Note -: These challenges in Sustainable development goals will determine only for the growth of India.
What are the challenges in the attainment of SDGs?
To attain the SDGs(Sustainable development Goals), the Indian government has entrusted the NITI Aayog to monitor the implementation of SDGs and directed the state government to make policies, schemes and implement them. There are some challenges for achieving SDGs. These are being discussed below.
1- Lack of effective leadership and coordinated partnerships
Effective leaderships and coordinated partnerships among state and central government are very crucial part for attaining the SDGs. Effective leaderships is very important for taking right decisions and perform appropriate actions with regards to:
- Policies
- legislation,
- Investment,
- Implementation,
- advocacy, and
- popular representation
Unless the partnerships among all stakeholders are well coordinated, the result will not be as expected.
2- Social Inclusion
The main challenge to attain the SDGs are in social factors such as sort out the problems of gender inequality, re-construction of Rural and Urban areas, do overcome on disparities, and diversities. We have big challenge to sort out these and to provide some general needs of everybody such as purified water and sanitation, adequate nutrition, primary health services, and basic infrastructures including electricity, roads, and connectivity to the global information network should be available to all peoples in India.
3 – Undefined Scope and Spread of SDGs
Sustainable development goals are 17 in number and have 169 targets. Although, this list of SDGs is accepted in principle by all members, yet this list is too large for implementation and attainment purposes.
4 – Lack of measurable indicators
The SDGs define some targets which are aspirational but some are unclear in terms of scope and indicators of achievements. e.g., SDG3- how will the progress toward “well-being for all” be measured. There are not well defined indicators for the target “well being for all“.
5 – Finance and budgeting for SDGs Attainments
For attaining the 17 SDGs, the government must allocate specific budget towards it, but governments, especially governments of developing countries like India, priorities tasks and allocate budgets for other aspirational and other tasks government. So the budgets allocated for SDGs sometimes falls short of what is actually required.
6- Monitoring and Ownerships
Another challenge with SDGs attainment in India is that no single organization has been given ownership of this task. Although, ‘NITI Aayog‘ has been giving the supervising capacity, yet some policy making and implementation powers lie with the states and other organizations as well.
7 – data for Measuring Progress
Government has been putting in all possible efforts for the SDGs attainment, a clear example of which is reduction in extreme poor population of India. We could establish this only after the data about the extreme poor people was collected continuously at regular intervals for years. Thus, data plays an important role in monitoring progress.
