Seven districts of UP rank among the top 10 of Niti Aayog’s Aspirational districts for August 2021

As many as 112 districts across the country have been included in the NITI Aayog’s ‘Transformation of Aspirational Districts’ Programme which is assessed based on incremental progress made across 49 Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) under 5 broad socio-economic themes.

Lucknow:  In what comes as an encouraging development for the Yogi government, as many as 7 districts of Uttar Pradesh have secured rank in the top 10 best-performing aspirational districts in the ‘delta ranking’ released by the government think tank NITI Aayog for the month of August 2021.

As many as 112 districts across the country have been included in the NITI Aayog’s ‘Transformation of Aspirational Districts’ Programme which is assessed based on incremental progress made across 49 Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) under 5 broad socio-economic themes - Health & Nutrition, Education, Agriculture & Water Resources, Financial Inclusion & Skill Development and Infrastructure.

The districts namely, Siddharthnagar, Bahraich, Sonbhadra, Shravasti, Fatehpur, Chitrakoot and Chandauli have been placed in the top-10 districts. The ranking was released by NITI Ayog through its real-time monitoring dashboard http://championsofchange.gov.in.