This year’s Global Hunger Index did not go down well with the government. Had the GHI been estimated using the latest data on calorie intake, usually provided by the National Sample Survey Office, things might have looked even worse given that the leaked report of 2019 indicated that consumption expenditure in India declined between 2011-12 and 2017-18 by 4%. Tackling …
It can be tempting to blame every crisis on the Covid-19 pandemic. Children in the 6-50 months group who are anaemic has risen from 65.7 per cent in 2015-2016 to 72.8 per cent in 2019-2020 Or take Gujarat, a relatively affluent state. “We don’t have granular data for all states and Union territories as yet but the first lot of …
