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Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Child Mortality in the Country, 25/02/2016

Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Child Mortality in the Country, 25/02/2016. In India, the Office of the Registrar General of India (ORGI) regularly releases reliable estimates of child deaths in terms of Under-five Mortality Rate (U5MR) using data collected through Sample Registration System (SRS). According to ORGI, the U5MR estimated as number of child deaths per 1000 live births in India over the years are included in this document. Further, the child mortality rate (<5 years) for the African Countries during 2011-2015 is at Annexure-I.