Economic Survey links infrastructure with social reforms to boost growth

The Survey suggested interlinking electricity supply with health and education

Calling for integration of socio-economic services, the Economic Survey 2019-20 has proposed the amalgamation of physical infrastructure and social reforms to ensure sustainable development. 

Suggesting a new approach, ‘Nexus of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)’, it said this will reinforce several policies and their implementation.

“Since a few SDGs have overlapping objectives with one another, the policies developed and aligned to achieve the goals must consider and identify these linkages. And, in-turn, identify the potential trade-offs that might limit the physical achievement of the target under a goal,” said the Survey.

SDGs were set up in 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly and