Indian States and UTs SDG Ranking by NITI Aayog Recently, NITI Aayog has released its 3rd annual report on Sustainable Development Goals in collaboration with the United Nations. In this report, they have evaluated and ranked all 36 states and union territories on the basis of the progress they have made on 17 Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 set by the United Nations. Currently, the score for Team India stands at 66 out of 100, which is 6 points improvement from the last evaluation. But when we look at the regional level, we discover some interesting points. First, that most of the states which are above national average with exception of Himachal Pradesh and Haryana are non-Hindi speaking states. Second, most of the states which are performing below the national average are Hindi speaking states. So what’s cooking up here? The answer lies in the languages. Or more specifically the answer lies in Hindi. First of all, we need to understand that languages are products of a continu...
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