At 78, President Fidel Castro may be ageing but the ruling party of Cuba says it is not worried about the future.

"We have a strong leadership in Cuba that includes a national assembly where we have a sound second rung of leaders," Pablo Beccallo Infanta of the Cuban Communist Party told reporters here.

"Also, our party has grown from strength to strength. So we are not at all worried about the future."

Infanta, member of party's central committee, who is on a visit to India, will also go to Chennai, Delhi and Kolkata, to speak about the progress of Cuba.

Despite a US blockade, Cuba has made great progress in all sectors, he claimed.

"The infant mortality rate when the revolution started was 60 and today it is under six. We had 6,000 doctors then and today it is 68,000 and there were seven museums then and today it stands at 266."

--Indo-Asian News Service