Education is one of the most important factors that determine the future of a nation. People and governments have understood the importance of an educated population today. Economic and social development can happen only when the population is educated. Contrary to this if the population is illiterate, progress would be very difficult. Illiteracy contributes to incompetency, incapability, making them superstitions and bound by false beliefs. Thus making them change would be a difficult task. Globally there is a realization that education can only help to bridge the disparities to a certain extent. This has prompted the United Nations (UN) to come up with the list of sustainable development goals (SDG) for transformation of nations by the year 2030. One among the seventeen sustainable goals listed by the UN is the SDG4 that deals with education. The focus of SGD 4 is to ensure universal , equitable and all inclusive education for all by the year 2030. As far as India is concerned, there is a serious take on the SDG4. A lot of efforts have been put from the Government side to achieve sustainability in education by 2030. A conscious effort to this was the drafting of the National Education Policy 2020. Through this article, an attempt is made to understand the various provisions under SDG4 and that of NEP 2020. It also tries to analyze and understand the various schemes and initiatives of the government that would enable it to achieve sustainability in education by 2030. The authors have used secondary data for the preparation of this article. The analysis and discussions herein are strictly based on the opinions of authors and their long experience in the educational field