Millennium development goals: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Indian perspective

The Millennium Development Goals represent the world's commitment to deal with global poverty in its many dimensions. A commitment by a global partnership, which calls for countryled strategies and support from developed countries in the areas of trade, official Development Assistance (ODA), debt sustainability and access to medicine and technologies. The present study is an attempt aims to provide an action agenda for reviewing development and progress of millennium development goals, eradicate extreme poverty and hunger from Indian perspective and identifying the strategies, policies and interventions for further acceleration. Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is now all the more challenging because the development environment is more threatened now than it has been at any time in the recent past. A global economic slowdown, a food security crisis of uncertain magnitude and duration, the development impact of climate change, all directly affect efforts to reduce poverty and to attain the MDGs more broadly. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have provided an important motivational force and measuring rod for this progress. They were deliberately ambitious, and their achievement would require an unprecedented pace of progress in most countries. The fact that many countries are on track to achieve a significant number of the goals will transform the quality of life for hundreds of millions of people, and should be a sign of hope and a spur to action in others.