Context: With an aim to achieve the objectives of 2030 Sustainable Developmental Goals (SDGs) and leaving no one behind, NITI Aayog has released the compendium on best practices in the social sector by the name of’Best Practices in Social Sector: A Compendium, 2023′. 

• The reasearch has been done in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme, which includes 75 case studies from all states, 30 ministries and departments of the Government of India.

About

• NITI Aayog released the book in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme.

• The seventy-five best practices highlight models which are innovative, sustainable, replicable and impactful.

• The aim of this exercise has been to synthesise lessons for the future to expand, enhance and improve life at the grassroots level.

• These best practices have been carefully chosen from amongst these collated from the Central Ministries/Departments and the States/UTs.

Key Points

• These seventy-five best practices highlight innovative, sustainable, replicable and impactful models. And the aim of this exercise is to synthesise lessons for the future to expand, enhance and improve life at the grassroots level. 

• In the process, due care has been taken to ensure that the cases identified in the compendium, are spread over diverse themes, like education, health and nutrition, e-governance and digitization, agriculture, women’s empowerment, sports and financial inclusion among others

Of these “best practices”,

• 14 are those that have been launched by Central ministries

• two are joint initiatives by the Centre and the state governments

• the rest are from 26 states and UTs.

Central government (14)

• Direct benefit Transfer

• Academic Bank of Credits (integration of students’ skills, experiences into a Credit Based system)

• National Academic Depository

• Ganga Prahari initiative

• National Artificial Intelligence Portal

• Innovations for Defence excellence

• Nasha Mukt Bharat

• Prayatna project for Transgenders

• Financial inclusion for street vendors under PM SVANidhi

• Project on Ethanol

• One Nation One Ration Card

• UMANG

• DigiLocker

• Crash course for Covid Warriors

Karnataka (6)

• Kalika Chetarike – Activity based learning

• Solving dry waste handling

• Santhe Kaushalkar – Self Help Group and Artisan Profiling Platform

• Farmer Registration and Unified beneficiary, Information System

• Kutumba: Social Protection cum Entitlement Management System; Platform for SDG, CSR alignment

Delhi (4)

• Home based education to children with multiple/ severe disabilities

• Electric Vehicle policy for clean air

• Bio Decomposer Solution and Spray Programme to combat stubble burning

• Sustainable power eco-system

Uttar Pradesh (4)

• Black Rice Initiative in Chandauli

• Reducing Maternal, Newborn Deaths (ReMiND), through mobile application

• SARTHI & SAKHI — Mental Health Helpline

• Disaster Risk Reduction