Gujarat has occupied the top slot in SKOCH State of Governance 2019. The credit goes to its Chief Minister Vijay Rupani who has introduced a number of innovative and progressive policies to make the public delivery system accountable, transparent and effective. The state has made tremendous progress to be at #1 spot once again after a gap of six years, when Narendra Modi was its Chief Minister. He was also on the cover of INCLUSION.
The state had lost momentum for a short duration when Anandiben took over as Chief Minister. Further change in leadership at the helm in the state with Vijay Rupani saw a revival with healthy growing economy, implementation of technology-based solutions, effective welfare delivery and a sharp focus on bringing in industries.
The year 2019 – Gujarat is the shining star among Indian states when it comes to governance and has displayed an allround ability to chart new territories through its values of accountability, transparency and delivery of welfare services at the last mile.
Gujarat topped on the back of a splendid performance in Health, Education, Power, Transport and e-Governance segments. There is a remarkable jump in the ranking of Gujarat. In 2018 Gujarat was ranked at the fifth position.
Gujarat topped this year's ranking with 104 projects from the state making entry to the final shortlist for evaluation. Out of these, 19 projects from Gujarat were found to be exceptionally impactful.
Gujarat gained the number one position in eight sectors - Health, Power, Education, e-Governance, Transport, Tourism & Culture, Governance and Infrastructure. This means in all these sectors the highest number of impactful entries came from Gujarat.
This story is from the January - March 2020 edition of Inclusion.
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