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Sustainable Development
Sustainable Development
Sustainable Development:
* Sustainable
* Development
The Concept:
• It can be defined as the “development that meet the present needs without
compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”
• The focus of sustainable development goes beyond just the environment. It's also
about ensuring a strong, healthy and equal society.
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Sustainable Development Goals:
• SDGs are a set of 17 interrelated global goals.
• An agenda titled “Transforming Our World: the 2030 agenda for Sustainable
Development” was adopted at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit.
• These goals were adopted at the United Nation Sustainable Development Summit.
• These goals were adopted to create a sustainable future and address the global
challenges.
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Goal: 1
Government Schemes:
MGNREGA
PMJAY
NSAP
Goal: 2
End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable
agriculture.
Government Schemes:
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Green revolution
Developments in agriculture
POSHAN abhiyan
Goal: 3
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
Government Schemes:
PM JAY
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Goal: 4
Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning
opportunities for all.
Government Schemes:
SSA
RUSA
INSPIRE
SWAYAM
MOOC’S
Goal: 5
Government Schemes:
Reservation in jobs
UJJWALA scheme
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Goal: 6
Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
Government Schemes:
Goal: 7
Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.
Government Schemes:
o ISA
o PAHAL Subsidy
o DDUGJY
o PM SAUBHAGYA Scheme
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Goal: 8
Promote sustained inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive
employment and decent work for all.
Government Schemes:
• Start-up India
• Stand-up India
• Skill India
• PM employment schemes
• PMKVY
Goal: 9
Government Schemes:
Digital India
PM Awas yojna
Smart City
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Goal: 10
Government Schemes:
Goal: 11
Make cities and human settlement inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
Government Schemes:
Smart city
Rurban mission
AMRUT
Awas Yojna
Goal: 12
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Government Schemes:
Je-Van schemes
Distributing LED
Goal: 13
Government Schemes:
o NAQI
o NAPCC
Goal: 14
Conservation and sustainable use of the oceans, seas and marine resources for
sustainable development.
Government Schemes:
Marine parks
CRZ
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Goal: 15
Government Schemes:
Goal: 16
Government Schemes:
Speedy justice
Jan Adalats
Reduce corruption
Lok Adalats
Jan sunwai
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Goal: 17
Government Schemes:
ISA
The DSDG provides substantive support and capacity-building for the SDGs and their
related thematic issues, including water, energy, climate etc.
It also monitors the Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR), along with
establishing partnerships and looking for the Small Island Developing States. DSDG
plays a key role in the evaluation of UN system wide implementation of the 2030
Agenda and on advocacy and outreach activities relating to the SDG.
The SDG India Index 2019-20, developed by NITI Aayog, was launched on
December 30th, 2019.
The Index has been constructed spanning across 16 out of 17 SDGs with a qualitative
assessment on SDG 17.
It tracks the progress of all the States and Union Territories (UTs) on a set of 100
National Indicators derived from the National Indicator Framework.
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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.
A composite score was computed in the range of 0–100 for each State/UT based on its
aggregate performance across 16 SDGs.
Aspirant: 0–49
Performer: 50–64
Achiever: 100
• Top Performers: Kerala retained its rank as the top state with a score of 75.
• Both Himachal Pradesh and Tamil Nadu took the second spot with a score of 74.
• Worst Performers: Bihar (52), Jharkhand (56), and Assam (57) were the worst-
performing states in this year’s India index.
• Top Performer Union Territories: Chandigarh maintained its top spot among the
UTs with a score of 79, followed by Delhi (68) and Lakshadweep (68).
• New Front Runners added to the list: Uttarakhand, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Mizoram,
Punjab, Haryana, Tripura, Delhi, Lakshadweep, Andaman and Nicobar Islands,
Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh graduated to the category of front-runners (scores
between 65 and 99, including both).
• As per the report, Tamil Nadu and Delhi have done well on improving the per capita
income of individuals.
• Gujarat and Delhi have given the best performance in the health sector, while Kerala
and Chandigarh have done well in education.
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• Top Gainers: Mizoram, Haryana, and Uttarakhand have been top gainers with 12, 10,
and 8 points respectively.
• This positive stride towards achieving the targets is largely driven by exemplary
country-wide performance in goal 6 (clean water and sanitation) and goal 7
(affordable and clean energy), where the composite goal scores are 83 and 92,
respectively.
Areas of Weakness
• Goal 2 (Nutrition Zero Hunger): It is largely driven by the level of stunting, wasting
among children, anaemia among women, underweight children, pregnant women with
anemia, etc.
• Goal 5 (Gender equality): This goal talks about women’s participation in the
economy and political arena, gender parity, security of women, women’s control over
family planning, labour force participation rate, operational landholding, managerial
positions in the company, equal pay, etc.
• These two areas still belong to the aspirant categories or red zone under which scores
lie between 1 to 49. Hence, these are the areas that have to be worked upon by not
only the government but also with the efforts of the whole society and synergies
across the departments.
• Some of the states doing well in goal 5 are Chattisgarh, Kerala, Himachal Pradesh,
Tamil Nadu, and Andhra Pradesh. The states at the bottom are Assam, Arunachal
Pradesh, Tripura, and Assam. Hence, these are the critical states which require a lot
more attention.
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OTHER RECENT INITIATIVES BY INDIA:
In India, the Petroleum Ministry, in consultation with public oil marketing companies,
decided the date of BS-VI grade auto fuels in NCT of Delhi with effect from 1 April
2018 instead of 1 April 2020.
Around 13 cities will switch over cleaner Euro standard six this year.
‘Only One Earth’ – was the theme of environment day this year.
Under the International Solar alliance mission, which is a first mission India gave to
the world regarding the environment, and it contains the largest group of countries
part of it after the United Nations itself. It aims to generate 1000 GW of solar energy.
The countries that lie within the tropics are a member of the ISA; these countries are
called the sunshine countries.
ESD aims to empower and equip current and future generations to meet their needs using
a balanced and integrated approach to the economic, social and environmental dimensions
of sustainable development.
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Being an Educator for Sustainable Development
1. Environmental awareness
4. Inclusive education
1. Acknowledge their key role as a cornerstone of effective ESD programme and co-
developers of the curricula.
2. Understand the cross cutting (main streaming) and multi-disciplinary nature of ESD
3. Avoid overloading the curriculum and to solely link ESD to one or two disciplines
Developing policy.
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Conclusion:
• ESD must be locally relevant and culturally appropriate, reflecting the environmental
economic and several conditions of the community.
• Education is our greatest hope for a sustainable future. By contemplating and taking
on the important task of implementing ESD, one can bring the possibility of a more
sustainable future to her/his community and nation.
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