. Commitment to Reduce Inequality Index Oxfam and Development Finance International
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154. World Inequality Report World Inequality Lab, Paris School of Economics
165. State Rooftop Solar Attractiveness Index (SARAL) Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
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Sustainable Tourism in the Indian Himalayan NITI Aayog and ICIMOD (International Centre for
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Region Integrated Mountain Development)
179. State Energy Efficiency Preparedness Index NITI Aayog & Bureau of Energy Efficiency
180. School Education Quality Index (SEQI) NITI Aayog, MHRD and World Bank
181. India Innovation Index 2019 NITI Aayog with Institute for Competitiveness
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193. Index of Internet Readiness of Indian States IAMAI and Indicus Analytics
199. Logistics Ease Across Different States Index Ministry of Commerce and Industry
200. Composite District Infrastructure Index Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region
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The index is calculated for 157 countries. United Nation Development Programme
(UNDP) calculates Human Development
It seeks to measure the amount of human capital that a Index.
child born today can expect to attain by age 18. HDI includes Health, Education and Per
The components of HCI are, capita Income components.
HCI excludes Per capita income and
1.Survival - measured by under-5 mortality rates included quality adjustments in learning.
2.Expected years of Quality-adjusted school - This makes HCI far less representative of
measured by quantity and quality of education human capital development than the index
claims to be.
3.Health environment - measured by Adult survival
rates and rate of stunting for children under 5.
The HCI outcome of each country is given as a fraction of maximum value of 1.
The HCI for India has been estimated at 0.44 and India is ranked at115thposition in the index.
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North America and Europe mostly have HCI value of above 0.75, while South Asia and Sub Saharan Africa
have the lowest HCI among the regions.
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A number of similarly-placed economies including Colombia, South Africa and Turkey improved over the past
year and hence have overtaken India.
The study highlighted that the global economy is unprepared for a major slowdown.
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Ranked in the bottom-five in terms of women's health and survival and economic participation.
On health and survival, four large countries such as Pakistan, India, Vietnam and China fare badly with
millions of women not getting the same access to health as men.
It has closed two-thirds of its overall gender gap (score of 66.8%)
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A higher ranking of country in this list means that its regulatory environment is more conducive and
favourable for the starting and operation of firms.
According to the report, New Zealand retained its 1st position followed by Singapore, Hong Kong and
Denmark.
Somalia was ranked at 190th spot.
India ranks at63rdamong 190 countries, moved 14 places from the previous year (77 th rank in 2018).
The report assesses improvement in ease of doing business environment in Delhi and Mumbai.
In the last 5 years, India‘s ranking has improved 79 places - to 63 in 2019 from 142 in 2014.
Status in individual parameter ranking –
i. Biggest jump in ―resolving insolvency" category (to 52nd rank from 108th)
ii. Improved substantially in Dealing with Construction Permits (to 27th from 52nd) and ―Trading across
Borders" (to 68th from 80th).
iii. Improved in ―Registering Property" to 154th rank from 166th despite a drop-in score
iv. Deteriorated in ―protecting minority investors" (from 7th to 13th position) and ―getting electricity"
(from 22nd to 25th).
v. Ranking remained unchanged in ―enforcing contracts" at 163rd
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MICS is designed to collect statistically sound, internationally comparable estimates of about 130 indicators to
assess the situation of children, women and men in the areas of health, education, and child protection.
It is a rich source of data on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), collecting about 33 SDG indicators.
It covers topics and indicators related to children‘s well-being, women, and households, ranging from health
and education to child protection and water and sanitation.
In the most recent rounds of MICS, additional data are also collected on men.
Data can be disaggregated for young people age 15-24 and by gender.
MICS 2019 is jointly conducted by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) and UNICEF.
According to the report Bangladesh records sharp decline in Child malnutrition over the last six years.
The survey also records improvement in access to and use of toilets, birth registration, ante-natal care
coverage, institutional deliveries and similar other parameters indicating an overall improvement in child and
mother health in the country.
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It was launched in 2014 and it ranks countries (both OECD and non-OECD) based on their services trade
policies.
The index is now available for 2018 for a total of 45 economies and 22 sectors.
It has placed Indian service sector as highly restrictive in areas such as FDI.
India has found problems with the current method under which index is being calculated.
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Global Health Security Index finds that no country is adequately prepared to deal with the new strain of
coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) that is causing worldwide panic.
