According to Economic Survey 2024-25, the score of Sustainable Development Goal 9 of Madhya Pradesh in the year 2023-24 was:

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Correct — C, 39. The figure comes from NITI Aayog's SDG India Index 2023-24, the table that the Economic Survey reproduces. In Table 9.1 of that index, Madhya Pradesh's SDG 9 (Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure) score is 39 — which puts the state in the lowest band, 'Aspirant' (0-49), against an all-India Goal 9 score of 61. The score is dragged down by the industry-and-innovation indicators rather than the infrastructure ones: only 7.55 per cent of MP's gross value added comes from manufacturing (the target is 25 per cent) and its India Innovation Index score is 12.74 against 36.40 for India. On the connectivity indicators MP is close to the target — 99.98 per cent of targeted habitations connected under PMGSY and 95.85 per cent of inhabited villages with 3G/4G coverage.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Not the figure the index reports for Madhya Pradesh on Goal 9. It is a tempting option because it also sits inside the 'Aspirant' band (0-49), so it does not conflict with the well-known fact that MP is weak on this goal — but the reported score is 39.  (b) Two points below the reported score. Options this close together are the whole point of the question: MPPSC wants the exact number from the table, not an approximate sense that MP scores 'somewhere in the late thirties'.  (d) 90 is a genuine Madhya Pradesh score in the very same index — but on Goal 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy), where the state is a Front Runner on the back of 100 per cent household electrification. Attaching it to Goal 9 swaps the state's strongest goal for one of its weakest.

Concept: The SDG India Index, published by NITI Aayog, scores every State and UT from 0 to 100 on 16 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and then computes a composite score. The score bands are fixed: Aspirant 0-49, Performer 50-64, Front Runner 65-99, Achiever 100. In the 2023-24 edition Madhya Pradesh's composite score was 67 — a 'Front Runner', up about 15 points since 2018 — but a composite hides wide variation across goals, and MP's Goal 9 result of 39 is exactly that kind of outlier. Goal 9 is measured through eight indicators: PMGSY road connectivity, manufacturing's share of GVA, manufacturing employment, services' share of GVA, services employment, the India Innovation Index score, households owning a mobile phone, and villages with 3G/4G coverage.

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