- India elected as the Chair of the 62nd Session of the Commission for Social Development.
- Ruchira Kamboj is the Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations and Ambassador.
- The opportunity comes at a time when India is leading the G20 and is steering the global agenda through its G20 Presidency
India has been elected as the Chair of the 62nd Session of the Commission for Social Development. Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations, Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj expressed gratitude on behalf of India. “It is an honor for me to be elected, on behalf of India, as Chair of the 62nd session of the Commission for Social Development,” said the Ambassador.
For the 62nd session, the priority theme of the session is decided as “Fostering Social Development and Social Justice through Social Policies to accelerate Progress on the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and to achieve the overarching goal of poverty eradication.”
Giving her remarks on the priority theme of the session, the Ambassador said, “The theme underlines an intrinsic and important connection between social development and social justice as fundamentals to achieving the SDGs.”
The opportunity comes at a time when India is leading the G20 and is steering the global agenda through its G20 Presidency. In addition, India has undertaken a number of initiatives and policies to advance the social development of its citizens, which might be very advantageous for other nations.
On the final day (February 15) of its 61st session, the commission decided to forward four draft resolutions to the Economic and Social Council for adoption (ECOSOC). Out of the four, there was a draft resolution that focused on creating full employment and decent work for all with an aim to overcome inequalities and accelerate the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. During the meeting, various member countries expressed their opinions about the aspects of the commission’s work and its decisions.
The Chair of the 61st session of the commission Alya Ahmed bin Saif Al-Thani, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Qatar delivered the closing remarks. She said, “We emphasized the need for strong financing of global public goods, reforming the international financing architecture to fund actions for sustainable development and bolstering strategies to reduce informality, promote decent work and universalize social protection.”
