Aakar Patel | As India's rank falls in Global Hunger Index, govt is in denial
3 years, 2 months ago

Aakar Patel | As India's rank falls in Global Hunger Index, govt is in denial

Deccan Chronicle  

In 2015, India’s ranking on the Global Hunger Index was 55. The representativeness of even this opinion poll is doubtful for India and other countries.” The government appears to be saying that it is doing its job by providing free grain to 60 per cent of the population, or over 800 million people. The United States Commission for International Religious Freedom last year marked India as one of the 15 nations globally as “countries of particular concern”. When Freedom House demoted India from being “free” to “partly free” and Jammu and Kashmir from being “partly free” to “not free”, the Indian government said that “the political judgments of Freedom House are inaccurate and distorted”, and “for example, on the Covid-19 situation, there is a widespread appreciation in the world of our response”. When the Global Terrorism Index showed that India was stuck as the eighth most affected nation on earth, the Niti Aayog questioned how the organisation could “provide country-wise national peace reports with just 24 staff members and six volunteers”.

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India's love for golu-molu kids is feeding an epidemic
3 weeks, 2 days ago

India's love for golu-molu kids is feeding an epidemic

India Today  

Till a year ago, 12-year-old Dinesh weighed 110 kg. Doctors say that obese children and adults are at a higher risk of developing chronic health conditions, such as high blood pressure, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke and kidney issues. "In Indian culture, being thin has historically been linked to poverty, a classist stereotype that associates a lack of weight …

How India can break the cycle of hunger: Insights from Sudarshan Suchi, CEO of Bal Raksha Bharat
3 months, 2 weeks ago

How India can break the cycle of hunger: Insights from Sudarshan Suchi, CEO of Bal Raksha Bharat

Hindustan Times  

Malnutrition among women and children has been a persistent public health issue at the global, national and local levels and the recent UNICEF-WHO-World Bank Group Joint Malnutrition Estimates show that globally, 149.2 million children under five years were stunted in 2020, and 45.4 million suffered from wasting. Breaking the cycle of hunger: How India’s bold new plan could end malnutrition …

Women and Child Development Ministry: 36% children aged under 5 stunted, 17% underweight
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Women and Child Development Ministry: 36% children aged under 5 stunted, 17% underweight

The Hindu  

About 17% of children in the age group of 0-5 years are underweight, while 36% are stunted and 6% are wasted, the Women and Child Development Ministry said on July 26. Wasted refers to children who are too thin for their height, indicating acute malnutrition often due to a recent and severe weight loss. Underweight children have a low weight …

Economic Survey 2023-24: Obesity crisis in India, preventive measures needed
5 months ago

Economic Survey 2023-24: Obesity crisis in India, preventive measures needed

The Hindu  

The Economic Survey of India 2023-24, tabled by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in both houses of Parliament on Monday, July 22, the first day of the Budget Session, has pointed out that improving the quality of health of India’s young population, is crucial. The ICMR had released 17 dietary guidelines, and had said, “a significant proportion of premature deaths …

BJP's Win Represents a Kind of Defeat. INDIA's Defeat Looks a Lot Like Victory
6 months, 2 weeks ago

BJP's Win Represents a Kind of Defeat. INDIA's Defeat Looks a Lot Like Victory

The Quint  

Likewise, India now ranks 111th out of 125 countries in the Global Hunger Index, and 159th out of 180 in the World Press Freedom Index. The German foreign ministry has expressed concerns about declining press freedom, while the British government questioned the banning in India of a BBC documentary on Modi’s role in the 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom in Gujarat, where …

The neo-colonialism of global reports, rankings
8 months ago

The neo-colonialism of global reports, rankings

Hindustan Times  

Just before the 18th Lok Sabha elections, several reports authored by international agencies appeared, running down the country on various parameters. According to the World Happiness Report 2024, India is currently positioned at 126 among 143 countries, trailing behind nations such as Libya, Iraq, Palestine, Ukraine, Pakistan and Niger. Yet another one by the Thomson Reuters Foundation declared India as …

Addressing India’s malnutrition landscape
8 months, 1 week ago

Addressing India’s malnutrition landscape

The Hindu  

Malnutrition is a significant contributor to the disease burden in India. A study by the Indian Institute of Public Health Hyderabad examined undernutrition across the nation and evaluated the distribution of nutritional indicators among children under three at the state level, utilising data from the National Family Health Surveys. According to the study, all states and union territories mirrored the …

