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Smart Cities Mission, India: Localizing Sustainable Development Goals
October 22 , 2023
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- The report was prepared jointly by the Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry and UN-Habitat.
- This is the first comprehensive effort to map national mission projects against global sustainability objectives.
- Over 70% of projects under the Smart Cities Mission (SCM) are in alignment with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on cities, clean water and sanitation, clean energy and economic growth.
- The SCM involves around 8,000 projects.
- SCM projects have largely contributed, in one way or the other, to 15 of the 17 SDGs.
- Among these, nearly 44% were in line with the aim of SDG 11 — to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
- Around 3.3% of the SCM projects contributed to SDG 6 (Clean water and sanitation).
- 8.6% to SDG 7 (Affordable and clean energy) and 6.4% to SDG 8 (Decent work and economic growth).
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