In India, women, dalits and minorities are not going to achieve millennium development goals set by the United Nations for 2015.
Corruption is forbidding these sections from doing so, reveals a study by civil society organisations.
Releasing a report card on status of millennium development goals on the ground, Wada Na Todo Abhiyan (Do Not Break the Promise Campaign), says that aggregated data on various human development indicators like poverty, health, nutrition and education mask the real picture.
The real picture, according to the campaign, is that marginalised sections are nowhere near the development goals.
The campaign, which is joined by several NGOs, carried out the study in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Manipur.
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