NEW DELHI: Shimla has topped the Niti Aayog’s Sustainable Growth Objective (SDG) index that ranks 56 city areas on progress in the direction of assembly SDG targets linked to ending poverty, zero starvation, good well being and effectively being, high quality schooling, gender equality amongst others.
Coimbatore and Chandigarh had been ranked second and third respectively among the many prime 10 city centres whereas Dhanbad was the laggard and among the many backside ten cities.
In 2015, the UN Common meeting set the goal of assembly 17 SDG targets by 2030 and the newest index measures the city centres on 15 out of the 17 targets.
Out of 56 city areas ranked within the index, 44 are with inhabitants of above a million. 12 are state capitals with a inhabitants of lower than one million.
For every SDG, the city areas are ranked on a scale of 0-100. A rating of 100 implies that the city space has achieved the targets set for 2030; a rating of 0 implies that it’s the farthest from reaching the targets among the many chosen city areas, in response to an announcement from the federal government suppose tank.
Among the many prime 10 performers eight centres scored between 70% to 75.5% indicating good progress whereas the rating for the underside ten areas ranged from 52.4% to 58.6%
“Cities are quick turning into engines of progress. The SDG City index and dashboard, a product of progressive partnership between NITI Aayog and GIZ, will go a good distance in instituting a strong SDG monitoring system in our cities, and is a milestone step in our SDG localisation journey,” Rajiv Kumar, vice chairman, NITI Aayog stated in the course of the launch of the index on Tuesday.
When it comes to the objective of ending poverty, good performers included Coimbatore, Shillong, Madurai, Tiruchirapalli, and Aizwal whereas within the zero starvation objective, the centres which carried out effectively had been Kochi, Kohima, Vijayawada, Shillong and Amritsar. Beneath the gender equality objective, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram, Panaji,Kohima, Rajkot, Nashik, Pune and Agartala have been recognized nearly as good performers.
“The index seeks to empower native administrations to undertake a measurement-based method to resolution making. Provided that the SDG agenda is adopted by the final mile stakeholders can we hope to attain the worldwide 2030 agenda. The SDG City Index is yet one more step in the direction of localising the SDGs additional,” stated Sanyukta Samaddar, nodal officer (SDG), NITI Aayog
The index and dashboard are a results of the NITI Aayog-GIZ and BMZ collaboration centered on driving SDG localisation in cities, below the umbrella of the Indo-German Growth Cooperation.
Coimbatore and Chandigarh had been ranked second and third respectively among the many prime 10 city centres whereas Dhanbad was the laggard and among the many backside ten cities.
In 2015, the UN Common meeting set the goal of assembly 17 SDG targets by 2030 and the newest index measures the city centres on 15 out of the 17 targets.
Out of 56 city areas ranked within the index, 44 are with inhabitants of above a million. 12 are state capitals with a inhabitants of lower than one million.
For every SDG, the city areas are ranked on a scale of 0-100. A rating of 100 implies that the city space has achieved the targets set for 2030; a rating of 0 implies that it’s the farthest from reaching the targets among the many chosen city areas, in response to an announcement from the federal government suppose tank.
Among the many prime 10 performers eight centres scored between 70% to 75.5% indicating good progress whereas the rating for the underside ten areas ranged from 52.4% to 58.6%
“Cities are quick turning into engines of progress. The SDG City index and dashboard, a product of progressive partnership between NITI Aayog and GIZ, will go a good distance in instituting a strong SDG monitoring system in our cities, and is a milestone step in our SDG localisation journey,” Rajiv Kumar, vice chairman, NITI Aayog stated in the course of the launch of the index on Tuesday.
When it comes to the objective of ending poverty, good performers included Coimbatore, Shillong, Madurai, Tiruchirapalli, and Aizwal whereas within the zero starvation objective, the centres which carried out effectively had been Kochi, Kohima, Vijayawada, Shillong and Amritsar. Beneath the gender equality objective, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram, Panaji,Kohima, Rajkot, Nashik, Pune and Agartala have been recognized nearly as good performers.
“The index seeks to empower native administrations to undertake a measurement-based method to resolution making. Provided that the SDG agenda is adopted by the final mile stakeholders can we hope to attain the worldwide 2030 agenda. The SDG City Index is yet one more step in the direction of localising the SDGs additional,” stated Sanyukta Samaddar, nodal officer (SDG), NITI Aayog
The index and dashboard are a results of the NITI Aayog-GIZ and BMZ collaboration centered on driving SDG localisation in cities, below the umbrella of the Indo-German Growth Cooperation.
Supply: Times of India