Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 150
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Code Context


        trigger_error($message, E_USER_DEPRECATED);

    }
$message = 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 150
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php.'
$stackFrame = (int) 1
$trace = [
	(int) 0 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ServerRequest.php',
		'line' => (int) 2421,
		'function' => 'deprecationWarning',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead.'
		]
	],
	(int) 1 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
		'line' => (int) 150,
		'function' => 'offsetGet',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'catslug'
		]
	],
	(int) 2 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Controller/Controller.php',
		'line' => (int) 610,
		'function' => 'index',
		'class' => 'App\Controller\ArtileDetailController',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 3 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 120,
		'function' => 'invokeAction',
		'class' => 'Cake\Controller\Controller',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 4 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 94,
		'function' => '_invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 5 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/BaseApplication.php',
		'line' => (int) 235,
		'function' => 'dispatch',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 6 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\BaseApplication',
		'object' => object(App\Application) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 7 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 162,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 8 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 9 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 97,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 10 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 11 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 96,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 12 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 13 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 51,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 14 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Server.php',
		'line' => (int) 98,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\MiddlewareQueue) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 15 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/webroot/index.php',
		'line' => (int) 39,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Server',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Server) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	]
]
$frame = [
	'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
	'line' => (int) 150,
	'function' => 'offsetGet',
	'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
	'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {
		trustProxy => false
		[protected] params => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] data => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] query => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] cookies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _environment => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] url => 'news-alerts-57/the-under-nutrition-problem-in-bundelkhand-should-receive-equal-attention-of-the-policymakers-if-not-more.html'
		[protected] base => ''
		[protected] webroot => '/'
		[protected] here => '/news-alerts-57/the-under-nutrition-problem-in-bundelkhand-should-receive-equal-attention-of-the-policymakers-if-not-more.html'
		[protected] trustedProxies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _input => null
		[protected] _detectors => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _detectorCache => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] stream => object(Zend\Diactoros\PhpInputStream) {}
		[protected] uri => object(Zend\Diactoros\Uri) {}
		[protected] session => object(Cake\Http\Session) {}
		[protected] attributes => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] emulatedAttributes => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] uploadedFiles => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] protocol => null
		[protected] requestTarget => null
		[private] deprecatedProperties => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	},
	'type' => '->',
	'args' => [
		(int) 0 => 'catslug'
	]
]
deprecationWarning - CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311
Cake\Http\ServerRequest::offsetGet() - CORE/src/Http/ServerRequest.php, line 2421
App\Controller\ArtileDetailController::index() - APP/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line 150
Cake\Controller\Controller::invokeAction() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 610
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 120
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 97
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51
Cake\Http\Server::run() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 98

Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 151
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Code Context


        trigger_error($message, E_USER_DEPRECATED);

    }
$message = 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 151
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php.'
$stackFrame = (int) 1
$trace = [
	(int) 0 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ServerRequest.php',
		'line' => (int) 2421,
		'function' => 'deprecationWarning',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead.'
		]
	],
	(int) 1 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
		'line' => (int) 151,
		'function' => 'offsetGet',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'artileslug'
		]
	],
	(int) 2 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Controller/Controller.php',
		'line' => (int) 610,
		'function' => 'index',
		'class' => 'App\Controller\ArtileDetailController',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 3 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 120,
		'function' => 'invokeAction',
		'class' => 'Cake\Controller\Controller',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 4 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 94,
		'function' => '_invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 5 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/BaseApplication.php',
		'line' => (int) 235,
		'function' => 'dispatch',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 6 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\BaseApplication',
		'object' => object(App\Application) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 7 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 162,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 8 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 9 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 97,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 10 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 11 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 96,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 12 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 13 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 51,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 14 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Server.php',
		'line' => (int) 98,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\MiddlewareQueue) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 15 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/webroot/index.php',
		'line' => (int) 39,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Server',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Server) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	]
]
$frame = [
	'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
	'line' => (int) 151,
	'function' => 'offsetGet',
	'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
	'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {
		trustProxy => false
		[protected] params => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] data => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] query => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] cookies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _environment => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] url => 'news-alerts-57/the-under-nutrition-problem-in-bundelkhand-should-receive-equal-attention-of-the-policymakers-if-not-more.html'
		[protected] base => ''
		[protected] webroot => '/'
		[protected] here => '/news-alerts-57/the-under-nutrition-problem-in-bundelkhand-should-receive-equal-attention-of-the-policymakers-if-not-more.html'
		[protected] trustedProxies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _input => null
		[protected] _detectors => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _detectorCache => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] stream => object(Zend\Diactoros\PhpInputStream) {}
		[protected] uri => object(Zend\Diactoros\Uri) {}
		[protected] session => object(Cake\Http\Session) {}
		[protected] attributes => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] emulatedAttributes => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] uploadedFiles => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] protocol => null
		[protected] requestTarget => null
		[private] deprecatedProperties => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	},
	'type' => '->',
	'args' => [
		(int) 0 => 'artileslug'
	]
]
deprecationWarning - CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311
Cake\Http\ServerRequest::offsetGet() - CORE/src/Http/ServerRequest.php, line 2421
App\Controller\ArtileDetailController::index() - APP/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line 151
Cake\Controller\Controller::invokeAction() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 610
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 120
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 97
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51
Cake\Http\Server::run() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 98

Warning (512): Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853 [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48]
Code Context
            if (Configure::read('debug')) {

                trigger_error($message, E_USER_WARNING);

            } else {
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html>
<!--[if lt IE 7 ]>
<html class="ie ie6" lang='en'> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 7 ]>
<html class="ie ie7" lang='en'> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 8 ]>
<html class="ie ie8" lang='en'> <![endif]-->
<!--[if (gte IE 9)|!(IE)]><!-->
<html lang='en'>
<!--<![endif]-->
<head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
    
    <title>
        NEWS ALERTS | The under-nutrition problem in Bundelkhand should receive equal attention of the policymakers, if not more    </title>
    <meta name="description" content="Recent media reports point out that the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh is likely to get about Rs. 6,300 crore projects ahead of the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, including a Rs. 400 crore worth plant for the propulsion system..."/>
    <meta name="keywords" content="Banda,Bundelkhand Region,Bundenkhand,Chhatarpur,Chitrakoot,Damoh,Datia,Hamirpur,Jalaun,Jhansi,Lalitpur,Madhya Pradesh,Mahoba,National Family Health Survey,NFHS,NFHS-4,NFHS-5,Panna,Prevalence of Stunting,Prevalence of Wasting,Sagar,Stunting,Tikamgarh,Under-nutrition,Underweight,Uttar Pradesh,Wasting"/>
    <meta name="news_keywords" content="Banda,Bundelkhand Region,Bundenkhand,Chhatarpur,Chitrakoot,Damoh,Datia,Hamirpur,Jalaun,Jhansi,Lalitpur,Madhya Pradesh,Mahoba,National Family Health Survey,NFHS,NFHS-4,NFHS-5,Panna,Prevalence of Stunting,Prevalence of Wasting,Sagar,Stunting,Tikamgarh,Under-nutrition,Underweight,Uttar Pradesh,Wasting">
   
    <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="ROR" href="/ror.xml"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="/feeds/"/>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/bootstrap.min.css?1697864993"/>    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/style.css?v=1.1.2"/>    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/style-inner.css?1577045210"/>    <link rel="stylesheet" id="Oswald-css"
          href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Oswald%3Aregular%2C700&amp;ver=3.8.1" type="text/css"
          media="all">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/jquery.modal.min.css?1578285302"/>    <script src="/js/jquery-1.10.2.js?1575549704"></script>    <script src="/js/jquery-migrate.min.js?1575549704"></script>    <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" title="Favicon">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/jquery-ui.css?1580720609"/>    <script src="/js/jquery-ui.js?1575549704"></script>    <link rel="preload" as="style" href="https://www.im4change.org/css/custom.css" onload="this.rel='stylesheet'" media="all" crossorigin="anonymous">
<link rel="preload" as="style" href="https://www.im4change.org/css/jquery.modal.min.css" onload="this.rel='stylesheet'" media="all" crossorigin="anonymous">
<link rel="preload" as="style" href="https://www.im4change.org/css/jquery-ui.css" onload="this.rel='stylesheet'" media="all" crossorigin="anonymous">
<link rel="preload" as="style" href="https://www.im4change.org/css/li-scroller.css" onload="this.rel='stylesheet'" media="all" crossorigin="anonymous">
<!-- <link rel="preload" as="style" href="https://www.im4change.org/css/style.css" onload="this.rel='stylesheet'" media="all" crossorigin="anonymous"> -->
<link rel="preload" as="style" href="https://www.im4change.org/css/style-inner.css" onload="this.rel='stylesheet'" media="all" crossorigin="anonymous">

<link rel='dns-prefetch' href="//im4change.org/css/custom.css" crossorigin >

<link rel="preload" as="script" href="https://www.im4change.org/js/bootstrap.js">
<link rel="preload" as="script" href="https://www.im4change.org/js/jquery.li-scroller.1.0.js">
<link rel="preload" as="script" href="https://www.im4change.org/js/jquery.modal.min.js">
<link rel="preload" as="script" href="https://www.im4change.org/js/jquery.ui.totop.js">
<link rel="preload" as="script" href="https://www.im4change.org/js/jquery-1.10.2.js">
<link rel="preload" as="script" href="https://www.im4change.org/js/jquery-migrate.min.js">
<link rel="preload" as="script" href="https://www.im4change.org/js/jquery-ui.js">
<link rel="preload" as="script" href="https://www.im4change.org/js/setting.js">
<link rel="preload" as="script" href="https://www.im4change.org/js/tie-scripts.js">
    <!--[if IE]>
    <script type="text/javascript">jQuery(document).ready(function () {
        jQuery(".menu-item").has("ul").children("a").attr("aria-haspopup", "true");
    });</script>
    <![endif]-->
    <!--[if lt IE 9]>
    <script src="/js/html5.js"></script>
    <script src="/js/selectivizr-min.js"></script>
    <![endif]-->
    <!--[if IE 8]>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="/css/ie8.css"/>
    <![endif]-->
    <meta property="og:title" content="NEWS ALERTS | The under-nutrition problem in Bundelkhand should receive equal attention of the policymakers, if not more" />
     <meta property="og:url" content="https://im4change.in/news-alerts-57/the-under-nutrition-problem-in-bundelkhand-should-receive-equal-attention-of-the-policymakers-if-not-more.html" />
     <meta property="og:type" content="article" />
     <meta property="og:description" content="Recent media reports point out that the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh is likely to get about Rs. 6,300 crore projects ahead of the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, including a Rs. 400 crore worth plant for the propulsion system..." />
     <meta property="og:image" content="" />
      <meta property="fb:app_id" content="0" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=no">

       <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" sizes="144x144" href="https://im4change.in/images/apple1.png">
    <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" sizes="120x120" href="https://im4change.in/images/apple2.png">
    <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" sizes="72x72" href="https://im4change.in/images/apple3.png">
    <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="https://im4change.in/images/apple4.png">

    <style>
    .gsc-results-wrapper-overlay{
        top: 38% !important;
        height: 50% !important;
    }
    .gsc-search-button-v2{
        border-color: #035588 !important;
        background-color: #035588 !important;
    }

   .gsib_a{
        height: 30px !important;
          padding: 2px 8px 1px 6px !important;
    }

   
    .gsc-search-button-v2{
        height: 41px !important;
    }
    input.gsc-input{
        background: none !important;
    }
    @media only screen and (max-width: 600px) {
        .gsc-results-wrapper-overlay{
            top: 11% !important;
            width: 87% !important;
            left: 9% !important;
            height: 43% !important;
        }

        .gsc-search-button-v2{
            padding: 10px 10px !important;
        
        }
        .gsc-input-box{
            height: 28px !important;
        }
       /* .gsib_a {
            padding: 0px 9px 4px 9px !important;
        }*/
    }
    @media only screen and (min-width: 1200px) and (max-width: 1920px) {
        table.gsc-search-box{
            width: 15% !important;
            float: right !important;
            margin-top: -118px !important;
        }

        .gsc-search-button-v2 {
            
            padding: 6px !important;
           
        }
    }


</style>

    <script>
        $(function () {
            $("#accordion").accordion({
                event: "click hoverintent"
            });
        });

        /*
         * hoverIntent | Copyright 2011 Brian Cherne
         * http://cherne.net/brian/resources/jquery.hoverIntent.html
         * modified by the jQuery UI team
         */
        $.event.special.hoverintent = {
            setup: function () {
                $(this).bind("mouseover", jQuery.event.special.hoverintent.handler);
            },
            teardown: function () {
                $(this).unbind("mouseover", jQuery.event.special.hoverintent.handler);
            },
            handler: function (event) {
                var currentX, currentY, timeout,
                    args = arguments,
                    target = $(event.target),
                    previousX = event.pageX,
                    previousY = event.pageY;

                function track(event) {
                    currentX = event.pageX;
                    currentY = event.pageY;
                }
                ;

                function clear() {
                    target
                        .unbind("mousemove", track)
                        .unbind("mouseout", clear);
                    clearTimeout(timeout);
                }

                function handler() {
                    var prop,
                        orig = event;
                    if ((Math.abs(previousX - currentX) +
                        Math.abs(previousY - currentY)) < 7) {
                        clear();
                        event = $.Event("hoverintent");
                        for (prop in orig) {
                            if (!(prop in event)) {
                                event[prop] = orig[prop];
                            }
                        }
                        // Prevent accessing the original event since the new event
                        // is fired asynchronously and the old event is no longer
                        // usable (#6028)
                        delete event.originalEvent;
                        target.trigger(event);
                    } else {
                        previousX = currentX;
                        previousY = currentY;
                        timeout = setTimeout(handler, 100);
                    }
                }

                timeout = setTimeout(handler, 100);
                target.bind({
                    mousemove: track,
                    mouseout: clear
                });
            }
        };
    </script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        var _gaq = _gaq || [];
        _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-472075-3']);
        _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);

        (function () {
            var ga = document.createElement('script');
            ga.type = 'text/javascript';
            ga.async = true;
            ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
            var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
            s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
        })();
    </script>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/custom.css?v=1.16"/>    <script src="/js/jquery.ui.totop.js?1575549704"></script>    <script src="/js/setting.js?1575549704"></script>    <link rel="manifest" href="/manifest.json">
    <meta name="theme-color" content="#616163" />
    <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">
    <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="black">
    <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-title" content="im4change">
    <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/icons/logo-192x192.png">
</head>
<body id="top" class="home inner blog">
<div class="background-cover"></div>
<div class="wrapper animated">
    <header id="theme-header" class="header_inner" style="position: relative;">
        <div class="logo inner_logo" style="left:20px !important">
                <a title="Home" href="https://im4change.in/">
                    <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo2.jpg?1582080632" class="logo_image" alt="im4change"/>                </a>
        </div>
        <div class="langhindi" style="color: #000;display:none;"
             href="https://im4change.in/">
            <a class="more-link" href="https://im4change.in/">Home</a>
                        <a href="https://im4change.in/hindi/" class="langbutton ">हिन्दी</a>
                    </div>
        <nav class="fade-in animated2" id="main-nav">
            <div class="container">
                <div class="main-menu">
    <ul class="menu" id="menu-main">
        <li class="menu-item  menu-item-type-custom  menu-item-object-custom  menu-item-has-children"
            style="left: -40px;"><a
                 target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/">Home</a>
        </li>
        <li class="menu-item mega-menu menu-item-type-taxonomy mega-menu menu-item-object-category mega-menu menu-item-has-children parent-list"
            style=" margin-left: -40px;"><a href="#">KNOWLEDGE GATEWAY <span class="sub-indicator"></span>
            </a>
            <div class="mega-menu-block background_menu" style="padding-top:25px;">
                <div class="container">
                    <div class="mega-menu-content">
                                                                   <div class="mega-menu-item">
                                                 <h3><b>Farm Crisis</b></h3>
                                                                                                    <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/farm-crisis/farmers039-suicides-14.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Farm Suicides                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/farm-crisis/unemployment-30.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Unemployment                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/farm-crisis/rural-distress-70.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Rural distress                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/farm-crisis/migration-34.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Migration                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/farm-crisis/key-facts-72.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Key Facts                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/farm-crisis/debt-trap-15.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Debt Trap                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                
                                              </div> 
                                            
                                                                                        <div class="mega-menu-item">
                                                 <h3><b>Empowerment</b></h3>
                                                                                                    <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/empowerment/union-budget-73.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Union Budget And Other Economic Policies                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/empowerment/forest-and-tribal-rights-61.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Forest and Tribal Rights                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/empowerment/right-to-education-60.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Right to Education                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/empowerment/right-to-food-59.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Right to Food                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/empowerment/displacement-3279.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Displacement                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/empowerment/right-to-work-mg-nrega-39.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Right to Work (MG-NREGA)                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/empowerment/gender-3280.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">GENDER                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/empowerment/right-to-information-58.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Right to Information                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/empowerment/social-audit-48.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Social Audit                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                
                                              </div> 
                                            
                                                                                        <div class="mega-menu-item">
                                                 <h3><b>Hunger / HDI</b></h3>
                                                                                                    <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/hunger-hdi/poverty-and-inequality-20499.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Poverty and inequality                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/hunger-hdi/malnutrition-41.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Malnutrition                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/hunger-hdi/public-health-51.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Public Health                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/hunger-hdi/education-50.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Education                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/hunger-hdi/hunger-overview-40.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Hunger Overview                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/hunger-hdi/hdi-overview-45.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">HDI Overview                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/hunger-hdi/pds-ration-food-security-42.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">PDS/ Ration/ Food Security                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/hunger-hdi/sdgs-113.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">SDGs                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/hunger-hdi/mid-day-meal-scheme-mdms-53.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Mid Day Meal Scheme (MDMS)                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                
                                              </div> 
                                            
                                                                                        <div class="mega-menu-item">
                                                 <h3><b>Environment</b></h3>
                                                                                                    <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/environment/time-bomb-ticking-52.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Time Bomb Ticking                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/environment/water-and-sanitation-55.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Water and Sanitation                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/environment/impact-on-agriculture-54.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Impact on Agriculture                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                
                                              </div> 
                                            
                                                                                        <div class="mega-menu-item">
                                                 <h3><b>Law & Justice</b></h3>
                                                                                                    <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/law-justice/social-justice-20500.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Social Justice                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/law-justice/access-to-justice-47.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Access to Justice                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/law-justice/human-rights-56.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Human Rights                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/law-justice/corruption-35.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Corruption                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/law-justice/general-insecurity-46.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">General Insecurity                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/law-justice/disaster-relief-49.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Disaster &amp; Relief                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                
                                              </div> 
                                            
                                                                                        
                    </div>
                </div>
            </div>
        </li>
        <li class="menu-item  menu-item-type-post_type  menu-item-object-page "><a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/nceus_reports.php">NCEUS reports</a>
            
        </li>
        <li class="menu-item  menu-item-type-custom  menu-item-object-custom  menu-item-has-children parent-list ">
            <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/about-us-9.html">About Us <span
                    class="sub-indicator"></span></a>
            <ul class="sub-menu aboutmenu">
                <li class="menu-item  menu-item-type-post_type  menu-item-object-page"><a
                        target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/objectives-8.html">Objectives</a>
                </li>
                <li class="menu-item  menu-item-type-post_type  menu-item-object-page"><a
                         target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/contactus.php">Contact
                        Us</a></li>
                <li class="menu-item  menu-item-type-post_type  menu-item-object-page"><a
                         target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/about-us-9.html">About
                        Us</a></li>
            </ul>
        </li>
        <li class="menu-item  menu-item-type-custom  menu-item-object-custom  menu-item-has-children ">
            <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/fellowships.php" title="Fellowships">Fellowships</a>
        </li>
        <li class="menu-item  menu-item-type-custom  menu-item-object-custom  menu-item-has-children  "><a
                 target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/media-workshops.php">Workshops</a>
        </li>
        <li class="menu-item  menu-item-type-custom  menu-item-object-custom  menu-item-has-children  "><a
                 target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/research.php">Research</a></li>
        <li class="menu-item  menu-item-type-custom  menu-item-object-custom  menu-item-has-children   "><a
                 target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/links-64">Partners</a></li>
        <li class="menu-item  menu-item-type-custom  menu-item-object-custom  menu-item-has-children"
            id="menu-item-539"><a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/hindi/"
                                  class="langbutton langlinkfont17">हिन्दी</a></li>
    </ul>
</div>            </div>


                        <!--  <div style="float: right;">
                            <script async src="https://cse.google.com/cse.js?cx=18b4f2e0f11bed3dd"></script>
                            <div class="gcse-search"></div>
                        </div> -->
                       
            <div class="search-block" style=" margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 7px;">
                <form method="get" id="searchform" name="searchform"
                      action="https://im4change.in/search"
                      onsubmit="return searchvalidate();">
                    <button class="search-button" type="submit" value="Search"></button>
                    <input type="text" id="s" name="qryStr" value=""
                           onfocus="if (this.value == 'Search...') {this.value = '';}"
                           onblur="if (this.value == '') {this.value = 'Search...';}">
                </form>
            </div>
        </nav>
    </header>
    <div class="container">
        <div id="main-content" class=" main1 container fade-in animated3 sidebar-narrow-left">
            <div class="content-wrap">
                <div class="content" style="width: 900px;min-height: 500px;">
                        <div class="background_inner innBack" align="center">
        <img src="https://im4change.in/images/media/Image Bundelkhand Undernutrition dated 26 Dec 2021.jpg"
             alt="The under-nutrition problem in Bundelkhand should receive equal attention of the policymakers, if not more"
             class="box_shadow mt5 imgRes" style="max-width:500px;"/>
    </div>
    <section class="cat-box recent-box innerCatRecent">
    <h1 class="cat-box-title">The under-nutrition problem in Bundelkhand should receive equal attention of the policymakers, if not more</h1>
    <a href="JavaScript:void(0);" onclick="return shareArticle(61719);">
        <img src="https://im4change.in/images/email.png?1582080630" border="0" width="24" align="right" alt="Share this article"/>    </a>

