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With regard to the computation of the Localised Sustainable Development Index at Gram Panchayat level, a pilot was taken up in 31
GPs, one from each district. As a first step, a detailed toolkit on the Perspective Plan process and identifying the indicators to be used
under different themes based on the availability of data at the grassroots level has been undertaken. This was followed by a detailed
Indicator framework to be adopted at the village level for the exercise, in tune with the LSDGs. The next step was strategy to roll out
the capacity building activities to provide information to all ERs and officials of GPs. The State planned 3-day non-residential
training programme commencing from September 2022 and covered all the stakeholders. These initiatives started from district to the
lowest level educating the line departments also on the need to participate in the exercise. Based on the feedback necessary
modifications were carried out in the process and data formats in consultation with the respective line departments.
Computing LSDGI - Methodology
The methodology proposed is based on the earlier experience of the state in computing the Decentralised Sustainable Development
Index under Backward Region Grant Funds (BRGF) project of the Ministry of Panchayat Raj, GoI during 2010. Subsequently, the
State was the first to compute the Human Development Index for all the three tiers of Panchayat Raj Institutions between 2013 and
2015. During the year 2015, the State computed the GP and Village level Human Development Index for 5,839 GPs and 27,000

villages.
Under the LSDG initiative, the Expert Committee has already finalised the broad set of indicators and the same may be used for

computing the LSDG Index. The detailed steps to be followed are as follows:

 The indicators have already been broadly categorised for each of the LSDG themes
 The data collected for the theme-wise indicators has to be used for calculating the index values. Computing the Index value
would help in making the values unit-less and would allow summation of the index values of all the indicators for each of the
themes
 The index values have to be calculated after identifying whether the indicators are positive or negative. This is done to make the
index values unidirectional.

 The index value (in the case of a positive indicator) can be calculated using the formula:

 Index Value = (Actual Value – Min. Value) / (Max.Value – Min.Value)

 E.g.: calculations will be based on highest values being assigned highest ranking
 The index values have to be made unidirectional for negative indicators (e.g.; a Taluk with lowest IMR has to be assigned
highest ranking) by using the following formula –

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