Assamhas emerged as the top state which has made the maximum improvement among larger states in overall performance and is also among the top three most improved states in incremental performance insHealth indexfor 2019-20, which was released.
The report stated, Among the larger states, only four states improved their Base Year (2018-19) rank in the Reference Year (2019-20). The most significant progress was observed in Assam as it improved its ranking by three positions, from fifteenth to twelfth.
Assams total score has gone up from 43.39 in Base Year (2018-19) to 47.74 in Reference Year (2019-20).KeralaandTamil Naduoccupy the first and second ranks in the overall performance scores of 82.20 and 72.42 respectively.
Among the smaller states, Mizoram has jumped up by two places to capture the top slot. Meghalaya too has jumped by two places from 7th to 5th while Tripura, Manipur andArunachal Pradeshdropped their rank by one place each.