Data Munching | A global study on being underweight and obese is a mixed bag for Indians
9 months, 1 week ago

Data Munching | A global study on being underweight and obese is a mixed bag for Indians

Hindustan Times  

A study published in the medical journal, Lancet, last week pointed out that more than a billion people across the world are now living in obesity, and that the prevalence of obesity in 2022 was four times that of 1990. Despite global population growth, 183 million women and 164 million men were affected by underweight in 2022, 45 million and …

Report turns spotlight on India’s ‘zero-food children’
9 months, 1 week ago

Report turns spotlight on India’s ‘zero-food children’

The Hindu  

Sunita Gautam, a 26-year-old domestic help, wonders if she will be able to provide her 11-month-old infant boy the nutrition he requires. Ms. Gautam’s baby, called Babu as is customary across the Hindi belt, is likely to be one of millions of ‘zero food’ children aged six months to 23 months in Uttar Pradesh. A study published recently in the …

Most Number of ‘Zero-Food Kids’ Globally: Decoding India’s Malnutrition Crisis
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Most Number of ‘Zero-Food Kids’ Globally: Decoding India’s Malnutrition Crisis

The Quint  

Dr Rajiv Tandon agrees. He says that among India’s many vulnerable populations, a more attentive and focused strategy needs to be introduced to help children in the most backwards of areas where last mile reach of government programmes may not be equitable. He says: The data might be able to show that the parents and primary caregivers of these children …

‘Don’t make a mockery of hunger’ Congress takes aim at Irani over remarks on GHI
1 year, 2 months ago

‘Don’t make a mockery of hunger’ Congress takes aim at Irani over remarks on GHI

Live Mint  

Union Minister Smriti Irani while addressing a gathering at a FICCI event discussing the “Future Role of Women in India,” made a significant statement, emphasizing that certain indices, like the Global Hunger Index, are intentionally skewed and do not accurately represent India's progress. 3000 people from a country of 140 crore get a phone call from Gallup and they are …

Improve nutrition delivery and don't bristle at low rank
1 year, 2 months ago

Improve nutrition delivery and don't bristle at low rank

Live Mint  

The Global Hunger Index is a report published jointly by Concern Worldwide, an aid and humanitarian agency from Ireland, and Welthungerhilfe, an agency based in Germany. Their point is not wholly semantic, for placing India very low in the “hunger" index globally implies widespread starvation and a crisis of food security in the country. The index has four components, with …

India slips in global hunger index, New Delhi slams report
1 year, 2 months ago

India slips in global hunger index, New Delhi slams report

Live Mint  

New Delhi: India said the Global Hunger Index suffers from “serious methodological issues” after the 2023 edition saw the country slip four places to rank 111 out of 125 countries. India reported the world’s highest child wasting rate of 18.7%, indicating acute undernutrition, as per the report released by the Concern Worldwide and Welt Hunger Hilfe, non-government organizations from Ireland …

India slips four places in global hunger index rankings; govt criticises report
1 year, 2 months ago

India slips four places in global hunger index rankings; govt criticises report

Live Mint  

New Delhi: India with a score of 28.7 ranked 111th of 125 countries in the Global Hunger Index 2023, according to a report released on Thursday. The report, by Irish NGO Concern Worldwide and German NGO Welt Hunger Hilfe, highlighted India's child wasting rate at 18.7%, the highest globally, signalling acute undernutrition. The 2023 Global Hunger Index also showed that …

India ranks 111 out of 125 countries in Global Hunger Index
1 year, 2 months ago

India ranks 111 out of 125 countries in Global Hunger Index

The Hindu  

October 12, 2023 05:55 pm | Updated October 13, 2023 01:53 pm IST - NEW DELHI India ranks 111 out of a total of 125 countries in the Global Hunger Index 2023, with its progress against hunger nearly halted since 2015, reflecting a global trend. India’s ranking is based on a Global Hunger Index score of 28.7 on a 100-point …

