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For example, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) provides guaranteed
wage employment to rural households, thereby enhancing income and reducing poverty.
• Goal 2—Zero Hunger: This goal ensures all people, especially children, have sufficient and nutritious food. This
requires international cooperation for promoting sustainable agriculture so that together we can end all forms
of hunger and malnutrition by 2030.
It ensures everyone has enough food, which improves health and reduces diseases. Well-fed children do better
in school, leading to brighter futures. Healthy people are more productive, boosting the economy. Reducing
hunger also creates more stable and peaceful communities.
For example, National Food Security Act (NFSA) aims to provide subsidised food grains to approximately two-
thirds of the population, ensuring food security and reducing hunger.
• Goal 3—Good Health and Well-being: This goal ensures a minimum number of deaths and illnesses by giving
healthy lifestyles, preventive measures from both communicable and non-communicable diseases including
hazardous chemicals and air, water, and soil pollution so that it promotes healthy lives and well-being for all
people at all ages.
It ensures access to quality healthcare, reducing illness and deaths. Healthy people can work and learn better,
boosting productivity and economic growth. It also promotes mental well-being, leading to happier and more
fulfilled lives.
For example, Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY) provides health insurance coverage
to over 500 million vulnerable individuals, promoting access to quality healthcare and improving health
outcomes.
NO ZERO GOOD HEALTH QUALITY GENDER CLEAN WATER AFFORDABLE AND
1 POVERTY 2 HUNGER 3 AND WELL-BEING 4 EDUCATION 5 EQUALITY 6 AND SANITATION 7 CLEAN ENERGY
DECENT WORK AND INDUSTRY, INNOVATION REDUCED SUSTAINABLE CITIES RESPONSIBLE
8 ECONOMIC GROWTH 9 AND INFRASTRUCTURE 10 INEQUALITIES 11 AND COMMUNITIES 12 CONSUMPTION
AND PRODUCTION
CLIMATE LIFE LIFE PEACE, JUSTICE PARTNERSHIPS
13 ACTION 14 BELOW WATER 15 ON LAND 16 AND STRONG 17 FOR THE GOALS
INSTITUTIONS
THE GLOBAL GOALS
For Sustainable Development
• Goal 4—Quality Education: This goal ensures good quality education for all, so that the youth and adults
of all nations have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and
entrepreneurship.
Education gives you knowledge related to different things that you come across in your daily life. Quality
education will provide a strong foundation for financial security. This will improve their standard of living and
will give them a way to move out of poverty. It will enlighten the youth to contribute in all possible ways to the
social and economic development of their community which is another important factor to fulfill many other
related sustainable development goals.
For example, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) aims at universalising elementary education and ensuring quality
education for all children up to the age of 14.
• Goal 5—Gender Equality: This goal ensures that people of all genders have equal rights and opportunities so
that they have the power to shape their own lives and contribute to the development of society.
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