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A gauge of governance: How India Today State of the States survey came to be

Economic Advisory Council Chairman Bibek Debroy, who collaborated with India Today to rank the states of the country for the State of the States survey, writes about how it all began.

It was the year 2003 when Laveesh Bhandari and I joined hands with India Today to rank the states of the country on an annual basis. This product came to be known as State of the States (SoS). In hindsight, it was quite a successful product, with an annual issue devoted to SoS, and an annual event, with awards. The product

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