Progress Made on Sustainable Development Goals

Context

Recently India has made significant progress in Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) indicators but needs to address challenges in certain areas, according to the National Indicator Framework progress report 2024.

About 

• The report gives the time series data on the SDG countrywide indicators based on the data acquired from the concerned ministries. 
• The National Indicator Framework tracked 290 indicators throughout 17 SDG goals.
• Progress Made: The neonatal mortality ratio has declined to 20 per 1000 live births in the course of 2020 as compared with 25 in 2015.
• The share of absolutely vaccinated children (between 12-23 months of age) expanded to 76.6 per cent in 2019-21 from 62 per cent in 2015-16.
• The gross enrolment ratio or variety of college students enrolled as a share of the mid-age populace for higher secondary had risen almost 10 percent points to 76.6 in 2021-22 from 48.32 in 2015-16.
• In terms of respectable work and employment possibilities, the full credit score to MSMEs stood at Rs 22.6 trillion in 2022-23 from Rs 12.16 trillion in 2015-sixteen.
• The range of waste recycling flora hooked up has increased from 829 in 2020 to 2447 in 2024
• The Maternal Mortality Ratio has declined from 130 per 1,00,000 live births in 2014-16 to 97 per 1,00,000 live births in 2018-20.

Challenges in Areas

• The gender wage gap for informal labourers has widened in comparison to 2017-18. In 2022-23 (July-September), the average wage hole between male and female informal labourers widened to Rs 178, as compared with Rs 96 in 2017-18.
• Similarly, the amount of unsafe waste generated per capita elevated to 9.28 metric tonnes in 2022-23 from 7.19 metric tonnes in 2017-18.

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

• Adoption: The United Nations General Assembly, throughout its seventieth Session in 2015, followed the file titled “Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.”
• This report outlines 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 related goals. 
• The SDGs, additionally referred to as the Global Goals, got here into pressure with impact from 1st January 2016. 
• Aim: The SDGs serve as a complete blueprint aimed at accomplishing a higher and greater sustainable future for all. 
• The goals demand action on addressing global challenges along with poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace and justice. 
• Applicability: The SDGs are usual, making use of to all countries—evolved, developing and least advanced international locations.
  • Countries are commonly liable for following up and reviewing the development made in enforcing the goals and goals at the countrywide level until 2030. 
• Legality: The SDGs are not legally binding, however they have correctly come to be global responsibilities and feature the capacity to reorient domestic spending priorities in nations.
  • Countries are expected to take possession and expand a country wide framework to display those goals.

Source: The Indian Express

UPSC Mains Practice Question

Q. Access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy is the sine qua non to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).” Comment on the progress made in India in this regard. (2018)

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