Results: Overall Rankings

The following graph illustrates the relative rankings of different districts on overall EEI score.

The top ranked districts have done very well on ‘Physical Infrastructure’ and on ‘Doing Business’ sub-indices. All the top 7 districts except the top ranked ‘Nilgiris’ have scored on an average lower than the other districts. Four of the top seven districts on overall EEI score are placed in the bottom seven on the ‘Environment Sustainability’ sub-index. Physical Infrastructure, with overall 20% weight in the composite index seems to be the dominating factor behind overall high or low rank of a district. Five of the seven districts placed in the last quartile on overall EEI rank are placed in last quartile on Physical Infrastructure as well.

Districts have been able to compensate for their low performance on one or two sub-indices by consistently good score on other sub-indices or very high score on one or two sub-indices. There are very few districts who have got very low or very high score on all the sub-indices. Even the districts placed in the last quartile have outperformed many top quartile districts on some sub-indices. For example, Pudukottai placed in last quartile in overall ranking has been placed in top quartile on Physical Infrastructure and Environment Sustainability sub-indices.