Tamil Nadu, 6 others lead in NITI Aayog's list of poverty reduction

Goa, Manipur and Kerala are front-runners in curbing malnutrition

Tamil Nadu, Mizoram, Tripura, Meghalaya, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Uttarakhand are front-runners in reducing extreme poverty — as identified by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the UN — while Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh are “aspiring” to do so, reveals a NITI Aayog report. 

Goa, Manipur and Kerala are front-runners in reducing hunger and malnutrition, while 10 states and four union territories — including Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Gujarat and Maharashtra — have been put under the “aspirants” category in the SDG Index India Baseline Report-2018, released by the government think tank on Friday.

Overall, in all the 13 of