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Millennium Development Goals India Country Report 2015

Millennium Development Goals India Country Report 2015 This report entitled "Millennium Development Goals India Country Report 2015", which is the latest in a series of such reports since 2005, captures India's achievements and challenges in respect of the Goals and Targets set at the United Nations Millennium Summit held in September 2000 wherein 189 Heads of States, including India, pledged to adopt new measures in the fight against poverty, hunger, illiteracy, gender inequality, disease and environmental degradation. Although, about 200 countries have committed themselves to the MDGs, the global attainment of the MDGs critically depends on India. The sheer size of India, contributes a huge proportion to the attainment of global goals of elimination of poverty, hunger and mal-nourishment, illiteracy, disease, gender discrimination, etc. This report contains updated information about the progress achieved so far in respect of the eight goals disaggregated in to 12 targets and the 35 indicators, relevant for India.

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