With less than six years remaining, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), part of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, require intensified effort on India’s part to achieve its 17 goals and 169 associated targets. Adopted in 2015, these global goals serve as a universal call to action to eradicate poverty, achieve gender justice, safeguard the planet, and ensure peace and prosperity for all. In this regard, the recently released progress report on SDGs in India offers data-driven evidence, which underscores mixed progress by the country towards achieving the SDGs and their corresponding targets. Under SDG1