Chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat stressed on the need for intensifying efforts to achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs) set till 2030. He said this after inaugurating a dashboard for SDG monitoring prepared with the cooperation of UNDP and Centre for Public Policy and Good Governance, Planning Department here on Tuesday.
Stating that good work has been done in some spheres, he referred to the campaign undertaken against malnutrition, Atal Ayushman Uttarakhand Yojana and efforts for water conservation and river rejuvenation. Referring to efforts aimed at supplying clean drinking water, he said that water connection is being provided for Re one in rural areas and will soon be provided at cheap rates in urban areas too. Stating that very good results will be achieved in the future from these efforts, he said that 40 per cent of district plan is being spent on facilitating self employment. With networking and connectivity set to increase due to Bharat Net phase II, this too will exert a positive impact on the livelihoods of the people, he said.
He directed that regular monitoring should be undertaken to ensure completion of schemes based on targets. Stating that vision 2030 is the outline of the State’s future and economic development, he directed all the district magistrates to periodically review all indicators of the 17 aspects of sustainable development goals. All the districts will upload their achievements on the dashboard from time to time. Based on ranking, the schemes/ indicators which show lack will be taken up on priority to improve implementation of efforts to achieve the sustainable development goals, he added.
Additional chief secretary, Planning, Manisha Panwar said that Uttarakhand vision 2030 was prepared in 2018 for implementation of efforts to achieve the sustainable development goals. Based on the guidelines of the NITI Aayog, 371 indicators have been selected which include national indicators and indicators made according to the relevance in the state.
The UNDP resident representative in India, Shoko Noda opined that Uttarakhand had done appreciable work in making the framework for SDG and localization of the SDGs. The additional CEO of CPPGG, Manoj Kumar Pant spoke in detail about the sustainable development goals.
Secretaries R Meenakshi Sundaram, Pankay Pandey, Sushil Kumar, UNDP State head Rashmi Bajaj and all DMs along with chief development officers through video conference were also present on the occasion.
Wednesday, 02 December 2020 | PNS | Dehradun
