Ten years after the signing of the Millennium Declaration, “India appears to be seriously off-track on a number of MDGs including those on hunger, infant mortality, maternal mortality, and women’s empowerement,” says a report.

“Left with only five years to achieve the MDGs, poverty continues to make lives miserable,” Wada Na Todo Abhiyan (WNTA), a civil society effort to track government performance in alleviating poverty, said at the rejoinder to India country report on MDGs 2009.

WNTA's rejoinder to India’s country report on MDGs 2009 also shows seven states - Jhakhand, Orissa, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, lag far behind the MDG landmarks that should have been achieved.

WNTA’s rejoinder titled ‘A response to the India country report on Millennium Development Goals’ spoke on the government’s response which was released by vice president Hamid Ansari in June this year titled ‘Mid Term Statistical Review of Millenium Development Goals- India Country Report 2009.’

The report also criticised the government for not taking views of stakeholders into consideration. According to the report, “It is unfortunate the government has not even considered the views of state governments; leave alone other actors like, experts, civil society, activists.”

Different experts have written on specific thematic issues related to eight goals of MDGs.

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