By Neeraj Kumar Srivastava, Director, Niti Aayog, Government of India

1. REGIONAL KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE
:IMPLEMENTING 2030 AGENDA FOR SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT GOALS
INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS
NEERAJ KUMAR SRIVASTAVA
DIRECTOR, NITI AAYOG,
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
24.10.2016

2. INDIAAT A GLANCE
Total population 1.25 billion (Urban - 31.2% )
Child Sex Ratio(0 – 6 years) 919
Literacy 73% (Male-80.9%, Female-64.6%)
Population Below Poverty Line (BPL) 21.9% (269.8 million people)
Infant mortality rate 39/1000
Female labour force participation rate 25.5
Households covered through tap water 43.5% (Rural- 30.8% Urban – 70.6%)
Size of the Economy USD 2.2 trillion (approx.)

3. INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 related
targets have been resolved in September 2015 by the UN General
Assembly including India.
Niti Aayog has been assigned the role of overseeing
implementation of SDGs by various Ministries/Departments.
 Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation is evolving
indicators related to the 17 SDGs and 169 targets.
A Working Group on SDGs comprising of representatives from
NITI Aayog and Ministry of Statistics & Programme
Implementation has been constituted.

4. Progress Made
A draft mapping of goals and targets in respect of the central
ministries, various flagship initiatives of the government and the
Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) has been carried out to
facilitate better awareness and faster implementation of SGDs.
Many States have also mapped Sustainable Development Goals and
Targets.
A series of consultations/national workshops with stakeholder
Ministries/Departments and State Governments, Civil Society
Organizations, researchers, academia, UN agencies, policy makers,
private sector, non-government organizations etc. are being
organised.

5. Important Initiatives and SDGs
Some of the major flagship programmes implemented by the
Government of India:
Housing for All by 2022
Swachh Bharat Mission by 2019 (Clean India Mission)
Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana (DAY) (National Livelihood
Mission)
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
(MGNREGA)

6. Important Initiatives and SDGs…contd.
Pradhan Mantri Jan Dahan Yojana (world’s largest financial
inclusion programme)
Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Abhiyaan (Save girl child, educate girl
child)
National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP)
…………and so on.

7. An Illustration
SDG 1
(End Poverty)
END POVERTY IN ALL ITS FORMS EVERYWHERE

8. MAPPING OF SDG 1: END POVERTY
Nodal Ministry – Ministry of Rural Development
Other related Ministries – Social Justice, Labour, Housing and Urban Poverty
Alleviation, Urban Development, Women and Child Development, Ministry of
Minority Affairs, Tribal Affairs.
Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSSs) –

National Urban Livelihood Mission

National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA)

National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM)

National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP)

Digital Land Record Management Programme

9. Challenges & Way forward

Finance: Strengthen domestic resource mobilization
including international support.

Technology: Need for greater cooperation for global
innovative technology transfer and best practices sharing.

Capacity Building: Need to enhance international support
for implementing effective and targeted capacity-building.

Data and monitoring: Need to modernize statistical
system to produce high quality, timely, reliable and
disaggregated data for appropriate policy and
administrative interventions.

10. Thank You