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Exhibit 9: Indicator wise performance across States

Legend

Chhattisgarh
Poor Good

Himachal
Haryana
Pradesh

Pradesh
Gujarat
Andhra

Assam

Bihar

Goa
Quality of Road Infrastructure

Quality of Rail Infrastructure

Quality of Multi-Modal Terminal

Infrastructure

Quality of Unimodal Terminal

Infrastructure

Quality of Warehousing
Infrastructure

Quality of Logistics Services

Capability of Logistics Service

Providers
Perception indicators

Reasonableness of Road Freight

Rates

Reasonableness of Prices of Terminal

Services

Timeliness of Cargo Delivery

(Transportation)

Timeliness of Cargo Delivery

(Terminal Services)

Availability of Mobile/Internet
Connectivity

Safety and Security during

Transportation

Safety and Security at Terminals

Extent of Facilitation

Ease of Obtaining all Approvals

Efficiency of Regulatory Services

Range scaled EoDB ranks

Objective indicators

TIES outlay

States’ logistics enabling initiatives

Assessment of variables of logistics

ease

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 Jharkhand

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Karnataka

Kerala

Madhya
Pradesh

Maharashtra

Odisha

Punjab

Rajasthan

Tamil Nadu

Telangana

Uttarakhand

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Uttar Pradesh

West Bengal
Logistics is an ever-evolving industry in India, Top three States namely Gujarat, Haryana and
stretching from long coasts to deserts, hilly Punjab have emerged as the top performers
terrains, and plains. As a result, evaluating the across perception indicators – infrastructure,
whole Country as one logistics ecosystem is near services and regulatory. Western India led by
impossible. Different regions have their challenges Gujarat and Maharashtra exhibit good
with varying responses. Yet, if logistics performance on nearly all perception indicators
performance is to be assessed for them all on a leading to infer that the States have a well-
common platform, logistics infrastructure and its established logistics ecosystem in conjunction to
management had to be broken down into the current demand. Southern India on the other
indicators that covered all aspects hand has fared average to good range across
comprehensively. For LEADS 2021, the overall indicators. Similarly, east India has witnessed an
construct of indicators focused on Infrastructure, average rating across parameters in LEADS 2021.
Services and Regulatory Environment, like in Barring a few States, Overall Operating and
previous studies. The three constructs mapped Regulatory Environment across States has been
the entire gamut of experiences a user has in the registered in average to good range. In northern
logistics value chain. These three broad region Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh
constructs were broken down into 17 specific endorse of good scores across infrastructure,
indicators (5 for infrastructure, 9 for services and services, and regulatory categories. Andhra
3 for regulatory), which granularly captured every Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, Madhya
component explicitly. Since objectivity has been Pradesh, and Jharkhand are best performing
introduced for the first time in Index formation for States in Range Scaled EoDB Ranks. Andhra
LEADS 2021 exercise, 4 additional parameters Pradesh and Tamil Nadu also fare well in availing
(Range Scaled EoDB Ranks, TIES Outlay, States’ TIES subsidy for creation of infrastructure for
Logistics Enabling Initiatives and Assessment of export promotion. Majority of the States have
Variables for Logistics Ease) were incorporated to reported average to good in in the parameter of
assess the States' performance based on data. Assessment of Variables of Logistics Ease (State
Thus, the universe of indicators for the current logistics enabling initiatives).
year stood at 21. States' performance in each of
these indicators is shown in Exhibit 9.

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Cluster analysis

Logistics is neither fully restricted nor influenced Examination of the logistics sector only through
by the geographical unit of a State boundary. A the lens of a State/UT unit would not do justice to
State is not a single logistics entity, and its understand the key challenges faced and remedies
different regions may have very different logistics arrived at by a State acting in a silo of its own,
ecosystems. Similarly, adjoining sub-regions of unmindful of what the neighbour is doing.
two or three States may exhibit a common Therefore, there is merit in considering logistics
ecosystem only differentiated by varying policy ecosystems in clusters of States, adjacent to each
measures undertaken by concerned States. The other, for making policy and investment decisions
flow of goods from origin to destination is almost in logistics infrastructure in a coordinated and
always across many States, traversing various symbiotic manner.
geographies. The presence of production and
The State/UTs have been clustered based on their
consumption centres are not bound by the logic of
geographic proximity, nine clusters have been
administrative units such as a State or a UT.
made within the broad categories of landlocked,
Hence, through many stakeholder interactions
coastal, and hilly clusters. The exhibit 10
during the LEADS survey, it has been felt that
highlights the nine clusters carved out for
there should be a broader geographic scope to
analysis.
examine the performance of a logistics
ecosystem.

Exhibit 10: Cluster Distribution

Hilly North-East

Hilly North

Northern Landlocked

East Central Landlocked

Central Landlocked

Western Coastal

Eastern Coastal

South-Western Coastal

South-Eastern Coastal

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