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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | In maps: India’s vulnerable children are paying the price of upper-caste prejudice with their bodies -Swati Narayan

In maps: India’s vulnerable children are paying the price of upper-caste prejudice with their bodies -Swati Narayan

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published Published on Jan 6, 2021   modified Modified on Jan 8, 2021

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Influenced by conservative vegetarian lobbies, most BJP-ruled states do not serve nutrition-laden eggs in school and Anganwadi menus.

In her haunting short story Shishu (Little Ones), writer Mahashweta Devi depicts the cruelty of shrunk bodies deformed by acute hunger and starvation in Adivasi hamlets, due to chronic administrative apathy.

Reminiscent of this dystopian parable, the recently released National Family Health Survey 2019-’20, for the first time since the turn of the millennium records that child stunting has worsened in 13 of 22 states.

At least one of every three pre-school children in India is too short for their age. This declining trend in child heights was measured with the gnawing impact of demonetisation and economic slowdown, before the lockdown.

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