MAINS 2013
GS2
10 marks
Identify the Millennium Development Goals related to health. Discuss the success of actions taken by the Government for achieving them.
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7 min
200 words
What the examiner wants
Identify the health MDGs and discuss how far India's actions achieved them.
Identify; DiscussAnswer exactly what the question asks.
Demand-wise check
- 1Goals: MDG 4 (cut under-5 mortality by two-thirds), MDG 5 (cut MMR by three-quarters), MDG 6 (HIV, malaria, TB)≈35 words
- 2Actions: NRHM (2005), Janani Suraksha Yojana, JSSK, immunisation, NACP, RNTCP≈35 words
- 3Results: polio eradicated; HIV declined; MMR and IMR fell but missed targets≈35 words
- 4Gaps: regional disparity, nutrition, health spending≈35 words
Open in about 30 words and close in about 30.
Answer plan
List goalsSchemesOutcomes with dataGapsLink to SDG 3
Where marks usually go
- Not naming the three goals clearly
- No figures on MMR or child mortality
Draw this
- Table: goal, target, India status 2015
Value addition
- DataMMR fell to 167 per lakh live births (2011-13) against a 2015 target of 109.SRS, Registrar General of India
- FactWHO certified India's region polio-free in March 2014; last case Jan 2011.WHO, 2014
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Reviewed public-source references related to this PYQ. Same-syllabus references are labelled separately.
- Shakti Dubey · AIR 1 · Page 38 ↗Same syllabus reference
- Aditya Srivastava · AIR 1 · Page 15 ↗Same syllabus reference
- Shakti Dubey · AIR 1 · Page 11 ↗Same syllabus reference
- Aditya Srivastava · AIR 1 · Page 5 ↗Same syllabus reference
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