Minister of State (Independent charge), Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation Srikant Kumar Jena, released the Statistical Year Book, 2013 and the Annual Review Report of Twenty Point Programme (TPP).
The coverage includes subjects like National Product, Five Year Plans, Public Finance, Taxes, Balance of Payments, Banks, Insurance; various sectors of economy viz Agriculture, Industry, Mining; chapters on trade, transportation, tourism & infrastructure like Roads, Civil Aviation, Indian Railways, Shipping; social sectors like Housing, Education, Labor & Employment, Health & Family Welfare, Rural & Urban Development; chapters on Environment & Forest, Rainfall and a variety of other subjects ranging from Crime & Accidents to Electoral Statistics, India G20 & World .
According to the report India is expected to miss the crucial UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG), including those related to reduction in poverty, hunger and infant mortality. The poverty ratio is likely to be 26.7% by 2015 as against the target of 23.9%, while infant mortality rate (IMR) would be 43 per 1,000 live births against the milestone of bringing it down to 27.
India was supposed to halve the percentage of population below the national poverty line by 2015 over the 1990 level. In 1990, poverty ratio was 47.8% that came down to 37.2% in 2004-05. India was also required to reduce the mortality rate for children underfive years to 42 per 1,000 live births by 2015. However, the current estimates suggest that it would be around 52 when the MDG deadline lapses.
The latest data suggests that maternal mortality rate (MMR) would come down to 139 per 1 lakh births by 2015 from 437 in 1990, while the nation is expected to reduce MMR by three quarters between 1990 and 2015 to 109 per 1 lakh births.
Malnutrition continues to be a major hurdle. The trend of the proportion of underweight (severe & moderate) children below three years shows that India is going slow in eliminating the effect of malnourishment. From estimated 52% in 1990, the proportion of underweight children below three years is required to be reduced to 26% by 2015.
According to official estimates, the proportion of underweight children has declined from 43% during 1998-99 to 40% in 2005-06. At the historical rate of decline, the proportion is expected to come down to only about 33% by 2015 vis-àvis the target of 26%.
While India is expected to lag behind on health indicators, the performance is upto the mark on education front.
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