Meghalaya was placed second among North East states in the NITI Aayog Innovation Index for 2021, it was announced today.
Karnataka, Manipur and Chandigarh topped their respective categories in the third edition of the index, which was released today by NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Suman Bery.
Manipur led the ‘North East and Hill States’ category with a score of 19.37. Uttarakhand was second with 17.67 and Meghalaya third with 16.00.
Karnataka again topped the ‘Major States’ category and Chandigarh was the top performer in the ‘Union Territories and City States’ category.
Prepared by NITI Aayog and the Institute for Competitiveness, the India Innovation Index is a comprehensive tool for the evaluation and development of the country’s innovation ecosystem. It ranks the states and the Union territories on their innovation performance to build healthy competition amongst them.
The third edition highlights the scope of innovation analysis in the country by drawing on the framework of the Global Innovation Index. The number of indicators has increased from 36 (in the India Innovation Index 2020) to 66 (in the India Innovation Index 2021). The indicators are now distributed across 16 sub-pillars, which, in turn, form seven key pillars.
The contours of the India Innovation Index 2021 remain the same as last year. Similar to the previous edition, the five ‘Enabler’ pillars measure inputs and the two ‘Performance’ pillars measure output. All the indicators in the Enabler pillars cover features crucial for promoting innovation within a state/union territory. Indicators in the Performance pillars represent a nation’s output in knowledge creation and competitiveness.
