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Contents: Preface. I. Sustainable Development issues: 1. The Theoretical Framework of Sustainable Development . 2. The Background, Process and the Overview of the Sustainable Development Summit, 2015 . 3. Meeting the Unfinished Tasks of MDGs. 4. Declaration of the Sustainable Development Summit, 2015 . 5. The Sustainable Development Goals. II. Requisites for the Sustainable development goals: 6. Important Requisites for Ensuring Sustainable Development Goals including the need of a Nodal Agency at the Appropriate Levels. 7. Requisites of Sustainable Population for Ensuring Sustainable Development Goals for India’s Perceived Challenges. III. The UN sustainable development goals report: 8. An Overview from the UN Sustainable Development Goals Report 2016. IV. Sustainable development goals initiaties in India: 9. An Overview of the Sustainable Development Goals approaches and initiatives in India . 10. India’s Voluntary National Review Report on Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals on July 2017. V. Goal wise sustainable development Initiatives in India: 11. Sustainable Development Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere. 12. Sustainable Development Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture . 13. Sustainable Development Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. 14. Sustainable Development Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. 15. Sustainable Development Goal - 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. 16. Sustainable Development Goal 6: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. 17. Sustainable Development Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all. 18. Sustainable Development Goal 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all. 19. Sustainable Development Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation. 20. Sustainable Development Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries. 21. Sustainable Development Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. 22. Sustainable Development Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns. 23. Sustainable Development Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. 24. Sustainable Development Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development. 25. Sustainable Development Goal 15: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss. 26. Sustainable Development Goal 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels. 27. Sustainable Development Goal 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development. 28. The concluding scenario at 2030 – a robust optimism missing the goalpost. Appendices. Index.