Website launched on UN's Millennium Development Goals

Action urged for speedy implementation of MDG's

goals | August 25, 2010



A website to make "make noise on UN's Millennium Development Goals (MDG)" was launched in the national capital on Moday in a bid to urge the government to take action to meet its targets.

Launching the website, Pronab Sen, Principal adviser to Planning Commission, said, "there has been a dramatic shift in planning in the last ten Plans. With poverty being incorporated first in the 5th year Plan to the 10th Plan, where all of what of the millennium goals were were taken aboard."

"We rely on sample surveys which are high quantity data but poor quality data. There are cross connects in the MDG's that don't get accounted in the survey," Sen said.

"Commitment from present government on RTI, right to education, NREGA have all been steps in the right direction towards the delivery mechanism," said Minar Pimple ,Regional Director Asia and the Pacific United Nations Millennium Campaign.

"But with corruption and lack of proper delivery systems the plans and mechanisms do not reach the needy last level. There is a need to focus on minority to make growth more inclusive," Pimple said.

An urgent need for implementation of the Millennium Development Goals along with active involvement of civil society groups was stressed.

"Media space is committed to die in India for the Commonwealth Games after it ends... but what about the high mortality rate in children where we loose 1.83 million children," said Chandy of Save the Children.

 

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