Unpacking the Bihar story

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has more than one reason to cheer the Raghuram Rajan committee report's ranking of states on composite development. Apart from being put close to the bottom of the ladder in the new index of underdevelopment, Bihar also scores near the top in "performance", that is, the reduction of underdevelopment — a most sensible parameter introduced in the report — far ahead of Narendra Modi's Gujarat.

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