The correct answer is Kerala. Explanation & Key Takeaways: • National Multidimensional Poverty Index: • The National MPI Project is aimed at deconstructing the Global MPI and creating a globally aligned and yet customised India MPI for drawing up comprehensive Reform Action Plans with the larger goal of improving India’s position in the Global MPI rankings. • India’s national MPI captures multiple and simultaneous deprivations faced by households across the three macro dimensions of health, education, and living standards. • NITI Aayog is the nodal Ministry for the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI). • NITI Aayog is also responsible for engaging with the publishing agencies of the index (Oxford University’s Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)). • NITI Aayog is also responsible for ranking States and Union Territories based on their performance and has also constituted an inter-ministerial MPI Coordination Committee (MPICC) to consult twelve Line Ministries mapped to each National MPI indicator. • The Baseline Report of MPI is based on the fourth National Family Health Survey (NFHS) taken up during 2015-16. • FHS is conducted by the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. Related Concepts: • Under the Cabinet Secretary’s Global Indices for Reforms and Growth (GIRG) initiative, the country’s performance is being monitored across 29 global indices including Human Development Index (HDI), Global Hunger Index (GHI), Global Competitiveness Index (GCI), Human Capital Index (HCI), Global Innovation Index (GII), among others. • Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) is one of them. • This exercise is aimed at leveraging the monitoring mechanism of important social, economic, and other internationally recognised indices, enabling the utilisation of these indices as tools for bringing about reforms to improve outcomes and correspondingly reflect them in India’s performance in these indices globally.