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Why Plan works in India: quick facts
- Nearly one in ten children die before age five
- One in two children under five years old are underweight
- Six in every ten girls don't go to secondary school
- Two out of three children don't have access to adequate sanitation
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Flooding displaces millions in Asia
Plan has launched an appeal to help the 3,300,000 people who have been forced from their homes by floods in northern India, Nepal and Pakistan |
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Life changes for Trinathbasti women
Read about how some women from Orissa in India became community leaders, breaking with a tradition where they were kept hidden away from society |
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A new generation of readers in Deodurg Taluk
Access to education for many children in rural India is a luxury not available to them. Plan is starting to address this by offering 'supplementary schooling' in areas will high illiteracy rates |
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The Gender Gap
Plan works closely with communities to ecourage the role of women in Indian society, where there is a wide gender gap in literacy, employment, and mortality |
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Country statistics
| Country: |
INDIA |
| Population: |
1,065,462,000 (2003) |
| Capital City: |
New Delhi |
| National Language: |
Hindi |
| Per capita income: |
US$ 530/year (2003) |
| Life expectancy: |
64 years (2003) |
| Access to safe water: |
86% (2002) |
| Adequate sanitation facilities: |
30% (2002) |
| Under 5 Mortality Rate: |
87/1,000 live births (2003) |
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| Source: |
State of the World's Children Report 2005 (published by UNICEF) |
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