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Box 1: India’s performance on SDG 11
The Government of India has placed high priority on sustainability, environment, and inclusion for
transforming cities and city regions with implementation of national missions namely, Clean India, Housing for
All, Smart Cities, National Mission for Clean Ganga, Digital India, amongst others to achieve SDG 11.

These missions have been instrumental in addressing basic urban necessities of affordable housing, sanitation,
solid and liquid waste, infrastructure, urban renewal and retrofitting, as well as frontier themes of digital
governance, technological innovations, smart solutions for economic growth and improving quality of life of
people to achieve the targets of SDG 11.
(i) Social Inclusion and Ending Poverty: Slums pervade almost all urban areas with 2,613 towns, or 64% of
all towns (4,041) in the country reporting slums in 2011. Central and State governments have continued to
actively design and implement complementary programmes and missions to provide better housing and
infrastructure targeted in slums and informal settlements. Specifically, In-Situ Slum Upgrading is one of
the four strategic interventions under the Housing for All Mission, through which 451,050 houses have
been sanctioned as of November 2021.
(ii) Access to Adequate Housing: The government’s flagship, Housing for All mission has imbibed the
principles under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Under the mission all eligible beneficiaries
were provided assistance to either build or acquire an all-weather dwelling unit with basic civic and social
amenities. Light House Projects (LHPs) are also being built as part of the Global Housing Technology
Challenge-India (GHTC- India) initiative under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana- Urban (PMAY-U).
MoHUA is promoting LHPs as live laboratories for transfer of technology to the field. The primary goal is
to encourage large scale participation of people to create technical awareness for on-site learning. Under
PMAY Urban, a total investment of 108.361 billion USD has been made as of April 25, 2022, and that
has resulted in 12.269 million houses being sanctioned, and 5.8 million houses completed/delivered to
beneficiaries.
(iii) The Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) was launched in 2015 by
MoHUA to provide basic civic amenities, namely, water supply, sewerage and septage management,
storm water drainage to reduce flooding, non-motorized urban transport and green space/parks in 500
cities to improve the quality of life with major focus to the poor and the disadvantaged. The mission
facilitated investments of 3.522 million USD in over 4,000 projects across 500 cities. A key feature of the
project was green investments, and to that effect, 62,78,571 streetlights have been replaced with LED
lights against the target of 97,93,386 as of April 25, 2022. Furthermore, 52,327 Capacity Building trainings
have been imparted to local officials and technical experts. In 2021, the mission was extended AMRUT
2.0 was launched with an aim to provide 100% coverage of water supply to all households and 100%
coverage of sewerage and septage in 500 AMRUT cities. Outcome based funding is a major feature of
AMRUT 2.0.
(iv) Swachh Bharat Mission: To improve hygiene, waste management and sanitation across the country,
Swachh Bharat Mission (Clean India Mission) was launched in 2014. In December 2019, the mission
achieved its target of Open Defecation Free (ODF) status in all towns of 35 states / UTs, which were
certified through third-party verification. More than 6 million individual household toilets and 6.2 million
community and public toilets were constructed under the mission. Remarkable achievement has also been
made in solid waste management, with over 100,000 tonnes per day of waste being processed out of the
total waste of 145,574 tonnes per day that is being produced.
Source:
1. SDG India Index Baseline Report, 2018, https://www.niti.gov.in/sites/default/files/2020-07/SDX_
Index_India_Baseline_Report_21-12-2018.pdf
2. Swachh Bharat Mission- Urban, https://sbmurban.org/#
3. AMRUT, http://amrut.gov.in/content/
4. PMAY-Urban, https://pmaymis.gov.in/

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