As per The NITI Aayog’s SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) India Index Baseline Report 2018, Odisha has been classified as a ‘Performer’ State based on its aggregate performance on 13 out of 17 SDGs. Besides, it is also classified as an ‘Achiever’ State in “Goal 15: Life on Land”, revealed the Economic Survey 2018-19 tabled in the State Assembly on Friday.
While Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) of the State has been reduced to 41 points from 1998-99 to 2015-16, its performance in reduction of stunting, wasting and underweight has been best in the country.
Total Fertility Rate (TFR) or the average of children per women has reduced from 2.6 to 2.0 in the State between 2004-06 and 2014-16.
The report revealed that the State has made rapid improvements in literacy rates in the last few decades. While the State’s literacy rate was 72.9 per cent as per 2011 Census with decadal increase of 9.8 per cent, the Gender Parity Index of primary education, upper primary education and secondary education was 0.93, 0.92 and 1.01, respectively, during 2017-18.
The Industrial sector has played a critical role in the State’s economic growth. The sector comprised nearly 39.5 per cent Gross State Value Added in 2018-19 Advanced Estimates as compared with29.8 per cent at all India EA level. It is largely because a significant share of mining of 10.79 per cent against all India’s 2.43 per cent.