COVID-19 Pandemic and its Impact on Sustainable Development Goals: An Observation of South Asian Perspective

Abstract

The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has been impacted nations and their institutions around the globe and has also possess a threat to achieving the UN sustainable goals. This paper describes how the pandemic may influence the SDGs in south Asian perspectives including Nepal and also discusses how it could be affecting the implementations parts. For this, the methods used are mainly literatures, published reports, observations and an assessment etc. The result of the study clearly depicts that for supporting sustainable industrialization by consolidation of skill development will place South Asia in an advantageous plate to fill the youth skills vacuum. After COVID-19 pandemic, SAARC should promote agricultural productivity and empower gender equality as a tool of sustainable development, and the like.