Fig. 15. Goal wise score of India

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4; PILOT STUDY (NITI Aayog)

The National Institution for Transforming India, also named NITI Aayog, was established on January 1 , 2015, through a resolution of the Union Cabinet. NITI Aayog is the Govt of India's premier 'Think Tank' policy, which offers all these spatial as well as strategy input data. NITI Aayog also ensures excellent expert advice to the Centre and State governments when getting ready strategic and long-term programs and policies also for Indian government.

India reiterates its adherence to the ideals and goals set out in the SDG system. NITI Aayog, the premier think tank of the Government of India headed by the Prime Minister of India and the nodal body mandated to oversee the progress of the 2030 Agenda, has been spearheading the movement for SDG localization, in collaboration with subnational constituents and the civil society, in the journey of the nation to fulfil its commitments of ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka

Vikas with Sabka Vishwas’(INDIA VNR, 2020).

4.1 ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020

This specific analysis focuses on the outcomes of SDGs in India and only covers the SDG India Index's 2019-2020 Annual Report. This annual report research carries a framework that evaluates their position within each United nation sustainable development goals and the results on the basis of 0-100 of each state / central territory, and that of the nation as whole and, while 100 means achieving the goal and 1 represents the very worst performance. There are only 13 goals and 62 indicators are listed in the 2018 Annual Report, while the new edition contains all 17 goals.

Compared with the previous one, the current version is more refined and the indicators used in the 2019 index are taken from the National Indicator System of the Ministry of Statistics and Program Implementation. In this edition they have covered almost all Goals and targets of UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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4.1.1 Current Situation: India

The collective rating of India becomes 60, as per the index's 19 edition, that is an improvement over the score of 57 throughout 2018. The maximum score was obtained by SDG 6 (clean water and sanitation) which is 88 and the poorest score was obtained with SDG 2 (nutrition and zero hunger) which was 35. The improvement of Goal no 6(clean water and sanitation) is also seen as

the success of JAL JEEVAN MISSION AND SWACHH BHARAT MISSION.

Fig. 16. Goal wise score of India NITI Aayog Annual Report 19)

There are total 5SDGs which score more than 65 and they are 6,7,9,15 and 16 respectively. The main reason behind these successes is due to universal electrification under the Subhagya scheme and clean cooking Gas under Ujjwala scheme, and the Pradhan Mantri Gram sadak yojana and Ease of doing business globally contributed to SDG 9.

4.1.2 State-wise score of the country