SHILLONG, March 2: The state government has decided to rank the districts and assign an untied fund of Rs 50 lakh to each of them in a bid to encourage them to implement programmes, thereby leading to the improvement of the state’s overall SDG ranking.
This was informed by Chief Minister Conrad Sangma after he held a meeting on Tuesday with the deputy commissioners and senior government officials on Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) ranking of Meghalaya.
Addressing the media persons, the chief minister said, “Sustainable Development Goals have been given to all states and NITI Aayog has been following up to ensure its implementation across the country”.
With regard to the measures to improve Meghalaya’s SDG ranking, Conrad said, “Goals assigned state-wise can also be localised into district-wise goals. The objective of the meeting today was to involve everyone to ensure the data is available, and to push the DCs in taking more interest in the goals to improve state’s ranking.”
