"India is one of the world’s fast-growing economies, but it still claims a staggering 21 percent — or 1.7 million — of the world’s under-5 deaths. Facing the challenge of reaching an enormous, diverse population of 1.2 billion people over a vast area with generally weak governance, India, with a death rate for children under 5 of 61 per 1,000 live births, is widely considered unlikely to meet the UN Millennium Development Goal to reduce that figure to 38 by 2015." (Quoted from article)