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NEW DELHI: Adding to its series of indices to rank states across social sectors, NITI Aayog will soon come out with school education quality index and the digital transformation index to highlight the best practices of states.“With emphasis on outcomes, NITI finalized indices to measure incremental annual outcomes in critical social sectors like health, education, water and sustainable development goals (SDG),” the Ayog said in a statement.“The ‘School Education Quality Index (SEQI)’, ‘SDG India Index’ and the ‘Digital Transformation Index’ (DTI) which will measure states’ progress in respective sectors are in the works,” the Aayog added.According to the statement, the district hospital index has been developed to measure and monitor the performance of hospitals with a focus on outputs and outcomes. Earlier this year, NITI Aayog had developed the health index in February 2018 followed by the composite water management index in June 2018.Besides, NITI has undertaken initiative to transform select states in key social sectors like education and health under its SATH initiative. The idea is to hand-hold states, selected through challenge method, towards improving their social sector indicators and providing technical support over three years. “Roadmaps for state transformation have been finalised with quarterly milestones for each initiative,” it said.Besides, the Aayog has come up with a model concessionaire agreement in October this year along with guidelines for promoting public-private-partnership in healthcare. “To help states achieve the health goals of the government in the area of prevention, diagnosis and treatment of select Non-Communicable processes, a guiding framework has been developed for states for implementation at the district hospital level with a focus on tier II and tier III cities,” the Aayog added.In order to realise Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of ‘SabkaSaath, SabkaVikas’, and ensure that India’s growth process remains inclusive, the Aayog has identified 115 aspirational districts to rapidly transform 115 identified districts. These districts are the ones that have shown relatively lesser progress in key social areas and have emerged as pockets of under-development, thereby posing a challenge to ensure balanced regional development.Under the aspirational district programme, 49 key performance indicators (KPIs) have been identified across such sectors with the aim to improving ease of living, as well as enhancing the economic productivity of citizens residing in these districts. Health and nutrition, education, agriculture and water resources, financial inclusion and skill development and basic infrastructure are main sectors where rapid transformation is envisaged.