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Best Practices in States on Development of Local Indicator Framework for Actualisation of Sustainable
Development Gaols at Local Level.

The Committee during the course of its proceedings and Gujarat, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala,
deliberations had interaction with the States on their identifying Maharashtra, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Punjab,
the Local Indicator Framework (LIF) and or development of Rajasthan, Tamilnadu, Telangana, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh,
Panchayat specific indices for implementation and or Uttarakhand and West Bengal. The Minutes of the Meeting,
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monitoring the progress of localisation of SDGs. This is also 13 PDI Committee Meeting, is available in the
further to the National Writeshop held in July 2022, where Annexure-VII. However, illustratively the status of a few States
States mentioned about the progress they have made and plans has been compiled. This is based on information made available
for localisation of SDGs. The Committee interacted virtually on to the Committee from the State and inputs from MoPR.
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28 September, 2022 with the States of Arunachal Pradesh,
(I) The Case of West Bengal

The State of West Bengal is the one of the leading States in India adopting the system of inclusive and participatory local planning
model towards sustainable development goals, and orienting it to the Localization of Sustainable Development Goals (LSDGs)
initiative of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj (MoPR). The provision of ‘Para Baithak’ for people’s participation is envisaged as an
effective and powerful forum for data validation and participatory planning for Gram Panchayat development. For this, the
Government of West Bengal introduced the Digitization of the primary data system captured in Peoples’ Campaign for GPDP from
FY 2022-23. This Digitized system will help in preparing the Gram Panchayat-wise Local Human Development Index Report
(LHDI), where information will be automatically compiled, analyzed and shall identify the critical gaps at each theme of
9 LSDGs. The real data of stages of participatory planning will be captured through Mobile-Application to ensure real-time
participation of community during the preparation of the plan.

Mapping of SDG Themes with Sub-Committees/Standing Committees
The 9 LSDG themes have been mapped with corresponding Standing Committees/Sub-Committees of three-tier Panchayats.
Standing Committee-wise / Sub-committees-wise Panchayats Development Plans for the financial year 2023-24 will be prepared on
adopting thematic approaches.

Shifting from Sector based Indicator to Theme based Indicator
A new set of questionnaire are being prepared based on Theme based Indicator developed by MoPR and sector-wise Indicator of the
State. Most of the questionnaires already exist in Sector- wise data collection form. Few indicators have been excluded and few

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