The
Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) of a population is the number of children dying
before celebrating their first birth day out of one thousand number of children
born.
As
per ORGI’s Sample Registration System’s Statistical Reports, the Infant
Mortality Rate (IMR) across the country had been declining.
While 15 states or Union
Territories out of 35 states have achieved the expected/targeted level of IMR
of 30. The states having IMR falling in the range (30, 42] are twelve
states namely, Andhra Pradesh, Empowered Action Group (EAG) States (Jharkhand, Uttarakhand),
Gujarat, Haryana, , Karnataka, West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal
Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Mizoram, and Dadar & Nagar Haveli and the
remaining eight states/UTs have IMR above 42 and these are: Assam, six EAG States
(Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh) and
Meghalaya.
The
highest IMR for any state/UT is for Madhya Pradesh (56) and second highest is
for Assam (55), followed by Odisha (53) and Uttar Pradesh (53). None other state/UT is above 50 mark.
The
following table may be seen which gives out the IMR for EAG states, IMR of the
EAG and Assam state (for these nine states Annual health survey has been
carried during 2010-13) and for the remaining states and Union Territories for
the year 2012.
States/Uts
|
Population
|
Live Births
|
Infant Deaths
|
IMR
|
EAG States
|
566363504
|
14528238
|
720332
|
49.6
|
Assam
|
31698624
|
702125
|
38617
|
55.0
|
EAG & Assam States
|
598062128
|
15230364
|
758949
|
49.8
|
Rest of States/Uts
|
632360786
|
11346771
|
357290
|
31.5
|
All India
|
1230422914
|
26577135
|
1116240
|
42.0
|
One may note that the IMR
for the first two categories of the Indian States, the IMR works out to be
around 50, whereas for the remaining States/UTs it comes out as 31.5 for the
year 2012. Thus, it definitely demonstrates
the lopsidedness towards the EAG and Assam States. Government is right in its action of having
focus on these states in order to solve the problem under question.
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