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development, agenda issues, socio-economic, geographical, in developmental terms of technological, infrastructure, and
environmental and interconnectedness of the 17 SDGs. socio-economic state is a well-known fact and has been
Towards the 2030 future, 169 global targets and 231 distinct brought to the fore through various administrative statistics. In
global indicators were identified by the United Nations for order to have a glimpse of these disparities, some key indicators
assessing and monitoring the progress of the attainment of from the NFHS-5 are:
SDGs.
 Female population age 6 years and above who ever
In India, 306 indicators were identified as per National Indicator attended school (%) Urban 82.5 – Rural 66.8
Framework (NIF) on the 17 SDGs, to provide proper direction
 Women with 10 or more years of schooling (%) Urban 56.3
to the policymakers in the attainment of SDGs at the National
– Rural 33.7
level and for holistic development. NITI Aayog prepared SDG
India Index using NIF for measuring the progress of the  Men with 10 or more years of schooling (%) Urban 62.1 –
achievement of SDGs. Rural 43.7

India is committed to attainment of SDGs by the target date and  Children under age 5 years whose birth was registered with
working vigorously to even achieve some of the goals much the civil authority (%) Urban 93.3 – Rural 87.5
before 2030.
 Population living in households that use an improved

sanitation facility (%) Urban 81.5 – Rural 64.9
“When India grows, the World
 Households using clean fuel for cooking (%) Urban 89.7 –
grows”
Rural 43.2
Shri Narendra Modi,
 Women age 20-24 years married before age 18 years (%)
Prime Minister of India
Urban 14.7 – Rural 27.0

 Infant mortality rate (IMR) Urban 26.6 – Rural 38.4

The Ministry of Panchayati Raj (MoPR) with the mandate to  Under-five mortality rate (U5MR) Urban 31.5 – Rural 45.7
build institutional capabilities of the PRIs to deliver SDGs at
 Children under 5 years who are underweight (weight-for-
local level is given a key role in reorienting the PRIs in this
age)(%) Urban 27.3 – Rural 33.8
direction. Not only the Ministry will reorient the capacity
building and training of the PRIs and use multi-media towards  Current Mothers who had an antenatal check-up in the first
new developmental paradigm, MoPR also is constantly trimester (%) Urban 75.5 – Rural 67.9; Mothers who had
evolving itself to meet the needs of time and empower at least 4 antenatal care visits (%) Urban 68.1 – Rural 54.2
panchayats through innovation, facilitation, guidance and
 Women who have ever used the internet (%) Urban 51.8 –
advocacy for accomplishment of the target.
Rural 24.6;
IV. Aligning Panchayat/ Rural programmes with SDG:  Men who have ever used the internet (%) Urban 72.5 –

Rural 48.7
"India lives in her villages" Gandhi ji said this, when 89 % of
the population lived in villages. However, Times have changed,
“ India lives in her villages”
but still nearly 68% of India lives in rural areas. Hence,
attainment of SDGs at National level will require actions at the Mahatma Gandhi

grassroots level i.e., at village’s level. The rural – urban divide

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PDI Committee Report - 2023: Introduction