April 5, 2025

40 thoughts on “In Depth – India’s Sustainable Development Goals

  1. Video Summary :-
    SDG India index 👇👇
    1. SDG index aims to promote healthy competition among states and union territories by evaluating their progress in social, economic and environmental terms which will help India to achieve UN sustainable development goals 2030
    2. Based on their performance states and union territories given number from 0 to 100
    3. Aim is to bring into notice of policy makers in which goals they are lacking, need to improve
    4. Index took into account 13/17 UN SDG goals
    5. Assam, bihar, up are at the bottom of SDG index ( aspirant category :- score less than 49 )
    6. H.P, kerala, T.N emerge front runners
    7. India as a whole has score of 58
    8. 2030 goals also asses that sustainable development and climate change tackling goes hand in hand
    9. It says to ensure people don't go hungry their is need to protect food systems
    10. To ensure sustainable city need to protect them from floods and storms, thus action on climate change necessary for sustainable development
    11. SDG's are mirrored in national development agenda
    12. Increasing population, expanding cities, disappearing forest, shrinking natural habitats… The last few decades have seen the emergence of debate over development that is also sustainable
    13. On the one hand there are those who argue that urbanization concrete builidings and roadways is parameter of development but on the other there is group that argues that this expansion is akin to destroyin the world
    14. Sustainable development is balancing act between these two thought processes
    15. There can be no growth which is not sustainable
    16. As development need not to be only economical but also inclusive, environmental
    17. SD :- needs of future generations must be kept in mind while doing current development, they must not be sacrificed for current ones, use only as many resources as can be replenished
    18. More income , increasing input resource efficiency, waste management
    19. People needs to keep in mind that earth resources belongs to everyone even those who are not born yet

    SDG's

    1. In 2015 governments of 193 countries agreed on ambitious agenda to transform the world by 2030 adopting the sustainable development goals that aim to ensure no one left behind and everyone benefits from development efforts.

    2. Agenda 2030 is unprecedented in scope and significance, India is leaving no stone unturned in realising its commitment to these goals.

    3. India's own national development goals are reflected in SDG goals.

    4.Sabka saath sabka Vikas step towards SDG's.

    5. 2030 agenda includes :-To end poverty, fight inequality and injustice, tackle climate change

    6. Government has reiterated its commitment to sustainable development goal

    7. For clean fuels it introduced Bs-VI petrol and diesel

    8. Delhi Will be first city to leapfrog from euro IV grade petrol and diesel to euro VI

    9. 13 major cities including Mumbai, Chennai, Pune, hyderabad and cities around Delhi will switch to Bs-VI from 1st January next year, rest of the country to follow suit from April 2020

    10. Supreme Court also ruled that BS-iv vehicles will not be sold after March 31, 2020

    11. This year theme of world environment day was "beat plastic pollution" and PM modi pledged to eliminate all single use plastic in the country by 2022 with immediate ban in urban Delhi

    12. The international solar alliance is group of 121 solar resource rich countries, headquartered in gurugram India aims to deploy over 1000 GW of solar energy and mobilize more than $1000 billion into solar power by 2030.. thereby accelerating large scale deployment of solar energy in developing countries to meet souring energy demand and help fight climate change.
    This initiative launched by PM modi French president at the 2015 UN climate change conference@Paris

    13. COP 24 @ katowice in December 201

    14. In health :- reduction in TB, HIV, malaria incidence as well as improved infant and maternal mortality rates
    Ending open defecation by 2019 through swach bharat mission

  2. Notes for refresh

    SDG India Index 2018Niti aayog & UN

    2015 UN meeting – SDG 2030 agenda – 17 sustainable development goals India homes about 17% the world's population -India has cross halfway mark in 3 years achieving this goal SDG India index released by the Niti Aayog and the United Nations -show the nation has the score of 58 a little beyond Halfway marks in meeting in the target set for the year 2030.
    Based on their performance of cross 13 out of 17 goals identify the cities states and union territories were given scores ranging from zero to hundred .
    Himachal Pradesh Kerala and tamilnadu have emerged as the top performing States in India for the score of 69 on the socio,economic ,environmental terms.