Measuring hunger across States
1 year, 3 months ago

Measuring hunger across States

The Hindu  

Despite being a major food producer with extensive food security schemes and the largest public distribution system in the world, India still grapples with significant levels of food insecurity, hunger, and child malnutrition. The GHI provides a composite measurement and tracks undernourishment and hunger at the national level across three dimensions: calorie undernourishment, child malnutrition, and under-five mortality. The State …

What’s behind the rising rates of childhood obesity in India? | In Focus podcast
1 year, 4 months ago

What’s behind the rising rates of childhood obesity in India? | In Focus podcast

The Hindu  

India is staring at a strange problem: malnutrition among children has not gone away, but at the same time, there is an increasing burden of childhood obesity. The latest National Family Health Survey reported that 33 States and Union Territories in the country registered a spike in the number of overweight children. Changing lifestyles including diets, easy access to unhealthy …

India’s triumphs over poverty marred by an alarming hunger crisis as over 70 per cent of Indians fails to afford healthy food
1 year, 5 months ago

India’s triumphs over poverty marred by an alarming hunger crisis as over 70 per cent of Indians fails to afford healthy food

The Hindu  

Published : Jul 21, 2023 12:38 IST - 3 MINS READ Government think-tank NITI Aayog’s recent report, released on July 17, revealed a remarkable achievement in India’s fight against multidimensional poverty. However, despite these positive strides in economic development, a consortium of esteemed organisations including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, …

Nutrition is a luxury in India, over 100 crore people can't afford healthy food
1 year, 5 months ago

Nutrition is a luxury in India, over 100 crore people can't afford healthy food

India Today  

Indian households are stuck in a vicious cycle of malnutrition and poverty. While 42.1 per cent of the global population cannot afford healthy food, that number is 74.1 per cent for the Indian population, according to a joint report by FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO. Compared to 9.2 per cent of the global population and only 2.5 per cent …

AAP’s Atishi Marlena follows Rahul Gandhi’s lead, and defames India at Cambridge based on lies: Here is the truth about HDI, Hunger Index and more
1 year, 6 months ago

AAP’s Atishi Marlena follows Rahul Gandhi’s lead, and defames India at Cambridge based on lies: Here is the truth about HDI, Hunger Index and more

Op India  

On Thursday, Aam Aadmi Party Minister Atishi Marlena went on an anti-India tirade during a conference on ‘India at 100; Towards becoming a global leader’, which was held at the University of Cambridge. First, UNDP itself acknowledged that India’s decline is in line with global trends in the face of crises such as the Russia-Ukraine war, the Covid-19 pandemic and …

Explained | Why is India rethinking its anaemia policy?
1 year, 6 months ago

Explained | Why is India rethinking its anaemia policy?

The Hindu  

The story so far: Questions related to anaemia are slated to be dropped from the National Family Health Survey scheduled to begin on July 6. According to the World Health Organization, anaemia is a condition in which the number of red blood cells or the haemoglobin concentration within them is lower than normal. According to the Health Ministry, assessment of …

India sees reduction in stunting; but wasting, obesity are concerns: report
1 year, 6 months ago

India sees reduction in stunting; but wasting, obesity are concerns: report

The Hindu  

Commensurate with global and regional trends, India continues to show a reduction in stunting and recorded 1.6 crore fewer stunted children under five years in 2022 as compared to 2012, according to the Joint Malnutrition Estimates released by UNICEF, WHO and the World Bank. Stunting among children under five years in India dropped from a prevalence rate of 41.6% in …

Growing numbers of people in Asia lack enough to eat as food insecurity rises with higher prices: Food and Agricultural Organization’s report
1 year, 11 months ago

Growing numbers of people in Asia lack enough to eat as food insecurity rises with higher prices: Food and Agricultural Organization’s report

The Hindu  

Growing numbers of people in Asia lack enough to eat as food insecurity rises with higher prices and worsening poverty, according to a report released on January 24 by the Food and Agricultural Organization and other United Nations agencies. Nearly a half-billion people, more than eight in 10 of them in South Asia, were undernourished in 2021 and more than …

What Index? When Pakistanis are fighting it out for flour in streets, how Pak is ahead of India in Global Hunger Index
1 year, 11 months ago

What Index? When Pakistanis are fighting it out for flour in streets, how Pak is ahead of India in Global Hunger Index

