The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

L FE POVERTY EXPECTANCY AN AVERAGE INDIAN LIVES THE PROPORTION OF PEOPLE UNDER THE POVERTY LINE HAS DECLINED FROM 45.3% IN 1993-4 TO 37.2% IN 2005 20 YEARS LONGER THÊN HE USÉD TỎ LIVE AT THE TIME OF COUNTRY'S INDEPENDENCE POLIO LITERACY the O FRESH CASES OF POLIO IN 2011 Literacy rate is GOod 00 UP 10% Bad in the last ten years (to 74%) Ten states and UTs have a literacy rate above 85% the Child hunger LEAANING LEVELS 42/0 less than half of children in class V in rural India can read a class |l text; this is even lower than it was last year OF CHILDREN MALNOURISHED the ugly HUNGER CHILD SEX RATIO continues to fall precipitously, noW down to 914 in 2011. Far higher mortality rates for girls than boys points to neglect through childhood More people living in hunger in India than in all of sub-Saharan Africa L FE POVERTY EXPECTANCY AN AVERAGE INDIAN LIVES THE PROPORTION OF PEOPLE UNDER THE POVERTY LINE HAS DECLINED FROM 45.3% IN 1993-4 TO 37.2% IN 2005 20 YEARS LONGER THÊN HE USÉD TỎ LIVE AT THE TIME OF COUNTRY'S INDEPENDENCE POLIO LITERACY the O FRESH CASES OF POLIO IN 2011 Literacy rate is GOod 00 UP 10% Bad in the last ten years (to 74%) Ten states and UTs have a literacy rate above 85% the Child hunger LEAANING LEVELS 42/0 less than half of children in class V in rural India can read a class |l text; this is even lower than it was last year OF CHILDREN MALNOURISHED the ugly HUNGER CHILD SEX RATIO continues to fall precipitously, noW down to 914 in 2011. Far higher mortality rates for girls than boys points to neglect through childhood More people living in hunger in India than in all of sub-Saharan Africa