India has been a signatory to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—“the 2030 Agenda”—proposed by United Nations (UN) in 2015 for achieving human and environmental or planetary prosperity, universal peace, greater freedom, eradication of poverty and elimination of all kinds of discrimination and inequalities (UN 2015). Unlike the United Nations (UNs) Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the SDG global action plan has 17 sustainable development goals in total and 169 targets to be achieved with clear-cut indicators for measurement or assessment of status, progress, and achievements at global, regional and country levels. SDG 5 emphasizes “gender equality” and “Women’s empowerment” as a fundamental human right that assumes a significant or critical goal given its embeddedness with other 16 SDG goals. Hence, gender equality is crucial to progress across all the goals and targets (Dhar 2018). The other 16 SDG goals are not achievable if gender equality is not addressed.