Explanation:

Jammu and Kashmir will soon have a district-level Good Governance Index, Union minister Jitendra Singh has announced recently.

With this development, Jammu and Kashmir will become the first Union Territory in the country to have such a district-level Good Governance Index.

The framework will have 58 indicators that assess different aspects of development and district administration in various sectors.

The sectors under consideration will be such as agriculture, commerce and industry, human resource development, public health, public infrastructure and utilities, economic governance, welfare and development, public safety, judiciary, and citizen-centric governance.

Good Governance Index is a comprehensive framework designed to assess the State of Governance across the States and UTs which enables ranking of States/Districts.

The objective of Good Governance Index is to create a tool that can be used uniformly across the States to assess the impact of various interventions taken up by the Central and State Governments including UTs.

Based on the Good Governance Framework, the Index provides a comparative picture among the States while developing a competitive spirit for improvement.

The Good Governance Index is envisaged as a biannual exercise.