The Ministry has developed a National Indicator Framework (NIF) consisting of 306 indicators for monitoring the progress of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Ministry has also designed metadata format and guidelines for source Ministries to report data on SDGs indicators.

The Ministry has developed a dashboard for SDGs to show progress on the indicators. NITI Aayog has also constituted a Task Force on implementation of SDGs and developed an SDG India Index to show state-wise position and progress on SDGs.

This information was given by the Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation and Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Planning, Shri Rao Inderjit Singh in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.

National Indicator Framework establishes standardised SDG reporting, metadata requirements, a public progress dashboard, and a state performance index. A National Indicator Framework has been established with a comprehensive set of SDG indicators, together with a prescribed metadata format and reporting guidelines for source ministries, a public dashboard for indicator progress, and a state-level performance index produced by a central implementation Task Force to support monitoring and coordinated implementation.