Firstpost  

Looking at current economic crisis in Pakistan - with no respite in the near future as World Bank has cut Pakistan’s GDP growth forecast in half - it seems India’s objection to several perception-based indices for their bias, flawed methodology and opacity certainly wasn’t “untrue” New Delhi: Ranked ahead of India in the Global Hunger Index 2022, Pakistan today is …

India slips to 107th position in Global Hunger Index, government alleges bias
2 years, 1 month ago

India slips to 107th position in Global Hunger Index, government alleges bias

The Hindu  

Published : Nov 03, 2022 10:25 IST The Global Hunger Index report of 2022, published in mid October, shows India’s place to have fallen to 107 from the previous year’s 101, out of 121 countries. “India has made significant progress in the fight against hunger since 2000, but the regression or stagnation that has occurred in child wasting cannot be …

GHI indicators are recognised globally, says project head Laura Reiner
2 years, 1 month ago

GHI indicators are recognised globally, says project head Laura Reiner

The Hindu  

Published : Nov 03, 2022 10:25 IST The Indian government says there is an effort to tarnish India’s image. These, in turn, result from a range of underlying factors, including household food insecurity; inadequate maternal health or childcare practices; or inadequate access to health services, safe water, and sanitation. Where governments have not provided consumption survey data, this aspect is …

Watch | What is the Global Hunger Index and how is it calculated?
2 years, 2 months ago

Watch | What is the Global Hunger Index and how is it calculated?

The Hindu  

What is the Global Hunger Index and how is it calculated? The Global Hunger Index 2022 was released recently. The Global Hunger Index, or GHI, has been released almost every year since 2000 It is a tool for comprehensively measuring and tracking hunger at global, regional, and national levels. India’s rank in the Global Hunger Index has consistently worsened in …

Patralekha Chatterjee | Why so prickly? Is there a plot to defame India?
2 years, 2 months ago

Patralekha Chatterjee | Why so prickly? Is there a plot to defame India?

Deccan Chronicle  

Is the world conspiring to make India look bad or are we too sensitive about the global gaze? India’s officialdom rubbished the findings and called the GHI 2021 assessment of India as “shocking” and “devoid of ground reality and facts and suffers from serious methodological issues”. Amid the ongoing furore over global rankings, one may be tempted to ask how …

Why does South Asia have the highest levels of hunger in the world? | In Focus podcast
2 years, 2 months ago

Why does South Asia have the highest levels of hunger in the world? | In Focus podcast

The Hindu  

This year’s Global Hunger Index, a peer-reviewed annual report that tracks hunger at the “global, regional, and country levels,” has shown South Asia, and India in particular, as a hunger hot spot. India, whose child-wasting rate of 19.3% was the highest of any country, was ranked below countries such as Pakistan, Rwanda, Ethiopia and Sudan. In the Global Hunger Index …

Centre in ‘denial mode’ of India’s poverty, hunger issues: P. Chidambaram
2 years, 2 months ago

Centre in ‘denial mode’ of India’s poverty, hunger issues: P. Chidambaram

The Hindu  

Veteran Congress leader and former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on Tuesday said that the Narendra Modi-led Central Government is in "denial mode" vis-a-vis challenge of poverty, hunger and malnutrition, which he claimed was more evident when it rejected the latest Global Hunger Index report. Right after the report, India rejected the Global Hunger index 2022, saying it suffers from "serious …

Aakar Patel | India at a new low in Global Hunger Index: Does anyone really care?
2 years, 2 months ago

Aakar Patel | India at a new low in Global Hunger Index: Does anyone really care?

Deccan Chronicle  

Sometimes important things fall out of the news cycle and for this reason must continue to be emphasised. In 2014, India’s ranking on the Global Hunger Index, which was then measuring 76 nations, was at number 55. This report said that 40 per cent of Indians suffered from food insecurity in 2019-2021 and that India alone accounted for more than …

Explained | Understanding the Global Hunger Index
2 years, 2 months ago

Explained | Understanding the Global Hunger Index

The Hindu  

The story so far: For the second time in two years, the Ministry of Women and Child Development on Saturday rejected the Global Hunger Index that ranked India 107 among 121 countries. As per the Ministry for Women and Child Development, the report lowers India’s rank based on the estimates of the Proportion of Undernourished population. On why the GHI …

Global Hunger Index attempt to tarnish India’s image: Centre
2 years, 2 months ago

