Year
2015
Millenium
Development Goals
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India
is committed to MDGs
The eight Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving
extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS
and providing universal primary education, all
by the target date of 2015 – form a blueprint
agreed to by all the world’s countries and all
the world’s leading development institutions.
They have galvanized unprecedented efforts to
meet the needs of the world’s poorest.
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Goal
: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Reduce
by half the proportion of people living on less
than a dollar a day
Goal
: Achieve universal primary education
Ensure
that all boys and girls complete a full course
of primary schooling
Goal
: Promote gender equality and empowerment of women
Eliminate
gender disparity in primary and secondary education
preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015
Goal
: Reduce child mortality
Reduce
by two thirds the mortality rate among children
under five
Goal
: Improve maternal health
Reduce
by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio
Goal
: Combat HIV / AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Halt
and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria
and other major diseases
Goal
: Ensure environmental sustainability
Integrate the principles
of sustainable development into country policies
and programmes; reverse loss of environmental
resources
Reduce
by half the proportion of people without sustainable
access to safe drinking water
Achieve significant improvement in lives of at
least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020
Goal
: Develop a global partnership for development
Develop further an open
trading and financial system that is rule-based,
predictable and non-discriminatory, includes a
commitment to good governance, development and
poverty reduction— nationally and internationally
Address the least developed countries' special
needs. This includes tariff- and quota-free access
for their exports; enhanced debt relief for heavily
indebted poor countries; cancellation of official
bilateral debt; and more generous official development
assistance for countries committed to poverty
reduction
Address the special needs of landlocked and small
island developing States
Deal comprehensively with developing countries'
debt problems through national and international
measures to make debt sustainable in the long
term
In cooperation with the developing countries,
develop decentand productive work for youth In
cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide
access to affordable essential drugs in developing
countries
In cooperation with the private sector, make available
the benefits of new technologies— especially information
and communications technologies
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Proportion
of population below minimum level of dietary energy
consumption
| Population
undernourished |
percentage |
number
of people |
| 1991 |
25.03
|
21
48 00 000 |
| 1996 |
21.04
|
20
18 00 000 |
| 2002 |
20.05
|
21
20 00 000 |
Millenium
Development Goal Number One
Eradicate
extreme poverty and hunger
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Reduce by half the proportion of people living
on less than a dollar a day
Target 1
Halve,
between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people
whose income is less than one dollar a day
Status
: Proportion of population below $1 (1993 PPP)
per day
1993 : 41.81
2004 : 34.32
Reduce
by half the proportion of people who suffer from
hunger
Target 2
Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of
people who suffer from Hunger
| Status |
|
|
| Prevalence
of underweight children under five years of
age |
1993 |
1999 |
| Children
under 5 moderately or severely underweight
(%) |
53.41 |
48.51
|
| Children
under 5 severely underweight
(%) |
20.61 |
18.31 |
Millenium
Development Goal Number 2
Goal
: Achieve universal primary education
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Ensure
that all boys and girls complete a full course
of primary schooling
Status
Literacy rate of
15-24 year-olds in 2001
Both sexes :
76.4 Women
: 67.7 Men : 84.2
| 2004
numbers |
Both
sexes |
Girls |
Boys |
| Net
enrolment ratio in primary education |
96.1 |
93.1 |
98.9 |
| Proportion
of pupils starting grade 1 who reach last
grade of primary |
73.0 |
73.1 |
72.9 |
| Primary
completion rate, both sexes |
88.5 |
92.9 |
83.9 |
|
