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Shimla Ranks No. 1 in Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Shimla is at the top of a list of 56 urban areas that ranks cities on sustainable development goals (SDGs) such as eliminating poverty and ensuring quality education, and gender equality, federal policy think tank NITI Aayog.

 

Coimbatore, Chandigarh, Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Panaji, Pune, Tiruchirapalli, Ahmedabad and Nagpur, in that order, follow Shimla, in having achieved these goals, according to an SDG urban index developed jointly by NITI Aayog and Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development known as BMZ and German development agency GIZ.

These ten urban areas have scored between 75.5 and 69.79 of 100 to be ranked as front runners.

 

The SDG Urban Index ranks 56 urban areas on 77 SDG indicators across 46 targets of the SDG framework. The idea is to strengthen localisation of the SDG framework and ensure close monitoring of progress at the city level.

Cities are fast becoming engines of growth and the SDG urban index and dashboard will go a long way in setting up a robust SDG monitoring system in our cities and is a milestone in our SDG localisation journey.

 

Seventeen SDG goals adopted in 2015 by UN member nations form a blueprint of prosperity for people and the planet. It recognises that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality and spur economic growth, while tackling climate change

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