Present, Prime Minister
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12/12/2002
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Indian Express (New Delhi)
Analyse this: despite a war torn economy, Sri Lanka is still light years ahead of India when it comes to caring for its children. Unicef's "the State of the World's children, 2002', ranks India at 54 way below the island nation at 130. Of course, comparisons such as these are crude, even odious, given the sharply differing realities of the two nations. India, after all is home to over 150 million in the age group 0-6 and accounts for 19 per cent of the world's children......Editorial