India enters top 100 in UN's global Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) rankings for first timeIndia has achieved a spot in the top 100 countries for Sustainable Development Goal progress. The UN report ranks India at 99th. This is a ...
SDG targets remain off track in Asia-Pacific: UN ReportProgress towards Sustainable Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific is significantly off track, with most targets advancing too slowly o...
WHO felicitates India for elimination of trachoma as public health problemIndia was honored by the WHO for eliminating trachoma, following Nepal and Myanmar. Other recognitions included Bhutan for achieving cervic...
Proud of its SDG localisation model, India says it has fully integrated SDGs into national development strategiesIndia's Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Yojna Patel, highlighted India's full integration of the Sustainable Developm...
India performs well on 85 indicators of SDG target; Asia and Pacific to take 32 years more to achieve SDG goals: UNESCAPData released by the UNESCAP as part of the Asia and the Pacific SDG Progress Report: Showcasing Transformative Actions 2024 report indicat...
India likely to miss 2030 deadline for over half of health SDGs: Lancet studyAn international team of researchers found that over 75 per cent Indian districts are off target for crucial SDG indicators like access to ...
India way ahead of any income group country in reaching Sustainable Development Goals. Here's a lookWhile India is also lagging behind on SDG targets, it is still an outlier as far as performance on the 2030 targets is concerned. With the ...
India on verge of achieving SDG target of 70/lakh live births by 2030: GovtQuoting a special bulletin on Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR)released by the Registrar General of India, the ministry said the country has b...
Shimla, Coimbatore, Chandigarh top Niti Aayog's 1st SDG Urban India Index; Dhanbad, Meerut at bottomOther toppers in SDG Urban Index and Dashboard 2021-22 are Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Panaji, Pune, Tiruchirapalli, Ahmedabad and Nagpur.
NITI Aayog launches SDG Urban IndexThe NITI Aayog Index developed in collaboration with GIZ and BMZ under the umbrella of Indo-German Development Cooperation ranks 56 urban a...
Localisation of SDGs imperative to achieve 2030 Agenda: India at UNTirumurti said that breaking down goals and implementation to sub-national and local levels is the only way to succeed in achieving SDG tar...
ReNew Power CMD Sumant Sinha recognised as SDG Pioneers by UNGCSumant Sinha of ReNew Power was recognised as an SDG Pioneer of the year, a company statement said. As the leader of India's leading renewa...
India slips two spots to rank 117 on 17 Sustainable Development Goals adopted as 2030 agenda: ReportIndia ranks below four South Asian countries -- Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, it said. The overall SDG score of India is 61.9 ou...
NITI Aayog unveils SDG India Index; Kerala, Himachal continue to be top performing statesAs per the index, Kerala, Himachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Goa and Karnataka continue to be the top performing states while Bihar, Jharkha...
India needs to enhance its spending by 6.2 per cent of GDP until 2030: Niti AayogIn its second voluntary national review at the United Nations high-level political forum (HLPF) on sustainable development, 2020, the gover...
India needs 6.2% additional spending of GDP to achieve 2030 development goals: NITI“The ways and means for this additional financing needs to be identified. At the same time, it is crucial to make sure that the budget allo...
Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Tamil Nadu lead performers in Niti's SDG indexThe index took into account 13 out of 17 goals specified by United Nation's as SDGs and left out four goals because of lack of data at the ...