Sustainable Development

The Government of Jammu and Kashmir is trying to implement all the central schemes in a manner so that it has an impact on the socio economic index of all areas . In this direction Jammu and Kashmir administration organized a Workshop on SDGs with NITI Aayog , MOSPI , UNDP . The Chief Secretary of Jammu and Kashmir said that Sustainable Development Goals ( SDGs ) will be a very powerful tool to measure development in general and sustainable development in particular , and added that the governments have to measure development to improve further . He stated it while chairing the workshop on Sustainable Development Goals and delivering the keynote address , he said , ” If we do not measure development , we do not improve . If we do not measure with consistency , it is just anecdotal . The SDG tool will be a very powerful tool to measure development in general and sustainable development in particular ” . He exhorted the departments to utilize the SDG mechanism to chart a plan till 2030. He reiterated that J & K is the front runner in implementing several schemes and programmes and is also closing to saturating several other schemes . Apart from this , J & K is first among many states and UTs in achieving aspirational districts , aspirational towns , aspirational blocks and aspirational Panchayats . J & K is the only one in the entire country to tread this developmental path . There is another set of measures which include Panchayat Development Index , Block Development Index and City Development Index parallel to these . We also have a third element in the shape of 1250 Deliverables through which we are rating and fast tracking achievement of different government schemes and welfare measures