    <a href="https://im4change.in/news-alerts-57/the-under-nutrition-problem-in-bundelkhand-should-receive-equal-attention-of-the-policymakers-if-not-more/print"
       rel="nofollow">
        <img src="https://im4change.in/images/icon-print.png?1582080630" border="0" width="24" align="right" alt="Share this article"/>
    </a>
</section>
<section class="recent-box innerCatRecent">
    <small class="pb-1"><span class="dateIcn">
    	<img src="https://im4change.in/images/published.svg?1582080666" alt="published"/> 
		 Published on</span><span class="text-date"> Dec 26, 2021</span>
        &nbsp; <span
                class="dateIcn">
		 	<img src="https://im4change.in/images/modified.svg?1582080666" alt="modified"/>    	 Modified on </span><span class="text-date"> Jan 20, 2022</span>
    </small>
</section>
<div class="clear"></div>
<div style="padding-top: 10px;">
    <div class="innerLineHeight">
        <div class="middleContent innerInput news-alerts-57">
            <table>
                <tr>
                    <td>
                                                <div>
                            <p style="text-align:justify">Recent <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/pm-modi-to-launch-6300-crore-projects-in-bundelkhand-region-of-uttar-pradesh-101637258523293.html" title="https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/pm-modi-to-launch-6300-crore-projects-in-bundelkhand-region-of-uttar-pradesh-101637258523293.html">media reports</a> point out that the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh is likely to get about <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/pm-modi-to-launch-6300-crore-projects-in-bundelkhand-region-of-uttar-pradesh-101637258523293.html" title="https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/pm-modi-to-launch-6300-crore-projects-in-bundelkhand-region-of-uttar-pradesh-101637258523293.html">Rs. 6,300 crore projects</a> ahead of the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, including a <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/pm-modi-to-launch-6300-crore-projects-in-bundelkhand-region-of-uttar-pradesh-101637258523293.html" title="https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/pm-modi-to-launch-6300-crore-projects-in-bundelkhand-region-of-uttar-pradesh-101637258523293.html">Rs. 400 crore worth plant</a> for the propulsion system of <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/pm-modi-to-launch-6300-crore-projects-in-bundelkhand-region-of-uttar-pradesh-101637258523293.html" title="https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/pm-modi-to-launch-6300-crore-projects-in-bundelkhand-region-of-uttar-pradesh-101637258523293.html">anti-tank guided missiles</a> in Jhansi. The&nbsp;foundation was laid for the <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/india/yogi-govt-infra-race-before-polls-7643744/" title="https://indianexpress.com/article/india/yogi-govt-infra-race-before-polls-7643744/">first project in the Jhansi node</a> <em>(related to the Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor) </em>on November 18, 2021.&nbsp;The two Defence Industrial Corridors of Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu are expected to attract a total investment of <a href="https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1777610" title="https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1777610">Rs. 20,000 crore by the year 2024-25</a>. The <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/pm-modi-to-launch-6300-crore-projects-in-bundelkhand-region-of-uttar-pradesh-101637258523293.html" title="https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/pm-modi-to-launch-6300-crore-projects-in-bundelkhand-region-of-uttar-pradesh-101637258523293.html">Arjun Sahayak project</a> on the Dhasan river, built at a cost of around Rs. 2,600 crore in Mahoba district, is anticipated to provide irrigation facilities to 1.5 lakh farmers in 168 villages of Banda, Hamirpur and Mahoba districts.&nbsp;The Uttar Pradesh State Government led by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has claimed recently that nearly <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/india/yogi-govt-infra-race-before-polls-7643744/" title="https://indianexpress.com/article/india/yogi-govt-infra-race-before-polls-7643744/">76 percent of the work on the 296-km</a> Bundelkhand Expressway <em>(whose foundation was laid on February 29, 2020)</em>, connecting Etawah, Auraiya, Jalaun, Hamirpur, Banda, Mahoba and Chitrakoot, has been completed. The <a href="https://www.narendramodi.in/text-of-prime-minister-narendra-modi-s-address-at-inauguration-of-the-saryu-nahar-national-project-in-balrampur-uttar-pradesh-558858" title="https://www.narendramodi.in/text-of-prime-minister-narendra-modi-s-address-at-inauguration-of-the-saryu-nahar-national-project-in-balrampur-uttar-pradesh-558858">Ken-Betwa river interlinking</a> project is supposed to end the water crisis of Bundelkhand, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi&nbsp;on December 11, 2021 while inaugurating the <a href="https://www.narendramodi.in/text-of-prime-minister-narendra-modi-s-address-at-inauguration-of-the-saryu-nahar-national-project-in-balrampur-uttar-pradesh-558858" title="https://www.narendramodi.in/text-of-prime-minister-narendra-modi-s-address-at-inauguration-of-the-saryu-nahar-national-project-in-balrampur-uttar-pradesh-558858">Saryu canal project at Balrampur</a> in Uttar Pradesh. &nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">While the Bundelkhand region of Central India received attention from social scientists, researchers and civil society organisations for its socio-economic backwardness, in recent times it has received attention for political reasons thanks to the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls to be held early next year.</p><p style="text-align:justify">The Bundelkhand region of Central India is spread across <a href="/upload/files/Bundelkhand-Building-on-Partnership-By-Rakesh-singh%20PRADAN.pdf" title="/upload/files/Bundelkhand-Building-on-Partnership-By-Rakesh-singh%20PRADAN.pdf">7 districts of Uttar Pradesh</a> and <a href="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Bundelkhand-Building-on-Partnership-By-Rakesh-singh%20PRADAN.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Bundelkhand-Building-on-Partnership-By-Rakesh-singh%20PRADAN.pdf">six districts of Madhya Pradesh</a>. The districts of Chitrakoot, Banda, Jhansi, Jalaun, Hamirpur, Mahoba and Lalitpur, which are part of the Bundelkhand region lie in Uttar Pradesh. The districts of Madhya Pradesh that belong to the Bundelkhand region are Chhatarpur, Tikamgarh, Damoh, Sagar, Datia and Panna. <a href="/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf" title="/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf">Annual precipitation is often erratic</a> with a deluge followed by a long spell without rainfall. Although more than <a href="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf">95 percent of the rainfall</a> occurs between June and September <em>(with maximum rain generally in July-August)</em>, the small amount of rainfall taking place during November-May is quite useful for farming in the region. Owing to the <a href="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf">geology and topography</a>, and the pattern of the rainfall received, Bundelkhand region is affected by both drought and flood. <a href="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf">Impermeable rocky layer</a> exists at fairly shallow depths in most parts of the region. Rainwater runoff is high. It means that rainwater has little time to <a href="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf">penetrate the soil</a> in this region.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Agriculture is the <a href="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf">mainstay of the majority</a> of the rural people residing in Bundelkhand. Besides farming, they rely on <a href="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf">secondary activities</a> like animal husbandry and dairying, poultry, fisheries, bee-keeping and sericulture. Successive droughts <em>(caused by climate change in recent years)</em> and uncertain monsoons have affected the livelihoods of the people residing in this region. Water shortage <em>(due to the lack of assured irrigation facilities) </em>coupled with low farm productivity has not only affected the purchasing power of the people, but also the <a href="https://im4change.org/docs/drought-assessment-report-bundelkhand-region-up-state-february-2016.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/docs/drought-assessment-report-bundelkhand-region-up-state-february-2016.pdf">food and nutrition security</a> of both children and adults. <a href="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Jan%20Sahas%202021%20report.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Jan%20Sahas%202021%20report.pdf">Out-migration from the Bundelkhand region</a> to other places of India for livelihood security is quite common.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Against the above-stated&nbsp;background, an attempt has been made <em>(using the <a href="http://rchiips.org/nfhs/factsheet_NFHS-5.shtml" title="http://rchiips.org/nfhs/factsheet_NFHS-5.shtml">National Family Health Survey-NFHS data</a>) </em>to assess the status of child nutrition in various districts of Bundelkhand region vis-&agrave;-vis the overall child nutrition situation in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.</p><p style="text-align:justify">In the present analysis, 3 indicators have been considered -- proportion of children under 5 years who are stunted <em>(height-for-age)</em>; proportion of children under 5 years who are wasted <em>(weight-for-height)</em>; and proportion of &nbsp;children under 5 years who are underweight <em>(weight-for-age)</em>. It should be noted that as per the <a href="https://www.unicef.org/media/86536/file/Progress_for_Children_-_No._4.pdf" title="https://www.unicef.org/media/86536/file/Progress_for_Children_-_No._4.pdf">United Nations Children&#39;s Fund</a> (UNICEF), <a href="https://www.unicef.org/media/86536/file/Progress_for_Children_-_No._4.pdf" title="https://www.unicef.org/media/86536/file/Progress_for_Children_-_No._4.pdf">under-nutrition includes</a> being <a href="https://www.unicef.org/media/86536/file/Progress_for_Children_-_No._4.pdf" title="https://www.unicef.org/media/86536/file/Progress_for_Children_-_No._4.pdf">underweight</a> for one&rsquo;s age, <a href="https://www.unicef.org/media/86536/file/Progress_for_Children_-_No._4.pdf" title="https://www.unicef.org/media/86536/file/Progress_for_Children_-_No._4.pdf">too short for one&rsquo;s age</a> <em>(stunted)</em>, <a href="https://www.unicef.org/media/86536/file/Progress_for_Children_-_No._4.pdf" title="https://www.unicef.org/media/86536/file/Progress_for_Children_-_No._4.pdf">dangerously thin</a> <em>(wasted)</em>, and <a href="https://www.unicef.org/media/86536/file/Progress_for_Children_-_No._4.pdf" title="https://www.unicef.org/media/86536/file/Progress_for_Children_-_No._4.pdf">deficient in vitamins and minerals</a> <em>(micronutrient malnutrition)</em>.</p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong>Prevalence of stunting among children&nbsp;under five years </strong></p><p style="text-align:justify">The recently <a href="https://dhsprogram.com/publications/publication-OF43-Other-Fact-Sheets.cfm" title="https://dhsprogram.com/publications/publication-OF43-Other-Fact-Sheets.cfm">released data of the NFHS</a> shows that for the country as a whole, the percentage of children below 5 years who are stunted has reduced from 38.4 percent to 35.5 percent between 2015-16 and 2019-21 i.e., by -2.9 percentage points. While for Madhya Pradesh, the percentage of children below 5 years who are stunted has gone down from 42.0 percent to 35.7 percent between 2015-16 and 2020-21 <em>(i.e., by -6.3 percentage points)</em>, for Uttar Pradesh the same has decreased from 46.3 percent to 39.7 percent between the two time points <em>(i.e., by -6.6 percentage points)</em>. Please see chart-1.</p><p style="text-align:justify">While in Damoh <em>(-2.9 percentage points)</em>, Datia <em>(-12.1 percentage points)</em>, and Tikamgarh <em>(-22.2 percentage points)</em> districts the percentage of children below 5 years who are stunted has decreased between NFHS-4 and NFHS-5, in Chhatarpur <em>(+2.4 percentage points)</em>, Panna <em>(+2.8 percentage points)</em>, and Sagar <em>(+1.7 percentage points)</em> districts the percentage of children below 5 years who are stunted has increased between the two time points.</p><p style="text-align:justify">In Chitrakoot <em>(-3.4 percentage points)</em>, Jalaun <em>(-0.5 percentage points)</em>, and Mahoba <em>(-2.3 percentage points)</em> districts the percentage of children below 5 years who are stunted has gone down between NFHS-4 and NFHS-5, whereas in Banda <em>(+4.3 percentage points)</em>, Hamirpur <em>(+9.5 percentage points)</em>, Jhansi <em>(+4.8 percentage points)</em>, and Lalitpur <em>(+5.9 percentage points)</em> districts the percentage of children below 5 years who are stunted has climbed up between the two time points.</p><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="background-color:#ffff00">So, in seven out of 13 districts that fall in Bundelkhand, the proportion of children under 5 years who are stunted has increased between 2015-16 and 2020-21.</span></p><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="background-color:#ffff00">The prevalence of stunting among children&nbsp;under five years in 2020-21 is higher in Chhatarpur </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(45.1 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Damoh </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(40.3 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">,&nbsp;Datia </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(36.8 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Panna </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(45.1 percent) </span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">and Sagar </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(42.7 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00"> in comparison to Madhya Pradesh </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(35.7 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">. The prevalence of stunting among children&nbsp;below five years in 2020-21 is higher in Banda </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(51.0 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Chitrakoot </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(47.5 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Hamirpur </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(48.0 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Jalaun </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(45.1 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Jhansi </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(40.9 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Lalitpur </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(46.6 percent),&nbsp;</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">and Mahoba </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(42.3 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00"> as compared to Uttar Pradesh </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(39.7 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">.</span></p><p style="text-align:justify"><img alt="" src="/upload/images/Chart%201%20Percentage%20of%20children%20under%205%20years%20who%20are%20stunted.png" style="height:555px; width:831px" /></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em><strong>Note: </strong>Please <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WDzaTq8g-zSy6XaQbLA9bkk1gEkNtk8L/edit?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=112233925171588304692&amp;rtpof=true&amp;sd=true" title="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WDzaTq8g-zSy6XaQbLA9bkk1gEkNtk8L/edit?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=112233925171588304692&amp;rtpof=true&amp;sd=true">click here</a> to access the data of the above chart in a spreadsheet format</em></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em><strong>Source: </strong>Madhya Pradesh --</em></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>District Factsheet: Chhatarpur, Madhya Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Chhatarpur%20Madhya%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf" title="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Chhatarpur%20Madhya%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;<br />***<br />District Factsheet: Damoh, Madhya Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Damoh%20Madhya%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf" title="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Damoh%20Madhya%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;<br />***<br />District Factsheet: Datia, Madhya Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Datia%20Madhya%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf" title="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Datia%20Madhya%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;<br />***<br />District Factsheet: Panna, Madhya Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Panna%20Madhya%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf" title="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Panna%20Madhya%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;<br />***<br />District Factsheet: Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Sagar%20Madhya%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf" title="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Sagar%20Madhya%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf">click here</a> to access</em></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>***<br />District Factsheet: Tikamgarh, Madhya Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Tikamgarh%20Madhya%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf" title="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Tikamgarh%20Madhya%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;<br />***<br />Madhya Pradesh Factsheet, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="https://im4change.org/docs/NFHS-5%20Madhya%20Pradesh.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/docs/NFHS-5%20Madhya%20Pradesh.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;</em></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>---</em></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>Uttar Pradesh --&nbsp;</em></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>District Factsheet: Banda, Uttar Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Banda%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf" title="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Banda%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;<br />***<br />District Factsheet: Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Chitrakoot%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf" title="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Chitrakoot%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;<br />***<br />District Factsheet: Hamirpur, Uttar Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Hamirpur%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf" title="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Hamirpur%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;<br />***<br />District Factsheet: Jalaun, Uttar Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Jalaun%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf" title="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Jalaun%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;<br />***<br />District Factsheet: Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Jhansi%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf" title="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Jhansi%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;<br />***<br />District Factsheet: Lalitpur, Uttar Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Lalitpur%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf" title="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Lalitpur%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;&nbsp;<br />***</em></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>District Factsheet: Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Mahoba%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf" title="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Mahoba%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;</em></p><p style="text-align:justify">***<br /><em>Uttar Pradesh Factsheet, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="https://im4change.org/docs/NFHS-5%20Uttar%20Pradesh.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/docs/NFHS-5%20Uttar%20Pradesh.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;&nbsp;</em></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>---</em></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>India Factsheet, NFHS-5, 2019-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="https://im4change.org/docs/India_National_Fact_Sheet.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/docs/India_National_Fact_Sheet.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;&nbsp;</em></p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong>-----</strong></p><p style="text-align:justify">According to the <a href="https://www.unicef.org/india/what-we-do/stop-stunting" title="https://www.unicef.org/india/what-we-do/stop-stunting">United Nations Children&#39;s Fund (UNICEF)</a>, stunting, or low height for age, is responsible for irreversible physical and mental damage to children. A child who is stunted is too short for their age, does not fully develop and stunting reflects chronic under-nutrition during the most critical periods of growth and development in early life. Stunting prevalence is defined as the percentage of children, aged 0 to 59 months, whose height for age is below minus two standard deviations <em>(moderate and severe stunting)</em> and minus three standard deviations <em>(severe stunting) </em>from the median of the World Health Organisation-WHO Child Growth Standards. Stunting is associated with an underdeveloped brain, with long-lasting harmful consequences, including diminished mental ability and learning capacity, poor school performance in childhood, reduced earnings and increased risks of nutrition-related chronic diseases, such as diabetes, hypertension, and obesity in future. Experts have noted that stunting starts from pre-conception when an adolescent girl who later becomes mother is undernourished and anaemic and it worsens when infants&rsquo; diets are poor, and when sanitation and hygiene are inadequate. It is irreversible by the age of two. Stunting adversely affects school attendance and performance. This, in turn, can reduce later adult income-generation. Under-nutrition reduces economic advancement due to losses in productivity, poorer cognition and poorer educational outcomes. The immediate and underlying factors causing stunting include infant and child care practices, hygiene and limited food security among the poorest households. It is closely connected to reproductive and maternal nutrition and is often determined in the womb by a mother&#39;s social status and level of education. Traditional beliefs related to food intake and quality of care of an adolescent girl and of a woman during pregnancy and breastfeeding are also factors. While exclusive breastfeeding practices have improved in the past 10 years, complementary feeding practices have worsened. It should be noted that poverty is not a clear cause of stunting as there are stunted children even among the richest households.<strong> &nbsp;</strong></p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong>Prevalence of wasting among children&nbsp;under five years </strong></p><p style="text-align:justify">For India, the percentage of children below 5 years who are wasted has gone down from 21.0 percent to 19.3 percent between 2015-16 and 2019-21 i.e., by -1.7 percentage points. For Madhya Pradesh, the percentage of children below 5 years who are wasted has declined from 25.8 percent to 19.0 percent between 2015-16 and 2020-21 <em>(i.e., by -6.8 percentage points)</em>, whereas for Uttar Pradesh&nbsp;the same has gone down from 17.9 percent to 17.3 percent between the two time points <em>(i.e., by -0.6 percentage points)</em>. Please consult chart-2.</p><p style="text-align:justify">In Chhatarpur <em>(-1.4 percentage points)</em>, Damoh <em>(-4.8 percentage points)</em>, Datia <em>(-9.8 percentage points)</em>, Panna <em>(-0.8 percentage points),</em> and Sagar <em>(-1.7 percentage points)</em> districts the percentage of children below 5 years who are wasted has decreased between NFHS-4 and NFHS-5, whereas in Tikamgarh district <em>(+0.5 percentage points)</em> the percentage of children below 5 years who are wasted has increased between the two time points.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Although in Chitrakoot <em>(-8.5 percentage points)</em>, Hamirpur <em>(-11.7 percentage points)</em>, Jalaun <em>(-12.7 percentage points)</em>, Jhansi <em>(-2.0 percentage points),</em> and Lalitpur <em>(-20.3 percentage points)</em> districts the percentage of children below 5 years who are wasted has fallen between NFHS-4 and NFHS-5, in Banda <em>(+7.7 percentage points)</em> and Mahoba <em>(+1.1 percentage points)</em> the percentage of children below 5 years who are wasted has risen between the two time points.</p><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="background-color:#ffff00">Therefore, in three out of 13 districts that come under Bundelkhand region, the proportion of children under 5 years who are wasted has increased between 2015-16 and 2020-21.</span></p><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="background-color:#ffff00">The prevalence of wasting among children&nbsp;under five years in 2020-21 is higher in Panna </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(23.2 percent) </span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">and Tikamgarh </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(19.7 percent) </span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">in comparison to Madhya Pradesh </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(19.0 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">. The prevalence of wasting among children&nbsp;below five years in 2020-21 is higher in Banda </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(25.7 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Chitrakoot </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(24.8 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Hamirpur </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(20.6 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Jalaun </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(19.5 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Jhansi </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(25.2 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Lalitpur </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(18.7 percent),</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00"> and Mahoba </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(25.0 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00"> as compared to Uttar Pradesh </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(17.3 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">.</span></p><p style="text-align:justify"><img alt="" src="/upload/images/Chart%202%20Percentage%20of%20children%20under%205%20years%20who%20are%20wasted.png" style="height:696px; width:917px" /></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em><strong>Note: </strong>Please <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WDzaTq8g-zSy6XaQbLA9bkk1gEkNtk8L/edit?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=112233925171588304692&amp;rtpof=true&amp;sd=true" title="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WDzaTq8g-zSy6XaQbLA9bkk1gEkNtk8L/edit?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=112233925171588304692&amp;rtpof=true&amp;sd=true">click here</a> to access the data of the above chart in a spreadsheet format</em></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em><strong>Source: </strong>Same as Chart-1</em><br /><strong>---</strong></p><p style="text-align:justify"><a href="https://data.unicef.org/topic/nutrition/malnutrition/" title="https://data.unicef.org/topic/nutrition/malnutrition/">According to the UNICEF</a>, wasting refers to a situation when a child is too thin for his or her height. Wasting happens due to recent rapid weight loss or the failure to gain weight. A child who is moderately or severely wasted faces an increased risk of death, but treatment is possible. Wasting is considered as a <a href="https://data.unicef.org/topic/nutrition/child-nutrition/" title="https://data.unicef.org/topic/nutrition/child-nutrition/">life-threatening condition</a> attributable to poor nutrient intake and/or disease. Characterised by a rapid deterioration in nutritional status over a short period of time, children suffering from wasting have weakened immunity, increasing their risk of death due to greater frequency and severity of common infection, particularly when severe. Wasting is considered to be the <a href="https://www.unicef.org/nutrition/child-wasting" title="https://www.unicef.org/nutrition/child-wasting">most immediate, visible</a> and <a href="https://www.unicef.org/nutrition/child-wasting" title="https://www.unicef.org/nutrition/child-wasting">life-threatening</a> form of <a href="https://www.unicef.org/nutrition/child-wasting" title="https://www.unicef.org/nutrition/child-wasting">malnutrition</a>. It results from the failure to prevent malnutrition among the most vulnerable children. Children with wasting are too thin and their immune systems are weak, leaving them vulnerable to developmental delays, disease and death. Some children affected by wasting also suffer from nutritional oedema, characterised by a swollen face, feet and limbs. Wasting and other forms of acute malnutrition occur due to maternal malnutrition, low birth weight, poor feeding and care practices, and infection exacerbated by food insecurity, limited access to safe drinking water, and poverty. Growing evidence suggests that wasting occurs very early in life and disproportionally affects children under 2 years of age. The number of children who suffer from wasting can increase dramatically as a result of conflict, epidemics and food insecurity, including that caused by climate change&ndash;induced droughts and flooding. Yet, wasting is not only a characteristic of crisis. In fact, two thirds of all children with wasting live in places that are not facing emergencies. While the number of children being treated for wasting and other forms of life-threatening malnutrition has increased in recent years, only one in three children with severe wasting are reached with the timely treatment and care they require to survive and thrive. Technically, it is <a href="https://data.unicef.org/topic/nutrition/malnutrition/" title="https://data.unicef.org/topic/nutrition/malnutrition/">defined as</a> the number <em>(also proportion) </em>of under-fives falling below minus 2 standard deviations <em>(moderate and severe) </em>and minus 3 standard deviations <em>(severe) </em>from the median weight-for-height of the reference population.</p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong>Percentage of children under 5 years who are underweight</strong></p><p style="text-align:justify">For the country as whole, the percentage of children below 5 years who are underweight has decreased from 35.8 percent to 32.1 percent between 2015-16 and 2019-21 i.e., by -3.7 percentage points. Although for Madhya Pradesh the percentage of children below 5 years who are underweight has fallen from 42.8 percent to 33.0 percent between 2015-16 and 2020-21 <em>(i.e., by -9.8 percentage points)</em>, for Uttar Pradesh the same has decreased from 39.5 percent to 32.1 percent between the two time points <em>(i.e., by -7.4 percentage points)</em>. Please have a look at chart-3.</p><p style="text-align:justify">In Chhatarpur <em>(-6.7 percentage points)</em>, Damoh <em>(-5.7 percentage points)</em>, Datia <em>(-17.5 percentage points)</em>, Panna <em>(-1.6 percentage points),</em> and Tikamgarh <em>(-8.4 percentage points)</em> districts the percentage of children below 5 years who are underweight has gone down between NFHS-4 and NFHS-5, whereas in Sagar district <em>(+5.3 percentage points) </em>the percentage of children below 5 years who are underweight has risen between the two time points.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Although in Chitrakoot <em>(-10.7 percentage points)</em>, Hamirpur <em>(-3.5 percentage points)</em>, Jalaun <em>(-13.1 percentage points)</em>, Jhansi <em>(-0.2 percentage points)</em>, Lalitpur <em>(-14.0 percentage points),</em> and Mahoba <em>(-14.3 percentage points) </em>districts the percentage of children below 5 years who are underweight has fallen between 2015-16 and 2020-21, in Banda district <em>(+8.3 percentage points)</em> the percentage of children below 5 years who are underweight has increased between the two time points. <span style="background-color:#ffff00">Banda is the only district in Bundelkhand region, which has experienced a rise in all three indicators of under-nutrition i.e., prevalence of stunting, wasting as well as underweight among children below 5 years of age.</span></p><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="background-color:#ffff00">In just two out of 13 districts that belong to Bundelkhand, the proportion of children under 5 years who are underweight has grown between 2015-16 and 2020-21.</span></p><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="background-color:#ffff00">The prevalence of underweight among children&nbsp;under five years in 2020-21 is higher in Chhatarpur </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(34.6 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Panna </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(39.2 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Sagar </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(35.8 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, and Tikamgarh </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(34.9 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00"> in comparison to Madhya Pradesh </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(33.0 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">. The prevalence of underweight among children&nbsp;below five years in 2020-21 is higher in Banda </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(49.8 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Chitrakoot </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(41.8 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Hamirpur </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(36.3 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Jalaun </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(36.1 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Jhansi </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(39.3 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Lalitpur </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(34.8 percent),</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00"> and Mahoba </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(33.4 percent) </span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">as compared to Uttar Pradesh </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(32.1 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">.</span></p><p style="text-align:justify"><img alt="" src="/upload/images/Chart%203%20Percentage%20of%20children%20under%205%20years%20who%20are%20underweight.png" style="height:534px; width:1000px" />&nbsp;<br /><em><strong>Note: </strong>Please <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WDzaTq8g-zSy6XaQbLA9bkk1gEkNtk8L/edit?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=112233925171588304692&amp;rtpof=true&amp;sd=true" title="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WDzaTq8g-zSy6XaQbLA9bkk1gEkNtk8L/edit?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=112233925171588304692&amp;rtpof=true&amp;sd=true">click here</a> to access the data of the above chart in a spreadsheet format</em></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em><strong>Source:</strong> Same as Chart-1</em><br /><strong>---</strong></p><p style="text-align:justify">According to the <a href="https://unstats.un.org/unsd/mdg/Metadata.aspx?IndicatorId=0&amp;SeriesId=559" title="https://unstats.un.org/unsd/mdg/Metadata.aspx?IndicatorId=0&amp;SeriesId=559">United Nations</a>, the prevalence of <em>(moderately and severely) </em>underweight children is the percentage of children aged 0-59 months whose weights for age are less than two standard deviations below the median weight for age of the international reference population. The international reference population, often referred to as the NCHS/WHO reference population, was formulated by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) as a reference for the United States and later adopted by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Children with low weight-for-age <a href="https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/malnutrition" title="https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/malnutrition">are known as underweight</a>. A child who is underweight may be stunted, wasted, or both. The <a href="https://www.who.int/data/nutrition/nlis/info/malnutrition-in-children" title="https://www.who.int/data/nutrition/nlis/info/malnutrition-in-children">mortality risk</a> is increased in children who are even mildly underweight, and the risk is even greater in severely underweight children.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong>Data on child mortality indicators</strong></p><p style="text-align:justify">Although data is available for the three child mortality indicators i.e., Neonatal Mortality Rate (NNMR), Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) and Under-Five Mortality Rate (U5MR) at the <a href="https://im4change.org/docs/India_National_Fact_Sheet.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/docs/India_National_Fact_Sheet.pdf">national</a> and state-levels <em>(<a href="https://im4change.org/docs/NFHS-5%20Madhya%20Pradesh.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/docs/NFHS-5%20Madhya%20Pradesh.pdf">Madhya Pradesh</a> and <a href="https://im4change.org/docs/NFHS-5%20Uttar%20Pradesh.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/docs/NFHS-5%20Uttar%20Pradesh.pdf">Uttar Pradesh</a>)</em>, it is unavailable for various districts that are part of Bundelkhand region. As a result of this, we could not look at the trends of child mortality in the 13 districts of Bundelkhand region.</p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong><em>References</em></strong></p><p style="text-align:justify">The DHS (Demographic and Health Surveys) Program, National, State and Union Territory, and District Fact Sheets 2019-21 National Family Health Survey NFHS-5 (English), USAID, please <a href="https://dhsprogram.com/publications/publication-OF43-Other-Fact-Sheets.cfm" title="https://dhsprogram.com/publications/publication-OF43-Other-Fact-Sheets.cfm">click here</a>&nbsp;and <a href="http://rchiips.org/nfhs/factsheet_NFHS-5.shtml" title="http://rchiips.org/nfhs/factsheet_NFHS-5.shtml">here</a> to access&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Stop stunting, UNICEF, please click here to access, please <a href="https://www.unicef.org/india/what-we-do/stop-stunting" title="https://www.unicef.org/india/what-we-do/stop-stunting">click here</a> to access &nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Malnutrition, UNICEF, April 2021, please <a href="https://data.unicef.org/topic/nutrition/malnutrition/" title="https://data.unicef.org/topic/nutrition/malnutrition/">click here</a> to access&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Child Nutrition, October 2019, please <a href="https://data.unicef.org/topic/nutrition/child-nutrition/" title="https://data.unicef.org/topic/nutrition/child-nutrition/">click here</a> to access</p><p style="text-align:justify">Progress for Children: A Report Card on Nutrition, Number 4, May 2006, please <a href="https://www.unicef.org/media/86536/file/Progress_for_Children_-_No._4.pdf" title="https://www.unicef.org/media/86536/file/Progress_for_Children_-_No._4.pdf">click here</a> to access &nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Millennium Development Goals Indicators, United Nations Statistics Division, please <a href="https://unstats.un.org/unsd/mdg/Metadata.aspx?IndicatorId=0&amp;SeriesId=559" title="https://unstats.un.org/unsd/mdg/Metadata.aspx?IndicatorId=0&amp;SeriesId=559">click here</a> to access&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Malnutrition, World Health Organisation, 9 June, 2021, please <a href="https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/malnutrition" title="https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/malnutrition">click here</a> to access &nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Malnutrition in children: Stunting, wasting, overweight and underweight, World Health Organisation, please <a href="https://www.who.int/data/nutrition/nlis/info/malnutrition-in-children" title="https://www.who.int/data/nutrition/nlis/info/malnutrition-in-children">click here</a> to access</p><p style="text-align:justify">Voices of the Invisible Citizens II: One year of COVID-19 -- Are we seeing shifts in internal migration patterns in India? prepared by Migrants Resilience Collaborative (a Jan Sahas initiative) in collaboration with EdelGive Foundation and Global Development Incubator, released on 25th June, 2021, please <a href="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Jan%20Sahas%202021%20report.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Jan%20Sahas%202021%20report.pdf">click here</a> to access</p><p style="text-align:justify">Water Resources Management of Bundelkhand, Uttar Pradesh Planning Department, Government of Uttar Pradesh, please <a href="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf">click here</a> to access</p><p style="text-align:justify">Bundelkhand: Overview of 2018 Monsoon, SANDRP, 12 October, 2018, please <a href="https://sandrp.in/2018/10/12/bundelkhand-overview-of-2018-monsoon/" title="https://sandrp.in/2018/10/12/bundelkhand-overview-of-2018-monsoon/">click here</a> to access &nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Bundelkhand: Building on Partnership -Rakesh Singh, Pradan (NGO),&nbsp;NewsReach March&ndash;April 2015,&nbsp;please <a href="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Bundelkhand-Building-on-Partnership-By-Rakesh-singh%20PRADAN.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Bundelkhand-Building-on-Partnership-By-Rakesh-singh%20PRADAN.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Assessment of Impact of Drought on Men, Women and Children: An Inter-Agency Initiative, Rapid Assessment Survey conducted in Banda, Chitrakoot, Siddharth Nagar, Sonbhadga &amp; Mahoba districts of Uttar Pradesh during 2016, Prepared by CASA, ActionAid, UNICEF, please <a href="https://im4change.org/docs/drought-assessment-report-bundelkhand-region-up-state-february-2016.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/docs/drought-assessment-report-bundelkhand-region-up-state-february-2016.pdf">click here</a> to access</p><p style="text-align:justify">Bundelkhand Drought Impact Assessment Survey 2015, Swaraj Abhiyan in association with Parmarth, Orai, please <a href="https://im4change.org/docs/bundelkhand%20survey%202015_v05.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/docs/bundelkhand%20survey%202015_v05.pdf">click here</a> to access</p><p style="text-align:justify">Bundelkhand Historic Region, India, Britannica.com,&nbsp;please <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Bundelkhand" title="https://www.britannica.com/place/Bundelkhand">click here</a> to access &nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Study on Bundelkhand, Planning Commission, please <a href="https://niti.gov.in/planningcommission.gov.in/docs/reports/sereport/ser/bndel/stdy_bndel.pdf" title="https://niti.gov.in/planningcommission.gov.in/docs/reports/sereport/ser/bndel/stdy_bndel.pdf">click here</a> to access &nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">In five years we have done more work on Saryu canal project than what was done in five decades: PM, 11 December, 2021, please <a href="https://www.narendramodi.in/text-of-prime-minister-narendra-modi-s-address-at-inauguration-of-the-saryu-nahar-national-project-in-balrampur-uttar-pradesh-558858" title="https://www.narendramodi.in/text-of-prime-minister-narendra-modi-s-address-at-inauguration-of-the-saryu-nahar-national-project-in-balrampur-uttar-pradesh-558858">click here</a> to access</p><p style="text-align:justify">Defence Industrial Corridors, Ministry of Defence, Press Information Bureau, 3 December, 2021, please <a href="https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1777610" title="https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1777610">click here</a> to access</p><p style="text-align:justify">Expressways, airports, AIIMS: Yogi government&rsquo;s big infra race before polls -Maulshree Seth, The Indian Express, 27 November, 2021, please <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/india/yogi-govt-infra-race-before-polls-7643744/" title="https://indianexpress.com/article/india/yogi-govt-infra-race-before-polls-7643744/">click here</a> to read more&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">PM Modi to launch Rs.6300 crore projects in Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh -Haidar Naqvi, Hindustan Times, 18 November, 2021, please <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/pm-modi-to-launch-6300-crore-projects-in-bundelkhand-region-of-uttar-pradesh-101637258523293.html" title="https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/pm-modi-to-launch-6300-crore-projects-in-bundelkhand-region-of-uttar-pradesh-101637258523293.html">click here</a> to access</p><p style="text-align:justify">Dried Wells, Broken Dams, Distressed Villagers Define UP&#39;s Multi-Crore &#39;Bundelkhand Package&#39; -Dheeraj Mishra, TheWire.in, 27 October, 2021, please <a href="https://thewire.in/rights/uttar-pradesh-agriculture-bundelkhand-package-irrigation-adityanath" title="https://thewire.in/rights/uttar-pradesh-agriculture-bundelkhand-package-irrigation-adityanath">click here</a> to access&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">No one needs the Ken-Betwa Link Project -Himanshu Thakkar, The Indian Express, 8 April, 2021, please <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/ken-betwa-link-project-bundelkhand-7263573/" title="https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/ken-betwa-link-project-bundelkhand-7263573/">click here</a> to read more&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong>Image Courtesy: UNDP India</strong><br />&nbsp;</p>                                                           
                        </div>
                    </td>
                </tr>
            </table>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
        <div style="padding-top: 18px;">
        <p class="post-tag">Tagged with:
                            <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Banda"
                   title="Banda">
                    Banda                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Bundelkhand Region"
                   title="Bundelkhand Region">
                    Bundelkhand Region                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Bundenkhand"
                   title="Bundenkhand">
                    Bundenkhand                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Chhatarpur"
                   title="Chhatarpur">
                    Chhatarpur                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Chitrakoot"
                   title="Chitrakoot">
                    Chitrakoot                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Damoh"
                   title="Damoh">
                    Damoh                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Datia"
                   title="Datia">
                    Datia                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Hamirpur"
                   title="Hamirpur">
                    Hamirpur                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Jalaun"
                   title="Jalaun">
                    Jalaun                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Jhansi"
                   title="Jhansi">
                    Jhansi                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Lalitpur"
                   title="Lalitpur">
                    Lalitpur                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Madhya Pradesh"
                   title="Madhya Pradesh">
                    Madhya Pradesh                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Mahoba"
                   title="Mahoba">
                    Mahoba                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=National Family Health Survey"
                   title="National Family Health Survey">
                    National Family Health Survey                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=NFHS"
                   title="NFHS">
                    NFHS                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=NFHS-4"
                   title="NFHS-4">
                    NFHS-4                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=NFHS-5"
                   title="NFHS-5">
                    NFHS-5                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Panna"
                   title="Panna">
                    Panna                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Prevalence of Stunting"
                   title="Prevalence of Stunting">
                    Prevalence of Stunting                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Prevalence of Wasting"
                   title="Prevalence of Wasting">
                    Prevalence of Wasting                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Sagar"
                   title="Sagar">
                    Sagar                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Stunting"
                   title="Stunting">
                    Stunting                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Tikamgarh"
                   title="Tikamgarh">
                    Tikamgarh                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Under-nutrition"
                   title="Under-nutrition">
                    Under-nutrition                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Underweight"
                   title="Underweight">
                    Underweight                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Uttar Pradesh"
                   title="Uttar Pradesh">
                    Uttar Pradesh                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Wasting"
                   title="Wasting">
                    Wasting                </a>
                        </p>
    </div>
<div class="clear"></div>
    <br><br>
    <div class="widget-top">
        <h4>Related Articles</h4>
        <div class="stripe-line"></div>
    </div>
    <div class="widget-container">
        <ul id="recentcomments">
                            <li class="recentcomments">
                    <a href="https://im4change.in/news-alerts-57/135-million-indians-exited-multidimensional-poverty-as-per-government-figures-is-that-the-same-as-poverty-reduction.html"
                       title="135 Million Indians Exited “Multidimensional" Poverty as per Government Figures. Is that the same as Poverty Reduction?">
                        135 Million Indians Exited “Multidimensional" Poverty as per Government Figures. Is that the same as Poverty Reduction?                    </a>
                </li>
                                <li class="recentcomments">
                    <a href="https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/niti-aayog-says-20-79-crore-indians-are-multidimensionally-poor-banjot-kaur.html"
                       title="Niti Aayog says 20.79 Crore Indians Are 'Multidimensionally Poor' - Banjot Kaur">
                        Niti Aayog says 20.79 Crore Indians Are 'Multidimensionally Poor' - Banjot Kaur                    </a>
                </li>
                                <li class="recentcomments">
                    <a href="https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/fatal-heatwave-in-uttar-pradesh-linked-to-climate-change-carbon-copy.html"
                       title="Fatal Heatwave in Uttar Pradesh Linked to Climate Change - Carbon Copy">
                        Fatal Heatwave in Uttar Pradesh Linked to Climate Change - Carbon Copy                    </a>
                </li>
                                <li class="recentcomments">
                    <a href="https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/prevalence-of-zero-food-among-infants-and-young-children-in-india-patterns-of-change-across-the-states-and-union-territories-of-india-1993-2021-the-lancet.html"
                       title="Prevalence of Zero-Food among infants and young children in India - The Lancet ">
                        Prevalence of Zero-Food among infants and young children in India - The Lancet                     </a>
                </li>
                                <li class="recentcomments">
                    <a href="https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/hunger-and-malnutrition-in-india-after-a-decade-of-the-national-food-security-act-2013-neetu-sharma-jyotsna-sripada-shruthi-raman.html"
                       title="Hunger and Malnutrition in India after a Decade of the National Food Security Act, 2013 - Neetu Sharma, Jyotsna Sripada, Shruthi Raman">
                        Hunger and Malnutrition in India after a Decade of the National Food Security Act, 2013 - Neetu Sharma, Jyotsna Sripada, Shruthi Raman                    </a>
                </li>
                
