In a bid to improve Goas position on Niti AayogsSustainableDevelopmentGoals(SDG) India Index, thestategovernment has asked 16 departments to constitute SDG cells in their respective departments. Each cell, which will include a statistician, will be responsible for ensuring that they work towards the SDG that correspond with their respective departments.Each SDG cell will consist of two to three officers who will ensure quality and timely data flow.

The department of planning, statistics and evaluation has been appointed as the nodal department for implementation and monitoring of sustainabledevelopmentGoals at the state level. India is a signatory to the resolution of the 2030 Agenda for , which adopts 17 Sustainable Development Goals. In line with this, the state governments have also adopted these SDGs.
Goa moved from the seventh position in the SDG India Index for 2019 to third place in the third edition of the Niti Aayogs Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) India Index for 202021. Three points behind Kerala, Goa has a score of 72 points, as against 65 points in 2019 and 64 points in 2018. Goa shared the third spot with Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Uttarakhand.