Which of the following Department prepares the National Indicator Framework Progress Report related to Sustainable Development Goals in Uttar Pradesh ?
1. Department of Finance
2. Department of Educat

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Which of the following Department prepares the National Indicator Framework Progress Report related to Sustainable Development Goals in Uttar Pradesh ?
1. Department of Finance
2. Department of Education
3. Department of Planning
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Correct — C, Only 3. Uttar Pradesh's SDG Progress Report based on the National Indicator Framework is prepared by the state's Department of Planning, which is UP's nodal department for the implementation and monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goals. The work is done through the department's Perspective Planning Division and its SDG Coordination Centre, drawing data from the Directorate of Economics and Statistics and mapping it onto the indicator set that the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) maintains nationally. The department publishes the 'UP Progress Report based on NIF' through those portals. The Departments of Finance and Education feed data into the exercise for the goals they own, but neither compiles the report.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Neither the Department of Finance nor the Department of Education prepares this report, and it omits the department that does. Finance's role in the SDG architecture is budgeting and fund alignment; Education supplies the underlying data for SDG-4 alone.  (b) Planning is correctly included, but Finance is not a preparer. Compiling a statistical progress report across all seventeen goals is a planning and coordination function, not a treasury function.  (d) Finance alone. This is the option that catches candidates who assume any government report full of numbers must come from the Finance Department. Finance funds and budgets for the goals; the statistical compilation against the indicator framework sits with Planning.

Concept: India tracks the Sustainable Development Goals through a layered architecture, and the question is really asking whether a candidate knows which layer does what. NITI Aayog is the national nodal body for SDG coordination and publishes the SDG India Index and Dashboard. MoSPI owns the National Indicator Framework — the official list of indicators against which India's SDG progress is measured — and brings out the national SDG Progress Report. Every state mirrors that structure with a nodal department, which is almost always Planning, producing a state NIF progress report and running an SDG dashboard. In Uttar Pradesh that department is the Department of Planning, which has additionally built a State Indicator Framework of 301 indicators allowing district-level SDG scoring.

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