        </ul>
    </div>
    <div class="comment-respond" id="respond">
    <a name="commentbox">&nbsp;</a>
    <h3 class="comment-reply-title" id="reply-title">Write Comments</h3>
    <form method="post" accept-charset="utf-8" role="form" action="/news-alerts-57/the-under-nutrition-problem-in-bundelkhand-should-receive-equal-attention-of-the-policymakers-if-not-more.html"><div style="display:none;"><input type="hidden" name="_method" value="POST"/></div>    <form class="comment-form" id="commentform" method="post" action="#commentbox" onSubmit="return validate()"
          name="cmtform">
        <input type="hidden" name="cmttype" value="articlecmt"/>
        <input type="hidden" name="article_id" value="61719"/>
        <p class="comment-notes">Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked <span
                    class="required">*</span></p>
                <p class="comment-form-author">
            <label for="commenterName">Name</label>
            <span class="required">*</span>
            <input type="text" aria-required="true" size="30"
                   value=""
                   name="commenterName" id="commenterName" required="true">
        </p>
        <p class="comment-form-email">
            <label for="commenterEmail">Email</label> <span class="required">*</span>
            <input aria-required="true" size="30" name="commenterEmail" id="commenterEmail" type="email"
                   value=""
                   required="true">
        </p>
        <p class="comment-form-contact">
            <label for="commenterPh">Contact No.</label>
            <input type="text" size="30"
                   value=""
                   name="commenterPh" id="commenterPh">
        </p>
        <p class="comment-form-comment">
            <label for="comment">Comment</label>
            <textarea aria-required="true" required="true" rows="8" cols="45" name="comment"
                      id="comment"></textarea>
        </p>
        <p class="comment-form-comment">
            <label for="comment">Type the characters you see in the image below <span class="required">*</span><br><img
                        class="captchaImg"
                        src="https://im4change.in/securimage_show_art.php?tk=1596776725" alt="captcha"/>
            </label>
        </p>
        <input type="text" name="vrcode" required="true"/>

        <p class="form-submit" style="width: 200px;">
            <input type="submit" value="Post Comment" id="submit" name="submit">
        </p></form>
</div>
<style>
    .ui-widget-content {
        height: auto !important;
    }
</style>
<div id="share-modal"></div>
<style>
    .middleContent a{
        background-color: rgba(108,172,228,.2);
    }
    .middleContent a:hover{
        background-color: #418fde;
        border-color: #418fde;
        color: #000;
        }
</style>
<script>
    function shareArticle(article_id) {
        var options = {
            modal: true,
            height: 'auto',
            width: 600 + 'px'
        };
        $('#share-modal').html("");
        $('#share-modal').load('https://im4change.in/share_article?article_id=' + article_id).dialog(options).dialog('open');
    }

    function postShare() {
        var param = 'article_id=' + $("#article_id").val();
        param = param + '&y_name=' + $("#y_name").val();
        param = param + '&y_email=' + $("#y_email").val();
        param = param + '&f_name=' + $("#f_name").val();
        param = param + '&f_email=' + $("#f_email").val();
        param = param + '&y_msg=' + $("#y_msg").val();

        $.ajax({
            type: "POST",
            url: 'https://im4change.in/post_share_article',
            data: param,
            success: function (response) {
                $('#share-modal').html("Thank You, Your message posted to ");
            }
        });
        return false;
    }
</script>                </div>
            </div>
            <!-- Right Side Section Start -->
<!-- MAP Section START -->
<aside class="sidebar indexMarg">
    <div class="ad-cell">
        <a href="https://im4change.in/statemap.php" title="">
            <img src="https://im4change.in/images/map_new_version.png?1582080666" alt="India State Map" class="indiamap" width="232" height="252"/>        </a>
        <div class="rightmapbox">
            <div id="sideOne" class="docltitle"><a href="https://im4change.in/state-report/india/36" target="_blank">DOCUMENTS/
                    REPORTS</a></div>
            <div id="sideTwo" class="statetitle"><a href="https://im4change.in/states.php"target="_blank">STATE DATA/
                    HDRs.</a></div>
        </div>
        <div class="widget widgePadTop"></div>
    </div>
</aside>
<!-- MAP Section END -->
<aside class="sidebar sidePadbottom">
    <div class="rightsmlbox1" >
        <a href="https://im4change.in/knowledge_gateway" target="_blank" style="color: #035588;
    font-size: 17px;">
            KNOWLEDGE GATEWAY
        </a>
    </div>
    <div class="rightsmlbox1">

        <div>
            <p class="rightsmlbox1_title">
                <a href="https://im4change.in/newsletter" target="_blank">
                    NEWSLETTER
                </a>
            </p>
        </div>
    </div>
        <div class="rightsmlbox1" style="height: 325px;">
        <div>
            <p class="rightsmlbox1_title">
                Interview with Prof. Ravi Srivastava
            </p>
            <p class="rightsmlbox1_title">
                <a href="https://im4change.in/video/interview-with-prof-ravi-srivastava-on-current-economic-crisis">
                <img width="250" height="200" src="/images/interview_video_home.jpg" alt="Interview with Prof. Ravi Srivastava"/>
                </a>
                <!--
                <iframe width="250" height="200" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MmaTlntk-wc" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>-->
               
            </p>
            <a href="https://im4change.in/videogallery" class="more-link CatArchalAnch1" target="_blank">
                                More videos
                            </a>
        </div>
    </div>
    
        <div class="rightsmlbox1">
        <div>
            <!--div id="sstory" class="rightboxicons"></div--->
            <p class="rightsmlbox1_title"><a href="https://im4change.in/list-success-stories"  target="_blank">Success Stories</a></p>
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="rightsmlbox1">
        <div>
            <p class="rightsmlbox1_title"><a
                        href="https://im4change.in/interviews"  target="_blank">Interviews</a>
            </p>
        </div>
    </div>

    <div class="rightsmlbox1">
        <div>
            <p class="rightsmlbox1_title"><a href="https://www.commoncause.in/page.php?id=10" >Donate</a></p>
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="rightsmlbox1">
        <div>
            <p class="rightsmlbox1_title"><a
        href="https://im4change.in/marquee"
        class="isf_link more-link" title="India Focus?" style="border: 4px solid #fdd922;width: 90%;background-color: #fdd922;text-align: center;color: #000000;font-size:18px"  target="_blank">India Focus</a></p>        </div>
    </div>

    <div class="rightsmlbox1" style="height: 104px !important;">
        <a href="https://im4change.in/quarterly_reports.php" target="_blank">
            Quarterly Reports on Effect of Economic Slowdown on Employment in India (2008 - 2015)
        </a>
    </div>
    
<!--     <div class="rightsmlbox1">
        <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.im4.im4change" target="_blank">
            
        </a></div> -->
    <!-- <section class="cat-box recent-box secMarg">
        <h2 class="cat-box-title">Most Visited</h2>
    </section> -->
    <!-- accordion Starts here -->
    <!-- <div id="accordion" class="accordMarg">
            </div> -->
    <!-- accordion ends here -->
    <!-- Widget Tag Cloud Starts here -->
    <div id="tag_cloud-2" class="widget widget_tag_cloud">
        <section class="cat-box recent-box secMarg">
                <h2 class="cat-box-title">MOST VISITED TAGS</h2>
            </section>
        <div class="widget-top wiPdTp">
           
            <div class="stripe-line"></div>
        </div>
        <div class="widget-container">
            <div class="tagcloud">
                                    <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Agriculture"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Agriculture</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Food Security"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Food Security</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Law and Justice"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Law and Justice</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Health"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Health</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Right to Food"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Right to Food</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Corruption"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Corruption</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=farming"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">farming</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Environment"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Environment</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Right to Information"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Right to Information</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=NREGS"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">NREGS</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Human Rights"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Human Rights</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Governance"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Governance</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=PDS"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">PDS</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=COVID-19"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">COVID-19</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Land Acquisition"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Land Acquisition</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=mgnrega"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">mgnrega</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Farmers"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Farmers</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=transparency"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">transparency</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Gender"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Gender</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Poverty"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Poverty</a>
                                    
                                <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Farm Laws" target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Farm Laws
                </a>
                <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Citizenship Amendment Act" target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Citizenship Amendment Act
                </a>
                <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=CAA NPR NRIC" target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">CAA NPR NRIC
                </a>
                <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Job Losses" target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Job Losses
                </a>
                <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Migrant Workers" target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Migrant Workers
                </a>
                <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Unemployment" target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Unemployment
                </a>
                <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=PMGKAY" target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">PMGKAY
                </a>
                <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=PM-KISAN" target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">PM-KISAN
                </a>
                <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=PM-CARES" target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">PM-CARES
                </a>
                <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=LFPR" target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">LFPR
                </a>
                
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
    <!-- Widget Tag Cloud Ends here -->
</aside>
<!-- Right Side Section End -->
        </div>
        <section class="cat-box cats-review-box footerSec">
    <h2 class="cat-box-title vSec CatArcha">Video
        Archives</h2>
    <h2 class="cat-box-title CatArchaTitle">Archives</h2>
    <div class="cat-box-content">
        <div class="reviews-cat">
            <div class="CatArchaDiv1">
                <div class="CatArchaDiv2">
                    <ul>
                                                    <li>
                                <a href="https://im4change.in/news-alerts-57/moving-upstream-luni-fellowship.html"  target="_blank">
                                     Moving Upstream: Luni – Fellowship                                </a>
                            </li>
                                                        <li>
                                <a href="https://im4change.in/news-alerts-57/135-million-indians-exited-multidimensional-poverty-as-per-government-figures-is-that-the-same-as-poverty-reduction.html"  target="_blank">
                                     135 Million Indians Exited “Multidimensional" Poverty as per Government...                                </a>
                            </li>
                                                        <li>
                                <a href="https://im4change.in/news-alerts-57/explainer-why-are-tomato-prices-on-fire.html"  target="_blank">
                                     Explainer: Why are Tomato Prices on Fire?                                </a>
                            </li>
                                                        <li>
                                <a href="https://im4change.in/news-alerts-57/nsso-survey-only-39-1-of-all-households-have-drinking-water-within-dwelling-46-7-of-rural-households-use-firewood-for-cooking.html"  target="_blank">
                                     NSSO Survey: Only 39.1% of all Households have Drinking...                                </a>
                            </li>
                                                    <li class="CatArchalLi1">
                            <a href="https://im4change.in/news-alerts-57"
                               class="more-link CatArchalAnch1"  target="_blank">
                                More...
                            </a>
                        </li>
                    </ul>
                </div>
                                    <div class="CatArchaWidth">
                        <img class="CatArchaImg"
                             src="https://img.youtube.com/vi/I51LYnP8BOk/1.jpg"
                             alt=" Im4Change.org हिंदी वेबसाइट का परिचय. Short Video on im4change.org...">
                        <p class="CatArchaPPad">
                            <a href="https://im4change.in/video/Short-Video-on-im4change-Hindi-website-Inclusive-Media-for-Change"  target="_blank">
                                 Im4Change.org हिंदी वेबसाइट का परिचय. Short Video on im4change.org...                            </a>
                        </p>
                    </div>
                                        <div class="CatArchaWidth">
                        <img class="CatArchaImg"
                             src="https://img.youtube.com/vi/kNqha-SwfIY/1.jpg"
                             alt=" "Session 1: Scope of IDEA and AgriStack" in Exploring...">
                        <p class="CatArchaPPad">
                            <a href="https://im4change.in/video/Session-1- Scope-of-IDEA-and-AgriStack-in-Exploring-Digitalisation-in-Agriculture-29-April-2022"  target="_blank">
                                 "Session 1: Scope of IDEA and AgriStack" in Exploring...                            </a>
                        </p>
                    </div>
                                        <div class="CatArchaWidth">
                        <img class="CatArchaImg"
                             src="https://img.youtube.com/vi/6kIVjlgZItk/1.jpg"
                             alt=" "Session 2: Farmer Centric Digitalisation in Agriculture" in Exploring...">
                        <p class="CatArchaPPad">
                            <a href="https://im4change.in/video/Session-2-Farmer-Centric-Digitalisation-in-Agriculture-in-Exploring-Digitalisation-in-Agriculture-29-April-2022"  target="_blank">
                                 "Session 2: Farmer Centric Digitalisation in Agriculture" in Exploring...                            </a>
                        </p>
                    </div>
                                        <div class="CatArchaWidth">
                        <img class="CatArchaImg"
                             src="https://img.youtube.com/vi/2BeHTu0y7xc/1.jpg"
                             alt=" "Session 3: Future of Digitalisation in Agriculture" in Exploring...">
                        <p class="CatArchaPPad">
                            <a href="https://im4change.in/video/Session-3-Future-of-Digitalisation-in-Agriculture-in-Exploring-Digitalisation-in-Agriculture-29-April-2022"  target="_blank">
                                 "Session 3: Future of Digitalisation in Agriculture" in Exploring...                            </a>
                        </p>
                    </div>
                    


                <div class="divWidth">
                    <ul class="divWidthMarg">
                                                    <li>
                                <a href="https://im4change.in/video/Public-Spending-on-Agriculture-in-India-Source-Foundation-for-Agrarian-Studies"
                                   title="Public Spending on Agriculture in India (Source: Foundation for Agrarian Studies)"  target="_blank">
                                     Public Spending on Agriculture in India (Source: Foundation for...</a>
                            </li>
                                                        <li>
                                <a href="https://im4change.in/video/Agrarian-Change-Seminar-Protests-against-the-New-Farm-Laws-in-India-by-Prof-Vikas-Rawal-JNU-Source-Journal-Of-Agrarian-Change"
                                   title="Agrarian Change Seminar: 'Protests against the New Farm Laws in India' by Prof. Vikas Rawal, JNU (Source: Journal Of Agrarian Change) "  target="_blank">
                                     Agrarian Change Seminar: 'Protests against the New Farm Laws...</a>
                            </li>
                                                        <li>
                                <a href="https://im4change.in/video/Webinar-Ramrao-The-Story-of-India-Farm-Crisis-Source-Azim-Premji-University"
                                   title="Webinar: Ramrao - The Story of India's Farm Crisis (Source: Azim Premji University)"  target="_blank">
                                     Webinar: Ramrao - The Story of India's Farm Crisis...</a>
                            </li>
                                                        <li>
                                <a href="https://im4change.in/video/water-and-agricultural-transformation-in-India"
                                   title="Water and Agricultural Transformation in India: A Symbiotic Relationship (Source: IGIDR)"  target="_blank">
                                     Water and Agricultural Transformation in India: A Symbiotic Relationship...</a>
                            </li>
                                                    <li class="CatArchalLi1">
                            <a href="https://im4change.in/videogallery"
                               class="more-link CatArchalAnch1"  target="_blank">
                                More...
                            </a>
                        </li>
                    </ul>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</section>    </div>
    <div class="clear"></div>
    <!-- Footer option Starts here -->
    <div class="footer-bottom fade-in animated4">
        <div class="container">
            <div class="social-icons icon_flat">
                <p class="SocialMargTop"> Website Developed by <a target="_blank" title="Web Development"
                                                                  class="wot right"
                                                                  href="http://www.ravinderkhurana.com/" rel="nofollow">
                                                                  RAVINDErkHURANA.com</a></p>
            </div>
            <div class="alignleft">
                <a
     target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/objectives-8.html"
    class="link"
    title="Objectives">Objectives</a> | <a
     target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/about-us-9.html"
    class="link" title="About Us">About Us</a> | <a
     target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/media-workshops.php"
    class="ucwords">Workshops</a> | <a
     target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/disclaimer/disclaimer-149.html"
    title="Disclaimer">Disclaimer</a>            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
    <!-- Footer option ends here -->
</div>
<div id="connect">
    <a target="_blank"
       href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://im4change.in/news-alerts-57/the-under-nutrition-problem-in-bundelkhand-should-receive-equal-attention-of-the-policymakers-if-not-more.html"
       title="Share on Facebook">
        <img src="https://im4change.in/images/Facebook.png?1582080640" alt="share on Facebook" class="ImgBorder"/>
    </a><br/>
    <a target="_blank"
       href="http://twitter.com/share?text=Im4change&amp;url=https://im4change.in/news-alerts-57/the-under-nutrition-problem-in-bundelkhand-should-receive-equal-attention-of-the-policymakers-if-not-more.html"
       title="Share on Twitter">
        <img src="https://im4change.in/images/twitter.png?1582080632" alt="Twitter" class="ImgBorder"/>    </a>
    <br/>
    <a href="/feeds" title="RSS Feed" target="_blank">
        <img src="https://im4change.in/images/rss.png?1582080632" alt="RSS" class="ImgBorder"/>
    </a>
    <br/>
    <a class="feedback-link" id="feedbackFormLink" href="#">
        <img src="https://im4change.in/images/feedback.png?1582080630" alt="Feedback" class="ImgBorder"/>
    </a> <br/>
    <a href="javascript:function iprl5(){var d=document,z=d.createElement('scr'+'ipt'),b=d.body,l=d.location;try{if(!b)throw(0);d.title='(Saving...) '+d.title;z.setAttribute('src',l.protocol+'//www.instapaper.com/j/WKrH3R7ORD5p?u='+encodeURIComponent(l.href)+'&amp;t='+(new Date().getTime()));b.appendChild(z);}catch(e){alert('Please wait until the page has loaded.');}}iprl5();void(0)"
       class="bookmarklet" onclick="return explain_bookmarklet();">
        <img src="https://im4change.in/images/read-it-later.png?1582080632" alt="Read Later" class="ImgBorder"/>    </a>
</div>
<!-- Feedback form Starts here -->
<div id="feedbackForm" class="overlay_form" class="ImgBorder">
    <h2>Contact Form</h2>
    <div id="contactform1">
        <div id="formleft">
            <form id="submitform" action="/contactus.php" method="post">
                <input type="hidden" name="submitform" value="submitform"/>
                <input type="hidden" name="salt_key" value="a0e0f2c6a0644a70e57ad2c96829709a"/>
                <input type="hidden" name="ref" value="feedback"/>
                <fieldset>
                    <label>Name :</label>
                    <input type="text" name="name" class="tbox" required/>
                </fieldset>
                <fieldset>
                    <label>Email :</label>
                    <input type="text" name="email" class="tbox" required/>
                </fieldset>
                <fieldset>
                    <label>Message :</label>
                    <textarea rows="5" cols="20" name="message" required></textarea>
                </fieldset>
                <fieldset>
                    Please enter security code
                    <div class="clear"></div>
                    <input type="text" name="vrcode" class="tbox"/>
                </fieldset>
                <fieldset>
                    <input type="submit" class="button" value="Submit"/>
                    &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="#" id="closefeedbakcformLink">Close</a>
                </fieldset>
            </form>
        </div>
        <div class="clearfix"></div>
    </div>
</div>
<div id="donate_popup" class="modal" style="max-width: 800px;">
    <table width="100%" border="1">
        <tr>
            <td colspan="2" align="center">
                <b>Support im4change</b>
            </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td width="25%" valign="middle">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo2.jpg?1582080632" alt="" width="100%"/>            </td>
            <td style="padding-left:10px;padding-top:10px;">
                <form action="https://im4change.in/donate" method="get">
                    <table width="100%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
                        <tr>
                            <td width="33%" style="font-family: 'Script Font', cursive, Arial;font-size: 20px;font-weight: 700;">
                                10
                            </td>
                            <td width="33%" style="font-family: 'Script Font', cursive, Arial;font-size: 20px;font-weight: 700;">
                                100
                            </td>
                            <td width="33%" style="font-family: 'Script Font', cursive, Arial;font-size: 20px;font-weight: 700;">
                                1000
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td colspan="3">
                                &nbsp;
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td  style="font-family: 'Script Font', cursive, Arial;font-size: 20px;font-weight: 700;">
                                50
                            </td>
                            <td  style="font-family: 'Script Font', cursive, Arial;font-size: 20px;font-weight: 700;">
                                500
                            </td>
                            <td  style="font-family: 'Script Font', cursive, Arial;font-size: 20px;font-weight: 700;">
                                <input type="text" name="price" placeholder="?" style="font-family: 'Script Font', cursive, Arial;font-size: 20px;font-weight: 700;">
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td colspan="3">
                                &nbsp;
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td colspan="3" align="right">
                                <input type="button" name="Pay" value="Pay"
                                       style="width: 200px;background-color: rgb(205, 35, 36);color: #ffffff;"/>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                    </table>
                </form>
            </td>
        </tr>
    </table>
</div><script type='text/javascript'>

