Results: Law and Order

There is significant variation across districts in their scores on this parameter. There are a wide range of indicators that attempt to capture different aspects state of law and order such as access, quality, perceptions of business and households, efficiency of law and enforcement agency.

The better performing districts such as Theni, Kaanchipuram and Erode have on an average done very well in most of the indicators of law and Order. However, the average and worse performing districts shows huge variation across different indicators.

For instance, Cuddalore district ranks 17th in the overall ranking of this sub-index but is the best district when it comes to reducing the total number of property crimes in past one year. Similarly, Tiruvarur District has low overall rank of 25 but performs well in terms of access indicators such as per capita availability of police and area covered by police station.