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 Select the correct answer from the code given below : Code :
- (a)1 and 2
- (b)1 and 3
- (c)Only 3
- (d)Only 1
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.
- (a)1 and 2 — 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)1 and 3 — 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)Only 1 — 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.
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.
For any 'which department does X' item on data and monitoring, the reliable rule is: compilation and inter-departmental coordination sit with Planning, money sits with Finance, and a sectoral department owns only the goals inside its own subject. Notice how the options are built — Finance appears in three of the four codes, which is deliberate. If you are unsure of the exact department, ask yourself who could possibly compile a report spanning all seventeen goals at once; it cannot be Finance and it cannot be Education.
- Uttar Pradesh's SDG Progress Report based on the National Indicator Framework is prepared by the state Department of Planning, through its Perspective Planning Division and SDG Coordination Centre
- The National Indicator Framework itself is owned nationally by MoSPI; NITI Aayog is the national nodal body and publishes the separate SDG India Index and Dashboard
- UP has additionally built a State Indicator Framework of 301 indicators, which enables district-level SDG tracking
- The UP edition of the NIF progress report is published by the Planning Department through its own portals
- The 17 SDGs of the 2030 Agenda were adopted by the UN General Assembly in September 2015, with 2030 as the target year
- UN 2030 Agenda — 17 Sustainable Development Goals, adopted September 2015
- MoSPI (Union) — owns the National Indicator Framework and the national SDG Progress Report
- NITI Aayog (Union) — national nodal body for SDG coordination; publishes the SDG India Index
- UP Department of Planning — the state's nodal department; Perspective Planning Division + SDG Coordination Centre
- UP Progress Report based on NIF, plus a State Indicator Framework of 301 indicators for district-level scoring
The state-level compilation is a Planning function, not a Finance or Education one — answer (c) Only 3.
- Assuming any government report full of statistics must be a Finance Department product
- Confusing the National Indicator Framework (MoSPI) with the SDG India Index (NITI Aayog) — different owners, different documents, different methods
- Assuming NITI Aayog prepares the state reports; states prepare their own, through their own nodal departments
UPPSC asks for the institutional owner — which department, which nodal institution, where UP stood in the SDG India Index; UPSC asks about the framework itself — when the SDGs were adopted, what the target year is, and which body produces which report.
Consider the following statements: 1. The Sustainable Development Goals were first proposed in 1972 by a global think tank called the 'Club of Rome'. 2. The Sustainable Development Goals have to be achieved by 2030. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
- (a) 1 only
- (b) 2 only
- (c) Both 1 and 2
- (d) Neither 1 nor 2
Answer(b) 2 only
The framework that everything in this question is measured against: the 17 SDGs of the 2030 Agenda, adopted in 2015 with 2030 as the deadline. The NIF exists to track exactly these goals.
Which of the following is a Nodal Institution for implementation of Sustainable Development Goals in India ?
- (a) Planning Commission
- (b) Disinvestment Commission
- (c) NITI Aayog
- (d) Finance Commission
Answer(c) NITI Aayog
The identical concept one level up — who is the nodal body for SDG implementation. UPPSC asked for the national answer (NITI Aayog) in 2019 and for the Uttar Pradesh answer (Department of Planning) in 2025; holding both keeps the national and state layers apart.
Consider the following statements about sustainable development - (1) Based on the global indicator framework and data produced by National Statistical Systems and information collected at regional level, the United Nations Secretary General presents an Annual Sustainable Development Goal Report. (2) Global Sustainable Development Report is produced to inform the quadrennial sustainable development goal review deliberations at the U.N. General Assembly once every quarter. Select the correct answer using the code given below -
- (a) Only 2
- (b) Neither 1 nor 2
- (c) Both 1 and 2
- (d) Only 1
Answer(d) Only 1
The same 'indicator framework and who reports against it' idea, tested at the global level: national statistical systems feed a global indicator framework, which is precisely the chain MoSPI's NIF and UP's state report sit inside.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The National Indicator Framework for monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals in India is maintained by
- (a)NITI Aayog
- (b)the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation
- (c)the Ministry of Finance
- (d)the Reserve Bank of India
Answer(b) the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation — MoSPI owns the NIF and brings out the national SDG Progress Report; NITI Aayog separately publishes the SDG India Index.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Which body publishes the 'SDG India Index and Dashboard'?
- (a)Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation
- (b)NITI Aayog
- (c)UNDP India
- (d)Ministry of Rural Development
Answer(b) NITI Aayog — as the national nodal body for the SDGs, it produces the Index that ranks states and union territories.