Siddaramaiah conspiring to win poll through ulterior motive: PM Modi
Chikmagaluru, May 9: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that despite losing almost all states in the country, AICC president Rahul Gandhi, UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and CM Siddaramaiah are behaving in arrogance.
Addressing the election rally organized here on Wednesday, PM Modi said that the time has to wipe out the Congress from the country. In the last four years, the Congress has lost all elections. It was defeated in almost all states in Uttar Pradesh. Even then, the arrogance of the Congress leaders has not come down, he said.
AICC president Rahul Gandhi camped in Karnataka for Assembly election. He has been criticizing the BJP government at the centre and praising Siddaramaiah government. But being the Lok Sabha Member, he has forgotten the development of his constituency Amethi. Now, he has eyed on PM chair. He has the concern only on PM chair and not the country. Congress party has become Gandhi family and in Congress, the PM chair belongs to only Gandhi family, he blasted.
Both Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi were on bail in Rs 5000 crore fraud. The Congress has lost its ground when this scam was exposed. In May 12 election, Karnataka people would permanently send mother-son duo to home. As Siddaramaiah came to know about this truth, Siddaramaiah has conspired to win the election through ulterior motive. But people would not accept it, he said.
When the Congress did not have ground in North India, Indira Gandhi had come to Chikmagaluru where she had won the election and entered the Lok Sabha. After she had won the election, she did not visit her constituency once. What was her contribution to Chikmagaluru which had given political rebirth to her? In the same way, Sonia Gandhi had promised Ballary people that she would bring Rs 3000 crore package to develop the constituency. Has she fulfilled her promise, he asked.
When Modi began his speech in Kannada and wished the people, people yelled in joy. Before the stage programme, BJP workers took out a bike rally and procession in the city.
BJP candidates CT Ravi, MP Kumaraswamy, DS Suresh, Belli Prakash and Suresh were present. Thousands of party workers from Hassan, Beluru, Sakaleshpur, Chikmagalur, Sringeri, Mudigere, Tarikere, Kaduru assembly constituencies were present.
‘Cong doesn’t believe in democracy’
Earlier, the Congress had misused the power given to them in the country and engaged in misrule. The entire world has accepted the working style of Election Commission of India. But the Congress has been saying that the Election Commission is not good. According to it, only Congress is good in this country. EVMs are wrong, they are right. It has been saying that even CBI and NIA are also not good, he said.
It is unfortunate that the Congress does not have belief on Army and defence system of the country. The Congress has tarnished the image of the country before the world through Bofors scandal. It does not have faith on the judiciary. If the naxalites, jihadis and terrorists were cracked, the Congress would find fault in that act also. When the RBI implemented new economic policies, the Congress is criticizing that. When the entire country expressed good thing about India, Congress has been alleging that Modi has purchased the entire world leadership, he charged.
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India sees improvement in maternal, child health indicators, says 2021 SRS report
New Delhi, May 10 (PTI): India has witnessed a significant improvement in key maternal and child health indicators between 2014 and 2021, according to a Health Ministry statement.
The Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) has declined by 37 points from 130 per lakh live births in 2014-16 to 93 in 2019-21, the statement mentioned, citing the Sample Registration System (SRS) Report 2021 released by the Registrar General of India (RGI) on Wednesday.
Similarly, the downward trend of child mortality indicators continued.
The Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) has dropped from 39 per 1000 live births in 2014 to 27 per 1000 live births in 2021.
The Neonatal Mortality Rate (NMR) has declined from 26 per 1000 live births in 2014 to 19 per 1000 live births in 2021. Under-Five Mortality Rate (U5MR) has also improved, dropping from 45 in 2014 to 31 per 1000 live births in 2021.
The Sex Ratio at Birth also improved between 2014 and 2031, getting better from 899 to 913, respectively. Total Fertility Rate is consistent at 2.0 in 2021, which is a notable progress from 2.3 in 2014.
According to the SRS 2021 Report, eight states have already attained the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) target of MMR (less than or equal to 70 by 2030). Kerala (20), Maharashtra (38), Telangana (45), Andhra Pradesh (46), Tamil Nadu (49), Jharkhand (51), Gujarat (53), and Karnataka (63) are among the top performers.
The Ministry also said that 12 states and UT have already attained SDG target of U5MR (less than 25 by 2030): Kerala (8), Delhi (14), Tamil Nadu (14), Jammu & Kashmir (16), Maharashtra (16), West Bengal (20), Karnataka (21), Punjab (22), Telangana (22), Himachal Pradesh (23), Andhra Pradesh (24) and Gujarat (24).
Besides, six states and one UT have already attained the SDG target of NMR (less than 12 by 2030): Kerala (4), Delhi (8), Tamil Nadu (9), Maharashtra (11), Jammu & Kashmir (12) and Himachal Pradesh (12).
Further, India's progress in the reduction of maternal and child mortality indicators has outpaced global averages, the Ministry said in its statement.
As per the current United Nations Maternal Mortality Estimation Inter-agency Group (UN-MMEIG) Report 2000-2023, India's MMR has reduced by 23 points from 2020 to 2023.
By this achievement, MMR of India has now declined by 86 per cent compared to the global reduction of 48 per cent over the past 33 years from 1990 to 2023, the statement said.
Significant achievement has been highlighted in the reduction of Child Mortality in India in the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN-IGME) Report 2024.
The UN-IGME report said India achieved a 78 per cent decline in the Under-Five Mortality Rate (U5MR), surpassing the global reduction of 61 per cent; 70 per cent decline in the Neonatal Mortality Rate (NMR) compared to 54% globally, and 71 per cent decline in the Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) compared to 58 per cent globally, over the past 33 years from 1990 to 2023.
