Goal 3, Oct. 16 -- The UN-mandated Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) are the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. In building this future, it aims to leave no one behind. Yet, the COVID pandemic is creating situations, in some domains, which are posing challenges to sustainability in key areas critical to people, planet, and prosperity. If we leave aside economy, health and education are the two domains, forming two crucial dimensions of SDGs, severely hit by the pandemic.

However, the invaluable lessons learnt by humankind now call for tweaks or reset in the framework of SDGs. The pandemic has laid bare some fault lines and vulnerabilities in the domains of education and health and the lessons need to ref...