Best of BS Opinion: Maintaining regulatory balance, marker of development | Opinion Specials

Niti Aayog’s latest Sustainable Development Goals India Index is undoubtedly an invaluable exercise in cooperative federalism, and the evidence of a reduction in multi-dimensional poverty in the report is heartening. But the exercise is essentially an inward-looking, comparative picture of the country’s social and development progress. Measured against global, even Asian, standards, India lags on almost all parameters. Reconciling these varying pictures may require raising the standards on which states are judged to more realistic levels, the top edit argues. Read it here