<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 29.3333px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 37.3333px; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">India has registered a significant decline in Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) recording a 22% reduction in such deaths since 2013.</span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 29.3333px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 37.3333px; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"> </span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 29.3333px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 37.3333px; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">According to the Sample Registration System bulletin released yesterday, the MMR has declined from 167 in 2011-2013 to 130 in 2014-2016.</span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 29.3333px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 37.3333px; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"> </span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 29.3333px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 37.3333px; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">Union Health Minister JP Nadda said in a tweet that the latest figures reveal that the government has gone beyond the UN Millennium Development Goals of the MMR.</span></p>