Guwahati News Desk: Assam has ranked fifth in the category of “Life on Land” with a composite score of 78 per cent as per a report released by the Niti Aayog.
The Environment and Forest Department of Assam has emerged the Life of Land category of the 2020 edition in the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) India Index of Niti Aayog.
In the reports, northeastern State Arunachal Pradesh stands in the top position with a composite score of 93 per cent.
Madhya Pradesh listed second in the list with 84 per cent followed by Odisha with 83 per cent and Telangana with 81 per cent.
The northeastern State has 0.45 per cent of its geographical area covered in the list of afforestation schemes.
Assam has 9.45 per cent degraded land out of its total area against the national average of 27.77 per cent as per report released by the experts.