India can consider making voting compulsory like in Australia to encourage rich and middle class to cast their ballots, Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said on Wednesday. Kant's statement comes against the backdrop of low voting turnout witnessed in several urban areas of India in ongoing general elections. In Mumbai, less than 52% voting was witnessed in the Lok Sabha polls held on April-29.

Niti Aayog has ranked Himachal Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala as top performing states to comply with UN' Sustainable Development Goals in it's first of its kind India Index for SDGs released. "The aim of index is to instill competition among states to improve their performance across-social-indices as states' progress will determine India's progress towards achieving set goals by 2030," NITI Aayog CEO said.

India will emerge as the biggest passenger car market by 2030, with a car sold every second in the country, NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said. Addressing an event ahead of the two-day Global Mobility Summit beginning Friday, he said that India's vehicular transportation scenario was set to "undergo a sea change" by the next-decade with e-mobility emerging as the preferred mode of transport.