SDGs

World Toilet Day: India's sanitation reforms are delivering cleaner environments and healthier communities, but sustaining these improvements becomes the next priority

India's Chief Economic Adviser Anantha Nageswaran has warned that India's climate goals must not undercut its economic aspirations

The 2025 National Indicator Framework report shows improved outcomes in health, poverty, education and inequality, but highlights gaps in energy and social coverage

India is closing gaps in child mortality, immunisation, and maternal mortality under SDG 3, but must tackle malnutrition, NCDs, and rural health gaps to stay on track for 2030 targets

Driven by progress in clean energy, health and housing, India climbs to 99th rank in the 2025 global SDG index, ahead of Bangladesh and Pakistan

A few states have been providing an SDG budget as part of their Budget papers. Haryana has been providing estimates from 2018-19 onwards, with other states like Odisha and Meghalaya joining later

With temperature having exceeded 1.5°C last year, if only temporarily for the moment, the world is entering a zone where the risks of climate change are high

The dynamism and contribution of India's vast youth is vital towards the country's development, green energy transition and achieving the sustainable development goals (SDG), Delhi's envoy to the United Nations said. India's Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Parvathaneni Harish was addressing the 8th Annual 1M1B Activate Impact Summit, organised by the UN Department of Global Communications associated NGO 1M1B' (One Million for One Billion) with the support of the Civil Society Unit, DGC Thursday. You, young people, are the future. You have to be closely working together not only to be part of the governance of the country, but also as part of our development pathways and enabling a green energy transition, meeting of Sustainable Development Goals, meeting the 2030 targets. In each one of these activities, your dynamism, your contribution is vital, Harish said. In his keynote address at the summit, attended by Indian youth leaders from various fields as well as UN ...

Jaishankar participated in a discussion organised by Observer Research Foundation (ORF) titled Tiger's Tale: Crafting a New Development Paradigm

The UN General Assembly's yearly meeting of world leaders is here and with it, an array of acronyms, abbreviations, titles and terms that can be confounding to observers. Here is some key vocabulary, decoded. For starters ... UNGA: Acronym (yes, people do pronounce it UN'-gah) for the UN General Assembly's High-level Week". It's the international organization's biggest annual event, inviting presidents, prime ministers, monarchs and other top leaders of all 193 UN member countries to speak to the world and each other. Although New Yorkers sometimes just use General Assembly to describe what many experience mainly as a week of street closures and whizzing motorcades, the assembly actually isn't just this meeting. It's a body that convenes countries' ambassadors throughout the year to discuss a wide range of global issues and vote on resolutions. GENERAL DEBATE: The centrepiece of the week, it gives each country's leader (or a designee) the mic for a state-of-the-world speech from i

Given the current level of public debt and deficit, India's public finances will need deft management both at the Union and state levels

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said that inadequate access to developmental finance is hindering developing economies from achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and underscored the urgent need to address this USD 4 trillion annual financing gap. Addressing the third Voice of Global South Summit virtually, Sitharaman said that recent reports reveal that the implementation of many SDGs in developing economies is stagnating, with some indicators even regressing. The SDG financing gap is estimated to be USD 4 trillion annually for developing countries, she said. Observing that the global South is affected by global uncertainties, she said one in four developing countries will be poorer by the end of this year than they were before the pandemic as per a recent World Bank report. "Growth thus remains insufficient to drive progress in development and poverty reduction. To accelerate progress on SDGs, there is an urgent need to address the USD 4 trillion financing

In its ESG report 2023-24, ICICI Bank says it has allocated Rs 5.19 billion for corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities in financial year 2024, up from Rs 4.63 billion the previous year

Strengthening of local governments is crucial in realizing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), fostering grassroot engagement, and nurturing citizen ownership and accountability, Comptroller and Auditor General of India Girish Chandra Murmu said on Thursday. Local governments are key allies in global development efforts, essential for crafting and executing policies effectively, he said after inauguration of the International Centre for Audit of Local Governance (iCAL) here. They (local governments) operate at the grassroot level, promoting economic growth while addressing global challenges, such as climate change and the preservation of the blue economy, Murmu said. The iCAL is thus envisioned as a collaborative platform uniting policymakers, administrators, and auditors involved in local governments. This centre is committed to engaging with elected representatives, executive officials and auditors of local governments across India and from Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) and

India, through its efforts, has been an important contributor to progress across the Sustainable Development Goals, Vice Chair of the NITI Aayog Suman Bery said. These remarks by Bery were made on Monday. He is representing India at the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), taking place at the UN headquarters from July 8 to July 17, under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council. The theme is Reinforcing the 2030 Agenda and eradicating poverty in times of multiple crises: the effective delivery of sustainable, resilient and innovative solutions'. Through its efforts, India has been an important contributor to progress across these SDGs and it has succeeded through successful delivery of physical and digital infrastructure at scale, targeted social national safety net programmes with digital delivery to minimise fraud, improved women's agency, attention to program delivery in the least developed administrative jurisdictions, and strengthened local and .

Bihar government ministers claimed that the latest report of NITI Aayog's Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) India Index 2023-24 vindicated the state's long-standing demand for greater central financial assistance. NITI Aayog on July 12 released SDG India Index 2023-24. Bihar has figured at the bottom, despite improvements on some parameters, in the SDG Index India that makes an assessment of sustainable development. Commenting on NITI Aayog's latest SDG Index, senior JD (U) leader and Bihar Water Resources Minister, Vijay Kumar Chaudhary, told PTI, "The latest report of Aayog has vindicated our long-standing demand for greater central financial assistance..this is the reason that we have been asking for special category status (SCS) or special package for Bihar which is managing its finances on its own. But Bihar comes among the poorest states in the country." He said "Bihar is the most deserving state that needs special financial assistance from the Centre. The economy of Bihar i

NITI Aayog index suggests progress but also raises questions

India has said it has fully integrated the Sustainable Development Goals into its national development strategies and is proud of its SDG localisation model that is built on the pillars of institutional ownership, collaborative competition, capacity building, and a whole-of-society approach. The remarks by India's Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Yojna Patel came here on Monday while addressing the High-Level Political Forum panel on From the SDG Summit to the effective delivery of sustainable, resilient and innovative solutions' at the UN General Assembly. The High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) opened July 8 and will run through July 17 with the theme of "Reinforcing the 2030 Agenda and eradicating poverty in times of multiple crises: the effective delivery of sustainable, resilient and innovative solutions. India is proud of its SDG localisation model, which is built on four pillars: institutional ownership, collaborative competition,

Even as premature deaths due to cancer have come down across three-fourths of the world, only eight countries are likely to meet the related United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Target 3.4, pointed out a recent study. The target is concerned with slashing premature deaths from non-communicable diseases (NCDs), including cancer, by a third by 2030 through prevention and treatment. For the study, researchers, including those from the World Health Organization (WHO), Switzerland, calculated the risk of dying prematurely for people aged 30-69 years to discern how the pattern of yearly premature deaths due to cancer changed from 2000-2019 across 183 countries. Data from the WHO Global Health Estimates were used. The research team found that while overall early deaths due to all cancers fell across South-East Asian countries, early deaths due to breast, colorectal and pancreatic cancer increased. The findings were published in The Lancet Oncology. However, "for most ...

The UN SDGs comprise 17 goals that span everything from the eradication of poverty to ensuring access to clean water. More than $4 trillion will be needed each year to meet the targets