27, February 2026

An Analysis of India’s Achievement in Access to Improved Drinking Water under the Millennium Development Goals: Before and After Policy Intervention

VOLUME-12; ISSUE-2; FEB-2026

Author(s): Dr. Dinesh Kumar

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Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, NSCBM Government College Hamirpur (H.P.)

DOIs:10.2015/IJIRMF/202602028     |     Paper ID: IJIRMF202602028


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Since the launch of the Millennium Development Goals at the Millennium Summit in New York September 2000, the MDGs have become the most widely accepted yardstick of development efforts by government. The main objective of present study is appraising the Millennium Developmental Goal 7 indicator 30, halving the percentage of the population without access the improved source of drinking water between 1990 and 2015.The study is divided into two periods. First period dates back from 1990-2001.  The second period covers decade of 2005-2015. During the first period, there was no strategy in place to achieve these goals. But in the second period, state put the designed strategy in place to attain these goals in the time bound framework. The analysis outline  that the Historical Rate of Change in India is much higher 2.26 percent in the period between 1991 and 2001 in comparison to the 0.23 percent in MDGs period in spite of the Government of India starting a number of programmes according to the United Nations direction. The Required Annual Rate of Progress (RARP) to meet the MDGs target for this indicator between 1990 and 2015 is 1.26 percent per year. The study revealed that India recorded 1.85 percent of Actual Annual Rate of Progress (AARP) from 1991 to 2015 and achieved the goal well ahead of schedule.

 

Millennium Development Goal, Improved Drinking Water, India

Dr. Dinesh Kumar (2026); An Analysis of India’s Achievement in Access to Improved Drinking Water under the Millennium Development Goals: Before and After Policy Intervention, International Journal for Innovative Research in Multidisciplinary Field, ISSN(O): 2455-0620, Vol-12, Issue-2, Available on –   https://www.ijirmf.com/

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