Telangana Beats BJP-Ruled States In Controlling Maternal Mortality.

After the Niti Aayog and the Census Commissioner, the Ministry of Home Affairs, among other Central agencies, now the Reserve Bank of India, has made a note of Telangana‘s success in bringing down the Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) from 81 per lakh live births in 2014-15 to 56 against the national average of 103 in 2022.

What, however, stands out is how India’s youngest State, the constant target of accusations and allegations by the BJP, has surpassed other States, especially BJP-ruled States, including Gujarat. Though Modi had promoted Gujarat’s healthcare system with the slogan ‘Healthy Gujarat, Prosperous Gujarat’ during his tenure as CM, the State has failed to bring down maternal deaths despite the BJP being in power for over two decades.

Telangana, on the other hand, is ranked 3rd after Kerala and Maharashtra for the lowest maternal deaths in the country in the last 3 years.

The RBI, in the latest edition of its Handbook of Statistics on Indian States, records the steady decline in MMR in Telangana in the last 8 years under the TRS rule. The MMR in 448 of India’s 640 districts is higher than the target set under UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). The MMR under the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) for 2030 is 70, whereas India’s current MMR is 103.