NITI Aayog Releases SDG India Index 2023-24

NITI Aayog on Friday released SDG India Index 2023-24 and said India is progressing towards the Sustainable Development Goals despite global headwinds. SDG India Index is the country’s principal tool for measuring national and subnational progress on the Sustainable Development Goals. The Index was launched by NITI Aayog Vice Chairperson Suman Bery in the presence of NITI Aayog CEO BVR Subrahmanyam among others.

Mr Subrahmanyam said the composite score for India improved from 57 in 2018 to 66 in 2020-21 to further to 71 in 2023-24. SDG India Index measures and tracks national progress of all States and UTs on 113 indicators. It computes goal-wise scores on the 16 SDGs for each State and UT. These scores range between zero to hundred. If a state or UT achieves a score of 100, it signifies that it has achieved the targets. The Index not only highlights achievements, but also encourages States and UTs to learn from each other to close outcome-based gaps.

The NITI Aayog CEO said India has



taken significant strides in accelerating progress on the SDGs between the 2020-21 and 2023-24 editions of the Index. Since 2018, India has witnessed substantial progress in several key SDGs. Significant progress has been made in the areas of alleviating poverty, health, providing clean water and sanitation and affordable and clean energy. The NITI Aayog CEO said government’s focus on ensuring food and nutrition security, health, education, electrification, housing for all, sanitation, clean cooking fuel and energy has significantly contributed to the improvements.

Key interventions facilitating SDG achievements include over four crore houses under the PM Awas Yojana, and eleven crore Toilets and 2.23 lakh Community Sanitary Complexes in rural areas. Mr Subrahmanyam also cited ten crore LPG connections under PM Ujjwala Yojana and tap water connections in over 14.9 crore households under Jal Jeevan Mission as initiatives which led to SDG achievements.