Assessing Progress Made by Indian States and UTs for the Attainment of Sustainable Development Goals

Abstract

The study compares all three versions of sustainable development goal (SDG) India index and assess the pace and direction of each State/UT for the attainment of SDGs by 2030. The study is an attempt to scrutinise performance of each indicator of every State and UT of India across 16 SDGs from 2018 to 2020. For this purpose, 13 SDGs with 56 indicators for first version, 16 SDGs with 101 indictors from second version and 115 indicators across 16 SDGs from third version of SDG India Index are investigated. Instead of relining NITI Aayog's indexing methodology, the study uses the same dataset to assess the distance of each state from national target for SDG. Cursorily, it also derives statistical projections of duration required by each State/UT for achieving particular indicator and goal at large. The investigation derives statistical projections of duration required by each State/UT for achieving a particular indicator and goal at large.

Based on the progress made by each State/UT, distance from present conditions are categorised as a Very far (distance less than 0%), Far (distance from 1% to 25%), Near (distance from 26% to 50%), Very Near (distance from 51% to 75%), Achieving target (76%–100%).

The conclusion of the study intends to highlight the benefits and challenges for adopting indexing or ranking approach to monitor the sub-national level progress made for attainment SDGs.

Citation

Parekh, P. and Lal, B. (2024), "Assessing Progress Made by Indian States and UTs for the Attainment of Sustainable Development Goals", Sergi, B.S., Tiwari, A.K. and Nasreen, S. (Ed.) Modeling Economic Growth in Contemporary India (Entrepreneurship and Global Economic Growth), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 175-186. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80382-751-320241010