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According to the report titled Statement of the State of the Global Climate in 2019, record-high temperatures
were reported in India, Australia, Japan and Europe in 2019, adversely affecting public health.
India was among the most severely affected by heat waves, the report noted.
Between May and June 2019, very high temperatures were observed.
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3. Hybrid regime
4. Authoritarian regime.
In 2019, India slipped 10 places to 51stposition, It is placed in the ―flawed democracy‖ category.
Its score, down from from 7.23 in 2018 to 6.90 in 2019, is its lowest ever since the Democracy Index was
begun in 2006.
The report mentioned the stripping of Jammu and Kashmir‘s special status with the repeal of Articles 370 and
35A, the various security measures that followed the bifurcation of the state including restriction of Internet
access, and the exclusion of 1.9 million people from the final NRC (National Register of Citizens) in Assam,
eroded civil liberties in the nation.
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Globally, malaria cases reported in 2018 is marginally lower than the number of cases in 2017.
Africa and India saw the maximum dip in malaria cases between 2017 and 2018, but they still accounted for
85 per cent deaths.
Nigeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United Republic of Tanzania, Angola, Mozambique and Niger
reported higher number of cases in the African region.
The African region accounted for 94% of all malarial deaths
India (58%), Indonesia (21%) and Myanmar (12%) accounted for the total reported deaths in the region.
Status of India -It is the highest burden country in the South-East Asia region.
Ithas one of the lowest funding per person at risk of being inflicted with malaria at just US$0.2.
It showed a reduction in reported cases of 51 per cent compared to 2017 and of 60 per cent compared to 2016.
In the South-East Asia region, the major challenges remain decreased funding, treatment failures and vector
resistance to pyrethroids, the insectides used against the vectors.
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USCIRF also recommends to the State Department that non-state actors cited for similarly severe violations
be designated as ―entities of particular concern‖ (EPCs).
According to the report India is facing declining religious freedom, apart from increased securitization and
politicization of religion.
India continues to remain a Tier II country of the list, Tier II countries are those in which violations engaged
in or tolerated by the government are serious and characterized by at least one of the elements of systematic,
ongoing, and egregious (horrible)‘.
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Through which a composite score was computed between the range of 0-100 for each State and UT based on
their aggregate performance across 13 SDGs, which indicates the average performance of State/UT towards
achieving 13 SDGs & their respective targets.
If a State/UT achieves a score of 100, it signifies that it has achieved the 2030 national targets.
The higher the score of a State/UT, the greater the distance to the target achieved.
Classification Criteria based on SDG India Index Score is as follows:
1. Aspirant: 0-49
2. Performer: 50-64
3. Front Runner: 65-99
4. Achiever: 100
37. SARAL
Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, launched the ‗State Rooftop Solar Attractiveness Index‘ (SARAL).
SARAL has been designed collaboratively by,
1. The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE),
2. Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation (SSEF),
3. Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) and
4. Ernst & Young (EY).
It has been developed to evaluate Indian states based on their attractiveness for rooftop development.
It is the first of its kind index to provide a comprehensive overview of state-level measures adopted to facilitate
rooftop solar deployment.
It currently captures 5 key aspects,
1. Robustness of policy framework
2. Implementation environment
3. Investment climate
4. Consumer experience
5. Business ecosystem
It encourages each state to assess the initiatives taken so far, and what it can do to improve its solar rooftop
ecosystem.
This will help states to channelize investments that can eventually help the sector grow.
In is also to create more conducive environment for solar rooftop installations and lead to accelerated growth
of the sector.
The Ministry has set a target of 175 GW of renewable energy capacity by 2022, in that 100 GW solar power is
to be operational by 2022, of which 40 GW is expected to come from grid connected solar rooftops.
Karnataka has been placed at the first rank in the Index followed by Telangana, Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh.
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Meghalaya, Uttarakhand and Nagaland are the bottom three states in the index.
While Tripura has emerged as top performer in north-east, Rajasthan has emerged as the best performer in
the incremental progress over last two years.
Some of the other important findings from the recent report are,
1. India is facing its ―worst‖ water crisis in history and that the demand for potable water will outstrip
supply by 2030, if steps are not taken.
2. 21 cities, including Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai and Hyderabad, will run out of groundwater by 2020,
affecting 100 million people.
3. Critical groundwater resources, which accounted for 40% of the water supply, are being depleted at
―unsustainable‖ rates and up to 70% of the supply is ―contaminated‖.
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The rankings were launched by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, and the
Centre for Good Governance.
