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The PDI is a management tool that provides evidence  The line departments need to segregate village level data
that will draw the various governmental agencies at available with them and share with concerned Gram
national, state, district levels as well as field
Panchayats to cross-check its accuracy and reliability;
functionaries to greater focus and accountability on
their roles in the enabling ecosystem, and programme  Take up capacity building for the field personnel
activities as per guidelines and executive instructions specifically on data, LIF and PDI;
for achieving targets and higher development levels  Create a team that will spearhead this work in the State,

along with district and block teams;
State Governments
 Co-ordinate working of the SDGCC in the State with
States have the power and mandate to design and execute
LSDGs and PDI;
policies for all SDGs and their associated targets. The States/
UTs have designated the Department of Planning as the nodal  As MoSPI to NITI Aayog, the Economics and Statistics
department for the implementation and monitoring of the SDGs. department of the State can be given the responsibility to
States have also mapped all CSS and State schemes to SDGs. A work on the data, LIF and PDI;
high-level committee on SDGs constituted by States is the
 State may designate one Nodal Officer at each Block to
prime institutional mechanism for providing strategic directions
coordinate with Gram Panchayats and line department for
and reviewing the progress on SDGs and LSDGs. Many States
creation and regular updation of village level database;
also issued guidelines to line Departments for working in
convergence and supporting PRIs for achieving SDGs at local  Take up the baseline work of the PDI and update annually;
level. Many States/UTs have come out with State Indicator
 Support the GPs in the priority indicators and Sankalp
Framework (SIF) and some also District Indicator Framework
chosen by them;
(DIF). All States/UTs have responded to the LSDG work and
States like Maharashtra, Punjab, UP, Kerala, J&K, Odisha, and  Facilitate preparation of GPDP based on indicator data and
many others have taken the 9 Themes forward and prepared issues in the GP;
State Action Plans, as well. States have started working also on
 Align the Village plans under different schemes as a true
the LIF, and have looked at the framework to suit the priorities
reflection of the need in the GP;
of the State, and are also going to the calculation of PDI, as
their further initiative. (The chapter on State’s initiatives covers  Align the Block and District plan to the evidence that is
more on this). Specifically on the PDI, some key areas of work presented by the PDI, for various flagship schemes, and
for the States/ UTs: consequently the State plan;

 Ensure data availability by identifying the data source for  Assess the progress in GPs on the LIF framework;
all the data points for the PDI from the Panchayat databases
 Document the progress on the PDI work in the State;
and statistical system of the line departments;
 Use the PDI in the training programmes for all levels of
 Undertake surveys wherever required as per the PDI and
ERs of the State;
LIF guidelines;
 PDI use for evidence based decision making, policy and
 Standardization and validation systems to be established (as
programmes design in GPs;
per guidelines, wherever available, or by State themselves
– eg. West Bengal system of data validation through the Create a team that will spearhead this work in the State,
along with district and block teams;
‘para baithak’ method);

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