can India prevent 200 children dying every hour?

·         MDG goals to be achieved by 2015

Eradicate povert and hunger:

o Primary education:

o Gender equality:

o Child mortality:

o Maternal mortality:

o HIV,AIDS,Hygiene etc:

o Environment sustainabality:

o Global partnership for devpt:

·         Under MDG 4 ie child mortality,under 5 mortality rate(UMR) is to be reduced to 50 per 1000 live birth by 2015

·         India’s UMR  in 1991 was 150 per 1000. Now it is down to 65 per 1000

·         It is 3 times higher in rural India that urban india

CAUSES

·         Illiteracy

·         Early marriage

·         Poor sanitation

·         Under nutrition

Note: Infant mortality rate is different from under five mortality rate. IMR measures deaths under 1 year. India’s IMR is 50 per 1000