India highlights inclusive and sustainable development agenda at G20 DWG meeting in Goa
FirstpostIndia has put forth an ambitious agenda for the G20 Development Working Group which aims to bring inclusive and sustainable development, a senior Central government official told delegates from various countries on the first day of the DWG meeting in Goa. “India has put forth an ambitious agenda for the DWG that aims to bring inclusive and sustainable development and accelerating achievement of SDGs at the forefront,” Secretary of the Ministry of External Affairs, Dammu Ravi, told the delegates in a video address. Ravi stated that the outcome documents proposed by India including High-Level Principles for Data for Development, HLPs for LiFE and Action Plan on Accelerating Progress on the SDGs will directly feed into the leaders’ level document, the Green Development Pact that will be adopted at the Leaders’ summit in September. Officials on Tuesday said the sessions on ‘Data for Development’ and ‘HLPs on LiFE’ saw exhaustive and engaging discussions and negotiations for finalizing the language of outcome documents that reflects the strong collective will of G20 to work together on the development agenda.