United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) today offered to work with Haryana to evolve a world class mechanism of planning, budgeting and to ensure effective implementation of various welfare schemes of the state government.
Country Director, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Jaco Cilliers called on Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, here and offered its technical support in achieving the state's objective of inclusive growth and sustainable development, an official release, said here.
He said 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) have been identified with 169 key indicators by the international community.
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The objective of SDGs was to produce a set of universally applicable goals that balance the three dimensions of sustainable development that is environmental, social, and economic through proper planning and integration of schemes.
The Chief Minister said the Haryana government is working with the spirit of 'Antodaya' to ensure that the benefit of various welfare schemes of the state government reach the beneficiaries at grass root level.
Khattar said he personally reviewed the CM e-Dashboard' to monitor key parameters of various departments and ensure effective delivery of services and added that key parameters of most of the departments would be on the CM e-Dashboard by the end of this year.
The CM also asked Cilliers to evolve a mechanism to carry out survey at the grass root level to assess effect of various programmes on improvement in key development indicators.
Khattar said the government is actively working on various parameters like gender equality, poverty, quality education and industry.
He assured Jaco Cilliers of full cooperation of the state government in the implementation of this programme.
Cilliers informed the Chief Minister that 17 SDGs that would be worked upon include no poverty, zero hunger, good health and well being, quality education, gender equality, clean water and sanitation, affordable and clean energy.
He said provisional mapping of SDGs with some schemes of the state government has been undertaken and most of the schemes fall in this framework.
