What was Madhya Pradesh's composite SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) score in the SDG India Index 3.0 in 2020 ?

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Correct — D, 62. The third edition of NITI Aayog's SDG India Index — published as the 'SDG India Index 2020-21' and released in June 2021 — gave Madhya Pradesh a composite score of 62 on the 0-100 scale. That places the state in the 'Performer' band (50-64), three points short of the 'Front Runner' cut-off of 65. For scale, India's own composite score in that edition was 66, up from 60 the year before, and Kerala topped the table at 75.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Not MP's figure. 56 would still sit in the 'Performer' band, but the index recorded a higher composite score for Madhya Pradesh in this edition.  (b) Not MP's figure — it is simply a nearby Performer-band number with no basis in the 2020-21 index for Madhya Pradesh.  (c) A tempting number because 60 was India's national composite score in the previous edition (2019-20), from which the country rose to 66 in 2020-21. It is a national figure, not Madhya Pradesh's state score.

Concept: The SDG India Index is NITI Aayog's tool for measuring how far every State and Union Territory has travelled towards the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. It is built with the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) and the United Nations in India. Each State/UT gets a goal-wise score and a single composite score on a 0-100 scale, where 100 means the 2030 target has been met. The score decides the State's category: Aspirant (0-49), Performer (50-64), Front Runner (65-99) or Achiever (100).

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