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

-The Hindu

Government wrongly claims that one of the indicators is based on an opinion poll

The government has yet again rejected the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 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 also wrongly claims that the ranks are based on an opinion poll.

The Global Hunger Report 2022 found that India’s GHI score of 29.1 on a scale of 0 to 100, with zero representing no hunger, was worse than the score of 28.2 in 2014. India’s rank was also below all neighbouring countries, barring war-ravaged Afghanistan. China, in contrast, was among the countries collectively ranked among 1 and 17 for least hunger.

“Three out of the four indicators used for calculation of the index are related to health of Children and cannot be representative of the entire population,” says the press statement issued by the Ministry of Women and Child Development. This is the second year in a row the government has rejected the GHI rankings.

It adds that that the fourth indicator, estimate of Proportion of Undernourished (PoU), population is based on an opinion poll conducted on a very small sample size of 3000 based on “Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES)” Survey Module of Food and Agriculture Organisation- a claim that was also rejected last year by representatives of the Global Hunger Index.

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