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Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Maternal Mortality Ratio has declined from 130 per lakh live births in 2014-16 to 97 per lakh live births in 2018-20, according to a special bulletin released by the office of the Registrar General of India. India News | Maternal Mortality Ratio Dips to 97 in 2018-20 from 130 in 2014-16.
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Most arguments put forth by the government and its functionaries don’t hold water.
"Almost 25,600 deaths have taken place and each of them has been counted. In Delhi, the data has not been fudged even for a single death," said Jain.
India had also informed WHO that in view of the availability of authentic data published through Civil Registration System (CRS) by Registrar General of India (RGI), mathematical models should not be used for projecting excess mortality numbers for India.