{"id":240466,"date":"2023-05-01T19:37:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T14:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=240466"},"modified":"2023-05-02T14:30:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T09:00:53","slug":"india-its-sdg-pledge-goal-and-the-strategy-to-apply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-its-sdg-pledge-goal-and-the-strategy-to-apply\/","title":{"rendered":"India, its SDG pledge goal, and the strategy to apply"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>– The post is based on the article \u201cIndia, its SDG pledge goal, and the strategy to apply\u201d <\/strong>published in \u201cThe Hindu\u201d <\/strong>on 1st May 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: <\/strong>GS1- Poverty and developmental issues. GS2- Governance<\/p>\n

Relevance:<\/strong> Women in politics<\/p>\n

News- <\/strong>The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi expressed concern that progress on Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) seems to be slowing down.<\/p>\n

What are some facts about India’s performance on SDG indicators?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

India is \u2018On-Target\u2019<\/strong> to meeting 14 of the 33 SDGs. It includes indicators for neonatal and under-five mortality, full vaccination, improved sanitation, and electricity access<\/strong>. But it does not apply equally across all districts.<\/p>\n

Neonatal and under-five mortality <\/strong>are currently both \u2018On-Target\u2019 for the country. But 286 are lagging in case of neonatal mortality and 208 districts in case of under-five mortality. <\/strong><\/p>\n

There is significant progress on access to improved sanitation. But 129 districts are not on course to meet this SDG indicator.<\/p>\n

Indicators such as eliminating adolescent pregnancy, reducing multidimensional poverty, and women having bank account<\/strong>s have improved across a vast majority of the districts between the years 2016 and 2021.<\/p>\n

For 19 of the 33 SDG indicators, the current pace of improvement is not enough to meet SDG targets.<\/p>\n

Despite a national policy push for clean fuel for cooking<\/strong>, more than two-thirds of districts remain \u2018Off-Target\u2019. Some 415 and 278 districts are \u2018Off-Target\u2019 for improved water and handwashing facilities, respectively.<\/strong><\/p>\n

SDG indicators for women\u2019s well-being and gender inequality<\/strong> are causes of concern. No district in India has yet succeeded in eliminating the practice of girl child marriage<\/strong> before the legal age of 18 years.<\/p>\n

At the current pace, more than three-fourths of districts will not be able to reduce the prevalence of girl child marriage <\/strong>to the SDG target of 0.5% by 2030.<\/p>\n

Despite the overall expansion of mobile phones, only 56% women report owning a mobile phone, with 567 districts remaining \u2018Off-Target\u2019. <\/strong><\/p>\n

What is the way forward to improve India’s performance on SDG indicators?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

India adopted an \u201coptimisation\u201d approach<\/strong> to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was given the focus and resources necessary to succeed.<\/p>\n

First, <\/strong>strong and sustained political leadership<\/strong> was critical to the success of both India\u2019s COVID-19 vaccination programme and efficient rollou<\/strong>t of a comprehensive relief package<\/strong>. It was supported by a responsive administrative structure<\/strong> at all levels.<\/p>\n

A similar mission-oriented approac<\/strong>h that is assessment-oriented <\/strong>and provides adequate support for accomplishing India\u2019s district-level SDGs is now urgently needed.<\/p>\n

Second<\/strong>, India\u2019s success with COVID-19 was largely possible both because of the existing digital infrastructure<\/strong>, and indigenous initiatives<\/strong> like the Co-WIN data platform, the Aarogya Setu application.<\/p>\n

India must put in place a coordinated, public data platform for population health management<\/strong>. It must consolidate its many siloed platform<\/strong>s into an integrated digital resource<\/strong> for district administrators, as well as State and national policy makers.<\/p>\n

Finally<\/strong>, a targeted SDG strategy<\/strong> delivered at scale of India\u2019s COVID-19 relief package <\/strong>must be executed with the same timeliness. The Government of India provided support through Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana.<\/p>\n

This was critical in removing the adverse effects of COVID-19, especially for vulnerable and the socio-economically disadvantaged groups. It also demonstrated the value of a proactive, government-supported programme<\/strong> aimed at improving people\u2019s well-being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source– The post is based on the article \u201cIndia, its SDG pledge goal, and the strategy to apply\u201d published in \u201cThe Hindu\u201d on 1st May 2023. Syllabus: GS1- Poverty and developmental issues. GS2- Governance Relevance: Women in politics News- The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi expressed concern that progress on Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) seems to… Continue reading India, its SDG pledge goal, and the strategy to apply<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[263,8727,10498],"class_list":["post-240466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-1","tag-sustainable-development-goals","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240466","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\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}