    /* <![CDATA[ */

    var tievar = {'go_to': 'Go to...'};

    /* ]]> */

</script>
<script src="/js/tie-scripts.js?1575549704"></script><script src="/js/bootstrap.js?1575549704"></script><script src="/js/jquery.modal.min.js?1578284310"></script><script>
    $(document).ready(function() {
        // tell the autocomplete function to get its data from our php script
        $('#s').autocomplete({
            source: "/autocomplete"
        });
    });
</script>
<script src="/vj-main-sw-register.js" async></script>

<script>function init(){var imgDefer=document.getElementsByTagName('img');for(var i=0;i<imgDefer.length;i++){if(imgDefer[i].getAttribute('data-src')){imgDefer[i].setAttribute('src',imgDefer[i].getAttribute('data-src'))}}}
window.onload=init;</script>
</body>
</html>'

}
$maxBufferLength = (int) 8192
$file = '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php'
$line = (int) 853
$message = 'Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853'
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148]
Code Context
            $response->getStatusCode(),

            ($reasonPhrase ? ' ' . $reasonPhrase : '')

        ));
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html>
<!--[if lt IE 7 ]>
<html class="ie ie6" lang='en'> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 7 ]>
<html class="ie ie7" lang='en'> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 8 ]>
<html class="ie ie8" lang='en'> <![endif]-->
<!--[if (gte IE 9)|!(IE)]><!-->
<html lang='en'>
<!--<![endif]-->
<head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
    
    <title>
        NEWS ALERTS | The under-nutrition problem in Bundelkhand should receive equal attention of the policymakers, if not more    </title>
    <meta name="description" content="Recent media reports point out that the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh is likely to get about Rs. 6,300 crore projects ahead of the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, including a Rs. 400 crore worth plant for the propulsion system..."/>
    <meta name="keywords" content="Banda,Bundelkhand Region,Bundenkhand,Chhatarpur,Chitrakoot,Damoh,Datia,Hamirpur,Jalaun,Jhansi,Lalitpur,Madhya Pradesh,Mahoba,National Family Health Survey,NFHS,NFHS-4,NFHS-5,Panna,Prevalence of Stunting,Prevalence of Wasting,Sagar,Stunting,Tikamgarh,Under-nutrition,Underweight,Uttar Pradesh,Wasting"/>
    <meta name="news_keywords" content="Banda,Bundelkhand Region,Bundenkhand,Chhatarpur,Chitrakoot,Damoh,Datia,Hamirpur,Jalaun,Jhansi,Lalitpur,Madhya Pradesh,Mahoba,National Family Health Survey,NFHS,NFHS-4,NFHS-5,Panna,Prevalence of Stunting,Prevalence of Wasting,Sagar,Stunting,Tikamgarh,Under-nutrition,Underweight,Uttar Pradesh,Wasting">
   
    <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="ROR" href="/ror.xml"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="/feeds/"/>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/bootstrap.min.css?1697864993"/>    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/style.css?v=1.1.2"/>    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/style-inner.css?1577045210"/>    <link rel="stylesheet" id="Oswald-css"
          href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Oswald%3Aregular%2C700&amp;ver=3.8.1" type="text/css"
          media="all">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/jquery.modal.min.css?1578285302"/>    <script src="/js/jquery-1.10.2.js?1575549704"></script>    <script src="/js/jquery-migrate.min.js?1575549704"></script>    <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" title="Favicon">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/jquery-ui.css?1580720609"/>    <script src="/js/jquery-ui.js?1575549704"></script>    <link rel="preload" as="style" href="https://www.im4change.org/css/custom.css" onload="this.rel='stylesheet'" media="all" crossorigin="anonymous">
<link rel="preload" as="style" href="https://www.im4change.org/css/jquery.modal.min.css" onload="this.rel='stylesheet'" media="all" crossorigin="anonymous">
<link rel="preload" as="style" href="https://www.im4change.org/css/jquery-ui.css" onload="this.rel='stylesheet'" media="all" crossorigin="anonymous">
<link rel="preload" as="style" href="https://www.im4change.org/css/li-scroller.css" onload="this.rel='stylesheet'" media="all" crossorigin="anonymous">
<!-- <link rel="preload" as="style" href="https://www.im4change.org/css/style.css" onload="this.rel='stylesheet'" media="all" crossorigin="anonymous"> -->
<link rel="preload" as="style" href="https://www.im4change.org/css/style-inner.css" onload="this.rel='stylesheet'" media="all" crossorigin="anonymous">

<link rel='dns-prefetch' href="//im4change.org/css/custom.css" crossorigin >

<link rel="preload" as="script" href="https://www.im4change.org/js/bootstrap.js">
<link rel="preload" as="script" href="https://www.im4change.org/js/jquery.li-scroller.1.0.js">
<link rel="preload" as="script" href="https://www.im4change.org/js/jquery.modal.min.js">
<link rel="preload" as="script" href="https://www.im4change.org/js/jquery.ui.totop.js">
<link rel="preload" as="script" href="https://www.im4change.org/js/jquery-1.10.2.js">
<link rel="preload" as="script" href="https://www.im4change.org/js/jquery-migrate.min.js">
<link rel="preload" as="script" href="https://www.im4change.org/js/jquery-ui.js">
<link rel="preload" as="script" href="https://www.im4change.org/js/setting.js">
<link rel="preload" as="script" href="https://www.im4change.org/js/tie-scripts.js">
    <!--[if IE]>
    <script type="text/javascript">jQuery(document).ready(function () {
        jQuery(".menu-item").has("ul").children("a").attr("aria-haspopup", "true");
    });</script>
    <![endif]-->
    <!--[if lt IE 9]>
    <script src="/js/html5.js"></script>
    <script src="/js/selectivizr-min.js"></script>
    <![endif]-->
    <!--[if IE 8]>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="/css/ie8.css"/>
    <![endif]-->
    <meta property="og:title" content="NEWS ALERTS | The under-nutrition problem in Bundelkhand should receive equal attention of the policymakers, if not more" />
     <meta property="og:url" content="https://im4change.in/news-alerts-57/the-under-nutrition-problem-in-bundelkhand-should-receive-equal-attention-of-the-policymakers-if-not-more.html" />
     <meta property="og:type" content="article" />
     <meta property="og:description" content="Recent media reports point out that the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh is likely to get about Rs. 6,300 crore projects ahead of the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, including a Rs. 400 crore worth plant for the propulsion system..." />
     <meta property="og:image" content="" />
      <meta property="fb:app_id" content="0" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=no">

       <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" sizes="144x144" href="https://im4change.in/images/apple1.png">
    <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" sizes="120x120" href="https://im4change.in/images/apple2.png">
    <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" sizes="72x72" href="https://im4change.in/images/apple3.png">
    <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="https://im4change.in/images/apple4.png">

    <style>
    .gsc-results-wrapper-overlay{
        top: 38% !important;
        height: 50% !important;
    }
    .gsc-search-button-v2{
        border-color: #035588 !important;
        background-color: #035588 !important;
    }

   .gsib_a{
        height: 30px !important;
          padding: 2px 8px 1px 6px !important;
    }

   
    .gsc-search-button-v2{
        height: 41px !important;
    }
    input.gsc-input{
        background: none !important;
    }
    @media only screen and (max-width: 600px) {
        .gsc-results-wrapper-overlay{
            top: 11% !important;
            width: 87% !important;
            left: 9% !important;
            height: 43% !important;
        }

        .gsc-search-button-v2{
            padding: 10px 10px !important;
        
        }
        .gsc-input-box{
            height: 28px !important;
        }
       /* .gsib_a {
            padding: 0px 9px 4px 9px !important;
        }*/
    }
    @media only screen and (min-width: 1200px) and (max-width: 1920px) {
        table.gsc-search-box{
            width: 15% !important;
            float: right !important;
            margin-top: -118px !important;
        }

        .gsc-search-button-v2 {
            
            padding: 6px !important;
           
        }
    }


</style>

    <script>
        $(function () {
            $("#accordion").accordion({
                event: "click hoverintent"
            });
        });

        /*
         * hoverIntent | Copyright 2011 Brian Cherne
         * http://cherne.net/brian/resources/jquery.hoverIntent.html
         * modified by the jQuery UI team
         */
        $.event.special.hoverintent = {
            setup: function () {
                $(this).bind("mouseover", jQuery.event.special.hoverintent.handler);
            },
            teardown: function () {
                $(this).unbind("mouseover", jQuery.event.special.hoverintent.handler);
            },
            handler: function (event) {
                var currentX, currentY, timeout,
                    args = arguments,
                    target = $(event.target),
                    previousX = event.pageX,
                    previousY = event.pageY;

                function track(event) {
                    currentX = event.pageX;
                    currentY = event.pageY;
                }
                ;

                function clear() {
                    target
                        .unbind("mousemove", track)
                        .unbind("mouseout", clear);
                    clearTimeout(timeout);
                }

                function handler() {
                    var prop,
                        orig = event;
                    if ((Math.abs(previousX - currentX) +
                        Math.abs(previousY - currentY)) < 7) {
                        clear();
                        event = $.Event("hoverintent");
                        for (prop in orig) {
                            if (!(prop in event)) {
                                event[prop] = orig[prop];
                            }
                        }
                        // Prevent accessing the original event since the new event
                        // is fired asynchronously and the old event is no longer
                        // usable (#6028)
                        delete event.originalEvent;
                        target.trigger(event);
                    } else {
                        previousX = currentX;
                        previousY = currentY;
                        timeout = setTimeout(handler, 100);
                    }
                }

                timeout = setTimeout(handler, 100);
                target.bind({
                    mousemove: track,
                    mouseout: clear
                });
            }
        };
    </script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        var _gaq = _gaq || [];
        _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-472075-3']);
        _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);

        (function () {
            var ga = document.createElement('script');
            ga.type = 'text/javascript';
            ga.async = true;
            ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
            var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
            s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
        })();
    </script>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/custom.css?v=1.16"/>    <script src="/js/jquery.ui.totop.js?1575549704"></script>    <script src="/js/setting.js?1575549704"></script>    <link rel="manifest" href="/manifest.json">
    <meta name="theme-color" content="#616163" />
    <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">
    <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="black">
    <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-title" content="im4change">
    <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/icons/logo-192x192.png">
</head>
<body id="top" class="home inner blog">
<div class="background-cover"></div>
<div class="wrapper animated">
    <header id="theme-header" class="header_inner" style="position: relative;">
        <div class="logo inner_logo" style="left:20px !important">
                <a title="Home" href="https://im4change.in/">
                    <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo2.jpg?1582080632" class="logo_image" alt="im4change"/>                </a>
        </div>
        <div class="langhindi" style="color: #000;display:none;"
             href="https://im4change.in/">
            <a class="more-link" href="https://im4change.in/">Home</a>
                        <a href="https://im4change.in/hindi/" class="langbutton ">हिन्दी</a>
                    </div>
        <nav class="fade-in animated2" id="main-nav">
            <div class="container">
                <div class="main-menu">
    <ul class="menu" id="menu-main">
        <li class="menu-item  menu-item-type-custom  menu-item-object-custom  menu-item-has-children"
            style="left: -40px;"><a
                 target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/">Home</a>
        </li>
        <li class="menu-item mega-menu menu-item-type-taxonomy mega-menu menu-item-object-category mega-menu menu-item-has-children parent-list"
            style=" margin-left: -40px;"><a href="#">KNOWLEDGE GATEWAY <span class="sub-indicator"></span>
            </a>
            <div class="mega-menu-block background_menu" style="padding-top:25px;">
                <div class="container">
                    <div class="mega-menu-content">
                                                                   <div class="mega-menu-item">
                                                 <h3><b>Farm Crisis</b></h3>
                                                                                                    <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/farm-crisis/farmers039-suicides-14.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Farm Suicides                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/farm-crisis/unemployment-30.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Unemployment                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/farm-crisis/rural-distress-70.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Rural distress                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/farm-crisis/migration-34.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Migration                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/farm-crisis/key-facts-72.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Key Facts                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/farm-crisis/debt-trap-15.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Debt Trap                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                
                                              </div> 
                                            
                                                                                        <div class="mega-menu-item">
                                                 <h3><b>Empowerment</b></h3>
                                                                                                    <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/empowerment/union-budget-73.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Union Budget And Other Economic Policies                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/empowerment/forest-and-tribal-rights-61.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Forest and Tribal Rights                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/empowerment/right-to-education-60.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Right to Education                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/empowerment/right-to-food-59.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Right to Food                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/empowerment/displacement-3279.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Displacement                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/empowerment/right-to-work-mg-nrega-39.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Right to Work (MG-NREGA)                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/empowerment/gender-3280.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">GENDER                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/empowerment/right-to-information-58.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Right to Information                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/empowerment/social-audit-48.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Social Audit                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                
                                              </div> 
                                            
                                                                                        <div class="mega-menu-item">
                                                 <h3><b>Hunger / HDI</b></h3>
                                                                                                    <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/hunger-hdi/poverty-and-inequality-20499.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Poverty and inequality                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/hunger-hdi/malnutrition-41.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Malnutrition                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/hunger-hdi/public-health-51.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Public Health                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/hunger-hdi/education-50.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Education                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/hunger-hdi/hunger-overview-40.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Hunger Overview                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/hunger-hdi/hdi-overview-45.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">HDI Overview                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/hunger-hdi/pds-ration-food-security-42.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">PDS/ Ration/ Food Security                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/hunger-hdi/sdgs-113.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">SDGs                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/hunger-hdi/mid-day-meal-scheme-mdms-53.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Mid Day Meal Scheme (MDMS)                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                
                                              </div> 
                                            
                                                                                        <div class="mega-menu-item">
                                                 <h3><b>Environment</b></h3>
                                                                                                    <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/environment/time-bomb-ticking-52.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Time Bomb Ticking                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/environment/water-and-sanitation-55.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Water and Sanitation                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/environment/impact-on-agriculture-54.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Impact on Agriculture                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                
                                              </div> 
                                            
                                                                                        <div class="mega-menu-item">
                                                 <h3><b>Law & Justice</b></h3>
                                                                                                    <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/law-justice/social-justice-20500.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Social Justice                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/law-justice/access-to-justice-47.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Access to Justice                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/law-justice/human-rights-56.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Human Rights                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/law-justice/corruption-35.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Corruption                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/law-justice/general-insecurity-46.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">General Insecurity                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/law-justice/disaster-relief-49.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Disaster &amp; Relief                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                
                                              </div> 
                                            
                                                                                        
                    </div>
                </div>
            </div>
        </li>
        <li class="menu-item  menu-item-type-post_type  menu-item-object-page "><a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/nceus_reports.php">NCEUS reports</a>
            
        </li>
        <li class="menu-item  menu-item-type-custom  menu-item-object-custom  menu-item-has-children parent-list ">
            <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/about-us-9.html">About Us <span
                    class="sub-indicator"></span></a>
            <ul class="sub-menu aboutmenu">
                <li class="menu-item  menu-item-type-post_type  menu-item-object-page"><a
                        target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/objectives-8.html">Objectives</a>
                </li>
                <li class="menu-item  menu-item-type-post_type  menu-item-object-page"><a
                         target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/contactus.php">Contact
                        Us</a></li>
                <li class="menu-item  menu-item-type-post_type  menu-item-object-page"><a
                         target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/about-us-9.html">About
                        Us</a></li>
            </ul>
        </li>
        <li class="menu-item  menu-item-type-custom  menu-item-object-custom  menu-item-has-children ">
            <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/fellowships.php" title="Fellowships">Fellowships</a>
        </li>
        <li class="menu-item  menu-item-type-custom  menu-item-object-custom  menu-item-has-children  "><a
                 target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/media-workshops.php">Workshops</a>
        </li>
        <li class="menu-item  menu-item-type-custom  menu-item-object-custom  menu-item-has-children  "><a
                 target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/research.php">Research</a></li>
        <li class="menu-item  menu-item-type-custom  menu-item-object-custom  menu-item-has-children   "><a
                 target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/links-64">Partners</a></li>
        <li class="menu-item  menu-item-type-custom  menu-item-object-custom  menu-item-has-children"
            id="menu-item-539"><a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/hindi/"
                                  class="langbutton langlinkfont17">हिन्दी</a></li>
    </ul>
</div>            </div>


                        <!--  <div style="float: right;">
                            <script async src="https://cse.google.com/cse.js?cx=18b4f2e0f11bed3dd"></script>
                            <div class="gcse-search"></div>
                        </div> -->
                       
            <div class="search-block" style=" margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 7px;">
                <form method="get" id="searchform" name="searchform"
                      action="https://im4change.in/search"
                      onsubmit="return searchvalidate();">
                    <button class="search-button" type="submit" value="Search"></button>
                    <input type="text" id="s" name="qryStr" value=""
                           onfocus="if (this.value == 'Search...') {this.value = '';}"
                           onblur="if (this.value == '') {this.value = 'Search...';}">
                </form>
            </div>
        </nav>
    </header>
    <div class="container">
        <div id="main-content" class=" main1 container fade-in animated3 sidebar-narrow-left">
            <div class="content-wrap">
                <div class="content" style="width: 900px;min-height: 500px;">
                        <div class="background_inner innBack" align="center">
        <img src="https://im4change.in/images/media/Image Bundelkhand Undernutrition dated 26 Dec 2021.jpg"
             alt="The under-nutrition problem in Bundelkhand should receive equal attention of the policymakers, if not more"
             class="box_shadow mt5 imgRes" style="max-width:500px;"/>
    </div>
    <section class="cat-box recent-box innerCatRecent">
    <h1 class="cat-box-title">The under-nutrition problem in Bundelkhand should receive equal attention of the policymakers, if not more</h1>
    <a href="JavaScript:void(0);" onclick="return shareArticle(61719);">
        <img src="https://im4change.in/images/email.png?1582080630" border="0" width="24" align="right" alt="Share this article"/>    </a>

