05/06/2021 - Government Policies

KEY POINTS

·        India’s push in the right direction in achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to clean energy, urban development and health.

·         It has helped it improve its overall SDG score from 60 in 2019 to 66 in 2021, according to NITI Aayog’s SDG India Index 2020-21.

·        Index reveals that there has been a major decline in the areas of industry, innovation and infrastructure.

·        Besides decent work and economic growth, again made worse by the lockdowns imposed by the governments seeking to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic.

·        The 2020-21 Index drops several economic indicators and gives greater weightage to social equality indicators such as representation of women and people from marginalised communities in legislatures and local governance institutions, and crimes against SC/ST communities.

·        By dropping the well-recognised Gini coefficient measure and the growth rate for household expenditure per capita among 40% of rural and urban populations .

·        SDG score on inequality seems to have missed out on capturing the impact of the pandemic on wealth inequality.

·        This could be a significant miss as a UN assessment of the impact of COVID-19 had said that the South Asian region may see rising inequality.

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