Q.State any three reasons for the rapid decline in India's death rate.

India's death rate fell sharply due to medical advances, better food security after the Green Revolution, and improved sanitation and public health infrastructure.

Three reasons (any three of the following are acceptable) for India's rapidly declining death

rate:

1. Advances in medical science and public health, including large-scale vaccination and disease-control programmes, which sharply cut deaths from infectious diseases and epidemics.
2. Control of famines and improved food security, particularly after the Green Revolution raised foodgrain output and reduced famine-related mortality.
3. Improved sanitation and drinking-water supply, reducing deaths from water-borne and sanitation-related diseases.
4. Expansion of public health infrastructure — Primary Health Centres and maternal/child …