Global Hunger Index attempt to tarnish India’s image: Centre

The Hindu  

The government has yet again rejected the Global Hunger Index 2022 which ranks India 107 among 121 countries and has called it “an erroneous measure of hunger” and an attempt to “taint” India’s image. It adds that that the fourth indicator, estimate of Proportion of Undernourished, population is based on an opinion poll conducted on a very small sample size …

‘Misinformation is the hallmark of Global Hunger Index 2022’: India slams rating as attempt to taint country’s image
2 years, 2 months ago

‘Misinformation is the hallmark of Global Hunger Index 2022’: India slams rating as attempt to taint country’s image

Firstpost  

The Global Hunger Report 2022 which was released by the Concern Worldwide and Welt Hunger Hilfe, non-government organisations from Ireland and Germany respectively, has ranked India at 107 among 121 countries New Delhi: India on Saturday slammed the recently published Global Hunger Index 2022 calling it an erroneous measure of hunger and stressing that the index suffers from serious methodological …

India ranks 107 on Global Hunger Index 2022, records highest child wasting rate
2 years, 2 months ago

India ranks 107 on Global Hunger Index 2022, records highest child wasting rate

The Hindu  

Published : Oct 15, 2022 15:32 IST India ranked 107 out of 121 countries in the Global Hunger Index 2022 with its child wasting rate at 19.3 per cent, being the highest in the world. “India’s child wasting rate, at 19.3 per cent, is the highest of any country in the world and drives up the region’s average owing to …

Global Hunger Index: India ranks 107 of 121 nations, behind Pakistan, Nepal
2 years, 2 months ago

Global Hunger Index: India ranks 107 of 121 nations, behind Pakistan, Nepal

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: India ranked 107 out of 121 countries in the Global Hunger Index 2022 with its child wasting rate at 19.3 per cent, being the highest in the world. "India's child wasting rate, at 19.3 per cent, is the highest of any country in the world and drives up the region's average owing to India's large population," it said. …

India at 107th slot in Global Hunger Index 2022, slips 6 positions as compared to 2021
2 years, 2 months ago

India at 107th slot in Global Hunger Index 2022, slips 6 positions as compared to 2021

India TV News  

Global Hunger Index: India has slipped to the 107th position in the Global Hunger Index 2022 as compared to 101st position in 2021 lagging behind its neighbours Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal. With a score of 29.1, the publishers of Global Hunger Index, European NGOs Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe, have tagged the level of hunger as serious. Seventeen countries, including China, …

Global Hunger Index 2022: India slips six places, ranked 107 of 121 countries
2 years, 2 months ago

Global Hunger Index 2022: India slips six places, ranked 107 of 121 countries

Hindustan Times  

India slipped six places on Global Hunger Index 2022 to take 107th position out of 121 countries ranked. With a score of 29.1, the publishers of Global Hunger Index – European NGOs Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe– have labelled the level of hunger as “serious.” India remains behind neighbours Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal, according to the Global Hunger Index 2022. Chidambaram’s …

India slips in Global Hunger Index, ranks 107 out of 121 nations
2 years, 2 months ago

India slips in Global Hunger Index, ranks 107 out of 121 nations

Al Jazeera  

Asia’s third-largest economy has registered impressive economic growth in recent decades but it fares poorly on UN human development indices. The GHI, jointly published by the German-based Welthungerhilfe and Dublin-based Concern Worldwide, which ranks countries by “severity”, gave India a score of 29.1 – a hunger level falling under the “serious” category. “South Asia … has the highest child stunting …

India ranks 107th out of 121 countries on Global Hunger Index
2 years, 2 months ago

India ranks 107th out of 121 countries on Global Hunger Index

The Hindu  

October 14, 2022 10:07 pm | Updated December 09, 2022 04:21 pm IST - NEW DELHI: India ranks 107 out of 121 countries on the Global Hunger Index in which it fares worse than all countries in South Asia barring war-torn Afghanistan. This is due to overlapping crises such as conflict, climate change, the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic …

Why ensuring nutrition for its children is emerging as India’s silent emergency
2 years, 2 months ago

Why ensuring nutrition for its children is emerging as India’s silent emergency

Firstpost  

Better nutrition is related to improved infant, child and maternal health, stronger immune systems, safer pregnancy and childbirth, lower risk of non-communicable diseases and longevity With a population of over 1.25 billion, 22 official languages and half a dozen major religions, India has always been a country with a unique blend of paradoxes. Better nutrition is related to the improved …