    <a href="https://im4change.in/news-alerts-57/the-under-nutrition-problem-in-bundelkhand-should-receive-equal-attention-of-the-policymakers-if-not-more/print"
       rel="nofollow">
        <img src="https://im4change.in/images/icon-print.png?1582080630" border="0" width="24" align="right" alt="Share this article"/>
    </a>
</section>
<section class="recent-box innerCatRecent">
    <small class="pb-1"><span class="dateIcn">
    	<img src="https://im4change.in/images/published.svg?1582080666" alt="published"/> 
		 Published on</span><span class="text-date"> Dec 26, 2021</span>
        &nbsp; <span
                class="dateIcn">
		 	<img src="https://im4change.in/images/modified.svg?1582080666" alt="modified"/>    	 Modified on </span><span class="text-date"> Jan 20, 2022</span>
    </small>
</section>
<div class="clear"></div>
<div style="padding-top: 10px;">
    <div class="innerLineHeight">
        <div class="middleContent innerInput news-alerts-57">
            <table>
                <tr>
                    <td>
                                                <div>
                            <p style="text-align:justify">Recent <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/pm-modi-to-launch-6300-crore-projects-in-bundelkhand-region-of-uttar-pradesh-101637258523293.html" title="https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/pm-modi-to-launch-6300-crore-projects-in-bundelkhand-region-of-uttar-pradesh-101637258523293.html">media reports</a> point out that the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh is likely to get about <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/pm-modi-to-launch-6300-crore-projects-in-bundelkhand-region-of-uttar-pradesh-101637258523293.html" title="https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/pm-modi-to-launch-6300-crore-projects-in-bundelkhand-region-of-uttar-pradesh-101637258523293.html">Rs. 6,300 crore projects</a> ahead of the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, including a <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/pm-modi-to-launch-6300-crore-projects-in-bundelkhand-region-of-uttar-pradesh-101637258523293.html" title="https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/pm-modi-to-launch-6300-crore-projects-in-bundelkhand-region-of-uttar-pradesh-101637258523293.html">Rs. 400 crore worth plant</a> for the propulsion system of <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/pm-modi-to-launch-6300-crore-projects-in-bundelkhand-region-of-uttar-pradesh-101637258523293.html" title="https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/pm-modi-to-launch-6300-crore-projects-in-bundelkhand-region-of-uttar-pradesh-101637258523293.html">anti-tank guided missiles</a> in Jhansi. The&nbsp;foundation was laid for the <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/india/yogi-govt-infra-race-before-polls-7643744/" title="https://indianexpress.com/article/india/yogi-govt-infra-race-before-polls-7643744/">first project in the Jhansi node</a> <em>(related to the Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor) </em>on November 18, 2021.&nbsp;The two Defence Industrial Corridors of Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu are expected to attract a total investment of <a href="https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1777610" title="https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1777610">Rs. 20,000 crore by the year 2024-25</a>. The <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/pm-modi-to-launch-6300-crore-projects-in-bundelkhand-region-of-uttar-pradesh-101637258523293.html" title="https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/pm-modi-to-launch-6300-crore-projects-in-bundelkhand-region-of-uttar-pradesh-101637258523293.html">Arjun Sahayak project</a> on the Dhasan river, built at a cost of around Rs. 2,600 crore in Mahoba district, is anticipated to provide irrigation facilities to 1.5 lakh farmers in 168 villages of Banda, Hamirpur and Mahoba districts.&nbsp;The Uttar Pradesh State Government led by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has claimed recently that nearly <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/india/yogi-govt-infra-race-before-polls-7643744/" title="https://indianexpress.com/article/india/yogi-govt-infra-race-before-polls-7643744/">76 percent of the work on the 296-km</a> Bundelkhand Expressway <em>(whose foundation was laid on February 29, 2020)</em>, connecting Etawah, Auraiya, Jalaun, Hamirpur, Banda, Mahoba and Chitrakoot, has been completed. The <a href="https://www.narendramodi.in/text-of-prime-minister-narendra-modi-s-address-at-inauguration-of-the-saryu-nahar-national-project-in-balrampur-uttar-pradesh-558858" title="https://www.narendramodi.in/text-of-prime-minister-narendra-modi-s-address-at-inauguration-of-the-saryu-nahar-national-project-in-balrampur-uttar-pradesh-558858">Ken-Betwa river interlinking</a> project is supposed to end the water crisis of Bundelkhand, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi&nbsp;on December 11, 2021 while inaugurating the <a href="https://www.narendramodi.in/text-of-prime-minister-narendra-modi-s-address-at-inauguration-of-the-saryu-nahar-national-project-in-balrampur-uttar-pradesh-558858" title="https://www.narendramodi.in/text-of-prime-minister-narendra-modi-s-address-at-inauguration-of-the-saryu-nahar-national-project-in-balrampur-uttar-pradesh-558858">Saryu canal project at Balrampur</a> in Uttar Pradesh. &nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">While the Bundelkhand region of Central India received attention from social scientists, researchers and civil society organisations for its socio-economic backwardness, in recent times it has received attention for political reasons thanks to the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls to be held early next year.</p><p style="text-align:justify">The Bundelkhand region of Central India is spread across <a href="/upload/files/Bundelkhand-Building-on-Partnership-By-Rakesh-singh%20PRADAN.pdf" title="/upload/files/Bundelkhand-Building-on-Partnership-By-Rakesh-singh%20PRADAN.pdf">7 districts of Uttar Pradesh</a> and <a href="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Bundelkhand-Building-on-Partnership-By-Rakesh-singh%20PRADAN.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Bundelkhand-Building-on-Partnership-By-Rakesh-singh%20PRADAN.pdf">six districts of Madhya Pradesh</a>. The districts of Chitrakoot, Banda, Jhansi, Jalaun, Hamirpur, Mahoba and Lalitpur, which are part of the Bundelkhand region lie in Uttar Pradesh. The districts of Madhya Pradesh that belong to the Bundelkhand region are Chhatarpur, Tikamgarh, Damoh, Sagar, Datia and Panna. <a href="/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf" title="/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf">Annual precipitation is often erratic</a> with a deluge followed by a long spell without rainfall. Although more than <a href="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf">95 percent of the rainfall</a> occurs between June and September <em>(with maximum rain generally in July-August)</em>, the small amount of rainfall taking place during November-May is quite useful for farming in the region. Owing to the <a href="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf">geology and topography</a>, and the pattern of the rainfall received, Bundelkhand region is affected by both drought and flood. <a href="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf">Impermeable rocky layer</a> exists at fairly shallow depths in most parts of the region. Rainwater runoff is high. It means that rainwater has little time to <a href="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf">penetrate the soil</a> in this region.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Agriculture is the <a href="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf">mainstay of the majority</a> of the rural people residing in Bundelkhand. Besides farming, they rely on <a href="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf">secondary activities</a> like animal husbandry and dairying, poultry, fisheries, bee-keeping and sericulture. Successive droughts <em>(caused by climate change in recent years)</em> and uncertain monsoons have affected the livelihoods of the people residing in this region. Water shortage <em>(due to the lack of assured irrigation facilities) </em>coupled with low farm productivity has not only affected the purchasing power of the people, but also the <a href="https://im4change.org/docs/drought-assessment-report-bundelkhand-region-up-state-february-2016.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/docs/drought-assessment-report-bundelkhand-region-up-state-february-2016.pdf">food and nutrition security</a> of both children and adults. <a href="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Jan%20Sahas%202021%20report.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Jan%20Sahas%202021%20report.pdf">Out-migration from the Bundelkhand region</a> to other places of India for livelihood security is quite common.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Against the above-stated&nbsp;background, an attempt has been made <em>(using the <a href="http://rchiips.org/nfhs/factsheet_NFHS-5.shtml" title="http://rchiips.org/nfhs/factsheet_NFHS-5.shtml">National Family Health Survey-NFHS data</a>) </em>to assess the status of child nutrition in various districts of Bundelkhand region vis-&agrave;-vis the overall child nutrition situation in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.</p><p style="text-align:justify">In the present analysis, 3 indicators have been considered -- proportion of children under 5 years who are stunted <em>(height-for-age)</em>; proportion of children under 5 years who are wasted <em>(weight-for-height)</em>; and proportion of &nbsp;children under 5 years who are underweight <em>(weight-for-age)</em>. It should be noted that as per the <a href="https://www.unicef.org/media/86536/file/Progress_for_Children_-_No._4.pdf" title="https://www.unicef.org/media/86536/file/Progress_for_Children_-_No._4.pdf">United Nations Children&#39;s Fund</a> (UNICEF), <a href="https://www.unicef.org/media/86536/file/Progress_for_Children_-_No._4.pdf" title="https://www.unicef.org/media/86536/file/Progress_for_Children_-_No._4.pdf">under-nutrition includes</a> being <a href="https://www.unicef.org/media/86536/file/Progress_for_Children_-_No._4.pdf" title="https://www.unicef.org/media/86536/file/Progress_for_Children_-_No._4.pdf">underweight</a> for one&rsquo;s age, <a href="https://www.unicef.org/media/86536/file/Progress_for_Children_-_No._4.pdf" title="https://www.unicef.org/media/86536/file/Progress_for_Children_-_No._4.pdf">too short for one&rsquo;s age</a> <em>(stunted)</em>, <a href="https://www.unicef.org/media/86536/file/Progress_for_Children_-_No._4.pdf" title="https://www.unicef.org/media/86536/file/Progress_for_Children_-_No._4.pdf">dangerously thin</a> <em>(wasted)</em>, and <a href="https://www.unicef.org/media/86536/file/Progress_for_Children_-_No._4.pdf" title="https://www.unicef.org/media/86536/file/Progress_for_Children_-_No._4.pdf">deficient in vitamins and minerals</a> <em>(micronutrient malnutrition)</em>.</p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong>Prevalence of stunting among children&nbsp;under five years </strong></p><p style="text-align:justify">The recently <a href="https://dhsprogram.com/publications/publication-OF43-Other-Fact-Sheets.cfm" title="https://dhsprogram.com/publications/publication-OF43-Other-Fact-Sheets.cfm">released data of the NFHS</a> shows that for the country as a whole, the percentage of children below 5 years who are stunted has reduced from 38.4 percent to 35.5 percent between 2015-16 and 2019-21 i.e., by -2.9 percentage points. While for Madhya Pradesh, the percentage of children below 5 years who are stunted has gone down from 42.0 percent to 35.7 percent between 2015-16 and 2020-21 <em>(i.e., by -6.3 percentage points)</em>, for Uttar Pradesh the same has decreased from 46.3 percent to 39.7 percent between the two time points <em>(i.e., by -6.6 percentage points)</em>. Please see chart-1.</p><p style="text-align:justify">While in Damoh <em>(-2.9 percentage points)</em>, Datia <em>(-12.1 percentage points)</em>, and Tikamgarh <em>(-22.2 percentage points)</em> districts the percentage of children below 5 years who are stunted has decreased between NFHS-4 and NFHS-5, in Chhatarpur <em>(+2.4 percentage points)</em>, Panna <em>(+2.8 percentage points)</em>, and Sagar <em>(+1.7 percentage points)</em> districts the percentage of children below 5 years who are stunted has increased between the two time points.</p><p style="text-align:justify">In Chitrakoot <em>(-3.4 percentage points)</em>, Jalaun <em>(-0.5 percentage points)</em>, and Mahoba <em>(-2.3 percentage points)</em> districts the percentage of children below 5 years who are stunted has gone down between NFHS-4 and NFHS-5, whereas in Banda <em>(+4.3 percentage points)</em>, Hamirpur <em>(+9.5 percentage points)</em>, Jhansi <em>(+4.8 percentage points)</em>, and Lalitpur <em>(+5.9 percentage points)</em> districts the percentage of children below 5 years who are stunted has climbed up between the two time points.</p><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="background-color:#ffff00">So, in seven out of 13 districts that fall in Bundelkhand, the proportion of children under 5 years who are stunted has increased between 2015-16 and 2020-21.</span></p><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="background-color:#ffff00">The prevalence of stunting among children&nbsp;under five years in 2020-21 is higher in Chhatarpur </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(45.1 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Damoh </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(40.3 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">,&nbsp;Datia </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(36.8 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Panna </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(45.1 percent) </span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">and Sagar </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(42.7 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00"> in comparison to Madhya Pradesh </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(35.7 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">. The prevalence of stunting among children&nbsp;below five years in 2020-21 is higher in Banda </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(51.0 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Chitrakoot </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(47.5 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Hamirpur </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(48.0 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Jalaun </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(45.1 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Jhansi </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(40.9 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Lalitpur </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(46.6 percent),&nbsp;</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">and Mahoba </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(42.3 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00"> as compared to Uttar Pradesh </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(39.7 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">.</span></p><p style="text-align:justify"><img alt="" src="/upload/images/Chart%201%20Percentage%20of%20children%20under%205%20years%20who%20are%20stunted.png" style="height:555px; width:831px" /></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em><strong>Note: </strong>Please <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WDzaTq8g-zSy6XaQbLA9bkk1gEkNtk8L/edit?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=112233925171588304692&amp;rtpof=true&amp;sd=true" title="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WDzaTq8g-zSy6XaQbLA9bkk1gEkNtk8L/edit?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=112233925171588304692&amp;rtpof=true&amp;sd=true">click here</a> to access the data of the above chart in a spreadsheet format</em></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em><strong>Source: </strong>Madhya Pradesh --</em></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>District Factsheet: Chhatarpur, Madhya Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Chhatarpur%20Madhya%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf" title="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Chhatarpur%20Madhya%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;<br />***<br />District Factsheet: Damoh, Madhya Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Damoh%20Madhya%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf" title="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Damoh%20Madhya%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;<br />***<br />District Factsheet: Datia, Madhya Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Datia%20Madhya%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf" title="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Datia%20Madhya%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;<br />***<br />District Factsheet: Panna, Madhya Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Panna%20Madhya%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf" title="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Panna%20Madhya%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;<br />***<br />District Factsheet: Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Sagar%20Madhya%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf" title="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Sagar%20Madhya%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf">click here</a> to access</em></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>***<br />District Factsheet: Tikamgarh, Madhya Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Tikamgarh%20Madhya%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf" title="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Tikamgarh%20Madhya%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;<br />***<br />Madhya Pradesh Factsheet, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="https://im4change.org/docs/NFHS-5%20Madhya%20Pradesh.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/docs/NFHS-5%20Madhya%20Pradesh.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;</em></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>---</em></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>Uttar Pradesh --&nbsp;</em></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>District Factsheet: Banda, Uttar Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Banda%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf" title="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Banda%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;<br />***<br />District Factsheet: Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Chitrakoot%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf" title="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Chitrakoot%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;<br />***<br />District Factsheet: Hamirpur, Uttar Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Hamirpur%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf" title="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Hamirpur%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;<br />***<br />District Factsheet: Jalaun, Uttar Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Jalaun%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf" title="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Jalaun%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;<br />***<br />District Factsheet: Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Jhansi%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf" title="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Jhansi%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;<br />***<br />District Factsheet: Lalitpur, Uttar Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Lalitpur%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf" title="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Lalitpur%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;&nbsp;<br />***</em></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>District Factsheet: Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Mahoba%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf" title="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Mahoba%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;</em></p><p style="text-align:justify">***<br /><em>Uttar Pradesh Factsheet, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="https://im4change.org/docs/NFHS-5%20Uttar%20Pradesh.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/docs/NFHS-5%20Uttar%20Pradesh.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;&nbsp;</em></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>---</em></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>India Factsheet, NFHS-5, 2019-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="https://im4change.org/docs/India_National_Fact_Sheet.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/docs/India_National_Fact_Sheet.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;&nbsp;</em></p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong>-----</strong></p><p style="text-align:justify">According to the <a href="https://www.unicef.org/india/what-we-do/stop-stunting" title="https://www.unicef.org/india/what-we-do/stop-stunting">United Nations Children&#39;s Fund (UNICEF)</a>, stunting, or low height for age, is responsible for irreversible physical and mental damage to children. A child who is stunted is too short for their age, does not fully develop and stunting reflects chronic under-nutrition during the most critical periods of growth and development in early life. Stunting prevalence is defined as the percentage of children, aged 0 to 59 months, whose height for age is below minus two standard deviations <em>(moderate and severe stunting)</em> and minus three standard deviations <em>(severe stunting) </em>from the median of the World Health Organisation-WHO Child Growth Standards. Stunting is associated with an underdeveloped brain, with long-lasting harmful consequences, including diminished mental ability and learning capacity, poor school performance in childhood, reduced earnings and increased risks of nutrition-related chronic diseases, such as diabetes, hypertension, and obesity in future. Experts have noted that stunting starts from pre-conception when an adolescent girl who later becomes mother is undernourished and anaemic and it worsens when infants&rsquo; diets are poor, and when sanitation and hygiene are inadequate. It is irreversible by the age of two. Stunting adversely affects school attendance and performance. This, in turn, can reduce later adult income-generation. Under-nutrition reduces economic advancement due to losses in productivity, poorer cognition and poorer educational outcomes. The immediate and underlying factors causing stunting include infant and child care practices, hygiene and limited food security among the poorest households. It is closely connected to reproductive and maternal nutrition and is often determined in the womb by a mother&#39;s social status and level of education. Traditional beliefs related to food intake and quality of care of an adolescent girl and of a woman during pregnancy and breastfeeding are also factors. While exclusive breastfeeding practices have improved in the past 10 years, complementary feeding practices have worsened. It should be noted that poverty is not a clear cause of stunting as there are stunted children even among the richest households.<strong> &nbsp;</strong></p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong>Prevalence of wasting among children&nbsp;under five years </strong></p><p style="text-align:justify">For India, the percentage of children below 5 years who are wasted has gone down from 21.0 percent to 19.3 percent between 2015-16 and 2019-21 i.e., by -1.7 percentage points. For Madhya Pradesh, the percentage of children below 5 years who are wasted has declined from 25.8 percent to 19.0 percent between 2015-16 and 2020-21 <em>(i.e., by -6.8 percentage points)</em>, whereas for Uttar Pradesh&nbsp;the same has gone down from 17.9 percent to 17.3 percent between the two time points <em>(i.e., by -0.6 percentage points)</em>. Please consult chart-2.</p><p style="text-align:justify">In Chhatarpur <em>(-1.4 percentage points)</em>, Damoh <em>(-4.8 percentage points)</em>, Datia <em>(-9.8 percentage points)</em>, Panna <em>(-0.8 percentage points),</em> and Sagar <em>(-1.7 percentage points)</em> districts the percentage of children below 5 years who are wasted has decreased between NFHS-4 and NFHS-5, whereas in Tikamgarh district <em>(+0.5 percentage points)</em> the percentage of children below 5 years who are wasted has increased between the two time points.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Although in Chitrakoot <em>(-8.5 percentage points)</em>, Hamirpur <em>(-11.7 percentage points)</em>, Jalaun <em>(-12.7 percentage points)</em>, Jhansi <em>(-2.0 percentage points),</em> and Lalitpur <em>(-20.3 percentage points)</em> districts the percentage of children below 5 years who are wasted has fallen between NFHS-4 and NFHS-5, in Banda <em>(+7.7 percentage points)</em> and Mahoba <em>(+1.1 percentage points)</em> the percentage of children below 5 years who are wasted has risen between the two time points.</p><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="background-color:#ffff00">Therefore, in three out of 13 districts that come under Bundelkhand region, the proportion of children under 5 years who are wasted has increased between 2015-16 and 2020-21.</span></p><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="background-color:#ffff00">The prevalence of wasting among children&nbsp;under five years in 2020-21 is higher in Panna </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(23.2 percent) </span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">and Tikamgarh </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(19.7 percent) </span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">in comparison to Madhya Pradesh </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(19.0 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">. The prevalence of wasting among children&nbsp;below five years in 2020-21 is higher in Banda </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(25.7 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Chitrakoot </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(24.8 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Hamirpur </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(20.6 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Jalaun </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(19.5 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Jhansi </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(25.2 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Lalitpur </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(18.7 percent),</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00"> and Mahoba </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(25.0 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00"> as compared to Uttar Pradesh </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(17.3 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">.</span></p><p style="text-align:justify"><img alt="" src="/upload/images/Chart%202%20Percentage%20of%20children%20under%205%20years%20who%20are%20wasted.png" style="height:696px; width:917px" /></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em><strong>Note: </strong>Please <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WDzaTq8g-zSy6XaQbLA9bkk1gEkNtk8L/edit?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=112233925171588304692&amp;rtpof=true&amp;sd=true" title="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WDzaTq8g-zSy6XaQbLA9bkk1gEkNtk8L/edit?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=112233925171588304692&amp;rtpof=true&amp;sd=true">click here</a> to access the data of the above chart in a spreadsheet format</em></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em><strong>Source: </strong>Same as Chart-1</em><br /><strong>---</strong></p><p style="text-align:justify"><a href="https://data.unicef.org/topic/nutrition/malnutrition/" title="https://data.unicef.org/topic/nutrition/malnutrition/">According to the UNICEF</a>, wasting refers to a situation when a child is too thin for his or her height. Wasting happens due to recent rapid weight loss or the failure to gain weight. A child who is moderately or severely wasted faces an increased risk of death, but treatment is possible. Wasting is considered as a <a href="https://data.unicef.org/topic/nutrition/child-nutrition/" title="https://data.unicef.org/topic/nutrition/child-nutrition/">life-threatening condition</a> attributable to poor nutrient intake and/or disease. Characterised by a rapid deterioration in nutritional status over a short period of time, children suffering from wasting have weakened immunity, increasing their risk of death due to greater frequency and severity of common infection, particularly when severe. Wasting is considered to be the <a href="https://www.unicef.org/nutrition/child-wasting" title="https://www.unicef.org/nutrition/child-wasting">most immediate, visible</a> and <a href="https://www.unicef.org/nutrition/child-wasting" title="https://www.unicef.org/nutrition/child-wasting">life-threatening</a> form of <a href="https://www.unicef.org/nutrition/child-wasting" title="https://www.unicef.org/nutrition/child-wasting">malnutrition</a>. It results from the failure to prevent malnutrition among the most vulnerable children. Children with wasting are too thin and their immune systems are weak, leaving them vulnerable to developmental delays, disease and death. Some children affected by wasting also suffer from nutritional oedema, characterised by a swollen face, feet and limbs. Wasting and other forms of acute malnutrition occur due to maternal malnutrition, low birth weight, poor feeding and care practices, and infection exacerbated by food insecurity, limited access to safe drinking water, and poverty. Growing evidence suggests that wasting occurs very early in life and disproportionally affects children under 2 years of age. The number of children who suffer from wasting can increase dramatically as a result of conflict, epidemics and food insecurity, including that caused by climate change&ndash;induced droughts and flooding. Yet, wasting is not only a characteristic of crisis. In fact, two thirds of all children with wasting live in places that are not facing emergencies. While the number of children being treated for wasting and other forms of life-threatening malnutrition has increased in recent years, only one in three children with severe wasting are reached with the timely treatment and care they require to survive and thrive. Technically, it is <a href="https://data.unicef.org/topic/nutrition/malnutrition/" title="https://data.unicef.org/topic/nutrition/malnutrition/">defined as</a> the number <em>(also proportion) </em>of under-fives falling below minus 2 standard deviations <em>(moderate and severe) </em>and minus 3 standard deviations <em>(severe) </em>from the median weight-for-height of the reference population.</p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong>Percentage of children under 5 years who are underweight</strong></p><p style="text-align:justify">For the country as whole, the percentage of children below 5 years who are underweight has decreased from 35.8 percent to 32.1 percent between 2015-16 and 2019-21 i.e., by -3.7 percentage points. Although for Madhya Pradesh the percentage of children below 5 years who are underweight has fallen from 42.8 percent to 33.0 percent between 2015-16 and 2020-21 <em>(i.e., by -9.8 percentage points)</em>, for Uttar Pradesh the same has decreased from 39.5 percent to 32.1 percent between the two time points <em>(i.e., by -7.4 percentage points)</em>. Please have a look at chart-3.</p><p style="text-align:justify">In Chhatarpur <em>(-6.7 percentage points)</em>, Damoh <em>(-5.7 percentage points)</em>, Datia <em>(-17.5 percentage points)</em>, Panna <em>(-1.6 percentage points),</em> and Tikamgarh <em>(-8.4 percentage points)</em> districts the percentage of children below 5 years who are underweight has gone down between NFHS-4 and NFHS-5, whereas in Sagar district <em>(+5.3 percentage points) </em>the percentage of children below 5 years who are underweight has risen between the two time points.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Although in Chitrakoot <em>(-10.7 percentage points)</em>, Hamirpur <em>(-3.5 percentage points)</em>, Jalaun <em>(-13.1 percentage points)</em>, Jhansi <em>(-0.2 percentage points)</em>, Lalitpur <em>(-14.0 percentage points),</em> and Mahoba <em>(-14.3 percentage points) </em>districts the percentage of children below 5 years who are underweight has fallen between 2015-16 and 2020-21, in Banda district <em>(+8.3 percentage points)</em> the percentage of children below 5 years who are underweight has increased between the two time points. <span style="background-color:#ffff00">Banda is the only district in Bundelkhand region, which has experienced a rise in all three indicators of under-nutrition i.e., prevalence of stunting, wasting as well as underweight among children below 5 years of age.</span></p><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="background-color:#ffff00">In just two out of 13 districts that belong to Bundelkhand, the proportion of children under 5 years who are underweight has grown between 2015-16 and 2020-21.</span></p><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="background-color:#ffff00">The prevalence of underweight among children&nbsp;under five years in 2020-21 is higher in Chhatarpur </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(34.6 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Panna </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(39.2 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Sagar </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(35.8 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, and Tikamgarh </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(34.9 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00"> in comparison to Madhya Pradesh </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(33.0 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">. The prevalence of underweight among children&nbsp;below five years in 2020-21 is higher in Banda </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(49.8 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Chitrakoot </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(41.8 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Hamirpur </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(36.3 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Jalaun </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(36.1 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Jhansi </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(39.3 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Lalitpur </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(34.8 percent),</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00"> and Mahoba </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(33.4 percent) </span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">as compared to Uttar Pradesh </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(32.1 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">.</span></p><p style="text-align:justify"><img alt="" src="/upload/images/Chart%203%20Percentage%20of%20children%20under%205%20years%20who%20are%20underweight.png" style="height:534px; width:1000px" />&nbsp;<br /><em><strong>Note: </strong>Please <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WDzaTq8g-zSy6XaQbLA9bkk1gEkNtk8L/edit?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=112233925171588304692&amp;rtpof=true&amp;sd=true" title="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WDzaTq8g-zSy6XaQbLA9bkk1gEkNtk8L/edit?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=112233925171588304692&amp;rtpof=true&amp;sd=true">click here</a> to access the data of the above chart in a spreadsheet format</em></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em><strong>Source:</strong> Same as Chart-1</em><br /><strong>---</strong></p><p style="text-align:justify">According to the <a href="https://unstats.un.org/unsd/mdg/Metadata.aspx?IndicatorId=0&amp;SeriesId=559" title="https://unstats.un.org/unsd/mdg/Metadata.aspx?IndicatorId=0&amp;SeriesId=559">United Nations</a>, the prevalence of <em>(moderately and severely) </em>underweight children is the percentage of children aged 0-59 months whose weights for age are less than two standard deviations below the median weight for age of the international reference population. The international reference population, often referred to as the NCHS/WHO reference population, was formulated by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) as a reference for the United States and later adopted by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Children with low weight-for-age <a href="https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/malnutrition" title="https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/malnutrition">are known as underweight</a>. A child who is underweight may be stunted, wasted, or both. The <a href="https://www.who.int/data/nutrition/nlis/info/malnutrition-in-children" title="https://www.who.int/data/nutrition/nlis/info/malnutrition-in-children">mortality risk</a> is increased in children who are even mildly underweight, and the risk is even greater in severely underweight children.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong>Data on child mortality indicators</strong></p><p style="text-align:justify">Although data is available for the three child mortality indicators i.e., Neonatal Mortality Rate (NNMR), Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) and Under-Five Mortality Rate (U5MR) at the <a href="https://im4change.org/docs/India_National_Fact_Sheet.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/docs/India_National_Fact_Sheet.pdf">national</a> and state-levels <em>(<a href="https://im4change.org/docs/NFHS-5%20Madhya%20Pradesh.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/docs/NFHS-5%20Madhya%20Pradesh.pdf">Madhya Pradesh</a> and <a href="https://im4change.org/docs/NFHS-5%20Uttar%20Pradesh.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/docs/NFHS-5%20Uttar%20Pradesh.pdf">Uttar Pradesh</a>)</em>, it is unavailable for various districts that are part of Bundelkhand region. As a result of this, we could not look at the trends of child mortality in the 13 districts of Bundelkhand region.</p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong><em>References</em></strong></p><p style="text-align:justify">The DHS (Demographic and Health Surveys) Program, National, State and Union Territory, and District Fact Sheets 2019-21 National Family Health Survey NFHS-5 (English), USAID, please <a href="https://dhsprogram.com/publications/publication-OF43-Other-Fact-Sheets.cfm" title="https://dhsprogram.com/publications/publication-OF43-Other-Fact-Sheets.cfm">click here</a>&nbsp;and <a href="http://rchiips.org/nfhs/factsheet_NFHS-5.shtml" title="http://rchiips.org/nfhs/factsheet_NFHS-5.shtml">here</a> to access&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Stop stunting, UNICEF, please click here to access, please <a href="https://www.unicef.org/india/what-we-do/stop-stunting" title="https://www.unicef.org/india/what-we-do/stop-stunting">click here</a> to access &nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Malnutrition, UNICEF, April 2021, please <a href="https://data.unicef.org/topic/nutrition/malnutrition/" title="https://data.unicef.org/topic/nutrition/malnutrition/">click here</a> to access&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Child Nutrition, October 2019, please <a href="https://data.unicef.org/topic/nutrition/child-nutrition/" title="https://data.unicef.org/topic/nutrition/child-nutrition/">click here</a> to access</p><p style="text-align:justify">Progress for Children: A Report Card on Nutrition, Number 4, May 2006, please <a href="https://www.unicef.org/media/86536/file/Progress_for_Children_-_No._4.pdf" title="https://www.unicef.org/media/86536/file/Progress_for_Children_-_No._4.pdf">click here</a> to access &nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Millennium Development Goals Indicators, United Nations Statistics Division, please <a href="https://unstats.un.org/unsd/mdg/Metadata.aspx?IndicatorId=0&amp;SeriesId=559" title="https://unstats.un.org/unsd/mdg/Metadata.aspx?IndicatorId=0&amp;SeriesId=559">click here</a> to access&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Malnutrition, World Health Organisation, 9 June, 2021, please <a href="https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/malnutrition" title="https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/malnutrition">click here</a> to access &nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Malnutrition in children: Stunting, wasting, overweight and underweight, World Health Organisation, please <a href="https://www.who.int/data/nutrition/nlis/info/malnutrition-in-children" title="https://www.who.int/data/nutrition/nlis/info/malnutrition-in-children">click here</a> to access</p><p style="text-align:justify">Voices of the Invisible Citizens II: One year of COVID-19 -- Are we seeing shifts in internal migration patterns in India? prepared by Migrants Resilience Collaborative (a Jan Sahas initiative) in collaboration with EdelGive Foundation and Global Development Incubator, released on 25th June, 2021, please <a href="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Jan%20Sahas%202021%20report.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Jan%20Sahas%202021%20report.pdf">click here</a> to access</p><p style="text-align:justify">Water Resources Management of Bundelkhand, Uttar Pradesh Planning Department, Government of Uttar Pradesh, please <a href="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf">click here</a> to access</p><p style="text-align:justify">Bundelkhand: Overview of 2018 Monsoon, SANDRP, 12 October, 2018, please <a href="https://sandrp.in/2018/10/12/bundelkhand-overview-of-2018-monsoon/" title="https://sandrp.in/2018/10/12/bundelkhand-overview-of-2018-monsoon/">click here</a> to access &nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Bundelkhand: Building on Partnership -Rakesh Singh, Pradan (NGO),&nbsp;NewsReach March&ndash;April 2015,&nbsp;please <a href="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Bundelkhand-Building-on-Partnership-By-Rakesh-singh%20PRADAN.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Bundelkhand-Building-on-Partnership-By-Rakesh-singh%20PRADAN.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Assessment of Impact of Drought on Men, Women and Children: An Inter-Agency Initiative, Rapid Assessment Survey conducted in Banda, Chitrakoot, Siddharth Nagar, Sonbhadga &amp; Mahoba districts of Uttar Pradesh during 2016, Prepared by CASA, ActionAid, UNICEF, please <a href="https://im4change.org/docs/drought-assessment-report-bundelkhand-region-up-state-february-2016.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/docs/drought-assessment-report-bundelkhand-region-up-state-february-2016.pdf">click here</a> to access</p><p style="text-align:justify">Bundelkhand Drought Impact Assessment Survey 2015, Swaraj Abhiyan in association with Parmarth, Orai, please <a href="https://im4change.org/docs/bundelkhand%20survey%202015_v05.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/docs/bundelkhand%20survey%202015_v05.pdf">click here</a> to access</p><p style="text-align:justify">Bundelkhand Historic Region, India, Britannica.com,&nbsp;please <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Bundelkhand" title="https://www.britannica.com/place/Bundelkhand">click here</a> to access &nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Study on Bundelkhand, Planning Commission, please <a href="https://niti.gov.in/planningcommission.gov.in/docs/reports/sereport/ser/bndel/stdy_bndel.pdf" title="https://niti.gov.in/planningcommission.gov.in/docs/reports/sereport/ser/bndel/stdy_bndel.pdf">click here</a> to access &nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">In five years we have done more work on Saryu canal project than what was done in five decades: PM, 11 December, 2021, please <a href="https://www.narendramodi.in/text-of-prime-minister-narendra-modi-s-address-at-inauguration-of-the-saryu-nahar-national-project-in-balrampur-uttar-pradesh-558858" title="https://www.narendramodi.in/text-of-prime-minister-narendra-modi-s-address-at-inauguration-of-the-saryu-nahar-national-project-in-balrampur-uttar-pradesh-558858">click here</a> to access</p><p style="text-align:justify">Defence Industrial Corridors, Ministry of Defence, Press Information Bureau, 3 December, 2021, please <a href="https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1777610" title="https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1777610">click here</a> to access</p><p style="text-align:justify">Expressways, airports, AIIMS: Yogi government&rsquo;s big infra race before polls -Maulshree Seth, The Indian Express, 27 November, 2021, please <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/india/yogi-govt-infra-race-before-polls-7643744/" title="https://indianexpress.com/article/india/yogi-govt-infra-race-before-polls-7643744/">click here</a> to read more&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">PM Modi to launch Rs.6300 crore projects in Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh -Haidar Naqvi, Hindustan Times, 18 November, 2021, please <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/pm-modi-to-launch-6300-crore-projects-in-bundelkhand-region-of-uttar-pradesh-101637258523293.html" title="https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/pm-modi-to-launch-6300-crore-projects-in-bundelkhand-region-of-uttar-pradesh-101637258523293.html">click here</a> to access</p><p style="text-align:justify">Dried Wells, Broken Dams, Distressed Villagers Define UP&#39;s Multi-Crore &#39;Bundelkhand Package&#39; -Dheeraj Mishra, TheWire.in, 27 October, 2021, please <a href="https://thewire.in/rights/uttar-pradesh-agriculture-bundelkhand-package-irrigation-adityanath" title="https://thewire.in/rights/uttar-pradesh-agriculture-bundelkhand-package-irrigation-adityanath">click here</a> to access&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">No one needs the Ken-Betwa Link Project -Himanshu Thakkar, The Indian Express, 8 April, 2021, please <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/ken-betwa-link-project-bundelkhand-7263573/" title="https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/ken-betwa-link-project-bundelkhand-7263573/">click here</a> to read more&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong>Image Courtesy: UNDP India</strong><br />&nbsp;</p>                                                           
                        </div>
                    </td>
                </tr>
            </table>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
        <div style="padding-top: 18px;">
        <p class="post-tag">Tagged with:
                            <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Banda"
                   title="Banda">
                    Banda                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Bundelkhand Region"
                   title="Bundelkhand Region">
                    Bundelkhand Region                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Bundenkhand"
                   title="Bundenkhand">
                    Bundenkhand                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Chhatarpur"
                   title="Chhatarpur">
                    Chhatarpur                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Chitrakoot"
                   title="Chitrakoot">
                    Chitrakoot                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Damoh"
                   title="Damoh">
                    Damoh                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Datia"
                   title="Datia">
                    Datia                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Hamirpur"
                   title="Hamirpur">
                    Hamirpur                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Jalaun"
                   title="Jalaun">
                    Jalaun                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Jhansi"
                   title="Jhansi">
                    Jhansi                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Lalitpur"
                   title="Lalitpur">
                    Lalitpur                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Madhya Pradesh"
                   title="Madhya Pradesh">
                    Madhya Pradesh                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Mahoba"
                   title="Mahoba">
                    Mahoba                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=National Family Health Survey"
                   title="National Family Health Survey">
                    National Family Health Survey                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=NFHS"
                   title="NFHS">
                    NFHS                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=NFHS-4"
                   title="NFHS-4">
                    NFHS-4                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=NFHS-5"
                   title="NFHS-5">
                    NFHS-5                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Panna"
                   title="Panna">
                    Panna                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Prevalence of Stunting"
                   title="Prevalence of Stunting">
                    Prevalence of Stunting                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Prevalence of Wasting"
                   title="Prevalence of Wasting">
                    Prevalence of Wasting                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Sagar"
                   title="Sagar">
                    Sagar                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Stunting"
                   title="Stunting">
                    Stunting                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Tikamgarh"
                   title="Tikamgarh">
                    Tikamgarh                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Under-nutrition"
                   title="Under-nutrition">
                    Under-nutrition                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Underweight"
                   title="Underweight">
                    Underweight                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Uttar Pradesh"
                   title="Uttar Pradesh">
                    Uttar Pradesh                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Wasting"
                   title="Wasting">
                    Wasting                </a>
                        </p>
    </div>
<div class="clear"></div>
    <br><br>
    <div class="widget-top">
        <h4>Related Articles</h4>
        <div class="stripe-line"></div>
    </div>
    <div class="widget-container">
        <ul id="recentcomments">
                            <li class="recentcomments">
                    <a href="https://im4change.in/news-alerts-57/135-million-indians-exited-multidimensional-poverty-as-per-government-figures-is-that-the-same-as-poverty-reduction.html"
                       title="135 Million Indians Exited “Multidimensional" Poverty as per Government Figures. Is that the same as Poverty Reduction?">
                        135 Million Indians Exited “Multidimensional" Poverty as per Government Figures. Is that the same as Poverty Reduction?                    </a>
                </li>
                                <li class="recentcomments">
                    <a href="https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/niti-aayog-says-20-79-crore-indians-are-multidimensionally-poor-banjot-kaur.html"
                       title="Niti Aayog says 20.79 Crore Indians Are 'Multidimensionally Poor' - Banjot Kaur">
                        Niti Aayog says 20.79 Crore Indians Are 'Multidimensionally Poor' - Banjot Kaur                    </a>
                </li>
                                <li class="recentcomments">
                    <a href="https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/fatal-heatwave-in-uttar-pradesh-linked-to-climate-change-carbon-copy.html"
                       title="Fatal Heatwave in Uttar Pradesh Linked to Climate Change - Carbon Copy">
                        Fatal Heatwave in Uttar Pradesh Linked to Climate Change - Carbon Copy                    </a>
                </li>
                                <li class="recentcomments">
                    <a href="https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/prevalence-of-zero-food-among-infants-and-young-children-in-india-patterns-of-change-across-the-states-and-union-territories-of-india-1993-2021-the-lancet.html"
                       title="Prevalence of Zero-Food among infants and young children in India - The Lancet ">
                        Prevalence of Zero-Food among infants and young children in India - The Lancet                     </a>
                </li>
                                <li class="recentcomments">
                    <a href="https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/hunger-and-malnutrition-in-india-after-a-decade-of-the-national-food-security-act-2013-neetu-sharma-jyotsna-sripada-shruthi-raman.html"
                       title="Hunger and Malnutrition in India after a Decade of the National Food Security Act, 2013 - Neetu Sharma, Jyotsna Sripada, Shruthi Raman">
                        Hunger and Malnutrition in India after a Decade of the National Food Security Act, 2013 - Neetu Sharma, Jyotsna Sripada, Shruthi Raman                    </a>
                </li>
                
