• ALKA JAYKUMAR DIWANE

Abstract: In the UN General Assembly India presented the new targets under the SDGs, which has replaced the MDGs. India has set itself a challenging target to reduce MMR to 70 per 1000 live births and for neonatal and under – five to 12 and 25 per 1000 births respectively to be achieved over the next 15 years. Still India did not achieve 100 percent target set by the MDG 2015 especially for infant Mortality rate, Under-five mortality rate and MMR. Though India has made substantial progress in reducing infant and MMR over the last two decades, continues to lag Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal. The child immunization rate and total life expectancy of India is also lower than these countries. As SDG 3 goal No. 3.7 India has planned to ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health care services including for family planning, information and education and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programme by 2030. (SDG-NITI Aayog: 2016). However, there are several reproductive health concerns in India, which need to address in order to improve reproductive health status of Married Adolescent Women. In India, especially in rural part of India early marriage and adolescent pregnancy remains a common practice despite its illegality many studies highlighted that the practice of child marriage is very common in rural part of India. Only augmentation of age by law is not sufficient there is need to address and communicate the issues. Then only India can achieve the targets set for SDG3 goal 3.7 Without bringing improvement in women’s reproductive health status no any country can achieve target set for the development in any field.

MDG, SDG, Early Childbearing

"Moving from Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for Achieving Inclusive Growth - Women Health Status in Rural India ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 12, page no.e785-e791, December-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2112496.pdf

"Moving from Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for Achieving Inclusive Growth - Women Health Status in Rural India ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 12, page no. ppe785-e791, December-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2112496.pdf