New Delhi, July 30 - Young MPs eager to raise social issues but struggling to grasp voluminous reports and jargon can expect help from a parliamentary forum eager to raise their awareness.

The Parliamentarians Group on Millennium Development Goals, as the forum is named, has prepared easy-to-read booklets on a variety of social issues ranging from hunger and poverty to environment and education.

Headed by Supriya Sule, a first-time MP, the forum is eager to educate MPs, many of who are socially conscious but do not have the time to study and understand issues of their and their constituents' concern.

The kit provided to the MPs helps them come to grips with the seriousness of the issues, official policies related to them, and what can be done to help resolve various problems.

The kits have been put together with help from NGOs and organisations such as the Centre for Legislative Research and Advocacy (CLRA), Oxfam India, CARE and Population Services International.

One kit focusses on maternal death and disability in India.

Prepared by CLRA, it reveals that 60,000-70,000 maternal deaths occur in India every year and points out some of the gaps in the maternal health programme.

It suggests that the right to health be made justifiable by law.

Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Dinesh Trivedi, who was present at the launch of the kit here late Wednesday, said: 'Unless there is right to health, unless a child is fit enough to go to school, what good will right to education alone do? How can he go to school and what will he retain if he is unhealthy and can't access health services?'

One booklet is on climate change.