WHO commends India for its concerted efforts to reduce child deaths which have resulted in under-five mortality estimates to have fallen below the one million mark. As outlined in a report released by the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation India’s share of global child deaths has been reduced from 22% in 2012 to 18% in 2017 – a rate that outpaces the global decline. India’s remarkable achievement was made possible via a series of initiatives the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has taken in recent years including to vaccinate each and every child with life-saving vaccines under