Prabhari Officer holds high level meeting of aspirational Hailakandi district

Guwahati, January 17, 2019:

Chairing the meeting at the Deputy Commissioner's conference hall, Prabhari Officer, Hailakandi and Additional Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Government of India, Sameer Kumar Khare reviewed the progress in key parameters such as health and nutrition, education, agriculture, financial inclusion and skill development and basic infrastructure.

Khare urged Project Officer, TATA Trust, Dnyanesh Renguntwkar to liaise with the district administration officials to ensure proper reflection of data on the website. It may be mentioned here that there was a mismatch in data and the one collected by TATA Trust, NITI Aayog's knowledge partner, during field survey carried out in June last year resulting in drastic fall in overall ranking of Hailakandi district among the 117 aspirational districts of the country.

Senior Consultant, NITI Aayog, Rama M. Kamaraju underscored the need for working out the modalities for making proper assessment of the field survey before being uploaded on the website. He admitted that rankings of aspirational districts keep fluctuating depending on the data being uploaded from time to time. Districts are being ranked based on progress made (Delta ranking) on a real-time basis.

Deputy Commissioner, Adil Khan apprised the slew of steps being initiated by the district administration to improve upon the socio-economic status of the district.