evidence: Under the earlier methodology, we find that for 2014–2017 (as shown in figure 7), India’s score increased consistently, albeit gradually, from 4.21 to 4.59. Under the revised methodology, even as India has the best rank of South Asian nations for 2019, at sixty-eighth, it has lost in terms of both rank and score over 2018. With a 2019 GCI score of 84.8 out of 100, Singapore is the country closest to the frontier of competitiveness. [...] It can be noted that the GSTF-PTI bears close similarity with the OECD TFIs in terms of scope, frequency, and data points. According to the OECD TFIs, India’s composite score improved from 1.253 in 2015 to 1.534 in 2019; according to the GSTF-PTI, India’s score has shown an improvement from 64.52 percent in 2015 to 79.57 percent in 2019.