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- Recently, NITI Aayog under the Indo-German Cooperation releases the inaugural SDG Urban Index and Dashboard 2021–22.
SDG Urban Index
- About
- The index and dashboard are a result of the NITI Aayog-Germany’s International Cooperation Agency (GIZ) and BMZ collaboration focused on driving SDG localization in our cities, under the umbrella of Indo-German Development Cooperation.
- It ranks 56 urban areas on 77 SDG indicators across 46 targets of the SDG framework.
- It will further strengthen SDG localization and institute robust SDG monitoring at the city level.
- Methodology:
- For each SDG, the urban areas are ranked on a scale of 0-100.
- A score of 100 implies that the urban area has achieved the targets set for 2030; a score of 0 implies that it is the farthest from achieving the targets among the selected urban areas.
- Urban areas have been classified as below based on their composite score:
- Aspirant: 0–49
- Performer: 50–64
- Front-Runner: 65–99
- Achiever: 100
- Urban Areas Performance:
- Shimla tops the Index followed by Coimbatore and Chandigarh.
- Significance:
- The index highlights the strengths and gaps of ULB-level data, monitoring and reporting systems and the tools used in the index
- The dashboard will contribute to the creation of an ecosystem in which all stakeholders will be equipped to adopt and implement data-driven decision making.
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Indo-German Economic Cooperation
- About:
- Indo-German development cooperation is a solid pillar of the Indo-German strategic partnership. Both countries are equally committed to achieving the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs); further, they want to tackle global challenges in the fields of climate and environment.
- Background:
- The year 2008 marked 50 years of Indo-German development cooperation. Begun in the 1950s, development cooperation with India grew so rapidly that in a short time it became the largest recipient of German development assistance.
- The construction of the Rourkela Steel Plant in Orissa was a hallmark of this intensive cooperation in the early 1960s. Later, both countries set up one of India’s premier educational institutions – the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras.
- In the 1990s, development cooperation dealt with the issues of poverty reduction and social infrastructure.
- Programme focus:
- The Indo-German development cooperation programme focuses on the following mutually agreed on priority areas:
- Energy
- Environment and Management of Natural Resources
- Sustainable Urban Development
- The Indo-German development cooperation programme focuses on the following mutually agreed on priority areas:
Source: PIB
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