Mizoram's Mamit district tops NITI Aayog's aspirational rankings for the month of October

NEW DELHI: Mamit district of Mizoram has topped the rankings of aspirational districts by government think-tank Niti Aayog for October. Banka (Bihar) and Dhenkanal (Odisha) have been placed at the second and third positions, respectively, Niti Aayog said in a tweet. Guna (Madhya Pradesh) and Pakur (Jharkhand) stood at fourth and fifth positions.

The rankings took into account incremental progress made by over 112 aspirational districts across six developmental areas during October.

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 rankings. The aspirational districts programme, launched in January 2018, aims to transform districts that have shown relatively lesser progress in key social areas and have emerged as pockets of under-development.