Another feather to West Bengal’s Crown.

NITI Aayog recognises West Bengal’s strong performance across key socio-economic indicators, reaffirms Mamata Banerjee, Chief minister. While, announcing this the honourable CM said the state’s annual unemployment rate for 2022–23 stood at 2.2% which is 30% lower than the national average of 3.2%.

“NITI Aayog’s newly released summary report also highlights West Bengal’s positive standing in several other areas like literacy rate 76.3%, above the national average of 73% (as of 2011) and education outcomes a lower school dropout rates and higher pass percentages in Classes X and XII compared to national averages“, she said.

“Life expectancy is 72.3 years (2020), higher than the national average and in sex ratio: 973 female births per 1,000 male births, significantly better than the national average of 889, she added. In Infant mortality rate the state has 19 per 1,000 live births (2020), and total fertility rate is 1.6 children per woman (2019–21), both better than the national averages”.

In quality of life too, the state as Niti Aayog report noted that a steady improvement, including higher

than-average household access to drinking water. “These achievements reflect West Bengal’s continued commitment to inclusive and sustainable development“, the Chief Minister said.

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