    Zero hunger parameters Goa Kerala Manipur Mizoram and Nagalnd top performance.

    among the union territories Chandigarh, Delhi with 68 performance in providing clean water and sanitation.

    Indian become the first country to present for measuring SDG goal at sub National level

    States monitored on real time basis across 62 of 306 indicators outlined by the United Nations.

    The first baseline paper for 2018 was prepared with the support of United Nations.

    In India index is part of transforming our the 2030 agenda for sustainable development which was adopted 193 member states at the historical UN General Assembly submit in *September 2015*.

    Index took into account 13 out of 17 goals specified by the United Nations.except Goal 12,13,14,17

    Assam Bihar and Uttar Pradesh are at the bottom of the SDG index
    0-49 score – Aspirants states

    The sustainable development goals 2030 replace the millennium development goals which in September 2000 the world around the common 15 year agenda.
    World sustainable development summit 2018 held in Delhi . theme : partnership for resilenting planet.
    Environmental concern
    In india 10% of wildlife is treated with extinction. agricultural biodiversity has declined over 90% in many regions .over half the available water bodies of polluted drinking and often beyond even agricultural use. two thirds of the land is degraded to suboptimal productivity .air pollution in several cities is among the world's worst. modern ways including electronic and chemical waste produces at rates for exceeding a capacity to recycle or manage.

    India commitment

    clean fuel

    India introduced BS VI petrol and diesel .Delhi will be the first city in the country to leapfrog from Euro IV great petrol and diesel to Euro VI. cities in the national capital region like Noida Ghaziabad gurugram and fridabad as well as 13 major cities including Mumbai Chennai Bengaluru Hyderabad and Pune will switch over to clean a Euro VI grade fuel from January 1st 2019. Rest of the country will follow the rules from April 2020. the Supreme Court has also said that is BS IV vehicles will not be sold after March 31st 2020.

    No plastics
    this year the theme of the world environment day was a beat plastic pollution and Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged to eliminate all single use plastic in the country by 2022 with immediate ban in urban Delhi.

    International solar Alliance is a group of 121 solar resource rich country is headquartered in gurugram . India aims to deploy thousand gigawatt of solar energy and mobilize more than USD 1000 billion into solar powered by 2030. there by accelerating the large scale deployment of solar energy in developing countries to meet soaring energy demand and helps fight climate change this initiative was lost at 2015 UN climate change conference in Paris by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French president francois hollande .

    Annual UN climate change conference COP 24 poland city of katowice on 3rd December this year with a goal of analysing the implementation guidelines for the Paris climate change agreement it is to provide clarity on how to implement landmark agreement fairly.
    Health
    India mad remarkable strides in eradication of polio & elimination of neonatal tetanus. for the progress on key health indicators such as Infant and maternal mortality rates as well as reduction in the incidence of HIV TB and malaria helped India meets the millennium development goals on health.India investing significant resources towards ending open defecation by 2019 through the swachh Bharat programme .

  3. I don't think there is a competition between the states. Until there is an incentive (a reason to compete) to the states other than just giving the numbers (1st, 2nd n 3rd), they don't take the care about the ranking.

  4. I was trying to find a video of how India as a nation stands for SDGs on global level and I couldn't have found a better coverage on the subject. Some of the facts covered were really surprising and made me proud as a fellow Indian citizen that my country is taking such strong initiatives to tackle and contribute to the global challenges and targets set by SDGs. Kudos to Rajya Sabha tv's indepth coverage on the subject. We need to get aware because sustainability is the future otherwise there is none. I also like how the intergenerational equity, a point also covered in above video, is at the core of these 17 goals. There is no cherry picking out of 17, all goals and targets are interconnected and interwoven in such an intricate manner that you can even take up one subtarget and try to find its major implications on other goals and subtargets. For instance agricuture and gender equality. How are they related? In developing nations more and more women than men are taking up agricultural and hence in order to strengthen gender equality a more equality based agricultural approach and policies empowering women has to be implemented in those countries to achieve agricultural as well as gender equality targets simultaneously under SDGs. This is just one example you can try to work out some relationships and intricate dependencies on your own too. Cheers.

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