Odisha’s Gajapati Dist Tops Niti Aayog Aspirational Districts Ranking in August

New Delhi: Odisha’s Gajapati district occupied the top position in overall Delta Rankings under Aspirational District Program for the month of August 2021, released by the government think tank Niti Aayog on Friday.

Gajapati district stood number one in over all Delta Rank out of 117 Districts all over the country.

“Delta Rankings under Aspirational District Program for the month of Aug 2021 has been released today & Gajapati District stood at No.1 in over all Delta Rank out of 117 Districts all over the Country. Agriculture & Water Resources Sector has stood at No-1 & Basic Infrastructure stood at No-2 during this http://month.In over all there is a change in composite score from July-Aug 2021 : 2.7 (which is the highest transformation among the 117 Aspirational districts”, the Gajapati Collector tweeted.

<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>Delta Rankings under Aspirational District Program for the month of Aug 2021 has been released today &amp; Gajapati District stood at No.1 in over all Delta Rank out of 117 Districts all over the Country. Agriculture &amp; Water Resources Sector has stood at No-1 &amp; Basic <a href=”https://t.co/gHXhGzZi16″>pic.twitter.com/gHXhGzZi16</a></p>&mdash; Collector Gajapati (@DM_Gajapati) <a href=”https://twitter.com/DM_Gajapati/status/1443886161101942786?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>October 1, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>

The Delta Rankings took into account incremental progress made by aspirational districts across six developmental areas. 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.

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