There are a total of 17 SDG goals and 169 SDG targets for each of these 17 goals that India needs to meet. Meeting each goal individually holds massive opportunities for current and new businesses, but only if these goals are looked at from a holistic perspective & there is proper understanding that they are all interlinked and cannot be worked upon in silos.
Take for example:
Goal# 1 : No Poverty: This particular goal has to directly be tied to other goals such as, Quality education, decent work & economic growth, zero hunger, climate action to name a few.
The youth of India is demanding jobs, a cleaner environment, freedom of speech, sexual equality, corruption free governance & an atmosphere conducive to conducting business in the principals of free market enterprise. Unfortunately our education system is failing many of these youngsters, many of whom remain unemployable due third rate education and paid certificates which only makes one look good on paper.
But fortunately, this failed system also provides massive opportunities for startup’s to innovate and reinvent how and what we teach our future generations. Similarly every goal, has systematic flaws in the way the government is going about in achieve them that need immediate attention and this provides us all with a massive opportunity if we can come with solutions to solve them.
A cut copy paste solution will not do any longer, innovation on a national level to solve these pressing challenges must be the focus area, for which we must start by reforming our education system.