{"id":4382,"date":"2024-06-14T00:27:39","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T00:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4382"},"modified":"2024-06-14T00:27:39","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T00:27:39","slug":"pm-lauds-significant-decline-in-maternal-mortalityratio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/current-affairs\/pm-lauds-significant-decline-in-maternal-mortalityratio\/","title":{"rendered":"PM lauds significant decline in Maternal Mortality\nRatio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has lauded the significant decline in the Maternal Mortality Ratio from 130 per lakh live births in 2014-16 to 97 per lakh live births in 2018-20. The Prime Minister emphasised that all aspects relating to <a href=\"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/women\">Women<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/empowerment\">Empowerment<\/a> remain very strong.<\/p>\n<p>As per the statistics derived from Sample Registration System (SRS), the country has witnessed a progressive reduction in MMR from 130 in 2014-2016, 122 in 2015-17, 113 in 2016-18, 103 in 2017-19 and to 97 in 2018-20.<\/p>\n<p>Upon achieving this, India has accomplished the National <a href=\"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/health\">Health<\/a> Policy (NHP) target for MMR of less than 100\/lakh live births and is on the right track to achieve the SDG target of MMR less than 70\/ lakh live births by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>The outstanding progress made in terms of the number of states which have achieved  Goal (SDG) target, the number has now risen from six to eight leading with Kerala (19), followed by Maharashtra (33), then <a href=\"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/telangana\">Telangana<\/a> (43) and Andhra Pradesh (45), subsequently <a href=\"https:\/\/exam.pscnotes.com\/tamil\">Tamil<\/a> Nadu (54), Jharkhand (56), Gujarat (57) and lastly Karnataka (69).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has lauded the significant decline in the Maternal Mortality Ratio from 130 per lakh live births in 2014-16 to 97 per lakh live births in 2018-20. 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