Dr. S.V. Subramanian of the Harvard centre for population and development studies and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public health, et al (2023), have published a quantitative mid-line assessment of India’s progress on sustainable development goal indicators in707 districts, using the data from the national family health surveys. 2016 and 2021. These indicators are in critical sectors like access to basic series, wasting over-weight children, anemia, child marriage, partner violence, tobacco use and modern contraceptive use. While India did very well in its pro-poor public welfare programems and facilitated the coming out of multi-dimensional poverty for 415 million persons between. 2005-06 to 2019, it is a case of the glass being half full. The study points to a need for mid-course correction. – Reproduced