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India among nations with largest urban child survival gap :Vidya Venkat

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India has also scored poorly in the Mother’s Index Rank standing at 140 out of 179 countries. Photo: P.V. Sivakumar

India also scores poorly in the Mother’s Index Rank standing at 140 out of 179 countries. India is one of the 10 countries in the world with the greatest survival divide between wealthy and poor urban children. It figures in this worrying list with other nations that include, Rwanda, Cambodia, Kenya, Vietnam, Peru, Madagascar, Ghana, Bangladesh and Nigeria.


India has also scored poorly in the Mother’s Index Rank standing at 140 out of 179 countries. The Index scores countries on five criteria: maternal health, children’s well being, educational status, economic status and political status. These are among the key findings of the State of the World’s Mothers 2015 report “The Urban Disadvantage” prepared by Save the Children and launched by Union Minority Affairs Minister Najma Heptulla in New Delhi on Tuesday.

At the launch, Dr. Heptulla said, “While India has made laudable improvement on Infant Mortality Rate front, even today over 7,60,000 children die in India every year and many of these deaths are due to preventable causes. We obviously need to do a lot more.”

State of the World?s Mothers 2015 report: India among nations with largest urban child survival gap - The Hindu

We are proud of our ancient heritage, but is it enough. What are we doing in 21st century? If the ancient heritage is not enough, or we do not have the true understanding of our heritage, may be it is time to rethink our options. If we were flying Vimana's in the ancient times why can we not make planes in 21st century? Why do we need to buy French planes for our air force? Sometimes when one wallows in the 14th century they can not master 21st century.
 
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We are proud of our ancient heritage, but is it enough. What are we doing in 21st century? If the ancient heritage is not enough, or we do not have the true understanding of our heritage, may be it is time to rethink our options. If we were flying Vimana's in the ancient times why can we not make planes in 21st century? Why do we need to buy French planes for our air force? Sometimes when one wallows in the 14th century they can not master 21st century.

60 years pf congress secular socialist rule has pulled down the country from the top position held by the country in 14 the century till 19th century. All parameters will change for the better since a nationalistic regime is in control!
 
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Apologist, have never solved any problem. Diverting attention to other targets is purely waste of time.
You have every excuse possible, of not you will invent an excuse. The nationalist regimes have been in control at state levels for a long time, still there is no change. I suppose that does not matter to Sarangji, he can find an excuse for failure.

It is sad that he write same excuses for every thread and each failures.
 
For statistical information on topics like this, and to arrive the country's position, we always go by country-wise and not population-wise. How can the comparison be made between India and small countries like Ghana, Bangladesh, Nigeria.

Population should be prime yardstick for such evaluation.
 
Chanduji,
At the launch, Dr. Heptulla said, “While India has made laudable improvement on Infant Mortality Rate front, even today over 7,60,000 children die in India every year and many of these deaths are due to preventable causes. We obviously need to do a lot more.”

What about raw numbers? Is that acceptable?

We can argue that India's position on the chart may move up or down by other yardstick but is that the solution? Next one may suggest that if we stop reporting infant deaths then our ranking will improve, these are purely gimmicks. The truth is in the numbers.

Sarangji,
Citing the latest study published in the prestigious medical journal Lancet, the Union Rural Development Minister said its district-wise analysis of Under 5 child mortality in India shows that not one district from Gujarat figure among the top 50 districts, which have shown the fastest decline in infant mortality in past 10 years.

On the contrary, among the 50 districts which have showed the slowest decline in infant mortality six districts--Valsad, Panchmahal, Sabarkantha, Dahod, Amreli and Vadodara-- are from Gujarat.

Of the three districts where under-five child mortality has increased in 2012, two are in rich states -- Vadodara in Gujarat and Raichur in Karnataka. The third one is Jorhat in Assam. In all, six districts in Gujarat had high child mortality rate, five in Andhra Pradesh, three in Arunachal Pradesh, two in Jammu and Kashmir and one each in Himachal and Karnataka.
This is a 2013 study.

Your statement:
60 years pf congress secular socialist rule
does not hold any value.
Infant mortality rate exposes Modi's 'Gujarat model': Ramesh - Firstpost
 
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