Shimla has occupied the Sustainable Niti Aayog index (SDG) index that assesses 56 urban areas in accordance with their progress in fulfilling the sdg associated with ending poverty, zero hunger, good health and gender quality equality, among others.
Coimbatore and Chandigarh are ranked second and third each of the top city centers, while Dhanbad is a slowdown and placed between 10 bottom centers.
In 2015, the UN General Assembly has set a target of 17 SDG targets in 2030.
The latest index measures urban centers in India at 15 out of 17 goals.
Of the 56 urban areas ranked in the index, 44 with more than one million population.
The remaining 12 is the country’s capital with a population of less than one million.
For each SDG, urban areas are ranked on a scale of 0-100.
Score 100 implies that urban areas have reached the target set for 2030; Score 0 implies that it is the farthest from reaching the target among the chosen urban areas, according to a statement issued by the government think tank.
Among the top10 players, eight centers scored between 70% to 75.5%, showing good progress, while the score for the bottom of the bottom of 52.4% to 58.6%.