THE BEST STATES OF INDIA
Nov 27, 2021
4 minutes
BY KAUSHIK DEKA
Illustration by
NILANJAN DAS
seeing an encouraging trend in the past few years. Every chief minister who is freshly elected to the office makes an identical promise: to make his state among the five top-performing ones in the country. The assurance may or may not come to fruition, but the lofty goal itself is a sign of the changing socio-political ambitions of the people and their expectations from the ruling class. It fosters competition among chief ministers, making all-encompassing economic growth the centrepiece of any political narrative. And in an economy ravaged by a year and a half of the Covid-19 pandemic, this
You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.
Start your free 30 days