‘20% CMR Can Be Reduced By Providing Clean Drinking Water', Says Nobel Prize Winner Michael Robert Kremer

Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Nobel Prize winner Michael Robert Kremer said that an important outcome of his study showed that if clean drinking water is provided to families, then 20 % child mortality rate (CMR) can be reduced.

The newborn child is vulnerable to water-borne diseases. His study found that out of four child deaths, at least one death can be prevented by providing clean drinking water.

Kremer was addressing the senior officials at Mantralaya on Friday. Chief secretary Anuraj Jain was present on the occasion.

Expressing satisfaction that clean drinking water is being supplied in rural areas under Jal Jeevan Mission in state, Kremer presented an outline of innovative systems, which help in bringing researchers, Indian government institutions, private firms and NGOs together to identify measures that can benefit lakhs of people.

He said stern examination of development programme was necessary before its execution. Moreover, water quality should be ascertained.

Michael Robert Kremer is an American development economist who received Nobel Prize in economic sciences in 2019 along with Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo.

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