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Working for Results in India
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| In 50 years, India has reduced the number of its people living in poverty from one half to one-third of the population. But this means that 300 million people remain poor. Women face the additional struggle for equal rights and opportunities. Successive governments have worked to improve peoples' lives, and the World Bank is currently financing 71 development projects in India with a total commitment of around US$14 billion. In addition, over the past five years, nearly US$ 1 billion has been provided to support broad reform programs in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh. To learn more about the World Bank's work in India, see the Country Brief
| Health: Leprosy, an ancient scourge active today in only eight countries in the world, is widely feared for its potential paralytic and disfiguring consequences. India accounts for two-thirds of the world’s leprosy burden with 300,000 new cases diagnosed each year. A World Bank-supported project has helped develop the government’s capacity to manage and deliver its national leprosy program and increase access to diagnosis and treatment services, particularly for the poorest people in the country. Partly as a result of this project, the number of registered leprosy cases in India was cut in half between 1993 and 2000. A follow-on project is building on the success of the first. Â
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| Health: Tuberculosis is India’s leading cause of adult illness and death from a communicable disease. Remarkable progress is being made, however, under the Government’s National TB Control Program through which more than 10,000 symptomatic patients are examined and more than 500 lives are saved every day. A World Bank-financed project has helped the government achieve these results by establishing the institutions and managerial capability to expand TB control services nation-wide. Importantly, the project relies on local community awareness and involvement and is currently benefiting from the assistance of 31,000 community volunteers.  Learn more about the Tuberculosis Control Project
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| Irrigation: Population growth in India has brought increased demand for water, placing an unsustainable burden on its water supply systems. Several World Bank–financed projects are helping communities manage and improve their irrigation systems to increase their crop yields. The projects have enabled several million farmers and their families to increase their incomes and improve their lives.Â
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| Health: India is home to more than one-third of the world’s 35 million blind people—the vast majority of whom suffer from a clouding of the eye known as ‘cataracts’. The World Bank has been a leading partner in India’s efforts to address this problem and has provided financing and technical assistance for a project covering seven states. The project facilitated over 15 million surgeries and helped reduce the incidence of cataract by more than half in the areas it covered. The Bank’s assistance helped expand the country’s National Program for Control of Blindness to the underprivileged with a special focus on women and those living in tribal and remote areas.  Learn more about the Cataract Blindness Control Project
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| Agriculture: The state of Uttar Pradesh is serving as a model for other states in India—and for other countries around the world—as a result of a unique World Bank-financed program that is revolutionizing agricultural practices. Innovative farmers are now forming self-help groups and growing vegetables like broccoli, Chinese cabbage, Brussels sprouts and celery which are in demand in big hotels in Delhi and the city of Agra and are highly profitable. Chillies and tomatoes are finding their way to France and Spain while gladiolus, orchids, and carnations are being exported to Australia.   Harvests of Change : Project Brief on Uttar Pradesh Diversified Agriculture Support Project
 Learn more about the Diversified Agriculture Support Project |
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