Volume : VIII, Issue : IV, April - 2019

Sustainable Development Goals and Gender Equality: Where does India Stand?

Dr. Anitha C V

Abstract :

Sustainable Development Goals popularly known worldwide as SDGs are evolved from Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which adopted in 2000 by UN member states with a commitment to meet 8 goals and 18 targets by 2015. MDGs were first attempt at global level to address the key challenges of world. However, due to its shortcomings later replaced totally by SDGs. Goal 5 of SDGs addressed the gender specific elements much oader than MDG3. Being a prominent country in shaping the SDGs, India strongly committed to achieve the Gender specific goals within deadline. This makes imperative to trace the performance of country in Goal 5: Gender Equality. The present study is an attempt in this direction. The paper is descriptive in nature. It covers the following aspects: the inter–linkage of Goal 5 with other SDG goals, the methodology of SDG Index with respect to Goal 5 of SDG, and performance of India in Goal 5.

Keywords :

SDGs   MDGs   Gender Equality   SDG India Index  

Article: Download PDF    DOI : https://www.doi.org/10.36106/paripex  

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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS AND GENDER EQUALITY: WHERE DOES INDIA STAND?, Dr. Anitha C V PARIPEX‾INDIAN JOURNAL OF RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-4 | April-2019


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