United Nations: India has made progress on the twin fronts of reducing hunger and child mortality but is still short of development goals, two international reports say.

Fewer Indian children under five are dying, with infant mortality rate coming down from 126 per 1,000 in 1990 to 53 last year, a UN report released in New York said. And according to a Food and Agriculture Organisation report released in Rome, between 1990-1992 and now there are 21 million fewer hungry people in India.