India's poorest district is neither in Orissa nor in Bihar. It is Dangs in rich Gujarat. The state has two more districts that figure in the list of the 20 poorest districts of the country. Contrary to general perception, no district from Bihar finds a mention in the list. The list of twenty poorest districts includes six from Orissa, five from Jharkhand, three from Gujarat and Chhattisgarh each, two from Madhya Pradesh and one from Rajasthan. According to a ranking of 447 districts based on the index of backwardness prepared by the Planning Commission, the second poorest district is Banswara (Rajasthan) followed by Jhabua (Madhya Pradesh). The index of backwardness incorporates the percentage of scheduled caste (SC) and scheduled tribe (ST) population, agricultural wages and output per farm worker.