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What Ignites Hatred In The Belly? -Ashutosh Sharma

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The new welfarism as part of the neoliberal reforms undertaken in early 1990s is yet to ensure that all citizens receive enough nutritious food

In December last year, Anjali—a student of MNM Government Girls School at Gangavati in Karnataka’s Koppal district—vented out her anger against deprivation of basic nutritious food, a chronic problem that plagues more than a quarter of India’s total population. In a viral rant, she called the bluff on local religious leaders who wanted immediate withdrawal of eggs from the Mid-Day Meal Scheme—retitled as Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman (PM POSHAN) recently. Under this scheme, one hot cooked meal is provided to students in government and government-aided schools on a working day. “If the government stops it, we will stage protests since it is our right to eat what we want,” she had thundered amid a group of girls from her school, who were also agitated against only the pure vegetarian diet diktat.

The new welfarism—as part of the neoliberal reforms undertaken by the Congress government in early 1990s and aggressively pursued by the NDA government of late—is yet to ensure the availability of nutritious food to all its citizens. While experts state the problem of malnutrition persists due to factors such as poverty, rural to urban migration, lack of access to remote areas, lack of education, unemployment, overpopulation, gender inequality and climate change, they also blame lack of coherent food policies and poor implementation of the supplementary food and nutrition programmes.

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