The Movement Towards Sustainable Development in Tamil Nadu, India

The Tamil Nadu state has established significant policies and programmes to carry out the objectives outlined in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, which emphasises the significance of raising the standard of living for the most vulnerable groups. The study aims to find out the socio-economic, education, and health status as well as the various development policies and programmes that were implemented by the Tamil Nadu state during 2011–2015. The research finding shows that the Tamil Nadu state made significant efforts to reduce poverty, violence, infant mortality, maternal mortality, access to safe drinking water, energy, communication technology, and increase human capability, education, and women's workforce through the implementation of numerous effective policies and programmes. As a result, Tamil Nadu has emerged as one of India's model state. The research concludes that the state has made notable achievements in the MDGs and is making great progress towards achieving the SDGs.

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The datasets used in this study are openly available at [repository link] and the source code is available on GitHub at [GitHub link].

This work did not receive any external funding.