This ranks 140th out of 200 nations. India's infant mortality rate was 60.81 deaths out of every 1000 live births, ranking 62nd out of 200. All this has occurred in the world's largest democracy. Democracy does not ensure economic prosperity. The people of India are being democratically driven into poverty.
Somebody needs to wake up in India.
For most of the post World War II period, developing nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America have chosen state-run strategies, or centralized government planning. We have seen their economies collapse, dissolve, and implode. In an attempt to help these struggling nations, wealthy countries have showered them with more and more foreign aid. Its like giving a drunk another drink. Common sense tells us this never works.