Disintegrated Coordination Propelling India towards 2030 SDGs

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10.2991/978-94-6463-696-3_16How to use a DOI?

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SDG Council; National SDG Authority (NSDGA); State SDG Authority (SSDGA); Ministry of Panchayati Raj and Ministry of Urban Development; Chairman of Niti Aayog; All of Government Approach; Whole of society Approach

Abstract

A comprehensive policy contains all the relevant stakeholders under its consideration. In regards with SDGs and its goals for 2030 any document must heed the same thought by word and virtue. The SDG Localisation attempts of India are pretty impressive compared to what other countries follow. It is because it deals with more of what is being already done and being shelved to dust, is now being dusted to take back as a nuanced practice and renaming them as sustainable. The Policy document seems to have a full-throttle ride on increasing the institutional capacity and the gears on government machinery for heading to the targeted destination. This research adds value to the efforts of the Government by identifying that the shift from predominant focus on “All of Government” approach to “Whole of society” approach.

Given the fact that this is an extensive centralisation, by creating a dashboard to record the performance based on designed parameters to an agreed international level, the need to identify the distinct needs of our local areas by the way it functions and how this approaches has to outgrow from “Top down approach” to “Bottom up approach”, so as to visually see the changes from the grass roots and effectively implement the localisation of SDGs. As many things from top down don’t communicate effectively because of the way each thing functions at the local level are perceptively different from the perceptions from the top.

For example, one of the key performance parameters clearly states for policy coherence. But in the border areas of the state of Tamil Nadu and the state of Kerala, there is high friction for waste management. The Government of Kerala from the beginning has a strict advisory on distinctive waste disposal, on the other hand, the Government of Tamil Nadu is focused more on diversification of the collected waste and methods for Recycling and Reuse. Here the blind spot of the latter is advantageous for the stakeholders of the former and there are many cases across the state border on dumping medical waste, the skin of animal carcasses etc. This blind spot creates not only environmental hazards but also a menace in the minds of the affected residents. This is why one needs a Bottom-up approach. First with that and then, creating a baseline on the performance by setting such indigenous parameters, is the suggested approach.

The whole of society approach speaks more on many indigenous practices that are way more sustainable in nature, but are disregarded due to the force of rapid Urbanization and Industrialization. The amount of potential this holds is that each zilla of India can produce a sustainable product for Global Export and contribute significantly to the economy. This comes akin with the goals of Upskilling, Entrepreneurship and One District One Product (ODOP) of Government of India. As many things can be attributed to one, the Localisation can cover many unexplored areas as advocated in this paper by thought, spirit and action.

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