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The NITI Aayog—National Institution for Transforming India—is the Think Tank of the Government of India, which has the responsibility of overseeing implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the country. NITI Aayog’s role in the context of the SDGs naturally gels well with its overall mandate of providing policy guidance, monitoring programme implementation and strengthening innovation across varied development sectors. While India’s federal context ordains that States and Union Territories (UTs) are predominantly responsible for implementation of SDGs, NITI Aayog has made significant contribution to the pursuit of SDGs by sensitising different stakeholders, regularly reviewing progress, providing need-based technical support, facilitating mutual learning among States/UTs and ranking the performance of States/UTs on SDGs on a set of select indicators. It has played a critical role in bringing together diverse stakeholders and setting off collaboration among them for specific objectives. The chapter projects future directions based on an analysis of current status and preparedness of relevant stakeholders, more specifically the State governments. It also gives key details of how the questions of monitoring, indicators and data have been addressed as far as SDGs are concerned.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech is available at https://www.narendramodi.in/pm-modi-addresses-world-sustainable-development-summit-538963 accessed on 28.11.2019.
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Sub-clauses 1 (ii) a, e, f & k of the Allocation of Business Rules (accessed on 28.11.2018 at http://niti.gov.in/content/allocation-business-rules-0) read together.
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The revised mapping document is available on NITI Aayog’s website at http://niti.gov.in/writereaddata/files/SDGMapping-Document-NITI_0.pdf accessed on 15.02.2019.
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Information on the consultations are available on NITI Aayog’s website at http://niti.gov.in/content/national-and-regional-consultations as accessed on 15.02.2019.
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The multi-stakeholder approach adopted by NITI Aayog is a central part of its strategy, which informs much of its work. The significance of this approach has been underlined by efforts around the world (Stern et al. 2015; Stafford-Smith et al. 2017; Treichel et al. 2017) and emphasised in the UNESCAP guidelines on multi-stakeholder partnership (UNU-IAS and UN 2018).
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The National SDG Indicator Framework is available on the website of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India at http://www.mospi.gov.in/national-indicator-framework accessed on 15.02.2019.
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The report is based on indicators identified consultatively with Central Ministries as well as State Governments and UTs by NITI Aayog.
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The Net State Domestic Product of Goa at current prices for the year 2015–16 was a little more than 10 times that of Bihar according to data compiled by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation accessed on 28.11.2018 at www.mospi.gov.in/sites/default/…statements/StatewiseDomesticProduct_29aug18.xls.
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India’s Voluntary National Review Report on implementation of SDGs is also available on NITI Aayog’s website at http://niti.gov.in/writereaddata/files/Final_VNR_report.pdf.
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The Strategy for New India@75” details pathways for sustainable growth and provides milestones for the year 2022 (NITI Aayog 2018a).
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The Three Year Action Agenda provided concrete action perspectives for the period 2017–2020 (NITI Aayog 2017).
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The SDG India Index: Baseline Report 2018 provides an update of States’ initiatives in this respect (NITI Aayog 2018b).
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Apart from ranking the performance of States and UTs, the SDG India Index: Baseline Report 2018 (NITI Aayog 2018b) provides an analysis of progress made by States and UTs of India.
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Jain, A.K., Mishra, S.N. (2019). Role of NITI Aayog in the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda. In: Chaturvedi, S., James, T., Saha, S., Shaw, P. (eds) 2030 Agenda and India: Moving from Quantity to Quality . South Asia Economic and Policy Studies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9091-4_11
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