Abstract

The United Nations General Assembly adopted the UN Millennium Declaration in September 2000. This declaration set quantifiable targets for every nation to achieve by 2015 in sectors of poverty, education, health, gender empowerment and environmental sustainability, among others. Eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were arrived at, which consisted of a total of eighteen targets and 48 technical indicators to measure each country’s progress. India adopted all eight goals and 12 of the 18 targets with 35 indicators.

This report looks at the progress of the state of Karnataka with respect to the Millennium Development Goals and document its achievement in the past 15 years while highlighting challenges for the state for the future, from the perspective of the newly adopted UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In this report, each goal has been discussed in separate sections, with the final section giving a summative analysis. Though an attempt has been made to use only reliable data, certain gaps still remain in certain areas due to unavailability of data, either due to non-existence or the inaccessibility of the data for the public domain. The analysis uses the all-India average and status in four other states as comparators. It also attempts to facilitate district level analysis wherever possible.

CBPS. (2015). Millennium development goals and Karnataka: a status report. Bengaluru: Centre for Budget and Policy Studies.