Article | Improving Urban India
India and Goal 11 of SDGs
Sustainable cities & communities
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Dr M Ramachandran Former Secretary, Urban Development to Government of India
28 March 2020 | www.urbanupdate.in
ndia has taken various proactive steps to ensure achievement of all the 17 SDGs and a national monitoring system is in position. Some of the positives about the SDG agenda in general are: ♦♦ It is acknowledged that these represent an elaborate agenda for the governments that necessitate achieving progress simultaneously across social, economic and environmental pillars ♦♦ India with the world’s 17 percent population holds the key to global SDG achievement
♦♦ India’s progress is contingent on the performance of our states and union territories ♦♦ States become essential stakeholders because seventy percent more than the central government’s spending happens in the states. Having said this, it needs to be highlighted that SDG India Index 2018 was the first effort by the Government of India and perhaps anywhere globally to rank sub national governments by computing the composite index on all SDGs. Now, we also have the Index 2019, which is more refined and
