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Infant mortality has been dropping significantly in India, said Unicef and likely to achieve the target rate by 2015. The current infant mortality rate (IMR) of India is 40 per 1000 live births as per Sample Registration System (SRS) in 2013 and Under-5 Mortality Rate (U5MR) was at 52 in SRS 2012. And it would likely to below 39 per 1000 live births by 2015. In India every year, 1.34 million children die before completing five years, of which 7,48,000 die within the first month of their life. More than 2,000 newborn die each day in India. Further measures should be taken by the government of India to achieve the target of below 39 per 1000 live births.

In a country like India, public sector has a larger role to play in the development of the country. When the public sector is transparent in its way of discharging duties and the people working in the public sector feel that they are the servants of the public, and have a feeling of serving them in the form of their duty. Country will progress and development will take place at a rapid pace. At present what we are seeing and experiencing is corrupt public sector not the system but because of the people who are working in the sector the public sector has become so. There are many departments and fields that are working in the public sector with the primary aim of development and progress. But even after so many years of freedom we are not able to become that which we should have, by now because of lack of sincerity and commitment from the people who are working in the public sector. The feeling of our country our people, and we are answerable to the public and we are here to serve ...