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India on road to poverty alleviation: UN

India is on track to cut its poverty by half by 2015, United Nations Human Development report said on Tuesday.

India, along with China, is among only eleven developing countries which are on track to achieve the target set by the UN Millennium Summit to cut poverty by half by 2015.

Together the eleven host more than forty per cent of the world's population. But if India and China are excluded, only 5 per cent of world population in nine countries is on track.

The world body said in the report that 83 countries, where 70 per cent of the world population lives, are not on track to halve their population without access to safe drinking water. About one billion people worldwide do not have access to it.

As many as 74 countries with two-thirds of the world's population are not on track to halve income poverty by 2015.

More than 1.2 billion people live on less than a dollar a day.

Ninety-three states with 62 per cent of the world's population are not on track to reduce under five mortality by two-thirds by 2015.

Eleven million children below the age of five still die every year - 30,000 children a day.

"Without accelerated progress in addressing the needs of the world's poorest people, these goals will not be achieved," lead author of the report Sakiko Fukuda-Parr said.

However on positive side, she expects a majority of the countries to meet the goal of universal primary education and gender equality in education.

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