India recorded a 22% drop in maternal mortality rate.
According to The Wire, there has been a 22% reduction in MMR since 2013.
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India’s GDP grew at a rate of 8.2% in the first quarter of 2018-19.
According to Economic Times, India’s GDP for the first quarter of 2018-19 has seen the highest growth of more than 7% were ‘manufacturing, ‘electricity, gas, water supply & other utility services’ ‘construction’ and ‘public administration, defence and other services’ in two years.
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271 million people in India moved out of poverty and India’s poverty rate has fallen from 55% to 28%.
According to TOI, the 2018 global Multidimensional Poverty Index released by the United Nations Development Programme, India’s poverty rate has fallen from 55% to 28%, over the time span of 10 years.
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India went on its largest sanitation spree of all times and built an estimate of 80 million toilets since 2014.
According to Arkansas Online, Modi’s ‘Clean India’ mission and Akshay Kumar’s campaigning for his movie, Toilet-Ek Prem Katha, have a big role to play towards this.
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India also saw a spike in the growth of tiger population in India.
According to NDTV, the Indian government, quoting preliminary census data, declared the increase in tiger population in the country, including Maharashtra in the year 2018.
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India scrapped the 12% tax over sanitary napkins and tampons after years of campaigning by activists.
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India’s second most populous state, Maharashtra, in a landmark move, banned all single-use plastic (including packaging), levying a fine of up to 25,000 rupees.
In a historic move, India’s Supreme court scrapped section 377 that criminalized homosexual sex, in violation of fundamental rights.
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India also got its first female fighter pilots.
Avani Chaturvedi, Bhawana Kanth and Mohana Seth, became the first women to fly MiG-21 Bison fighter planes.
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India’s national blind cricket team won the 2018 Blind Cricket World Cup.
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