International Research Journal of Education and Technology

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals includes a set of 17 measures to promote sustainable development across many areas. It present a good possibility to strengthen sustainable development research for two main reasons. First, it comprises many areas of SD research, which have become normal. Second, the fact that the UN and its member countries have committed to attaining SDGs by 2030 has added a sense of necessity to the need to execute quality research on SD on the one hand, and repeat the need to use the results of this research on the other. Even though the basic concept of sustainability goes back many centuries, it has only recently appeared on the international political agenda. This is due to an awakening of the fact that the human ecological pressure on the planet is still much larger than what nature can renew or compensate for. Based on this state of affairs, this paper presents an overview of the concept, importance, efforts of Indian Government, challenges and suggestions. SDGs need to be accorded greater priority in international sustainable development research efforts.

Keywords: Sustainable Development Goals, challenges, suggestions.