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The SDG India Index -- Can bold global ambition be translated into effective ground reality? -Mitu Sengupta

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The Index is a good start, but future developments will need to be watched with a critical eye.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are an ambitious declaration of global aspirations, ranging from eliminating poverty, hunger, and violence against women to providing legal identity and equal access to justice to every person in the world. Adopted unanimously by the 193 UN Member States in September 2015, the SDGs are meant to guide global development efforts for 15 years, from 2015 to 2030.

India was an influential player in the international negotiations that produced the SDGs, voicing critical developing country concerns and pressing developed countries to clarify their obligations. India’s interventions shaped many aspects of the SDGs, including the geographical scope of the goals. The SDGs are meant to apply to every country of the world whereas its predecessors, the Millennium Development Goals, targeted developing countries alone. This is a radical shift that transforms the concept of ‘development’ — especially ‘sustainable development’ — into one that is pertinent not only to the global South, but to all countries, rich and poor.

Despite its many revolutionary features, however, the SDGs suffer from a fundamental weakness. They constitute a voluntary agreement rather than a binding treaty, which means that compliance will always be a problem. Unless individual states, especially the more powerful ones, move decisively towards achieving the goals, the SDGs will remain an utopian dream and symbol of failing global cooperation.

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