NITI Aayog has released a first of its kind Sustainable Development Goals Index released on 21st December 2018. According to the SDG index Himachal Pradesh, Kerala and Tamil Nadu have been ranked on top 3 position and are on track to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals SDG. The recently released Sustainable Development Goals Index aims to promote healthy competition among States by evaluating their progress in social economics and environmental terms that will help India in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) by 2030 based on the performance of the states and duties across 13 of the 17 identified SDGs, a score ranging between 0 and has been assigned to each of them the index. The index considered only 13 out of 17 goals because of non availability data at the state level the average Indian score in the SDG index is 57 and varies between 42 and 69 for the states and between 57 and 68 for UTs.
Key Points of the SDG Index-:: Kerala and Himachal Pradesh have been called as the front runners in the index with a score of 69 Chandigarh has been declared as the front runners in the index with a score of 68 among the youth the state of Tamil Nadu (scores 66) is at the top to meet the goals of eradicating poverty and providing clean and affordable energy Assam, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh are at the bottom of the ranking in the NITI Aayog's Sustainable Development Goals Index. Goa Kerala Manipur Mizoram and Nagaland where the front runners on the 'Zero' hunger sub-index the states performed by early in the HDD index in regards to the growth of gender equality (36) in enabling industry Innovation and infrastructure (44) and in educating hunger (48) and in creating sustainable cities and communities (39)
