{"id":110802,"date":"2021-06-07T10:09:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T04:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=110802"},"modified":"2021-06-07T13:13:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T07:43:05","slug":"issues-with-niti-aayogs-sdg-india-index-2020-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/issues-with-niti-aayogs-sdg-india-index-2020-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Issues with NITI Aayog&#8217;s SDG India Index 2020-21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Synopsis: <\/b>Although <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India has a better score in the latest SDG India Index 2020-21, some procedural changes in the methodology have resulted in an inadequate measurement of economic inequality.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Introduction\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/niti-aayog-releases-sdg-india-index-2020-21\/\">NITI Aayog\u2019s SDG India Index 2020- 21<\/a><\/strong> was released recently. India has improved its overall SDG score from <strong>60<\/strong> in 2019 to <strong>66<\/strong> in 2021. This is being credited to the efforts put in achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to clean energy, urban development and health.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Major findings of the NITI Aayog&#8217;s SDG India Index 2020-21<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Areas showed improvements in the index<\/strong>: Following categories of SDGs showed developments in many States and Union Territories,<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Abolition of poverty and hunger<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Steps related to the availability of affordable, clean energy. The campaign to improve the access of households to electricity and clean cooking fuel has been an important factor in this regard.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Areas showed a<\/strong> <\/span>decline in the index<\/strong>: <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Index also mentions the following areas as worse due to the lockdowns imposed by the governments.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Industry, innovation and infrastructure<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Inter-state inequality<\/strong>: There was a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">stark difference between the southern- western States and the north-central and eastern States<\/span> in their performance on the SDGs. This points to<strong> socioeconomic and governance gaps<\/strong>. This will result in federal challenges if left unaddressed.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Read Also :-<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-what-is-social-impact-assessment-sia-discuss-its-need-and-significance\/\">What is social impact assessment (SIA)?<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>Methodological changes and their impacts on SDG India Index 2020-21<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Index has made the following methodological changes:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Change in indicators:\u00a0<\/b>The 2020-21 Index drops several economic indicators, like:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Gini Coefficient:<\/strong> This year the index dropped the well-recognized Gini coefficient.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The index did<strong> not use the growth rate for household expenses <\/strong>per capita among 40% of rural and urban populations <em>(instead, only the percentage of the population in the lowest two wealth quintiles is used)<\/em><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Impact<\/strong>: Dropping of these indicators means that the SDG score on inequality may have missed out on assessing the impact of the pandemic on wealth inequality.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Greater weightage to certain indicators<\/strong>: The index gives greater weightage to social equality indicators such as the <strong>representation of women<\/strong> and <strong>people from marginalized communities in legislatures and local governance<\/strong> institutions, and <strong>crimes against SC\/ST communities<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/niti-aayogs-governing-council-reconstituted\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>\u00a0Read Also:<\/strong><\/span>&#8211; <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>NITI Aayog&#8217;s &#8220;Governing Council&#8221; reconstituted<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Conclusion\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The second wave of the pandemic had similar outcomes on livelihoods and jobs. A better score for India to achieve SDGs will bring some optimism. However, governments must work on <strong>addressing persistent issues<\/strong> such as increased inequality and economic gloom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/ShareArticle?OrgId=G8P8L0H6C.1&amp;imageview=0\"><b>click here<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synopsis: Although India has a better score in the latest SDG India Index 2020-21, some procedural changes in the methodology have resulted in an inadequate measurement of economic inequality.\u00a0 Introduction\u00a0 NITI Aayog\u2019s SDG India Index 2020- 21 was released recently. India has improved its overall SDG score from 60 in 2019 to 66 in 2021.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/issues-with-niti-aayogs-sdg-india-index-2020-21\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Issues with NITI Aayog&#8217;s SDG India Index 2020-21<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,8043,9],"tags":[1415,1352],"class_list":["post-110802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-current-affairs-cat","category-public","tag-gov_0","tag-soc_6","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700777675,"cached_date":1704910201},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}