Infant Mortality Rate-A dark spot in Gujarat Development story.
✅India's Infant Mortality at 32 per 1,000.
✅Gujarat Infant Mortality at 30 per 1,000.
✅ India's per capital income USD 2000.
✅ Gujarat per capita income USD 3000.
Every year 12 lakh infants are born in Gujarat. Current fig 30 out of every 1,000 infants die due to malnutrition, premature delivery, or because the mothers are not able to reach the hospital in time.....the fig in year 2000 was more critical, infants mortality rate in Gujarat was 62 out of 1000....almost equivalent to nation.
Though per capita income of Gujarat currently USD 3000, higher than the national average USD 2000.....in year 2000 Gujarat per capit income was just USD 175 below the national average USD 240.
That's imply Gujarat per capit income increases more than 17 times but in case of infants mortality figure is all most equivalent to nation
✓India's Infant Mortality at 32 per 1,000.
✓Gujarat Infant Mortality at 30 per 1,000.
Though I am big fan of Gujarat Model of Development,but Infant Mortality-A dark spot in Gujarat development story.
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Reference-
15,000 newborn died in Gujarat hospitals in 2 years - www.outlookindia.com ›03-Mar-2020 ·
