What is the score of Uttarakhand in NITI Aayog’s SDG India Index, 2023-24?
- (a)79
- (b)89
- (c)69
- (d)49
Correct — A, 79.
In NITI Aayog's SDG India Index 2023-24, Uttarakhand's composite score is 79. That was the best figure among States in this edition, shared with Kerala. Tamil Nadu followed at 78 and Goa at 77.
The composite is built from goal-wise scores across 16 SDGs, measured on 113 indicators from the National Indicator Framework, and is reported on a 0-100 scale.
Carry the number with its band: 79 lies inside the Front Runner range of 65-99, while India's own composite that year was 71.
A State's score is a level on a fixed 0-100 scale, not a rank — which is why Kerala and Uttarakhand can share 79 without a tie-break.
- (b)89 — Uttarakhand's published composite for 2023-24 is 79, and 79 was also the highest State figure in that edition, so 89 sits above the top of the State table.
A score of 89 would still fall inside the Front Runner band, which runs 65-99 — so knowing the band does not settle the item. Only the published figure does, and it is 79.
- (c)69 — Uttarakhand's composite is 79, ten points higher than this.
A score of 69 would place a State in the lower part of the Front Runner range and below India's national composite of 71 in the very same edition. That national figure is the number 69 sits nearest to, not Uttarakhand's.
Uttarakhand did not merely clear the Front Runner threshold in 2023-24 — it shared the highest State score with Kerala.
- (d)49 — 49 is the ceiling of the Aspirant band, which runs 0-49 in this index. It is a category boundary, not a score Uttarakhand recorded.
A State on 49 would sit in the weakest of the four bands. Uttarakhand's 79 is thirty points higher and falls in the Front Runner range.
The SDG India Index is NITI Aayog's instrument for scoring every State and Union Territory on progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals.
Each unit receives a score from 0 to 100 on each goal, computed from indicators drawn from the National Indicator Framework, and those goal scores are combined into one composite score.
A score of 100 means the 2030 targets on the indicators have been met. The composite is therefore a distance-to-target reading, not a growth rate and not a rank.
This is how India's federal progress on the 2030 Agenda is tracked and published, so each State's number is quoted directly in government reports.
Because the score is a level on a fixed scale rather than a position in a list, editions can be compared, though the indicator set changes between editions: India stood at 57 in 2018, 66 in 2020-21 and 71 in 2023-24.
For Uttarakhand, 2023-24 is the edition in which it shared the highest score among States, which is what makes its figure worth holding as a number rather than as a rank.
- In the SDG India Index 2023-24, Uttarakhand and Kerala shared the top position among States with a composite score of 79.
- India's national composite score in the 2023-24 edition was 71, up from 66 in 2020-21 and 57 in 2018.
- Tamil Nadu scored 78, while Goa and Himachal Pradesh scored 77 each, placing them behind the joint toppers.
- Bihar recorded the lowest State composite at 57, with Jharkhand next at 62.
- The 2023-24 edition computes goal-wise scores on 16 SDGs using 113 indicators aligned to the National Indicator Framework.
- The published performance bands are Aspirant 0-49, Performer 50-64, Front Runner 65-99 and Achiever 100.
- Thirty-two States and Union Territories were placed in the Front Runner category in 2023-24.
Uttarakhand's 79 falls in the Front Runner band; 49 is the Aspirant ceiling, not a State score.
- The band and the score are different answers: 69, 79 and 89 all sit inside the Front Runner range of 65-99, so recalling the band alone cannot pick the option.
- Score is not rank. Kerala and Uttarakhand both stand at 79 in 2023-24, so a question phrased as 'who is first' has no single-State answer while the score question does.
- 49 is a category boundary — the top of the Aspirant band — and reads like a score if the bands are half-remembered.
- India's national composite for 2023-24 is 71; substituting it for a State's figure is a different number entirely.
- Every figure moves with the edition year. The 2020-21 numbers (India at 66) do not answer a question about 2023-24.
One form is plain numeric recall — a named State's composite score in a named edition — where the edition year carries as much weight as the State name.
A second form works on the bands: given a score, name the category, or given a category, state its range.
A third asks position rather than level: which States sit at the top or the bottom of a stated edition.
A fourth tests the frame itself — how many goals and indicators the index covers, or which goal a State is a Front Runner on.
MPPSC_2025_PRE_PaperI_Q362025The same task in the same index — recall a single State's composite score. What differs is the State and the edition: that item asks for Madhya Pradesh's score in the 2020 round, this one for Uttarakhand's in 2023-24, and the scores of different editions are not interchangeable.
MPPSC_2024_PRE_PaperI_Q402024Works on the same 0-100 scale, but asks for the band boundaries rather than a State's number. It is the item that makes 49 recognisable as the Aspirant ceiling and 79 as a Front Runner score; it names no State, while the Uttarakhand item needs no band knowledge to answer.
CAPF_GAI_2022_Q1122022Same classification vocabulary, tested on names instead of numbers — which of four labels is not a real category. The Uttarakhand item asks for a figure, so this one guards against inventing a band name while that one guards against misremembering a score.
UPPSC_2021_PRE_GSI_Q582021Same index, but position rather than level: it asks which State was outside the top five in 2020-21. The Uttarakhand item asks for a score, and because Kerala and Uttarakhand tie at 79 in 2023-24, rank and score do not map onto each other here.
CDS_GK_2023_I_Q1092023Also a ranking question on the composite index, aimed at the bottom of the 2020-21 table rather than the top of the 2023-24 one. Both reward knowing the table, but the edition differs, and the Uttarakhand item wants the number itself.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Which pair of States shared the top position among States in NITI Aayog's SDG India Index 2023-24, each with a composite score of 79?
- (a)Kerala and Tamil Nadu
- (b)Kerala and Uttarakhand
- (c)Uttarakhand and Goa
- (d)Tamil Nadu and Goa
Answerb — Kerala and Uttarakhand each scored 79 in the 2023-24 edition, the highest composite among States.Tamil Nadu scored 78, and Goa and Himachal Pradesh 77 each, so none of the three is a joint topper.
That rules out (a), which pairs Kerala with Tamil Nadu, (c), which pairs Uttarakhand with Goa, and (d), which names Tamil Nadu (78) and Goa (77), which sit below the toppers along with Himachal Pradesh (77).
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In NITI Aayog's SDG India Index, a State with a composite score of 60 is placed in which performance category?
- (a)Aspirant
- (b)Performer
- (c)Front Runner
- (d)Achiever
Answerb — the published bands are Aspirant 0-49, Performer 50-64, Front Runner 65-99 and Achiever 100, so 60 falls in the Performer band.(a) Aspirant stops at 49. (c) Front Runner begins at 65, five points above this score. (d) Achiever applies to a score of exactly 100.
- practice — not a real PYQ
What was India's national composite score in NITI Aayog's SDG India Index 2023-24?
- (a)57
- (b)66
- (c)71
- (d)79
Answerc — India's composite score in the 2023-24 edition was 71.(a) 57 was India's score in the 2018 baseline edition. (b) 66 was India's score in 2020-21. (d) 79 is the top State score of 2023-24, shared by Kerala and Uttarakhand, not the national figure.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Which State recorded the lowest composite score in NITI Aayog's SDG India Index 2023-24?
- (a)Jharkhand
- (b)Bihar
- (c)Assam
- (d)Odisha
Answerb — Bihar recorded the lowest composite among States in 2023-24, at 57.(a) Jharkhand at 62 stands immediately above Bihar, so it is second from the bottom rather than the lowest. Because Bihar and Jharkhand are the two lowest States in this edition, (c) Assam and (d) Odisha both sit above 62.