Niti Aayog Health Index puts Telangana at 12th position

Telangana state has taken a beating in the health sector and been placed in the 12th position in the Niti Aayog Health Index, five spots behind Andhra Pradesh. TS has fared the worst in terms of the indicator assessing the timely flow of funds to implementing agencies i.e. the number of days it takes for funds to be transferred from the state treasury to state health societies, which has increased from 70 to 287.

The Healthy States, Progressive India report which was released by Niti Aayog on Friday, enlists the performance of all states and union territories with respect to a range of healthcare



indicators. Both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh feature on the list of larger states, which contains 21 states.

States have been given incremental ranks on the basis of their performance in 2015-16 with respect to the base year 2014-15. While Andhra Pradesh saw an increment in indicators of health by 2.41 units, Telangana only saw an increment of 0.45 units. Though both states feature on the achievers’ list, Telangana also features on the list of states showing the least improvement and Andhra Pradesh features on the list of states showing moderate improvement.