The objectives of GGI are to provide quantifiable data to compare the state of governance in all States and
UTs.
It enables them to formulate and implement suitable strategies for improving governance and shift to result
oriented approaches and administration.
It takes into account 10 sectors –
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.
The states and UTs are divided into three groups -- big states,
north-east & Hill states and UTs.
Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh and
Andhra Pradesh topped among the ‗Big States‘.Odisha, Bihar,
Goa, and UP, are poor performers.
Among the North-East and Hill States, Himachal Pradesh
Uttarakhand, Tripura, Mizoram and Sikkim are top
performers.
J&K, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh are poor performers.
Puducherry is the best governed Union Territory followed by Chandigarh and Delhi. Lakshadweep is the worst
performing UT.
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The report is based on a survey conducted in 26 districts across 24 states; it also highlights a gender gap in
schooling.
Recent estimates shows that only 37.4% of kids below six are able to recognize at least letters and only 25.6%
can do additions, the survey has found
The government-run preschool system is losing out to private schools in terms of enrolment.
The lack of age-appropriate skills is alarming as this gap at an early age can impact the entire education supply
chain in India.
The report underlined the need to focus on the early years to improve the basics of education
The study also showed how a better education level among mothers can lead to better outcomes among
children in preschools and early schools.
The findings also showed that more girls are enrolled in government institutions and more boys in private
institutions.
The gap in enrolment between boys and girls is larger among 6-8 year olds, with 61.1% of all girls versus 52.1%
of all boys in this age group going to a government institution.
It is to be noted that in India government preschool system is managed through the Centre‘s Integrated Child
Development scheme, under the ministry of women and child development, while schools come under the
education ministries at the Centre and in the states.
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Poor nutrition and low child survival rate has pushed Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh to the bottom of an
index.
Findings based on a study of 24 data indicators
including,
1. The indicators are a mix of health, education,
human rights, family income and so on.
2. Health indicators such as,
o Stunting and Infant mortality, Under-five
mortality rate,
o Mental health/illnesses, Sex-ratio,
o Adolescent pregnancy (women aged 15 to 19
years who were already mothers or
pregnant),
3. Education indicators such as passing tenth grade,
o The pupil-teacher ratio, basic reading and
math skills, drop-out rates in secondary
school,
4. Crime indicators such as juvenile crimes, suicide rates,
5. Economic indicators such as houselessness, households with income less than Rs 5,000 and
o Labour indicators such as manual scavenging.
6. All indicators were brought to a common scale of measurement and normalised.
Among the UTs, the National Capital Territories of Delhi scored 0.53, closely followed by Dadra Nagar Haveli
at 0.52.
The report is important considering that 40% of the country‘s population is made of children between the ages
of 1 and 18.
States/UT Overall Performance
Ranking
46. School Education Quality Index
The index is jointly released by the NITI Aayog, the Top 3 Bottom 3
Ministry of Human Resource Development, and the World
Bank.
Large States Kerala Punjab
It is to evaluate the performance of States and UTs in the
school education sector. (20)
Rajasthan J&K
It assesses States based on learning outcomes, access,
equity and infrastructure and facilities, using survey data, Karnataka UP
self-reported data from States and third-party verification.
The ranking is based on 30 indicators in 2 broad Manipur Sikkim
categories,
Small States
Tripura Meghalaya
i. Outcomes that consisted of learning, access,
infrastructure & facilities, and equity outcomes (8)
Goa Arunachal
ii. Governance processes aiding outcomes
Pradesh
Some of the parameters are,
i. The number of schools with the largest number of Chandigarh Daman & Diu
toilets for girl children
UT
ii. The average score of students in mathematics and Dadra & Andaman &
language in classes III, V, and VIII, Nagar Haveli Nicobar
iii. The transition rate of students from primary to
upper primary levels and also from upper primary Delhi Lakshadweep
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The report is based on voluntary uploading of data by institutions of Higher Education listed in government
portal.
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According to the report Finland‘s residents enjoy a high quality of life, security and public services, with rates
of inequality and poverty among the lowest of all OECD countries
As in each of the previous seven reports, Nordic states dominated the top ten, along with countries such as
Switzerland, New Zealand and Austria.
Luxembourg also edged into the tenth spot for the first time this year.
India ranks 144 in the ranking
Meanwhile, the countries at the bottom of this year‘s ranking are those afflicted by violent conflicts and
extreme poverty, with Zimbabwe, South Sudan and Afghanistan classed as the world‘s least happy countries.
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