{"id":5362,"date":"2020-01-03T14:58:26","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T09:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=5362"},"modified":"2020-01-03T14:58:26","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T09:28:26","slug":"sustainable-goals-index-highlights-about-the-performers-of-sdg-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/sustainable-goals-index-highlights-about-the-performers-of-sdg-index\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable goals index: Highlights about the performers of SDG Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Relevance: Mains: G.S paper III: Economy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The NITI Aayog\u2019s Sustainable Development Goals Index for 2019, released on Monday, does not reveal any surprising information.<br \/>\n\u2022 The South\u2019s Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka are joined by Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim and Goa as the best performers while the northern\/north-central and north-eastern States have been laggardly in achieving the U.N.-mandated goals by 2030.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key highlights about the performers of SDG Index:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Poor performers such as Uttar Pradesh have shown discernible advances in the indices \u2014 measured between 2018-19 especially in adopting cleaner energy and improving sanitation.<br \/>\n\u2022 But the regional divide is stark in basic livelihood goals such as \u201ceradication of poverty\u201d, and \u201cgood health and well being\u201d or even in measures such as \u201cindustry, innovation and infrastructure\u201d.<br \/>\n\u2022 This points to variances in both State governance and in administrative structures and implementation of welfare policies.<br \/>\n\u2022 The South, led by Kerala and Tamil Nadu, has done much more in orienting administrative institutions to deliver on basic welfare, leading to actions on health care, education, poverty eradication and hunger, with a governance structure tuned to competitively monitoring actions on these fronts.<br \/>\n\u2022 Bihar and Uttar Pradesh where outcomes have remained relatively poor despite there not being much of a difference in the governance structure.<br \/>\n\u2022 The obvious answer to the puzzle could be the presence of historical socio-political movements that have resulted in greater circulation of elites in power and which have addressed issues related to welfare more thoroughly in the South Kerala and T.N in particular.<br \/>\n\u2022 These States need to go further in reaching the UN\u2019s SDGs and achieving the living standards of both the first world and other developing nations.<br \/>\n\u2022 The western States, especially Gujarat and Maharashtra, are also better off in economic growth and industry, indicating a diversified economy, higher employment ratios, skilled labour and better entrepreneurial culture.<br \/>\n\u2022 A major fault-line in India is in achieving gender equality, where barring middling performers such as Himachal Pradesh, Kerala and Jammu and Kashmir, the rest of the country falls short.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key points of sustainable goals index:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Low sex ratio (896 females per 1,000 males).<br \/>\n\u2022 Poor labour force participation and presence in managerial positions (only 17.5% and 30%, according to the report),<br \/>\n\u2022 High level of informality of labour, a major gender pay gap (females earn 78% of wages earned by males in regular salaried employment),<br \/>\n\u2022 Lack of adequate representation in governance (14.4% in Parliament, but 44.4% in local government) besides high crime rates against women and girls are among the major national level indicators that have contributed to this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Conclusion:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>States need to climb a mountain to achieve gender equality, but immediate steps such as enhancing women\u2019s participation in governance through parliamentary reservations would go a long way in addressing several of the issues faced by them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Mains: G.S paper III: Economy Context: The NITI Aayog\u2019s Sustainable Development Goals Index for 2019, released on Monday, 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