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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Fixing India’s malnutrition problem -Suvojit Chattopadhyay

Fixing India’s malnutrition problem -Suvojit Chattopadhyay

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published Published on Nov 24, 2022   modified Modified on Nov 24, 2022

-The Hindu

Not only are key nutrition schemes underfunded but even what is available is not being spent effectively

The Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2022 has brought more unwelcome news for India, as far as its global ranking on a vital indicator of human development is concerned. India ranked 107 out of 121 countries. The Government of India attempted to discredit the index immediately in its attempt to deny the findings of the report, even going so far as to term it a conspiracy against India.

The GHI is an important indicator of nutrition, particularly among children, as it looks at stunting, wasting and mortality among children, and at calorific deficiency across the population. And this is by no means an international conspiracy — India’s National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) from 2019-21 reported that in children below the age of five years, 35.5% were stunted, 19.3% showed wasting, and 32.1% were underweight.

Government schemes are not delivering

Experts have suggested several approaches to address the problem of chronic malnutrition, many of which feature in the centrally-sponsored schemes that already exist. However, gaps remain in how they are funded and implemented, in what one might call the plumbing of these schemes.

For instance, the Government of India implements the Saksham Anganwadi and Prime Minister’s Overarching Scheme for Holistic Nutrition (POSHAN) 2.0 scheme (which now includes the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme), which seeks to work with adolescent girls, pregnant women, nursing mothers and children below three. However, the budget for this scheme for FY2022-23 was 20,263 crore, which is less than 1% more than the actual spend in FY2020-21 — an increase of less than 1% over two years.

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The Hindu, 24 November, 2022, https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/fixing-indias-malnutrition-problem/article66175213.ece


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