NITI Aayog recently launched the third edition of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) India Index and Dashboard 2020-21.
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Kerala managed to retain the top spot this year in the SDG India Index. While Bihar was placed at the bottom of the government think tank’s SDG India Index.
Bihar and Jharkhand were the worst-performing states on the SDG India Index with scores of 52 and 56 respectively.
Mizoram, Haryana, and Uttarakhand were the top gainers in 2020-21 in terms of improvement in score from 2019, with an increase of 12, 10 and 8 points, respectively.
The SDG India Index is tabulated annually by NITI Aayog in order to evaluate the progress of states and union territories on the basis of social, economic and environmental criteria.
The results show that the country’s overall sustainable development goals score has improved by six points. It has gone up from 60 in 2019 to 66 in 2020-21.