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Sustainable Development Goals

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Engineering the sustainable development goals (sdgs) in India
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The sustainable development goals (SDGs) are a contemporary, universal set of goals, earmarks and indicators that United Nations (UN) member states will be expected to use to frame their agendas and political policies over the next 15 years. Considered as an expansion of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which were drawn up by a selected group of men in the basement of UN headquarters, the UN has conducted the largest consultation programme in its history to comprehend opinion on what the SDGs should include. India along with other countries signed the declaration on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, comprising of seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) …show more content…

Nations have a moral responsibility for sustainable development. There is no cause greater than shaping a world, in which every life that enters it can look to a future of security, opportunity and dignity; and, where we leave our environment in better shape for the next generation. SDGs have the potential to create a world where no one is left behind. The SDGs also make it possible to achieve what the WHO constitution mandates: attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. Sustainable Development goals are considered as an augmentation of the MDGs. In spite of the deadline of MDGs, about 1 billion people still live on less than $1.25 a day and more than 800 million people do not have enough food to eat. Women are still fighting hard for their rights, and millions of women still die in childbirth. SDGs give the nation states an opportunity to learn from mistakes and undertake vital operations by showing them the light in the direction to achieve the universal goal of Social and Economic Development. The SDGs are a set of 17 specific goals, offering special focus on important areas related to sustainable development that require urgent and extensive attention at present and in the near future. The SDGs framework undertakes to provide systematic solutions to the obstacles identified in case of the MDGs like inequality, sustainability, institutional resourcefulness, implementation efficacy, environmental deterioration, etc. These goals can only be achieved by two important factors, First being the financial inclusion of developing countries which are facing huge income inequalities and Second being cooperative federalism. The role of State governments is central to implementation of these programmes as well as in designing convergence with the

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