Until Feb 2012, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nigeria were the only members to be on this list, and thus to have an unwanted medical status.
The World Health Organization took India off this list in Feb 2012, recognizing that concerted efforts in India in this regard had indeed paid off.
India still has some progress to make in order to achieve a further milestone by 2014.
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The WHO took India off a list of countries where polio is endemic after no new cases were reported in 2011.
The Health Ministry wants to make the country fully free of polio by 2014.
This day last year: Q.159