Starved of data: India’s hungry people go missing from FAO report
2 years, 5 months ago

Starved of data: India’s hungry people go missing from FAO report

The Hindu  

Published : Jul 24, 2022 18:00 IST The Food and Agriculture Organisation’s “State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022” report begins with a dismal piece of data: the number of people unable to afford a healthy diet has increased by 112 million to touch 3.2 billion, a reflection of rising food prices during the pandemic. Even though …

Number of undernourished people in India declines to 224.3 million; obesity among adults on the rise: U.N. report
2 years, 5 months ago

Number of undernourished people in India declines to 224.3 million; obesity among adults on the rise: U.N. report

The Hindu  

The number of undernourished people in India has declined in the last 15 years to 224.3 million in 2019-2021, according to a U.N. report, which also said that there are more obese adults and anaemic women in the world’s second most populous country. The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022 report, issued on July 6 by …

Number of undernourished people in India declines to 224.3 million; obesity among adults on the rise, finds UN report
2 years, 5 months ago

Number of undernourished people in India declines to 224.3 million; obesity among adults on the rise, finds UN report

Firstpost  

The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022 report was issued on Wednesday by UN agencies Food and Agriculture Organisation, International Fund for Agricultural Development, UNICEF, World Food Programme and the World Health Organisation United Nations: The number of undernourished people in India has declined in the last 15 years to 224.3 million in 2019-2021, according to …

Malnutrition in India is a worry in a modern scenario
2 years, 6 months ago

Malnutrition in India is a worry in a modern scenario

The Hindu  

Good nutrition has the power to empower the present and future generations. India’s greatest national treasure is its people — especially women and children — but even after 75 years of independence, a majority of them do not get the required diet to meet their nutritional needs. Poor nutrition among pregnant women affects the nutritional status of the child and …

India’s food response as ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’
2 years, 8 months ago

India’s food response as ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’

The Hindu  

Global hunger is on the rise, driven by the climate crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic shocks, conflicts, poverty, and inequality. In his 2014 UN General Assembly address, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, “India’s traditional outlook sees the world as one family and that is linked to its Vedic tradition of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam” — underlining its relevance not just for global peace, …

Anaemia and malnutrition: A vicious cycle leading to child growth failure
3 years ago

Anaemia and malnutrition: A vicious cycle leading to child growth failure

India Today  

India has a history of neglect in breaking the intergenerational cycle of malnutrition. In India, every third child is under-weight or stunted and 19.3 per cent children are wasted, according to 2019-21 National Family Health Survey-5 data. However, malnutrition trends across states/UTs are alarming, with thirteen states showing a rise in stunting in children under five - the highest being …

Bihar poorest state, followed by Jharkhand and UP: Niti Aayog report
3 years ago

Bihar poorest state, followed by Jharkhand and UP: Niti Aayog report

Hindustan Times  

In its first Multidimensional Poverty Index report released on Friday, the Niti Aayog said Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh were found to be the poorest states in the country. According to a PTI report, Niti Aayog vice chairman Rajiv Kumar further said this baseline report of India's first ever national MPI measure is based on the reference period of 2015-16 …

Over 33 lakh children in India malnourished, 17.7 lakh of them severely malnourished: govt data
3 years, 1 month ago

Over 33 lakh children in India malnourished, 17.7 lakh of them severely malnourished: govt data

India TV News  

Over 33 lakh children in India are malnourished and more than half of them fall in the severely malnourished category with Maharashtra, Bihar and Gujarat topping the list, the WCD ministry has said in response to an RTI query. Prompting concern that the Covid pandemic could exacerbate the health and nutrition crisis among the poorest of the poor, the Women …

Nearly 18 lakh children in India severely malnourished: Centre
3 years, 1 month ago

Nearly 18 lakh children in India severely malnourished: Centre

The Hindu  

Over 33 lakh children in India are malnourished and more than half of them fall in the severely malnourished category with Maharashtra, Bihar and Gujarat topping the list, the WCD Ministry has said in response to an RTI query. Prompting concern that the Covid pandemic could exacerbate the health and nutrition crisis among the poorest of the poor, the Women …

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