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Raleigh expedition country India is making some progress in reducing poverty according to a new report by the United Nations.

The UN’s annual Millennium Development Report, which tracks the progress of the international organisation’s long-term goals, shows India’s poverty rate is expected to fall to 22% by 2015 from 51% in 1990.

A tribal charity is calling on tourists to boycott the main highway in India’s Andaman Islands – a road which cuts through the land of the endangered Jarawa tribe.

Survival International has said that the Andaman Trunk Road is illegal – India’s Supreme Court ordered it closed in 2002, but it remains open – and highly dangerous for the Jarawa, whose tribe is made up of just 365.

British aid to India has proven to be a contentious issue amid cutbacks in the UK, but a cross-party group of MPs has recommended that the aid should continue until 2015.

The group said the aid was important for India in order to ensure the Raleigh expedition country meets the targets laid out by the millennium development goals.

The Indian government has been branded “unwilling and unable” to “end the exploitation and victimisation” of the country’s 84 million tribal people according to WikiLeaks cables published in The Hindu newspaper.

The cables show that American diplomats feared this neglect “plays into the hands of Naxalites” – the Maoist extremists who are currently engaged in an armed insurgency in India.

The Indian government has scrapped its policy of evicting tribal people from “critical wildlife habitats” to turn them into national parks.

Under new proposals, tribal people can only be evicted with their free, prior and informed consent. Tiger reserves, however, are excluded from the new policy.

Raleigh's expedition country India will be facing a food shortage in the coming years, an expert in Indian business has said.

Rising food prices across Asia are causing concern as they might hamper efforts to eradicate hunger under the Millennium Development Goals, a new report has warned.

Raleigh expedition country India as well as Nepal, Laos and Bangladesh are all experiencing a rise in food prices and the authors of the report, the UN ESCAP (Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific) are worried that the rise could create more poverty in the countries.

A campaign started in India in a bid to improve sanitation across the country, has started to make a difference to communities, an expert has said.

Britain will continue to send aid to India, despite the country’s booming economy, Andrew Mitchell, the International Development Secretary, has said.

The Ministry of Tourism for Raleigh expedition country India is expecting a rise in gap year travellers as other countries predict a tough time ahead in terms of attracting overseas visitors.

According to Rajen Habib Khwaja, the secretary of the ministry, India has experienced a strong surge in interest from overseas over the past few months and it looks set to get better still.