India & The MDGs
Achievements of MDG Commitments Made Under NRHM
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 4, 5, 6 are set for the year 2015. The achievement under National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) against these Goals are as follows:
· The Under 5 Mortality Rates is 59 per 1000 live births in 2010.
· The Maternal Mortality Ratio stands at 212 per 1, 00,000 Live Births during 2007-09.
· The annual incidence of malaria (Cases of malaria/1000 population) has been halted around 1.5 since the year 2008.
Asia-Pacific Regional MDG Report 2011-12
India is lagging in its effort to reach United Nations goals to reduce poverty and improve health and sanitation, but has shown significant progress boosting education, treating AIDS and addressing environmental concerns, a U.N. official said.
MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS- INDIA COUNTRY REPORT 2011
The States of India Report highlighted several important dimensions of India’s journey to attain the MDGs by 2015. It highlighted that though India is nearly on track in reducing poverty at the national level to half of the proportion of people under national poverty line, as existed in 1990, by 2015, as many as 14 of the 35 States/UTs will fall short of their individual MDG-targets.
MDGs to Reduce Child Mortality in India
Under Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), India is to achieve Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) of less than 106 per 100 thousand live births and Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) of less than 30 per thousand live births by 2015. As per the latest Sample Registration System report of the Registrar General of India, MMR in the country has come down from 254 (in 2004-06) to 212 (in 2007-09) and IMR has declined to 50 (SRS 2009). The State wise details are given in annexure I & II.
India may not Fully achieve Millennium Development Goals: Govt
New Delhi (August 11th) : The government today said the country may not fully achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) ratified by the United Nations with regard to health and nutritional indicators.
"While most of the targets under MDGs are likely to be achieved, however, (with regard to) some health and nutritional indicators, India may not fully achieve the targets," Minister of State for Planning, Science and Technology and Earth Sciences Ashwani Kumar told the Lok Sabha in a written reply.
India tops in bad sanitation, women unemployment and malnutrition: UN
India has failed utterly in fields of sanitation, employment, maternal mortality, child nutrition, gender equality and carbon dioxide emissions, according to the United Nations Millennium Development Goals Report 2011.
Released here today at the United Nations Information Centre, the report though shows that there have been deep cuts in the poverty rate which is likely to fall from 51 per cent in 1990 to about 22 per cent in 2015.
Handbook for the Parliamentarians on India & MDGs
Parliament and Parliamentarians have a major role in promoting and achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in India. The aim of this handbook is to assist our Parliamentarians in monitoring India's progress towards achieving the eight international targets for poverty alleviation, and to intensify their legislative, budgetary, oversight and advocacy functions. As an advocacy and sensitisation tool, this publication also seeks to raise awareness on the MDGs and address concerns regarding scope, applicability and relevance of the eight goal areas for India today.
Millennium Development Goals: Tracking India Progress
As per the India MDG Report 2009, India has the lowest sanitation coverage in the world - in 2007-08, an estimated 66% of rural households did not have toilet facilities. If India's Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) and Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) are to be pegged down, the country will have to focus urgently on three central concerns: hunger/malnutrition; health care; and sanitation. Read More
Meeting the MDG Drinking Water and Sanitation Target: The Urban and Rural Challenge of the Decade
Every year, unsafe water, coupled with a lack of basic sanitation, kills at least 1.6 million children under the age of five years.
Millennium Development Goals : INDIA COUNTRY REPORT 2009
The access to improved sanitation facilities has not been quite impressive during the last decade as per the mid term statistical review of the India MDG report. India, one of the most densely populated countries in the world, has the lowest sanitation coverage. Only 1/10 of its total population is 1991‐ of the magnitude of about 60 million did not have any kind of sanitation facility. The recent statistics shows that only about 2% households have gained sanitation facilities during 2006‐07.