        </ul>
    </div>
    <div class="comment-respond" id="respond">
    <a name="commentbox">&nbsp;</a>
    <h3 class="comment-reply-title" id="reply-title">Write Comments</h3>
    <form method="post" accept-charset="utf-8" role="form" action="/news-alerts-57/the-under-nutrition-problem-in-bundelkhand-should-receive-equal-attention-of-the-policymakers-if-not-more.html"><div style="display:none;"><input type="hidden" name="_method" value="POST"/></div>    <form class="comment-form" id="commentform" method="post" action="#commentbox" onSubmit="return validate()"
          name="cmtform">
        <input type="hidden" name="cmttype" value="articlecmt"/>
        <input type="hidden" name="article_id" value="61719"/>
        <p class="comment-notes">Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked <span
                    class="required">*</span></p>
                <p class="comment-form-author">
            <label for="commenterName">Name</label>
            <span class="required">*</span>
            <input type="text" aria-required="true" size="30"
                   value=""
                   name="commenterName" id="commenterName" required="true">
        </p>
        <p class="comment-form-email">
            <label for="commenterEmail">Email</label> <span class="required">*</span>
            <input aria-required="true" size="30" name="commenterEmail" id="commenterEmail" type="email"
                   value=""
                   required="true">
        </p>
        <p class="comment-form-contact">
            <label for="commenterPh">Contact No.</label>
            <input type="text" size="30"
                   value=""
                   name="commenterPh" id="commenterPh">
        </p>
        <p class="comment-form-comment">
            <label for="comment">Comment</label>
            <textarea aria-required="true" required="true" rows="8" cols="45" name="comment"
                      id="comment"></textarea>
        </p>
        <p class="comment-form-comment">
            <label for="comment">Type the characters you see in the image below <span class="required">*</span><br><img
                        class="captchaImg"
                        src="https://im4change.in/securimage_show_art.php?tk=1596776725" alt="captcha"/>
            </label>
        </p>
        <input type="text" name="vrcode" required="true"/>

        <p class="form-submit" style="width: 200px;">
            <input type="submit" value="Post Comment" id="submit" name="submit">
        </p></form>
</div>
<style>
    .ui-widget-content {
        height: auto !important;
    }
</style>
<div id="share-modal"></div>
<style>
    .middleContent a{
        background-color: rgba(108,172,228,.2);
    }
    .middleContent a:hover{
        background-color: #418fde;
        border-color: #418fde;
        color: #000;
        }
</style>
<script>
    function shareArticle(article_id) {
        var options = {
            modal: true,
            height: 'auto',
            width: 600 + 'px'
        };
        $('#share-modal').html("");
        $('#share-modal').load('https://im4change.in/share_article?article_id=' + article_id).dialog(options).dialog('open');
    }

    function postShare() {
        var param = 'article_id=' + $("#article_id").val();
        param = param + '&y_name=' + $("#y_name").val();
        param = param + '&y_email=' + $("#y_email").val();
        param = param + '&f_name=' + $("#f_name").val();
        param = param + '&f_email=' + $("#f_email").val();
        param = param + '&y_msg=' + $("#y_msg").val();

        $.ajax({
            type: "POST",
            url: 'https://im4change.in/post_share_article',
            data: param,
            success: function (response) {
                $('#share-modal').html("Thank You, Your message posted to ");
            }
        });
        return false;
    }
</script>                </div>
            </div>
            <!-- Right Side Section Start -->
<!-- MAP Section START -->
<aside class="sidebar indexMarg">
    <div class="ad-cell">
        <a href="https://im4change.in/statemap.php" title="">
            <img src="https://im4change.in/images/map_new_version.png?1582080666" alt="India State Map" class="indiamap" width="232" height="252"/>        </a>
        <div class="rightmapbox">
            <div id="sideOne" class="docltitle"><a href="https://im4change.in/state-report/india/36" target="_blank">DOCUMENTS/
                    REPORTS</a></div>
            <div id="sideTwo" class="statetitle"><a href="https://im4change.in/states.php"target="_blank">STATE DATA/
                    HDRs.</a></div>
        </div>
        <div class="widget widgePadTop"></div>
    </div>
</aside>
<!-- MAP Section END -->
<aside class="sidebar sidePadbottom">
    <div class="rightsmlbox1" >
        <a href="https://im4change.in/knowledge_gateway" target="_blank" style="color: #035588;
    font-size: 17px;">
            KNOWLEDGE GATEWAY
        </a>
    </div>
    <div class="rightsmlbox1">

        <div>
            <p class="rightsmlbox1_title">
                <a href="https://im4change.in/newsletter" target="_blank">
                    NEWSLETTER
                </a>
            </p>
        </div>
    </div>
        <div class="rightsmlbox1" style="height: 325px;">
        <div>
            <p class="rightsmlbox1_title">
                Interview with Prof. Ravi Srivastava
            </p>
            <p class="rightsmlbox1_title">
                <a href="https://im4change.in/video/interview-with-prof-ravi-srivastava-on-current-economic-crisis">
                <img width="250" height="200" src="/images/interview_video_home.jpg" alt="Interview with Prof. Ravi Srivastava"/>
                </a>
                <!--
                <iframe width="250" height="200" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MmaTlntk-wc" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>-->
               
            </p>
            <a href="https://im4change.in/videogallery" class="more-link CatArchalAnch1" target="_blank">
                                More videos
                            </a>
        </div>
    </div>
    
        <div class="rightsmlbox1">
        <div>
            <!--div id="sstory" class="rightboxicons"></div--->
            <p class="rightsmlbox1_title"><a href="https://im4change.in/list-success-stories"  target="_blank">Success Stories</a></p>
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="rightsmlbox1">
        <div>
            <p class="rightsmlbox1_title"><a
                        href="https://im4change.in/interviews"  target="_blank">Interviews</a>
            </p>
        </div>
    </div>

    <div class="rightsmlbox1">
        <div>
            <p class="rightsmlbox1_title"><a href="https://www.commoncause.in/page.php?id=10" >Donate</a></p>
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="rightsmlbox1">
        <div>
            <p class="rightsmlbox1_title"><a
        href="https://im4change.in/marquee"
        class="isf_link more-link" title="India Focus?" style="border: 4px solid #fdd922;width: 90%;background-color: #fdd922;text-align: center;color: #000000;font-size:18px"  target="_blank">India Focus</a></p>        </div>
    </div>

    <div class="rightsmlbox1" style="height: 104px !important;">
        <a href="https://im4change.in/quarterly_reports.php" target="_blank">
            Quarterly Reports on Effect of Economic Slowdown on Employment in India (2008 - 2015)
        </a>
    </div>
    
<!--     <div class="rightsmlbox1">
        <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.im4.im4change" target="_blank">
            
        </a></div> -->
    <!-- <section class="cat-box recent-box secMarg">
        <h2 class="cat-box-title">Most Visited</h2>
    </section> -->
    <!-- accordion Starts here -->
    <!-- <div id="accordion" class="accordMarg">
            </div> -->
    <!-- accordion ends here -->
    <!-- Widget Tag Cloud Starts here -->
    <div id="tag_cloud-2" class="widget widget_tag_cloud">
        <section class="cat-box recent-box secMarg">
                <h2 class="cat-box-title">MOST VISITED TAGS</h2>
            </section>
        <div class="widget-top wiPdTp">
           
            <div class="stripe-line"></div>
        </div>
        <div class="widget-container">
            <div class="tagcloud">
                                    <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Agriculture"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Agriculture</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Food Security"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Food Security</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Law and Justice"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Law and Justice</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Health"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Health</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Right to Food"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Right to Food</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Corruption"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Corruption</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=farming"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">farming</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Environment"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Environment</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Right to Information"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Right to Information</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=NREGS"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">NREGS</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Human Rights"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Human Rights</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Governance"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Governance</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=PDS"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">PDS</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=COVID-19"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">COVID-19</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Land Acquisition"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Land Acquisition</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=mgnrega"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">mgnrega</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Farmers"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Farmers</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=transparency"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">transparency</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Gender"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Gender</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Poverty"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Poverty</a>
                                    
                                <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Farm Laws" target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Farm Laws
                </a>
                <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Citizenship Amendment Act" target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Citizenship Amendment Act
                </a>
                <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=CAA NPR NRIC" target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">CAA NPR NRIC
                </a>
                <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Job Losses" target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Job Losses
                </a>
                <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Migrant Workers" target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Migrant Workers
                </a>
                <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Unemployment" target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Unemployment
                </a>
                <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=PMGKAY" target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">PMGKAY
                </a>
                <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=PM-KISAN" target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">PM-KISAN
                </a>
                <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=PM-CARES" target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">PM-CARES
                </a>
                <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=LFPR" target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">LFPR
                </a>
                
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
    <!-- Widget Tag Cloud Ends here -->
</aside>
<!-- Right Side Section End -->
        </div>
        <section class="cat-box cats-review-box footerSec">
    <h2 class="cat-box-title vSec CatArcha">Video
        Archives</h2>
    <h2 class="cat-box-title CatArchaTitle">Archives</h2>
    <div class="cat-box-content">
        <div class="reviews-cat">
            <div class="CatArchaDiv1">
                <div class="CatArchaDiv2">
                    <ul>
                                                    <li>
                                <a href="https://im4change.in/news-alerts-57/moving-upstream-luni-fellowship.html"  target="_blank">
                                     Moving Upstream: Luni – Fellowship                                </a>
                            </li>
                                                        <li>
                                <a href="https://im4change.in/news-alerts-57/135-million-indians-exited-multidimensional-poverty-as-per-government-figures-is-that-the-same-as-poverty-reduction.html"  target="_blank">
                                     135 Million Indians Exited “Multidimensional" Poverty as per Government...                                </a>
                            </li>
                                                        <li>
                                <a href="https://im4change.in/news-alerts-57/explainer-why-are-tomato-prices-on-fire.html"  target="_blank">
                                     Explainer: Why are Tomato Prices on Fire?                                </a>
                            </li>
                                                        <li>
                                <a href="https://im4change.in/news-alerts-57/nsso-survey-only-39-1-of-all-households-have-drinking-water-within-dwelling-46-7-of-rural-households-use-firewood-for-cooking.html"  target="_blank">
                                     NSSO Survey: Only 39.1% of all Households have Drinking...                                </a>
                            </li>
                                                    <li class="CatArchalLi1">
                            <a href="https://im4change.in/news-alerts-57"
                               class="more-link CatArchalAnch1"  target="_blank">
                                More...
                            </a>
                        </li>
                    </ul>
                </div>
                                    <div class="CatArchaWidth">
                        <img class="CatArchaImg"
                             src="https://img.youtube.com/vi/I51LYnP8BOk/1.jpg"
                             alt=" Im4Change.org हिंदी वेबसाइट का परिचय. Short Video on im4change.org...">
                        <p class="CatArchaPPad">
                            <a href="https://im4change.in/video/Short-Video-on-im4change-Hindi-website-Inclusive-Media-for-Change"  target="_blank">
                                 Im4Change.org हिंदी वेबसाइट का परिचय. Short Video on im4change.org...                            </a>
                        </p>
                    </div>
                                        <div class="CatArchaWidth">
                        <img class="CatArchaImg"
                             src="https://img.youtube.com/vi/kNqha-SwfIY/1.jpg"
                             alt=" "Session 1: Scope of IDEA and AgriStack" in Exploring...">
                        <p class="CatArchaPPad">
                            <a href="https://im4change.in/video/Session-1- Scope-of-IDEA-and-AgriStack-in-Exploring-Digitalisation-in-Agriculture-29-April-2022"  target="_blank">
                                 "Session 1: Scope of IDEA and AgriStack" in Exploring...                            </a>
                        </p>
                    </div>
                                        <div class="CatArchaWidth">
                        <img class="CatArchaImg"
                             src="https://img.youtube.com/vi/6kIVjlgZItk/1.jpg"
                             alt=" "Session 2: Farmer Centric Digitalisation in Agriculture" in Exploring...">
                        <p class="CatArchaPPad">
                            <a href="https://im4change.in/video/Session-2-Farmer-Centric-Digitalisation-in-Agriculture-in-Exploring-Digitalisation-in-Agriculture-29-April-2022"  target="_blank">
                                 "Session 2: Farmer Centric Digitalisation in Agriculture" in Exploring...                            </a>
                        </p>
                    </div>
                                        <div class="CatArchaWidth">
                        <img class="CatArchaImg"
                             src="https://img.youtube.com/vi/2BeHTu0y7xc/1.jpg"
                             alt=" "Session 3: Future of Digitalisation in Agriculture" in Exploring...">
                        <p class="CatArchaPPad">
                            <a href="https://im4change.in/video/Session-3-Future-of-Digitalisation-in-Agriculture-in-Exploring-Digitalisation-in-Agriculture-29-April-2022"  target="_blank">
                                 "Session 3: Future of Digitalisation in Agriculture" in Exploring...                            </a>
                        </p>
                    </div>
                    


                <div class="divWidth">
                    <ul class="divWidthMarg">
                                                    <li>
                                <a href="https://im4change.in/video/Public-Spending-on-Agriculture-in-India-Source-Foundation-for-Agrarian-Studies"
                                   title="Public Spending on Agriculture in India (Source: Foundation for Agrarian Studies)"  target="_blank">
                                     Public Spending on Agriculture in India (Source: Foundation for...</a>
                            </li>
                                                        <li>
                                <a href="https://im4change.in/video/Agrarian-Change-Seminar-Protests-against-the-New-Farm-Laws-in-India-by-Prof-Vikas-Rawal-JNU-Source-Journal-Of-Agrarian-Change"
                                   title="Agrarian Change Seminar: 'Protests against the New Farm Laws in India' by Prof. Vikas Rawal, JNU (Source: Journal Of Agrarian Change) "  target="_blank">
                                     Agrarian Change Seminar: 'Protests against the New Farm Laws...</a>
                            </li>
                                                        <li>
                                <a href="https://im4change.in/video/Webinar-Ramrao-The-Story-of-India-Farm-Crisis-Source-Azim-Premji-University"
                                   title="Webinar: Ramrao - The Story of India's Farm Crisis (Source: Azim Premji University)"  target="_blank">
                                     Webinar: Ramrao - The Story of India's Farm Crisis...</a>
                            </li>
                                                        <li>
                                <a href="https://im4change.in/video/water-and-agricultural-transformation-in-India"
                                   title="Water and Agricultural Transformation in India: A Symbiotic Relationship (Source: IGIDR)"  target="_blank">
                                     Water and Agricultural Transformation in India: A Symbiotic Relationship...</a>
                            </li>
                                                    <li class="CatArchalLi1">
                            <a href="https://im4change.in/videogallery"
                               class="more-link CatArchalAnch1"  target="_blank">
                                More...
                            </a>
                        </li>
                    </ul>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</section>    </div>
    <div class="clear"></div>
    <!-- Footer option Starts here -->
    <div class="footer-bottom fade-in animated4">
        <div class="container">
            <div class="social-icons icon_flat">
                <p class="SocialMargTop"> Website Developed by <a target="_blank" title="Web Development"
                                                                  class="wot right"
                                                                  href="http://www.ravinderkhurana.com/" rel="nofollow">
                                                                  RAVINDErkHURANA.com</a></p>
            </div>
            <div class="alignleft">
                <a
     target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/objectives-8.html"
    class="link"
    title="Objectives">Objectives</a> | <a
     target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/about-us-9.html"
    class="link" title="About Us">About Us</a> | <a
     target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/media-workshops.php"
    class="ucwords">Workshops</a> | <a
     target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/disclaimer/disclaimer-149.html"
    title="Disclaimer">Disclaimer</a>            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
    <!-- Footer option ends here -->
</div>
<div id="connect">
    <a target="_blank"
       href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://im4change.in/news-alerts-57/the-under-nutrition-problem-in-bundelkhand-should-receive-equal-attention-of-the-policymakers-if-not-more.html"
       title="Share on Facebook">
        <img src="https://im4change.in/images/Facebook.png?1582080640" alt="share on Facebook" class="ImgBorder"/>
    </a><br/>
    <a target="_blank"
       href="http://twitter.com/share?text=Im4change&amp;url=https://im4change.in/news-alerts-57/the-under-nutrition-problem-in-bundelkhand-should-receive-equal-attention-of-the-policymakers-if-not-more.html"
       title="Share on Twitter">
        <img src="https://im4change.in/images/twitter.png?1582080632" alt="Twitter" class="ImgBorder"/>    </a>
    <br/>
    <a href="/feeds" title="RSS Feed" target="_blank">
        <img src="https://im4change.in/images/rss.png?1582080632" alt="RSS" class="ImgBorder"/>
    </a>
    <br/>
    <a class="feedback-link" id="feedbackFormLink" href="#">
        <img src="https://im4change.in/images/feedback.png?1582080630" alt="Feedback" class="ImgBorder"/>
    </a> <br/>
    <a href="javascript:function iprl5(){var d=document,z=d.createElement('scr'+'ipt'),b=d.body,l=d.location;try{if(!b)throw(0);d.title='(Saving...) '+d.title;z.setAttribute('src',l.protocol+'//www.instapaper.com/j/WKrH3R7ORD5p?u='+encodeURIComponent(l.href)+'&amp;t='+(new Date().getTime()));b.appendChild(z);}catch(e){alert('Please wait until the page has loaded.');}}iprl5();void(0)"
       class="bookmarklet" onclick="return explain_bookmarklet();">
        <img src="https://im4change.in/images/read-it-later.png?1582080632" alt="Read Later" class="ImgBorder"/>    </a>
</div>
<!-- Feedback form Starts here -->
<div id="feedbackForm" class="overlay_form" class="ImgBorder">
    <h2>Contact Form</h2>
    <div id="contactform1">
        <div id="formleft">
            <form id="submitform" action="/contactus.php" method="post">
                <input type="hidden" name="submitform" value="submitform"/>
                <input type="hidden" name="salt_key" value="a0e0f2c6a0644a70e57ad2c96829709a"/>
                <input type="hidden" name="ref" value="feedback"/>
                <fieldset>
                    <label>Name :</label>
                    <input type="text" name="name" class="tbox" required/>
                </fieldset>
                <fieldset>
                    <label>Email :</label>
                    <input type="text" name="email" class="tbox" required/>
                </fieldset>
                <fieldset>
                    <label>Message :</label>
                    <textarea rows="5" cols="20" name="message" required></textarea>
                </fieldset>
                <fieldset>
                    Please enter security code
                    <div class="clear"></div>
                    <input type="text" name="vrcode" class="tbox"/>
                </fieldset>
                <fieldset>
                    <input type="submit" class="button" value="Submit"/>
                    &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="#" id="closefeedbakcformLink">Close</a>
                </fieldset>
            </form>
        </div>
        <div class="clearfix"></div>
    </div>
</div>
<div id="donate_popup" class="modal" style="max-width: 800px;">
    <table width="100%" border="1">
        <tr>
            <td colspan="2" align="center">
                <b>Support im4change</b>
            </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td width="25%" valign="middle">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo2.jpg?1582080632" alt="" width="100%"/>            </td>
            <td style="padding-left:10px;padding-top:10px;">
                <form action="https://im4change.in/donate" method="get">
                    <table width="100%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
                        <tr>
                            <td width="33%" style="font-family: 'Script Font', cursive, Arial;font-size: 20px;font-weight: 700;">
                                10
                            </td>
                            <td width="33%" style="font-family: 'Script Font', cursive, Arial;font-size: 20px;font-weight: 700;">
                                100
                            </td>
                            <td width="33%" style="font-family: 'Script Font', cursive, Arial;font-size: 20px;font-weight: 700;">
                                1000
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td colspan="3">
                                &nbsp;
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td  style="font-family: 'Script Font', cursive, Arial;font-size: 20px;font-weight: 700;">
                                50
                            </td>
                            <td  style="font-family: 'Script Font', cursive, Arial;font-size: 20px;font-weight: 700;">
                                500
                            </td>
                            <td  style="font-family: 'Script Font', cursive, Arial;font-size: 20px;font-weight: 700;">
                                <input type="text" name="price" placeholder="?" style="font-family: 'Script Font', cursive, Arial;font-size: 20px;font-weight: 700;">
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td colspan="3">
                                &nbsp;
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td colspan="3" align="right">
                                <input type="button" name="Pay" value="Pay"
                                       style="width: 200px;background-color: rgb(205, 35, 36);color: #ffffff;"/>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                    </table>
                </form>
            </td>
        </tr>
    </table>
</div><script type='text/javascript'>

    /* <![CDATA[ */

    var tievar = {'go_to': 'Go to...'};

    /* ]]> */

</script>
<script src="/js/tie-scripts.js?1575549704"></script><script src="/js/bootstrap.js?1575549704"></script><script src="/js/jquery.modal.min.js?1578284310"></script><script>
    $(document).ready(function() {
        // tell the autocomplete function to get its data from our php script
        $('#s').autocomplete({
            source: "/autocomplete"
        });
    });
</script>
<script src="/vj-main-sw-register.js" async></script>

