ENA Sectors 2026-01-15 15:35:17 <p><span style="font-size:14px"><strong>New Delhi, Jan 15 (KNN)</strong> NITI Aayog on Thursday released the Export Preparedness Index (EPI) 2024, highlighting the role of diverse subnational economic structures in driving Indias global trade goals. First published in August 2020, this marks the Indexs fourth edition.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px">The NITI Aayog CEO B.V.R. Subrahmanyam noted that Indias export growth increasingly hinges on state and district preparedness. He stressed strengthening export infrastructure, enhancing cost competitiveness, building robust institutions, and ensuring transparent, predictable policies. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px">Improving subnational export readiness is vital for sustaining growth, creating jobs, reducing regional disparities, and deepening integration into global value chains amid global volatility.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px"><strong>Framework and Structure of EPI 2024</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px">The EPI 2024 is structured around four pillars, further disaggregated into thirteen sub-pillars and seventy indicators, enabling a granular and policy-relevant assessment of export preparedness. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px">The pillars cover export infrastructure, business ecosystem, policy governance, export performance, trade and logistics infrastructure, access to finance and state export policy.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px">It also includes export outcomes, connectivity and utilities, human capital, institutional capacity, export diversification, industrial infrastructure, MSME ecosystem, trade facilitation, and global integration. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px"><strong>Classification and Comparative Assessment</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px">For comparison and peer learning, States and UTs are grouped into Large States &amp; Small States, North East States, and Union Territories, and further ranked as Leaders, Challengers, or Aspirers. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px">The Index focuses on district-level performance as the core measure of export competitiveness, translating national goals into actionable, place-based strategies leveraging local capabilities, industrial clusters, and value-chain linkages.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px"><strong>Top Performing States and UTs</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px">Based on the overall EPI 2024 assessment, the leading performers among large States are Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, and Andhra Pradesh. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px">Among small States, North Eastern States, and Union Territories, the top performers are Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Nagaland, Dadra and Nagar Haveli &amp; Daman and Diu, and Goa.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px"><em><strong>(KNN Bureau)</strong></em></span><br /> </p> 44782 https://knnindia.co.in/news/newsdetails/sectors/niti-aayog-releases-export-preparedness-index-2024-highlighting-state-level-trade-readiness 2026-01-15 15:35:17 knnindia.co.in