Post-2015 Agenda Must Contribute To Social Development: India

By siliconindia | Friday, 06 February 2015, 11:30 Hrs

NEW YORK: As the international community embarks to adopt the post-2015 development agenda, India has stressed that the ambitious goal must contribute in shaping equitable, just and growth-led sustainable social development.

"Social integration is critical to the goal of a stable, safe, harmonious, peaceful and just society and also for achieving poverty eradication and full employment and decent work for all," said Mayank Joshi, First Secretary in India's Permanent Mission to the UN.

Joshi said social integration should, however, not be construed as achieving uniformity.

"It needs to respect diversity and promote equal opportunity and participation of all in order to create a 'society for all'," he said in a UN General Assembly session on 'Rethinking and strengthening social development in the contemporary world.'

Joshi said: "Both targeted and universal approaches in national policies, are key to social development of vulnerable sections particularly, women, children, elder persons and persons with disabilities."

Source: PTI