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Bhubaneswar, June 22: The state government has started the process of formulating vision 2020-30 in line with the sustainable development goals (SDG) set by the United Nations and NITI Ayog.
Chief Secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi, who held a high-level meeting here Wednesday, advised officials to cluster together similar SDGs and constitute subject specific thematic groups to set the vision in each target area.
A professional agency with experience of working in Orissa would be chosen as the technical partner for the purpose, the officials decided.
A Vision Document 2030 would be charted out that would be co-terminus for the achievement of SDGs. A 7-year strategy would be chalked out for the period 2017-18 to 2023-24 to convert the longer visions into implementable policies. A three-year action document for the period 2017-18 to 2019-20 would also be chalked out and aligned to the financial resources.
Development commissioner R Balakrishnan suggested aligning vision 2030 with the state vision document 2036, which was made in view of the completion of 100 years of the formation of the state.
The planning and convergence department has been nominated as the nodal department for this exercise. SDG cells would be set up in each department by the first week of July.
Focus areas such as poverty, sustainable production and consumption, health, gender equality, clean water and sanitation, affordable clean energy, reduced inequalities, and social peace and justice were identified to be included in the vision document.
Development of partnerships, climate change action, life below water, life on land, decent work and economic growth, industry, innovation, infrastructure, sustainable cities and communities were also to be included in the vision document 2030.
These goals were clustered into seven bread categories and seven thematic working groups were constituted to look into these clusters. The thematic working groups would develop the roadmap for SDG implementation in the state. Experts from civil society, academicians and from technical fields would be involved in the process to bring in innovative perspectives.
Padhi said that the thematic working groups would submit their suggestion within two months and these would be put to the government for consideration before being forwarded to NITI Ayog.
