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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Worsening of child nutrition calls for immediate and decisive course correction -Sunny Jose

Worsening of child nutrition calls for immediate and decisive course correction -Sunny Jose

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published Published on Dec 19, 2020   modified Modified on Dec 19, 2020

-The Indian Express

A complacent approach that assumes that all necessary measures, including the Poshan Abhiyan, are in place and the reversal in progress is only momentary will be a sure way to inflict a debilitating, irreversible impact on children’s nutrition and their well-being.

Did child undernutrition in India worsen during the COVID-19 pandemic? The consensus is: yes, most likely. But did we do well in reducing child undernutrition before the lockdown? Surprisingly, the answer is “no”. That child undernutrition in India had begun worsening well before the pandemic is one of the poignant takeaways from the just released key indicators from the first phase of the National Family Health Survey-5 (NFHS-5). This is, indeed, a cause for serious concern for a variety of reasons.

The first phase of NFHS-5, held during 2019-2020, covered 17 states and five Union territories. These include four states from the south (Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Telangana), three from the west (Goa, Gujarat and Maharashtra), two from the east (Bihar and West Bengal), one from the north (Himachal Pradesh) and the rest from the Northeast (Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura).

Of these 17 states, stunting in children under five years has gone up in 11 states to a varying degree, but significantly more in Tripura (8 percentage points), Goa and Telangana (5 percentage points) between 2015-16 and 2019-20. It remains almost the same in the three large states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Assam. Only three states (Sikkim, Manipur and Bihar) were an exception with a decline being observed.

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The Indian Express, 19 December, 2020, https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/the-kids-are-not-alright-2-7110543/


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