Millenium Development Goals and Sustainable Development Goals of India: An Overview

United Nations had formulated Millennium Development Goals in the year 2000 which comprised of 8 goals that 191 members agreed to achieve by 2015. According to MDGs, this would help in fighting against poverty, diseases, hunger, environmental issues, illiteracy and discrimination against women. In September 2015, the world Leaders across the globe met to form the first draft of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The intention of developing the SDGs were that they were considered to be more determining than the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and covered a wide range of interrelated issues, from social issues to the economic issues leading to the growth in the global public goods.