NITI Aayog on December 30, 2019 released the second edition of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) India Index, which comprehensively documents the progress made by India’s States and Union Territories towards achieving the 2030 SDG targets. The SDG India Index—which has been developed in collaboration with the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), United Nations in India, and Global Green Growth Institute-was launched by NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Dr. Rajiv Kumar and others.

In 2020, the world enters the final decade for achieving the SDGs—the ‘Decade for Action’. The SDG India Index 2.0 and the dashboard enables India to both track and encourage accelerated progress to meet the SDGs across all its States and Union Territories.

About SDG India Index
• The SDG India Index 2019 tracks the progress of all States and UTs on 100 indicators drawn from the MoSPI’s National Indicator Framework (NIF).
• The process of selection of these indicators included multiple consultations with Union ministries/departments and States/UTs.
• The SDG India Index 2019 is more robust than the first edition on account of wider coverage of goals, targets, and indicators with greater alignment with the NIF.
• The Index spans 16 out of 17 SDGs with a qualitative assessment on Goal 17. This marks an improvement over the 2018 Index, which covered only 13 goals.
• Additionally, this year, the SDG India Index report has a new section on profiles of all 37 States and UTs, which will be very useful to analyze their performance on all goals in a lucid manner.
• A composite score was computed in the range of 0–100 for each State/UT based on its aggregate performance across 16 SDGs and their respective targets. The higher the score of a State/U’T, the closer it is towards achieving the targets.
• NITI Aayog has the Twin Mandate to Oversee the Implementation of SDGs in the country and promote competitive and cooperative federalism among States and UTs.