India's Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday hailed the country's success in eradicating new cases of polio as a "monumental milestone". In 2009 India accounted for over half of the global polio burden "and today is the historic day when we have completed three years without a single case of wild polio," AFP quoted Azad as saying. On Monday India marks three years since its last reported polio case. The country will soon be declared as having defeated polio.