A national workshop was organized by NITI Aayog, Government of West Bengal, and UNDP to emphasize the importance of institutionalizing SDG budget tagging, translating financial commitments into measurable development outcomes at the sub-national level.
On 29 September 2026, NITI Aayog, in collaboration with the Government of West Bengal and with technical support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), organized a National Workshop on SDG Budgeting in Kolkata under the State Support Mission (SSM) initiative. The event aimed to strengthen the alignment of planning and budgeting processes with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with emphasis on institutionalising SDG budget tagging and translating financial commitments into measurable development outcomes at the sub-national level.
The workshop brought together participants from 32 States and Union Territories, along with senior officials from NITI Aayog, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) and its offices, the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), Controller General of Accounts (CGA), Department of Public Enterprises (DPE), Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA), UNDP, UN Resident Coordinator Office (UNRCO), development partners, FICCI, CII, SEBI, Tata Steel Foundation, Intellecap, and GIZ. Government representatives from Haryana, Odisha, Meghalaya, and West Bengal shared experiences on the implementation and institutionalisation of SDG Budgeting.
During the workshop, the discussions emphasized that SDG budget tagging can enable governments to make expenditure visible against development goals, identify gaps, and strengthen evidence-based planning. The ‘Guide on Mapping State Budgets to the SDGs’, developed jointly by NITI Aayog, the CAG of India, and UNDP, was discussed as a practical framework for aligning State budgets with the Goals.
The workshop comprised four technical sessions covering the design elements of SDG budget tagging, including identification of expenditure to be tagged, the appropriate level of tagging, linkage with the Head of Accounts, tagging to SDG Targets, attribution through NITI Aayog’s Scheme-SDG mapping, and value assignment.
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