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20 July 2018
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Syed Akbraudin (The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions)
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India is “pushing ahead” on its national
efforts to meet Sustainable Devolvement Goals by undertaking one of the highest
rates of renewable energy expansion and building 11 million homes under the
world’s largest affordable housing programme, India’s top envoy to the UN Syed
Akbaruddin has said. Speaking at the ‘High Level Political Forum on Sustainable
Development’ yesterday, India’s Permanent Representative to the UN said India
was looking forward to engaging constructively in global efforts for the
achievement of the goals encapsulated in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development.
“Our rapidly transforming world is pluralist
and diverse but all our people have common aspirations for better lives,”
Akbaruddin said. He said the country was “pushing ahead” on the Sustainable
Devolvement Goals (SDGs) with strong political commitment and execution by all
stakeholders. Highlighting the efforts underway in India in pursuit of SDGs,
Akbaruddin said under the Clean India Mission (Swachh Bharat), a total of 72
million household toilets had been constructed to improve hygiene and make the
country open defecation free by October 2, 2019.
Through this campaign, 550 million lives will
be directly impacted he said, adding that India will host Mahatma Gandhi
International Sanitation Convention in October this year to share and learn
from global experiences on this issue. He said India was also undertaking the
transformation of its energy mix towards renewable energy, with particular
emphasis on expanding the use of solar and wind power, including off-grid. By
2022, India plans to produce 175 GW of renewable energy that will include 100
GW of solar power. “The rate of expansion in this sector in India is highest in
the world,” he said.
India has also partnered with France and
other countries to launch the International Solar Alliance as a tangible
contribution to the ongoing collective global efforts on climate action. More
than 60 countries have already joined this Alliance, which has now been
registered at the UN as a multilateral treaty. Further, by the year 2030, 600
million Indians will be living in urban areas and this will require building of
700-900 million sqm of urban space annually.
Stressing that this new urban infrastructure
will be green and resilient, Akbaruddin said India hopes to complete the
building of 11 million homes by 2019 in what is the world’s largest affordable
housing programme. He said with more than 110 Member States likely to complete
their Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs) by the end of this year’s forum,
nations would have truly moved from the “phase of ‘Precept’ to the stage of
‘Practice’, from the era of preaching to the era of sharing, understanding and
learning”.
“The numerous examples of translating words
into deeds in myriad ways demonstrate both ‘small is beautiful’ and ‘big too is
bountiful’,” he said. He said that strengthening global partnerships were key
to accelerating global progress on the implementation of SDGs, noting that
India was stepping up its efforts towards South-South cooperation.
Last year, India established the India-UN
Development Partnership Fund under which USD 150 million has been committed for
the next decade. India is also partnering the UN Office for South South
Cooperation in administering this Fund, with implementation by UN agencies.
Akbaruddin informed the forum that more than 20 projects are in various stages
of implementation of this “start up” venture.The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions
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