<script>function init(){var imgDefer=document.getElementsByTagName('img');for(var i=0;i<imgDefer.length;i++){if(imgDefer[i].getAttribute('data-src')){imgDefer[i].setAttribute('src',imgDefer[i].getAttribute('data-src'))}}}
window.onload=init;</script>
</body>
</html>'

}
$reasonPhrase = 'OK'
header - [internal], line ??
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emitStatusLine() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 54
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181]
Code Context
                    $value

                ), $first);

                $first = false;
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html>
<!--[if lt IE 7 ]>
<html class="ie ie6" lang='en'> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 7 ]>
<html class="ie ie7" lang='en'> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 8 ]>
<html class="ie ie8" lang='en'> <![endif]-->
<!--[if (gte IE 9)|!(IE)]><!-->
<html lang='en'>
<!--<![endif]-->
<head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
    
    <title>
        NEWS ALERTS | The under-nutrition problem in Bundelkhand should receive equal attention of the policymakers, if not more    </title>
    <meta name="description" content="Recent media reports point out that the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh is likely to get about Rs. 6,300 crore projects ahead of the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, including a Rs. 400 crore worth plant for the propulsion system..."/>
    <meta name="keywords" content="Banda,Bundelkhand Region,Bundenkhand,Chhatarpur,Chitrakoot,Damoh,Datia,Hamirpur,Jalaun,Jhansi,Lalitpur,Madhya Pradesh,Mahoba,National Family Health Survey,NFHS,NFHS-4,NFHS-5,Panna,Prevalence of Stunting,Prevalence of Wasting,Sagar,Stunting,Tikamgarh,Under-nutrition,Underweight,Uttar Pradesh,Wasting"/>
    <meta name="news_keywords" content="Banda,Bundelkhand Region,Bundenkhand,Chhatarpur,Chitrakoot,Damoh,Datia,Hamirpur,Jalaun,Jhansi,Lalitpur,Madhya Pradesh,Mahoba,National Family Health Survey,NFHS,NFHS-4,NFHS-5,Panna,Prevalence of Stunting,Prevalence of Wasting,Sagar,Stunting,Tikamgarh,Under-nutrition,Underweight,Uttar Pradesh,Wasting">
   
    <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="ROR" href="/ror.xml"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="/feeds/"/>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/bootstrap.min.css?1697864993"/>    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/style.css?v=1.1.2"/>    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/style-inner.css?1577045210"/>    <link rel="stylesheet" id="Oswald-css"
          href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Oswald%3Aregular%2C700&amp;ver=3.8.1" type="text/css"
          media="all">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/jquery.modal.min.css?1578285302"/>    <script src="/js/jquery-1.10.2.js?1575549704"></script>    <script src="/js/jquery-migrate.min.js?1575549704"></script>    <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" title="Favicon">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/jquery-ui.css?1580720609"/>    <script src="/js/jquery-ui.js?1575549704"></script>    <link rel="preload" as="style" href="https://www.im4change.org/css/custom.css" onload="this.rel='stylesheet'" media="all" crossorigin="anonymous">
<link rel="preload" as="style" href="https://www.im4change.org/css/jquery.modal.min.css" onload="this.rel='stylesheet'" media="all" crossorigin="anonymous">
<link rel="preload" as="style" href="https://www.im4change.org/css/jquery-ui.css" onload="this.rel='stylesheet'" media="all" crossorigin="anonymous">
<link rel="preload" as="style" href="https://www.im4change.org/css/li-scroller.css" onload="this.rel='stylesheet'" media="all" crossorigin="anonymous">
<!-- <link rel="preload" as="style" href="https://www.im4change.org/css/style.css" onload="this.rel='stylesheet'" media="all" crossorigin="anonymous"> -->
<link rel="preload" as="style" href="https://www.im4change.org/css/style-inner.css" onload="this.rel='stylesheet'" media="all" crossorigin="anonymous">

<link rel='dns-prefetch' href="//im4change.org/css/custom.css" crossorigin >

<link rel="preload" as="script" href="https://www.im4change.org/js/bootstrap.js">
<link rel="preload" as="script" href="https://www.im4change.org/js/jquery.li-scroller.1.0.js">
<link rel="preload" as="script" href="https://www.im4change.org/js/jquery.modal.min.js">
<link rel="preload" as="script" href="https://www.im4change.org/js/jquery.ui.totop.js">
<link rel="preload" as="script" href="https://www.im4change.org/js/jquery-1.10.2.js">
<link rel="preload" as="script" href="https://www.im4change.org/js/jquery-migrate.min.js">
<link rel="preload" as="script" href="https://www.im4change.org/js/jquery-ui.js">
<link rel="preload" as="script" href="https://www.im4change.org/js/setting.js">
<link rel="preload" as="script" href="https://www.im4change.org/js/tie-scripts.js">
    <!--[if IE]>
    <script type="text/javascript">jQuery(document).ready(function () {
        jQuery(".menu-item").has("ul").children("a").attr("aria-haspopup", "true");
    });</script>
    <![endif]-->
    <!--[if lt IE 9]>
    <script src="/js/html5.js"></script>
    <script src="/js/selectivizr-min.js"></script>
    <![endif]-->
    <!--[if IE 8]>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="/css/ie8.css"/>
    <![endif]-->
    <meta property="og:title" content="NEWS ALERTS | The under-nutrition problem in Bundelkhand should receive equal attention of the policymakers, if not more" />
     <meta property="og:url" content="https://im4change.in/news-alerts-57/the-under-nutrition-problem-in-bundelkhand-should-receive-equal-attention-of-the-policymakers-if-not-more.html" />
     <meta property="og:type" content="article" />
     <meta property="og:description" content="Recent media reports point out that the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh is likely to get about Rs. 6,300 crore projects ahead of the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, including a Rs. 400 crore worth plant for the propulsion system..." />
     <meta property="og:image" content="" />
      <meta property="fb:app_id" content="0" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=no">

       <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" sizes="144x144" href="https://im4change.in/images/apple1.png">
    <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" sizes="120x120" href="https://im4change.in/images/apple2.png">
    <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" sizes="72x72" href="https://im4change.in/images/apple3.png">
    <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="https://im4change.in/images/apple4.png">

    <style>
    .gsc-results-wrapper-overlay{
        top: 38% !important;
        height: 50% !important;
    }
    .gsc-search-button-v2{
        border-color: #035588 !important;
        background-color: #035588 !important;
    }

   .gsib_a{
        height: 30px !important;
          padding: 2px 8px 1px 6px !important;
    }

   
    .gsc-search-button-v2{
        height: 41px !important;
    }
    input.gsc-input{
        background: none !important;
    }
    @media only screen and (max-width: 600px) {
        .gsc-results-wrapper-overlay{
            top: 11% !important;
            width: 87% !important;
            left: 9% !important;
            height: 43% !important;
        }

        .gsc-search-button-v2{
            padding: 10px 10px !important;
        
        }
        .gsc-input-box{
            height: 28px !important;
        }
       /* .gsib_a {
            padding: 0px 9px 4px 9px !important;
        }*/
    }
    @media only screen and (min-width: 1200px) and (max-width: 1920px) {
        table.gsc-search-box{
            width: 15% !important;
            float: right !important;
            margin-top: -118px !important;
        }

        .gsc-search-button-v2 {
            
            padding: 6px !important;
           
        }
    }


</style>

    <script>
        $(function () {
            $("#accordion").accordion({
                event: "click hoverintent"
            });
        });

        /*
         * hoverIntent | Copyright 2011 Brian Cherne
         * http://cherne.net/brian/resources/jquery.hoverIntent.html
         * modified by the jQuery UI team
         */
        $.event.special.hoverintent = {
            setup: function () {
                $(this).bind("mouseover", jQuery.event.special.hoverintent.handler);
            },
            teardown: function () {
                $(this).unbind("mouseover", jQuery.event.special.hoverintent.handler);
            },
            handler: function (event) {
                var currentX, currentY, timeout,
                    args = arguments,
                    target = $(event.target),
                    previousX = event.pageX,
                    previousY = event.pageY;

                function track(event) {
                    currentX = event.pageX;
                    currentY = event.pageY;
                }
                ;

                function clear() {
                    target
                        .unbind("mousemove", track)
                        .unbind("mouseout", clear);
                    clearTimeout(timeout);
                }

                function handler() {
                    var prop,
                        orig = event;
                    if ((Math.abs(previousX - currentX) +
                        Math.abs(previousY - currentY)) < 7) {
                        clear();
                        event = $.Event("hoverintent");
                        for (prop in orig) {
                            if (!(prop in event)) {
                                event[prop] = orig[prop];
                            }
                        }
                        // Prevent accessing the original event since the new event
                        // is fired asynchronously and the old event is no longer
                        // usable (#6028)
                        delete event.originalEvent;
                        target.trigger(event);
                    } else {
                        previousX = currentX;
                        previousY = currentY;
                        timeout = setTimeout(handler, 100);
                    }
                }

                timeout = setTimeout(handler, 100);
                target.bind({
                    mousemove: track,
                    mouseout: clear
                });
            }
        };
    </script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        var _gaq = _gaq || [];
        _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-472075-3']);
        _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);

        (function () {
            var ga = document.createElement('script');
            ga.type = 'text/javascript';
            ga.async = true;
            ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
            var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
            s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
        })();
    </script>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/custom.css?v=1.16"/>    <script src="/js/jquery.ui.totop.js?1575549704"></script>    <script src="/js/setting.js?1575549704"></script>    <link rel="manifest" href="/manifest.json">
    <meta name="theme-color" content="#616163" />
    <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">
    <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="black">
    <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-title" content="im4change">
    <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/icons/logo-192x192.png">
</head>
<body id="top" class="home inner blog">
<div class="background-cover"></div>
<div class="wrapper animated">
    <header id="theme-header" class="header_inner" style="position: relative;">
        <div class="logo inner_logo" style="left:20px !important">
                <a title="Home" href="https://im4change.in/">
                    <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo2.jpg?1582080632" class="logo_image" alt="im4change"/>                </a>
        </div>
        <div class="langhindi" style="color: #000;display:none;"
             href="https://im4change.in/">
            <a class="more-link" href="https://im4change.in/">Home</a>
                        <a href="https://im4change.in/hindi/" class="langbutton ">हिन्दी</a>
                    </div>
        <nav class="fade-in animated2" id="main-nav">
            <div class="container">
                <div class="main-menu">
    <ul class="menu" id="menu-main">
        <li class="menu-item  menu-item-type-custom  menu-item-object-custom  menu-item-has-children"
            style="left: -40px;"><a
                 target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/">Home</a>
        </li>
        <li class="menu-item mega-menu menu-item-type-taxonomy mega-menu menu-item-object-category mega-menu menu-item-has-children parent-list"
            style=" margin-left: -40px;"><a href="#">KNOWLEDGE GATEWAY <span class="sub-indicator"></span>
            </a>
            <div class="mega-menu-block background_menu" style="padding-top:25px;">
                <div class="container">
                    <div class="mega-menu-content">
                                                                   <div class="mega-menu-item">
                                                 <h3><b>Farm Crisis</b></h3>
                                                                                                    <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/farm-crisis/farmers039-suicides-14.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Farm Suicides                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/farm-crisis/unemployment-30.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Unemployment                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/farm-crisis/rural-distress-70.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Rural distress                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/farm-crisis/migration-34.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Migration                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/farm-crisis/key-facts-72.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Key Facts                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/farm-crisis/debt-trap-15.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Debt Trap                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                
                                              </div> 
                                            
                                                                                        <div class="mega-menu-item">
                                                 <h3><b>Empowerment</b></h3>
                                                                                                    <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/empowerment/union-budget-73.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Union Budget And Other Economic Policies                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/empowerment/forest-and-tribal-rights-61.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Forest and Tribal Rights                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/empowerment/right-to-education-60.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Right to Education                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/empowerment/right-to-food-59.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Right to Food                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/empowerment/displacement-3279.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Displacement                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/empowerment/right-to-work-mg-nrega-39.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Right to Work (MG-NREGA)                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/empowerment/gender-3280.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">GENDER                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/empowerment/right-to-information-58.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Right to Information                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/empowerment/social-audit-48.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Social Audit                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                
                                              </div> 
                                            
                                                                                        <div class="mega-menu-item">
                                                 <h3><b>Hunger / HDI</b></h3>
                                                                                                    <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/hunger-hdi/poverty-and-inequality-20499.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Poverty and inequality                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/hunger-hdi/malnutrition-41.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Malnutrition                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/hunger-hdi/public-health-51.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Public Health                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/hunger-hdi/education-50.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Education                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/hunger-hdi/hunger-overview-40.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Hunger Overview                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/hunger-hdi/hdi-overview-45.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">HDI Overview                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/hunger-hdi/pds-ration-food-security-42.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">PDS/ Ration/ Food Security                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/hunger-hdi/sdgs-113.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">SDGs                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/hunger-hdi/mid-day-meal-scheme-mdms-53.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Mid Day Meal Scheme (MDMS)                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                
                                              </div> 
                                            
                                                                                        <div class="mega-menu-item">
                                                 <h3><b>Environment</b></h3>
                                                                                                    <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/environment/time-bomb-ticking-52.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Time Bomb Ticking                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/environment/water-and-sanitation-55.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Water and Sanitation                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/environment/impact-on-agriculture-54.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Impact on Agriculture                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                
                                              </div> 
                                            
                                                                                        <div class="mega-menu-item">
                                                 <h3><b>Law & Justice</b></h3>
                                                                                                    <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/law-justice/social-justice-20500.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Social Justice                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/law-justice/access-to-justice-47.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Access to Justice                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/law-justice/human-rights-56.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Human Rights                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/law-justice/corruption-35.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Corruption                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/law-justice/general-insecurity-46.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">General Insecurity                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                        <p style="padding-left:5px;">
                                                    <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/law-justice/disaster-relief-49.html"
                                                       class="left postionrel">Disaster &amp; Relief                                                       </a>
                                                </p>
                                                                                                
                                              </div> 
                                            
                                                                                        
                    </div>
                </div>
            </div>
        </li>
        <li class="menu-item  menu-item-type-post_type  menu-item-object-page "><a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/nceus_reports.php">NCEUS reports</a>
            
        </li>
        <li class="menu-item  menu-item-type-custom  menu-item-object-custom  menu-item-has-children parent-list ">
            <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/about-us-9.html">About Us <span
                    class="sub-indicator"></span></a>
            <ul class="sub-menu aboutmenu">
                <li class="menu-item  menu-item-type-post_type  menu-item-object-page"><a
                        target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/objectives-8.html">Objectives</a>
                </li>
                <li class="menu-item  menu-item-type-post_type  menu-item-object-page"><a
                         target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/contactus.php">Contact
                        Us</a></li>
                <li class="menu-item  menu-item-type-post_type  menu-item-object-page"><a
                         target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/about-us-9.html">About
                        Us</a></li>
            </ul>
        </li>
        <li class="menu-item  menu-item-type-custom  menu-item-object-custom  menu-item-has-children ">
            <a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/fellowships.php" title="Fellowships">Fellowships</a>
        </li>
        <li class="menu-item  menu-item-type-custom  menu-item-object-custom  menu-item-has-children  "><a
                 target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/media-workshops.php">Workshops</a>
        </li>
        <li class="menu-item  menu-item-type-custom  menu-item-object-custom  menu-item-has-children  "><a
                 target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/research.php">Research</a></li>
        <li class="menu-item  menu-item-type-custom  menu-item-object-custom  menu-item-has-children   "><a
                 target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/links-64">Partners</a></li>
        <li class="menu-item  menu-item-type-custom  menu-item-object-custom  menu-item-has-children"
            id="menu-item-539"><a  target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/hindi/"
                                  class="langbutton langlinkfont17">हिन्दी</a></li>
    </ul>
</div>            </div>


                        <!--  <div style="float: right;">
                            <script async src="https://cse.google.com/cse.js?cx=18b4f2e0f11bed3dd"></script>
                            <div class="gcse-search"></div>
                        </div> -->
                       
            <div class="search-block" style=" margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 7px;">
                <form method="get" id="searchform" name="searchform"
                      action="https://im4change.in/search"
                      onsubmit="return searchvalidate();">
                    <button class="search-button" type="submit" value="Search"></button>
                    <input type="text" id="s" name="qryStr" value=""
                           onfocus="if (this.value == 'Search...') {this.value = '';}"
                           onblur="if (this.value == '') {this.value = 'Search...';}">
                </form>
            </div>
        </nav>
    </header>
    <div class="container">
        <div id="main-content" class=" main1 container fade-in animated3 sidebar-narrow-left">
            <div class="content-wrap">
                <div class="content" style="width: 900px;min-height: 500px;">
                        <div class="background_inner innBack" align="center">
        <img src="https://im4change.in/images/media/Image Bundelkhand Undernutrition dated 26 Dec 2021.jpg"
             alt="The under-nutrition problem in Bundelkhand should receive equal attention of the policymakers, if not more"
             class="box_shadow mt5 imgRes" style="max-width:500px;"/>
    </div>
    <section class="cat-box recent-box innerCatRecent">
    <h1 class="cat-box-title">The under-nutrition problem in Bundelkhand should receive equal attention of the policymakers, if not more</h1>
    <a href="JavaScript:void(0);" onclick="return shareArticle(61719);">
        <img src="https://im4change.in/images/email.png?1582080630" border="0" width="24" align="right" alt="Share this article"/>    </a>

