•  Kerala, Karnataka and Telangana garlanded as the top performers in the NITI Aayog’s Annual Health Index in the year 2020-21. 

 • The NITI Aayog shared the fifth health index (2020-21)  report – Healthy States Progressive India Report ranking all States and Union Territories.

 • The incremental and overall performance are the key determinants of the index in which the states and UT are categorized into ‘larger’ and ‘smaller’ states and UTs and then ranked according to their scores.

 •  While Kerala, Karnataka, and Telangana bagged the first, second and third places respectively, Bihar(19), UP(18), and Madhya Pradesh (17) were sloths among ‘larger’ states.

 •   Among smaller states, Mizoram, Tripura and Sikkim took the top three slots in terms of overall performance, while Manipur (6th), Arunachal Pradesh (7th) and Nagaland (8th) were at the bottom in 2019-20.