Public Affairs Index - 2021  (Thread bound, Gurucharan Gollerkeri, Samridhi Pandey, Anjana Kizhpadathil, Sai Sidharth M)

Measuring governance is a challenge. This issue becomes increasingly complex especially in a diverse country like India, where each state is socially, culturally, economically and politically different. PAC thus identified three broad pillars namely Growth, Equity and Sustainability that encapsulate governance. From a development perspective, it is axiomatic that there must be synergies between all the three pillars. It is impossible to believe that two of the three pillars are enough, growth and sustainability without equity; growth and equity without sustainability; equity and sustainability without growth. PAI 2021 is an amalgamation of 3 Pillars, 5 Themes, 14 SDGs and 43 indicators. PAI is a conscious effort to present a scientifically sound, methodologically rigorous, and practically useful data-based framework to measure the quality of governance in the states of India, and rank them.