SDGs

The move may play a significant role in helping India meet its Sustainable Development Goal to eliminate extreme poverty by 2030

India on Wednesday highlighted new high-level principles for accelerating progress on SDGs at G20's working group meeting

India is "uniquely positioned" with its G20 presidency to help the world bring on track to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as adopted by the United Nations for 2030, given its good relations across the board and as a voice of the Global South, a senior UN official said on Sunday. As India hosted the first Sherpa meeting under its G20 presidency, the UN Resident Coordinator for India Shombi Sharp said here that the recent months and years have seen multiple crises. "India's G20 presidency has come at a time when we are at the midpoint of the SDG agenda. But unfortunately, the recent months and years have brought multiple crises and as many have said we are off the track and there is a need to develop an urgent rescue," Sharp said. He said the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has also called for an urgent rescue plan and the G20 is uniquely positioned to "bring us back on track". "India is particularly uniquely positioned at this point of time with its G20 ...

Experts believe that merely replacing the state boards with Aayog-like bodies will not make them institutions which would be looked at seriously by the governments

The asset accounts would help identify alternate economic and energy-based resources, and aid in developing an ecosystem for containing illegal mining

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for joint efforts to advance the Sustainable Development Goals.

The pandemic has affected access to healthcare services with the potential to further slow progress on preventable diseases, premature mortality, mental health and family planning, the report said

India's overall Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) score was 66 out of 100

The statement said the index highlights the strengths and gaps of ULB-level data, monitoring, and reporting systems

Leader of Opposition Tejashwi Prasad Yadav also hit out at Nitish Kumar.

Both Himachal Pradesh and Tamil Nadu took the second spot with a score of 74

Appropriate strategy needs to be designed for the country to achieve SDG goals by 2030, according to the Economic Survey 2020-21

CDC will put in $70 million as addl equity, NIIF $284 million and GGEF $36 million. The commitment is subject to final approval processes

Bihar, Jharkhand and Arunachal Pradesh were the worst-performing states in this year's index for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Finance Ministries, the G-7 and the G20 need to see that SDG achievement is their core business, as it about maximizing global growth

SDGs were always bound to meet strong headwinds, owing to technological disruption, geopolitical rivalry, and widening social inequality

The report says that poverty has fallen across economic, social, religious groups nationally