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...Jharkhand and Orissa, two of east India's most impoverished and underserved states, the numbers are worse still - 49 and 45 deaths per 1,000 live births, respectively. The neonatal mortality rate in China, by comparison, lingers under 15. "Just improving health services will not do," says Dr. Prasanta Tripathy, who founded the Indian social welfare NGO Ekjut with his wife Dr. Nirmala Nair. "Communities need to be made aware of what it is in their own power to accomplish." (Read 'India's Medical Emergency...
...draft the new plan, Nehru picked Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, 62, head of the sprawling Calcutta University Statistical Institute. Cambridge-trained Professor Mahalanobis, a physicist turned economist, has achieved a sensational rise in prestige, stands as close to Nehru on economic matters as Krishna Menon does on foreign affairs. Mahalanobis has stocked the institute's library with the works of Stalin and Mao Tse-tung and the proceedings of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, bound in calf. To help draft the plan, Mahalanobis got the services of ten Soviet economists to assist his staff. Mahalanobis has been called a Communist...
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