Poverty, child, maternal deaths high in India: @UN

India Continues to battle poverty, child and maternal deaths, According to a United Nations report on the Millennium Development Goals That said while overall targets several key Have Been meth, more sustained effort is needed to cover Disparities by the 2015 deadline. 

The 'Millennium Development Goals Report 2014', Launched by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon here yesterday, said many overall MDG targets on Reducing Poverty, increase increasing access to improved drinking water sources, Improving the lives of slum dwellers and Achieving gender parity in primary schools have Already been met. 

Many more goals are within reach by 2015 Their target date, the report said, adding if current trends continue That, the world will surpass MDG targets on malaria, tuberculosis and access to HIV treatment. 

The report is The most up-to-date "global scorecard" on Efforts to Achieve the eight anti-poverty goals mostly Agreed by world leaders at a UN summit in 2000. 

It, however I, Said That some MDG targets related to Largely preventable problems with solutions available,: such as child and maternal mortality Reducing and increase increasing access to sanitation, are slipping away from achievement by 2015, DESPITE major progress. 

"Know That We Have Been uneven achievements goals Between, Among and Within regions and country clubs, groups and Between population," Ban said, adding That imbalances are addressed through Unless bolder and more focused interventions, some targets will not be met, including in key Such areas as childbirth, maternal mortality, universal education, and environmental sustainability. 

The overwhelming majority of people living on less than 1.25 dollars a day belong to Southern Asia and sub​​-Saharan Africa, With one third of the world's 1.2 billion extreme poor living in India alone in 2010. 

Also India had the highest number of under-five deaths in the world in 2012, With 1.4 million children dying before reaching Their fifth birthday. 

While Southern Asia has made ​​"strong and steady" progress in Reducing child deaths by more than halving its under-five mortality rate, yet nearly one in every three deaths still Takes place in the region. 

DESPITE progress in all world regions, the maternal mortality ratio in develop developing regions? 230 maternal deaths per 1,00,000 live births in 2013? was 14 times higher than That of developed regions, que Recorded only 16 maternal deaths per 1,00,000 live births in 2013. 

Highlighting the extreme Differences in maternal mortality Among countries country, the report said That almost one-third of all maternal deaths overall are Concentrated in the two populous countries - India and Nigeria. 

India has an Estimated 50,000 maternal deaths (17 per cent) while Nigeria has an Estimated 40,000 maternal deaths (14 per cent).