Mint Explainer: Can NITI Aayog’s Investment Index Reshape State Competition? | Today’s news

“For any investor, opportunity is only half the equation, clarity is the other half. India’s scale is both its biggest advantage and its biggest decision-making challenge: 36 states, each with different languages and strengths, means every entrepreneur has to answer the ‘where’ before they even get to the ‘how much’. The government-sanctioned, state-by-state investor benchmark collapses that searching from a single reference point only informs the decision itself, and that’s what actually moves capital faster,” said Vijayasarathy.