India from Midnight to 2012

India has seen a tremendous growth in healthcare in both rural and urban sector. Rural India contains 68 percent of India’s total population with half of it living below poverty line, struggling for better and easy access to health care and services. The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) was launched in April 2005 by the Government of India to provide effective health care to the rural people. Due to better healthcare facilities provided by the government, there was a decline in infant mortality rates. Sanitary conditions have also been improved. Hospitals and government dispensaries have been established to remove the illness and diseases from the community.

When India became independent, very few industries existed in the country like textiles and sugar. Heavy- industries were more or less non-existent. Industries like iron and steel, cement which are essential for the development of other industries hardly existed. When the government had initiated the Five Year Plan, great changes took place in the development of industries.