Useful LEADS report on logistics in states

The report is based on 17 criteria based on perceptions of the stakeholders and four criteria based on objective data

Last Monday, the commerce ministry released the ‘Logistics Ease Across Different States’ (LEADS) report prepared by a team of logistics and transport professionals of EY-LLP, a multinational consulting firm with the main objective of ranking states and Union Territories on the efficiency of their logistics ecosystem. It lists the various actions taken by each state to improve ease of storage and movement of goods, identifies the shortcomings in physical, regulatory and operational environment in each state and gives suggestions to each state on the way forward.

For representation purposes, the report creates three categories of rankings — first for 21 states,