SHILLONG, Sep 6: Ri-Bhoi has ranked 3rd among the top 5 aspirational districts in the country that have shown immense improvement in terms of overall performance on NITI Aayog’s Delta Ranking for the month of July 2022.
The first place was taken by Haridwar in Uttarakhand, while the second position went to Khagaria in Bihar.
The fourth and fifth ranks were occupied by Sonbhadra and Fatehpur in Uttar Pradesh.
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.
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.
