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Despite a decade of high economic growth, India tops the list of countries with the largest share of global extreme poor, according to the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG) report for 2014. It prompted minority affairs minister Najma Heptullah to admit that on key parameters like poverty, infant and maternal deaths and sanitation, the report’s references to India are not flattering. Heptullah, who released the report in New Delhi, said the new Indian government under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi placed high priority on improving India’s record in these areas. Acknowledging that none of the references to Asia’s third-largest economy were above par, she expressed the hope that “when the fifteen-year review of the millennium development goals is undertaken in 2030, India will present a very different and upbeat picture.”