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Millennium Development Goals

The MDGs contain 8 Goals:
Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education
Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
Goal 4: Reduce child mortalityGoal
5: Improve maternal health
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development
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In the Tenth Five Year Plan the Planning Commission has outlined India’s human development goals and targets for the next five to 10 years. Most of these are related to and are more ambitious than the Millennium Development Goals.

MONITORABLE TARGETS FOR THE TENTH PLAN AND BEYOND1

Reduction of poverty ratio by 5 percentage points by 2007 and by 15 percentage points by 2012;

Providing gainful and high-quality employment at least to the addition to the labour force over the Tenth Plan period;

All children in school by 2003; all children to complete 5 years of schooling by 2007;

Reduction in gender gaps in literacy and wage rates by at least 50 per cent by 2007;

Reduction in the decadal rate of population growth between 2001 and 2011 to 16.2 per cent;

Increase in Literacy Rates to 75 per cent within the Tenth Plan period (2002-3 to 2006-7);

Reduction of Infant mortality rate (IMR) to 45 per 1000 live births by 2007 and to 28 by 2012;

Reduction of Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) to 2 per 1000 live births by 2007 and to 1 by 2012;

Increase in forest and tree cover to 25 per cent by 2007 and 33 per cent by 2012;

All villages to have sustained access to potable drinking water within the Plan period;

Cleaning of all major polluted rivers by 2007 and other notified stretches by 2012.

HIV/AIDS targets within the Tenth Plan period:2

80% coverage of high risk groups through targeted interventions;

90% coverage of schools and colleges through education programmes;

80% awareness among the general population in rural areas;

reducing transmission through blood to less than 1%;

establishing of at least one voluntary testing and counselling centre in every district;

scaling up of prevention of mother-to-child transmission activities up to the district level;

achieving zero level increase of HIV /AIDS prevalue by 2007)

Malaria targets within the Tenth Plan period:3

ABER (Annual Blood Examination Rate) over10 per cent

API (Annual Parasite Incidence) 1.3 or less

25% reduction in morbidity and mortality due to malaria by 2007 and 50% by 2010 (NHP 2002)

Hope these plans will come true in future.

1) Tenth Five Year Plan, Planning Commission, Government of India, Vol.1, Chapter 1, page 6
2) Tenth Five Year Plan, Planning Commission, Government of India, Vol. 2, Chapter. 2.8, page. 117.
3) Tenth Five Year Plan, Planning Commission, Government of India, Vol. 2, Chapter. 2.8, page. 108.

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