    <a href="https://im4change.in/news-alerts-57/the-under-nutrition-problem-in-bundelkhand-should-receive-equal-attention-of-the-policymakers-if-not-more/print"
       rel="nofollow">
        <img src="https://im4change.in/images/icon-print.png?1582080630" border="0" width="24" align="right" alt="Share this article"/>
    </a>
</section>
<section class="recent-box innerCatRecent">
    <small class="pb-1"><span class="dateIcn">
    	<img src="https://im4change.in/images/published.svg?1582080666" alt="published"/> 
		 Published on</span><span class="text-date"> Dec 26, 2021</span>
        &nbsp; <span
                class="dateIcn">
		 	<img src="https://im4change.in/images/modified.svg?1582080666" alt="modified"/>    	 Modified on </span><span class="text-date"> Jan 20, 2022</span>
    </small>
</section>
<div class="clear"></div>
<div style="padding-top: 10px;">
    <div class="innerLineHeight">
        <div class="middleContent innerInput news-alerts-57">
            <table>
                <tr>
                    <td>
                                                <div>
                            <p style="text-align:justify">Recent <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/pm-modi-to-launch-6300-crore-projects-in-bundelkhand-region-of-uttar-pradesh-101637258523293.html" title="https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/pm-modi-to-launch-6300-crore-projects-in-bundelkhand-region-of-uttar-pradesh-101637258523293.html">media reports</a> point out that the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh is likely to get about <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/pm-modi-to-launch-6300-crore-projects-in-bundelkhand-region-of-uttar-pradesh-101637258523293.html" title="https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/pm-modi-to-launch-6300-crore-projects-in-bundelkhand-region-of-uttar-pradesh-101637258523293.html">Rs. 6,300 crore projects</a> ahead of the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, including a <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/pm-modi-to-launch-6300-crore-projects-in-bundelkhand-region-of-uttar-pradesh-101637258523293.html" title="https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/pm-modi-to-launch-6300-crore-projects-in-bundelkhand-region-of-uttar-pradesh-101637258523293.html">Rs. 400 crore worth plant</a> for the propulsion system of <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/pm-modi-to-launch-6300-crore-projects-in-bundelkhand-region-of-uttar-pradesh-101637258523293.html" title="https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/pm-modi-to-launch-6300-crore-projects-in-bundelkhand-region-of-uttar-pradesh-101637258523293.html">anti-tank guided missiles</a> in Jhansi. The&nbsp;foundation was laid for the <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/india/yogi-govt-infra-race-before-polls-7643744/" title="https://indianexpress.com/article/india/yogi-govt-infra-race-before-polls-7643744/">first project in the Jhansi node</a> <em>(related to the Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor) </em>on November 18, 2021.&nbsp;The two Defence Industrial Corridors of Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu are expected to attract a total investment of <a href="https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1777610" title="https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1777610">Rs. 20,000 crore by the year 2024-25</a>. The <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/pm-modi-to-launch-6300-crore-projects-in-bundelkhand-region-of-uttar-pradesh-101637258523293.html" title="https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/pm-modi-to-launch-6300-crore-projects-in-bundelkhand-region-of-uttar-pradesh-101637258523293.html">Arjun Sahayak project</a> on the Dhasan river, built at a cost of around Rs. 2,600 crore in Mahoba district, is anticipated to provide irrigation facilities to 1.5 lakh farmers in 168 villages of Banda, Hamirpur and Mahoba districts.&nbsp;The Uttar Pradesh State Government led by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has claimed recently that nearly <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/india/yogi-govt-infra-race-before-polls-7643744/" title="https://indianexpress.com/article/india/yogi-govt-infra-race-before-polls-7643744/">76 percent of the work on the 296-km</a> Bundelkhand Expressway <em>(whose foundation was laid on February 29, 2020)</em>, connecting Etawah, Auraiya, Jalaun, Hamirpur, Banda, Mahoba and Chitrakoot, has been completed. The <a href="https://www.narendramodi.in/text-of-prime-minister-narendra-modi-s-address-at-inauguration-of-the-saryu-nahar-national-project-in-balrampur-uttar-pradesh-558858" title="https://www.narendramodi.in/text-of-prime-minister-narendra-modi-s-address-at-inauguration-of-the-saryu-nahar-national-project-in-balrampur-uttar-pradesh-558858">Ken-Betwa river interlinking</a> project is supposed to end the water crisis of Bundelkhand, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi&nbsp;on December 11, 2021 while inaugurating the <a href="https://www.narendramodi.in/text-of-prime-minister-narendra-modi-s-address-at-inauguration-of-the-saryu-nahar-national-project-in-balrampur-uttar-pradesh-558858" title="https://www.narendramodi.in/text-of-prime-minister-narendra-modi-s-address-at-inauguration-of-the-saryu-nahar-national-project-in-balrampur-uttar-pradesh-558858">Saryu canal project at Balrampur</a> in Uttar Pradesh. &nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">While the Bundelkhand region of Central India received attention from social scientists, researchers and civil society organisations for its socio-economic backwardness, in recent times it has received attention for political reasons thanks to the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls to be held early next year.</p><p style="text-align:justify">The Bundelkhand region of Central India is spread across <a href="/upload/files/Bundelkhand-Building-on-Partnership-By-Rakesh-singh%20PRADAN.pdf" title="/upload/files/Bundelkhand-Building-on-Partnership-By-Rakesh-singh%20PRADAN.pdf">7 districts of Uttar Pradesh</a> and <a href="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Bundelkhand-Building-on-Partnership-By-Rakesh-singh%20PRADAN.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Bundelkhand-Building-on-Partnership-By-Rakesh-singh%20PRADAN.pdf">six districts of Madhya Pradesh</a>. The districts of Chitrakoot, Banda, Jhansi, Jalaun, Hamirpur, Mahoba and Lalitpur, which are part of the Bundelkhand region lie in Uttar Pradesh. The districts of Madhya Pradesh that belong to the Bundelkhand region are Chhatarpur, Tikamgarh, Damoh, Sagar, Datia and Panna. <a href="/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf" title="/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf">Annual precipitation is often erratic</a> with a deluge followed by a long spell without rainfall. Although more than <a href="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf">95 percent of the rainfall</a> occurs between June and September <em>(with maximum rain generally in July-August)</em>, the small amount of rainfall taking place during November-May is quite useful for farming in the region. Owing to the <a href="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf">geology and topography</a>, and the pattern of the rainfall received, Bundelkhand region is affected by both drought and flood. <a href="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf">Impermeable rocky layer</a> exists at fairly shallow depths in most parts of the region. Rainwater runoff is high. It means that rainwater has little time to <a href="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf">penetrate the soil</a> in this region.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Agriculture is the <a href="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf">mainstay of the majority</a> of the rural people residing in Bundelkhand. Besides farming, they rely on <a href="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf">secondary activities</a> like animal husbandry and dairying, poultry, fisheries, bee-keeping and sericulture. Successive droughts <em>(caused by climate change in recent years)</em> and uncertain monsoons have affected the livelihoods of the people residing in this region. Water shortage <em>(due to the lack of assured irrigation facilities) </em>coupled with low farm productivity has not only affected the purchasing power of the people, but also the <a href="https://im4change.org/docs/drought-assessment-report-bundelkhand-region-up-state-february-2016.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/docs/drought-assessment-report-bundelkhand-region-up-state-february-2016.pdf">food and nutrition security</a> of both children and adults. <a href="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Jan%20Sahas%202021%20report.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Jan%20Sahas%202021%20report.pdf">Out-migration from the Bundelkhand region</a> to other places of India for livelihood security is quite common.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Against the above-stated&nbsp;background, an attempt has been made <em>(using the <a href="http://rchiips.org/nfhs/factsheet_NFHS-5.shtml" title="http://rchiips.org/nfhs/factsheet_NFHS-5.shtml">National Family Health Survey-NFHS data</a>) </em>to assess the status of child nutrition in various districts of Bundelkhand region vis-&agrave;-vis the overall child nutrition situation in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.</p><p style="text-align:justify">In the present analysis, 3 indicators have been considered -- proportion of children under 5 years who are stunted <em>(height-for-age)</em>; proportion of children under 5 years who are wasted <em>(weight-for-height)</em>; and proportion of &nbsp;children under 5 years who are underweight <em>(weight-for-age)</em>. It should be noted that as per the <a href="https://www.unicef.org/media/86536/file/Progress_for_Children_-_No._4.pdf" title="https://www.unicef.org/media/86536/file/Progress_for_Children_-_No._4.pdf">United Nations Children&#39;s Fund</a> (UNICEF), <a href="https://www.unicef.org/media/86536/file/Progress_for_Children_-_No._4.pdf" title="https://www.unicef.org/media/86536/file/Progress_for_Children_-_No._4.pdf">under-nutrition includes</a> being <a href="https://www.unicef.org/media/86536/file/Progress_for_Children_-_No._4.pdf" title="https://www.unicef.org/media/86536/file/Progress_for_Children_-_No._4.pdf">underweight</a> for one&rsquo;s age, <a href="https://www.unicef.org/media/86536/file/Progress_for_Children_-_No._4.pdf" title="https://www.unicef.org/media/86536/file/Progress_for_Children_-_No._4.pdf">too short for one&rsquo;s age</a> <em>(stunted)</em>, <a href="https://www.unicef.org/media/86536/file/Progress_for_Children_-_No._4.pdf" title="https://www.unicef.org/media/86536/file/Progress_for_Children_-_No._4.pdf">dangerously thin</a> <em>(wasted)</em>, and <a href="https://www.unicef.org/media/86536/file/Progress_for_Children_-_No._4.pdf" title="https://www.unicef.org/media/86536/file/Progress_for_Children_-_No._4.pdf">deficient in vitamins and minerals</a> <em>(micronutrient malnutrition)</em>.</p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong>Prevalence of stunting among children&nbsp;under five years </strong></p><p style="text-align:justify">The recently <a href="https://dhsprogram.com/publications/publication-OF43-Other-Fact-Sheets.cfm" title="https://dhsprogram.com/publications/publication-OF43-Other-Fact-Sheets.cfm">released data of the NFHS</a> shows that for the country as a whole, the percentage of children below 5 years who are stunted has reduced from 38.4 percent to 35.5 percent between 2015-16 and 2019-21 i.e., by -2.9 percentage points. While for Madhya Pradesh, the percentage of children below 5 years who are stunted has gone down from 42.0 percent to 35.7 percent between 2015-16 and 2020-21 <em>(i.e., by -6.3 percentage points)</em>, for Uttar Pradesh the same has decreased from 46.3 percent to 39.7 percent between the two time points <em>(i.e., by -6.6 percentage points)</em>. Please see chart-1.</p><p style="text-align:justify">While in Damoh <em>(-2.9 percentage points)</em>, Datia <em>(-12.1 percentage points)</em>, and Tikamgarh <em>(-22.2 percentage points)</em> districts the percentage of children below 5 years who are stunted has decreased between NFHS-4 and NFHS-5, in Chhatarpur <em>(+2.4 percentage points)</em>, Panna <em>(+2.8 percentage points)</em>, and Sagar <em>(+1.7 percentage points)</em> districts the percentage of children below 5 years who are stunted has increased between the two time points.</p><p style="text-align:justify">In Chitrakoot <em>(-3.4 percentage points)</em>, Jalaun <em>(-0.5 percentage points)</em>, and Mahoba <em>(-2.3 percentage points)</em> districts the percentage of children below 5 years who are stunted has gone down between NFHS-4 and NFHS-5, whereas in Banda <em>(+4.3 percentage points)</em>, Hamirpur <em>(+9.5 percentage points)</em>, Jhansi <em>(+4.8 percentage points)</em>, and Lalitpur <em>(+5.9 percentage points)</em> districts the percentage of children below 5 years who are stunted has climbed up between the two time points.</p><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="background-color:#ffff00">So, in seven out of 13 districts that fall in Bundelkhand, the proportion of children under 5 years who are stunted has increased between 2015-16 and 2020-21.</span></p><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="background-color:#ffff00">The prevalence of stunting among children&nbsp;under five years in 2020-21 is higher in Chhatarpur </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(45.1 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Damoh </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(40.3 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">,&nbsp;Datia </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(36.8 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Panna </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(45.1 percent) </span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">and Sagar </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(42.7 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00"> in comparison to Madhya Pradesh </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(35.7 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">. The prevalence of stunting among children&nbsp;below five years in 2020-21 is higher in Banda </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(51.0 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Chitrakoot </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(47.5 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Hamirpur </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(48.0 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Jalaun </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(45.1 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Jhansi </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(40.9 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Lalitpur </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(46.6 percent),&nbsp;</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">and Mahoba </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(42.3 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00"> as compared to Uttar Pradesh </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(39.7 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">.</span></p><p style="text-align:justify"><img alt="" src="/upload/images/Chart%201%20Percentage%20of%20children%20under%205%20years%20who%20are%20stunted.png" style="height:555px; width:831px" /></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em><strong>Note: </strong>Please <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WDzaTq8g-zSy6XaQbLA9bkk1gEkNtk8L/edit?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=112233925171588304692&amp;rtpof=true&amp;sd=true" title="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WDzaTq8g-zSy6XaQbLA9bkk1gEkNtk8L/edit?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=112233925171588304692&amp;rtpof=true&amp;sd=true">click here</a> to access the data of the above chart in a spreadsheet format</em></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em><strong>Source: </strong>Madhya Pradesh --</em></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>District Factsheet: Chhatarpur, Madhya Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Chhatarpur%20Madhya%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf" title="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Chhatarpur%20Madhya%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;<br />***<br />District Factsheet: Damoh, Madhya Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Damoh%20Madhya%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf" title="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Damoh%20Madhya%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;<br />***<br />District Factsheet: Datia, Madhya Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Datia%20Madhya%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf" title="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Datia%20Madhya%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;<br />***<br />District Factsheet: Panna, Madhya Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Panna%20Madhya%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf" title="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Panna%20Madhya%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;<br />***<br />District Factsheet: Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Sagar%20Madhya%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf" title="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Sagar%20Madhya%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf">click here</a> to access</em></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>***<br />District Factsheet: Tikamgarh, Madhya Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Tikamgarh%20Madhya%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf" title="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Tikamgarh%20Madhya%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;<br />***<br />Madhya Pradesh Factsheet, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="https://im4change.org/docs/NFHS-5%20Madhya%20Pradesh.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/docs/NFHS-5%20Madhya%20Pradesh.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;</em></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>---</em></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>Uttar Pradesh --&nbsp;</em></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>District Factsheet: Banda, Uttar Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Banda%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf" title="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Banda%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;<br />***<br />District Factsheet: Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Chitrakoot%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf" title="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Chitrakoot%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;<br />***<br />District Factsheet: Hamirpur, Uttar Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Hamirpur%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf" title="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Hamirpur%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;<br />***<br />District Factsheet: Jalaun, Uttar Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Jalaun%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf" title="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Jalaun%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;<br />***<br />District Factsheet: Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Jhansi%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf" title="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Jhansi%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;<br />***<br />District Factsheet: Lalitpur, Uttar Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Lalitpur%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf" title="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Lalitpur%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;&nbsp;<br />***</em></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>District Factsheet: Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Mahoba%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf" title="/upload/files/District%20Factsheet%20Mahoba%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20NFHS-5.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;</em></p><p style="text-align:justify">***<br /><em>Uttar Pradesh Factsheet, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="https://im4change.org/docs/NFHS-5%20Uttar%20Pradesh.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/docs/NFHS-5%20Uttar%20Pradesh.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;&nbsp;</em></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>---</em></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>India Factsheet, NFHS-5, 2019-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please <a href="https://im4change.org/docs/India_National_Fact_Sheet.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/docs/India_National_Fact_Sheet.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;&nbsp;</em></p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong>-----</strong></p><p style="text-align:justify">According to the <a href="https://www.unicef.org/india/what-we-do/stop-stunting" title="https://www.unicef.org/india/what-we-do/stop-stunting">United Nations Children&#39;s Fund (UNICEF)</a>, stunting, or low height for age, is responsible for irreversible physical and mental damage to children. A child who is stunted is too short for their age, does not fully develop and stunting reflects chronic under-nutrition during the most critical periods of growth and development in early life. Stunting prevalence is defined as the percentage of children, aged 0 to 59 months, whose height for age is below minus two standard deviations <em>(moderate and severe stunting)</em> and minus three standard deviations <em>(severe stunting) </em>from the median of the World Health Organisation-WHO Child Growth Standards. Stunting is associated with an underdeveloped brain, with long-lasting harmful consequences, including diminished mental ability and learning capacity, poor school performance in childhood, reduced earnings and increased risks of nutrition-related chronic diseases, such as diabetes, hypertension, and obesity in future. Experts have noted that stunting starts from pre-conception when an adolescent girl who later becomes mother is undernourished and anaemic and it worsens when infants&rsquo; diets are poor, and when sanitation and hygiene are inadequate. It is irreversible by the age of two. Stunting adversely affects school attendance and performance. This, in turn, can reduce later adult income-generation. Under-nutrition reduces economic advancement due to losses in productivity, poorer cognition and poorer educational outcomes. The immediate and underlying factors causing stunting include infant and child care practices, hygiene and limited food security among the poorest households. It is closely connected to reproductive and maternal nutrition and is often determined in the womb by a mother&#39;s social status and level of education. Traditional beliefs related to food intake and quality of care of an adolescent girl and of a woman during pregnancy and breastfeeding are also factors. While exclusive breastfeeding practices have improved in the past 10 years, complementary feeding practices have worsened. It should be noted that poverty is not a clear cause of stunting as there are stunted children even among the richest households.<strong> &nbsp;</strong></p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong>Prevalence of wasting among children&nbsp;under five years </strong></p><p style="text-align:justify">For India, the percentage of children below 5 years who are wasted has gone down from 21.0 percent to 19.3 percent between 2015-16 and 2019-21 i.e., by -1.7 percentage points. For Madhya Pradesh, the percentage of children below 5 years who are wasted has declined from 25.8 percent to 19.0 percent between 2015-16 and 2020-21 <em>(i.e., by -6.8 percentage points)</em>, whereas for Uttar Pradesh&nbsp;the same has gone down from 17.9 percent to 17.3 percent between the two time points <em>(i.e., by -0.6 percentage points)</em>. Please consult chart-2.</p><p style="text-align:justify">In Chhatarpur <em>(-1.4 percentage points)</em>, Damoh <em>(-4.8 percentage points)</em>, Datia <em>(-9.8 percentage points)</em>, Panna <em>(-0.8 percentage points),</em> and Sagar <em>(-1.7 percentage points)</em> districts the percentage of children below 5 years who are wasted has decreased between NFHS-4 and NFHS-5, whereas in Tikamgarh district <em>(+0.5 percentage points)</em> the percentage of children below 5 years who are wasted has increased between the two time points.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Although in Chitrakoot <em>(-8.5 percentage points)</em>, Hamirpur <em>(-11.7 percentage points)</em>, Jalaun <em>(-12.7 percentage points)</em>, Jhansi <em>(-2.0 percentage points),</em> and Lalitpur <em>(-20.3 percentage points)</em> districts the percentage of children below 5 years who are wasted has fallen between NFHS-4 and NFHS-5, in Banda <em>(+7.7 percentage points)</em> and Mahoba <em>(+1.1 percentage points)</em> the percentage of children below 5 years who are wasted has risen between the two time points.</p><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="background-color:#ffff00">Therefore, in three out of 13 districts that come under Bundelkhand region, the proportion of children under 5 years who are wasted has increased between 2015-16 and 2020-21.</span></p><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="background-color:#ffff00">The prevalence of wasting among children&nbsp;under five years in 2020-21 is higher in Panna </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(23.2 percent) </span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">and Tikamgarh </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(19.7 percent) </span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">in comparison to Madhya Pradesh </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(19.0 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">. The prevalence of wasting among children&nbsp;below five years in 2020-21 is higher in Banda </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(25.7 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Chitrakoot </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(24.8 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Hamirpur </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(20.6 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Jalaun </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(19.5 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Jhansi </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(25.2 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Lalitpur </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(18.7 percent),</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00"> and Mahoba </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(25.0 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00"> as compared to Uttar Pradesh </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(17.3 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">.</span></p><p style="text-align:justify"><img alt="" src="/upload/images/Chart%202%20Percentage%20of%20children%20under%205%20years%20who%20are%20wasted.png" style="height:696px; width:917px" /></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em><strong>Note: </strong>Please <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WDzaTq8g-zSy6XaQbLA9bkk1gEkNtk8L/edit?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=112233925171588304692&amp;rtpof=true&amp;sd=true" title="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WDzaTq8g-zSy6XaQbLA9bkk1gEkNtk8L/edit?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=112233925171588304692&amp;rtpof=true&amp;sd=true">click here</a> to access the data of the above chart in a spreadsheet format</em></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em><strong>Source: </strong>Same as Chart-1</em><br /><strong>---</strong></p><p style="text-align:justify"><a href="https://data.unicef.org/topic/nutrition/malnutrition/" title="https://data.unicef.org/topic/nutrition/malnutrition/">According to the UNICEF</a>, wasting refers to a situation when a child is too thin for his or her height. Wasting happens due to recent rapid weight loss or the failure to gain weight. A child who is moderately or severely wasted faces an increased risk of death, but treatment is possible. Wasting is considered as a <a href="https://data.unicef.org/topic/nutrition/child-nutrition/" title="https://data.unicef.org/topic/nutrition/child-nutrition/">life-threatening condition</a> attributable to poor nutrient intake and/or disease. Characterised by a rapid deterioration in nutritional status over a short period of time, children suffering from wasting have weakened immunity, increasing their risk of death due to greater frequency and severity of common infection, particularly when severe. Wasting is considered to be the <a href="https://www.unicef.org/nutrition/child-wasting" title="https://www.unicef.org/nutrition/child-wasting">most immediate, visible</a> and <a href="https://www.unicef.org/nutrition/child-wasting" title="https://www.unicef.org/nutrition/child-wasting">life-threatening</a> form of <a href="https://www.unicef.org/nutrition/child-wasting" title="https://www.unicef.org/nutrition/child-wasting">malnutrition</a>. It results from the failure to prevent malnutrition among the most vulnerable children. Children with wasting are too thin and their immune systems are weak, leaving them vulnerable to developmental delays, disease and death. Some children affected by wasting also suffer from nutritional oedema, characterised by a swollen face, feet and limbs. Wasting and other forms of acute malnutrition occur due to maternal malnutrition, low birth weight, poor feeding and care practices, and infection exacerbated by food insecurity, limited access to safe drinking water, and poverty. Growing evidence suggests that wasting occurs very early in life and disproportionally affects children under 2 years of age. The number of children who suffer from wasting can increase dramatically as a result of conflict, epidemics and food insecurity, including that caused by climate change&ndash;induced droughts and flooding. Yet, wasting is not only a characteristic of crisis. In fact, two thirds of all children with wasting live in places that are not facing emergencies. While the number of children being treated for wasting and other forms of life-threatening malnutrition has increased in recent years, only one in three children with severe wasting are reached with the timely treatment and care they require to survive and thrive. Technically, it is <a href="https://data.unicef.org/topic/nutrition/malnutrition/" title="https://data.unicef.org/topic/nutrition/malnutrition/">defined as</a> the number <em>(also proportion) </em>of under-fives falling below minus 2 standard deviations <em>(moderate and severe) </em>and minus 3 standard deviations <em>(severe) </em>from the median weight-for-height of the reference population.</p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong>Percentage of children under 5 years who are underweight</strong></p><p style="text-align:justify">For the country as whole, the percentage of children below 5 years who are underweight has decreased from 35.8 percent to 32.1 percent between 2015-16 and 2019-21 i.e., by -3.7 percentage points. Although for Madhya Pradesh the percentage of children below 5 years who are underweight has fallen from 42.8 percent to 33.0 percent between 2015-16 and 2020-21 <em>(i.e., by -9.8 percentage points)</em>, for Uttar Pradesh the same has decreased from 39.5 percent to 32.1 percent between the two time points <em>(i.e., by -7.4 percentage points)</em>. Please have a look at chart-3.</p><p style="text-align:justify">In Chhatarpur <em>(-6.7 percentage points)</em>, Damoh <em>(-5.7 percentage points)</em>, Datia <em>(-17.5 percentage points)</em>, Panna <em>(-1.6 percentage points),</em> and Tikamgarh <em>(-8.4 percentage points)</em> districts the percentage of children below 5 years who are underweight has gone down between NFHS-4 and NFHS-5, whereas in Sagar district <em>(+5.3 percentage points) </em>the percentage of children below 5 years who are underweight has risen between the two time points.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Although in Chitrakoot <em>(-10.7 percentage points)</em>, Hamirpur <em>(-3.5 percentage points)</em>, Jalaun <em>(-13.1 percentage points)</em>, Jhansi <em>(-0.2 percentage points)</em>, Lalitpur <em>(-14.0 percentage points),</em> and Mahoba <em>(-14.3 percentage points) </em>districts the percentage of children below 5 years who are underweight has fallen between 2015-16 and 2020-21, in Banda district <em>(+8.3 percentage points)</em> the percentage of children below 5 years who are underweight has increased between the two time points. <span style="background-color:#ffff00">Banda is the only district in Bundelkhand region, which has experienced a rise in all three indicators of under-nutrition i.e., prevalence of stunting, wasting as well as underweight among children below 5 years of age.</span></p><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="background-color:#ffff00">In just two out of 13 districts that belong to Bundelkhand, the proportion of children under 5 years who are underweight has grown between 2015-16 and 2020-21.</span></p><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="background-color:#ffff00">The prevalence of underweight among children&nbsp;under five years in 2020-21 is higher in Chhatarpur </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(34.6 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Panna </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(39.2 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Sagar </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(35.8 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, and Tikamgarh </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(34.9 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00"> in comparison to Madhya Pradesh </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(33.0 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">. The prevalence of underweight among children&nbsp;below five years in 2020-21 is higher in Banda </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(49.8 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Chitrakoot </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(41.8 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Hamirpur </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(36.3 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Jalaun </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(36.1 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Jhansi </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(39.3 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">, Lalitpur </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(34.8 percent),</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00"> and Mahoba </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(33.4 percent) </span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">as compared to Uttar Pradesh </span><em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">(32.1 percent)</span></em><span style="background-color:#ffff00">.</span></p><p style="text-align:justify"><img alt="" src="/upload/images/Chart%203%20Percentage%20of%20children%20under%205%20years%20who%20are%20underweight.png" style="height:534px; width:1000px" />&nbsp;<br /><em><strong>Note: </strong>Please <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WDzaTq8g-zSy6XaQbLA9bkk1gEkNtk8L/edit?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=112233925171588304692&amp;rtpof=true&amp;sd=true" title="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WDzaTq8g-zSy6XaQbLA9bkk1gEkNtk8L/edit?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=112233925171588304692&amp;rtpof=true&amp;sd=true">click here</a> to access the data of the above chart in a spreadsheet format</em></p><p style="text-align:justify"><em><strong>Source:</strong> Same as Chart-1</em><br /><strong>---</strong></p><p style="text-align:justify">According to the <a href="https://unstats.un.org/unsd/mdg/Metadata.aspx?IndicatorId=0&amp;SeriesId=559" title="https://unstats.un.org/unsd/mdg/Metadata.aspx?IndicatorId=0&amp;SeriesId=559">United Nations</a>, the prevalence of <em>(moderately and severely) </em>underweight children is the percentage of children aged 0-59 months whose weights for age are less than two standard deviations below the median weight for age of the international reference population. The international reference population, often referred to as the NCHS/WHO reference population, was formulated by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) as a reference for the United States and later adopted by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Children with low weight-for-age <a href="https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/malnutrition" title="https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/malnutrition">are known as underweight</a>. A child who is underweight may be stunted, wasted, or both. The <a href="https://www.who.int/data/nutrition/nlis/info/malnutrition-in-children" title="https://www.who.int/data/nutrition/nlis/info/malnutrition-in-children">mortality risk</a> is increased in children who are even mildly underweight, and the risk is even greater in severely underweight children.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong>Data on child mortality indicators</strong></p><p style="text-align:justify">Although data is available for the three child mortality indicators i.e., Neonatal Mortality Rate (NNMR), Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) and Under-Five Mortality Rate (U5MR) at the <a href="https://im4change.org/docs/India_National_Fact_Sheet.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/docs/India_National_Fact_Sheet.pdf">national</a> and state-levels <em>(<a href="https://im4change.org/docs/NFHS-5%20Madhya%20Pradesh.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/docs/NFHS-5%20Madhya%20Pradesh.pdf">Madhya Pradesh</a> and <a href="https://im4change.org/docs/NFHS-5%20Uttar%20Pradesh.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/docs/NFHS-5%20Uttar%20Pradesh.pdf">Uttar Pradesh</a>)</em>, it is unavailable for various districts that are part of Bundelkhand region. As a result of this, we could not look at the trends of child mortality in the 13 districts of Bundelkhand region.</p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong><em>References</em></strong></p><p style="text-align:justify">The DHS (Demographic and Health Surveys) Program, National, State and Union Territory, and District Fact Sheets 2019-21 National Family Health Survey NFHS-5 (English), USAID, please <a href="https://dhsprogram.com/publications/publication-OF43-Other-Fact-Sheets.cfm" title="https://dhsprogram.com/publications/publication-OF43-Other-Fact-Sheets.cfm">click here</a>&nbsp;and <a href="http://rchiips.org/nfhs/factsheet_NFHS-5.shtml" title="http://rchiips.org/nfhs/factsheet_NFHS-5.shtml">here</a> to access&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Stop stunting, UNICEF, please click here to access, please <a href="https://www.unicef.org/india/what-we-do/stop-stunting" title="https://www.unicef.org/india/what-we-do/stop-stunting">click here</a> to access &nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Malnutrition, UNICEF, April 2021, please <a href="https://data.unicef.org/topic/nutrition/malnutrition/" title="https://data.unicef.org/topic/nutrition/malnutrition/">click here</a> to access&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Child Nutrition, October 2019, please <a href="https://data.unicef.org/topic/nutrition/child-nutrition/" title="https://data.unicef.org/topic/nutrition/child-nutrition/">click here</a> to access</p><p style="text-align:justify">Progress for Children: A Report Card on Nutrition, Number 4, May 2006, please <a href="https://www.unicef.org/media/86536/file/Progress_for_Children_-_No._4.pdf" title="https://www.unicef.org/media/86536/file/Progress_for_Children_-_No._4.pdf">click here</a> to access &nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Millennium Development Goals Indicators, United Nations Statistics Division, please <a href="https://unstats.un.org/unsd/mdg/Metadata.aspx?IndicatorId=0&amp;SeriesId=559" title="https://unstats.un.org/unsd/mdg/Metadata.aspx?IndicatorId=0&amp;SeriesId=559">click here</a> to access&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Malnutrition, World Health Organisation, 9 June, 2021, please <a href="https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/malnutrition" title="https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/malnutrition">click here</a> to access &nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Malnutrition in children: Stunting, wasting, overweight and underweight, World Health Organisation, please <a href="https://www.who.int/data/nutrition/nlis/info/malnutrition-in-children" title="https://www.who.int/data/nutrition/nlis/info/malnutrition-in-children">click here</a> to access</p><p style="text-align:justify">Voices of the Invisible Citizens II: One year of COVID-19 -- Are we seeing shifts in internal migration patterns in India? prepared by Migrants Resilience Collaborative (a Jan Sahas initiative) in collaboration with EdelGive Foundation and Global Development Incubator, released on 25th June, 2021, please <a href="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Jan%20Sahas%202021%20report.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Jan%20Sahas%202021%20report.pdf">click here</a> to access</p><p style="text-align:justify">Water Resources Management of Bundelkhand, Uttar Pradesh Planning Department, Government of Uttar Pradesh, please <a href="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Water%20Resources%20Management%20of%20Bundelkhand%20Uttar%20Pradesh%20Planning%20Department.pdf">click here</a> to access</p><p style="text-align:justify">Bundelkhand: Overview of 2018 Monsoon, SANDRP, 12 October, 2018, please <a href="https://sandrp.in/2018/10/12/bundelkhand-overview-of-2018-monsoon/" title="https://sandrp.in/2018/10/12/bundelkhand-overview-of-2018-monsoon/">click here</a> to access &nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Bundelkhand: Building on Partnership -Rakesh Singh, Pradan (NGO),&nbsp;NewsReach March&ndash;April 2015,&nbsp;please <a href="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Bundelkhand-Building-on-Partnership-By-Rakesh-singh%20PRADAN.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/upload/files/Bundelkhand-Building-on-Partnership-By-Rakesh-singh%20PRADAN.pdf">click here</a> to access&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Assessment of Impact of Drought on Men, Women and Children: An Inter-Agency Initiative, Rapid Assessment Survey conducted in Banda, Chitrakoot, Siddharth Nagar, Sonbhadga &amp; Mahoba districts of Uttar Pradesh during 2016, Prepared by CASA, ActionAid, UNICEF, please <a href="https://im4change.org/docs/drought-assessment-report-bundelkhand-region-up-state-february-2016.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/docs/drought-assessment-report-bundelkhand-region-up-state-february-2016.pdf">click here</a> to access</p><p style="text-align:justify">Bundelkhand Drought Impact Assessment Survey 2015, Swaraj Abhiyan in association with Parmarth, Orai, please <a href="https://im4change.org/docs/bundelkhand%20survey%202015_v05.pdf" title="https://im4change.org/docs/bundelkhand%20survey%202015_v05.pdf">click here</a> to access</p><p style="text-align:justify">Bundelkhand Historic Region, India, Britannica.com,&nbsp;please <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Bundelkhand" title="https://www.britannica.com/place/Bundelkhand">click here</a> to access &nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Study on Bundelkhand, Planning Commission, please <a href="https://niti.gov.in/planningcommission.gov.in/docs/reports/sereport/ser/bndel/stdy_bndel.pdf" title="https://niti.gov.in/planningcommission.gov.in/docs/reports/sereport/ser/bndel/stdy_bndel.pdf">click here</a> to access &nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">In five years we have done more work on Saryu canal project than what was done in five decades: PM, 11 December, 2021, please <a href="https://www.narendramodi.in/text-of-prime-minister-narendra-modi-s-address-at-inauguration-of-the-saryu-nahar-national-project-in-balrampur-uttar-pradesh-558858" title="https://www.narendramodi.in/text-of-prime-minister-narendra-modi-s-address-at-inauguration-of-the-saryu-nahar-national-project-in-balrampur-uttar-pradesh-558858">click here</a> to access</p><p style="text-align:justify">Defence Industrial Corridors, Ministry of Defence, Press Information Bureau, 3 December, 2021, please <a href="https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1777610" title="https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1777610">click here</a> to access</p><p style="text-align:justify">Expressways, airports, AIIMS: Yogi government&rsquo;s big infra race before polls -Maulshree Seth, The Indian Express, 27 November, 2021, please <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/india/yogi-govt-infra-race-before-polls-7643744/" title="https://indianexpress.com/article/india/yogi-govt-infra-race-before-polls-7643744/">click here</a> to read more&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">PM Modi to launch Rs.6300 crore projects in Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh -Haidar Naqvi, Hindustan Times, 18 November, 2021, please <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/pm-modi-to-launch-6300-crore-projects-in-bundelkhand-region-of-uttar-pradesh-101637258523293.html" title="https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/pm-modi-to-launch-6300-crore-projects-in-bundelkhand-region-of-uttar-pradesh-101637258523293.html">click here</a> to access</p><p style="text-align:justify">Dried Wells, Broken Dams, Distressed Villagers Define UP&#39;s Multi-Crore &#39;Bundelkhand Package&#39; -Dheeraj Mishra, TheWire.in, 27 October, 2021, please <a href="https://thewire.in/rights/uttar-pradesh-agriculture-bundelkhand-package-irrigation-adityanath" title="https://thewire.in/rights/uttar-pradesh-agriculture-bundelkhand-package-irrigation-adityanath">click here</a> to access&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">No one needs the Ken-Betwa Link Project -Himanshu Thakkar, The Indian Express, 8 April, 2021, please <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/ken-betwa-link-project-bundelkhand-7263573/" title="https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/ken-betwa-link-project-bundelkhand-7263573/">click here</a> to read more&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong>Image Courtesy: UNDP India</strong><br />&nbsp;</p>                                                           
                        </div>
                    </td>
                </tr>
            </table>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
        <div style="padding-top: 18px;">
        <p class="post-tag">Tagged with:
                            <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Banda"
                   title="Banda">
                    Banda                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Bundelkhand Region"
                   title="Bundelkhand Region">
                    Bundelkhand Region                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Bundenkhand"
                   title="Bundenkhand">
                    Bundenkhand                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Chhatarpur"
                   title="Chhatarpur">
                    Chhatarpur                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Chitrakoot"
                   title="Chitrakoot">
                    Chitrakoot                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Damoh"
                   title="Damoh">
                    Damoh                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Datia"
                   title="Datia">
                    Datia                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Hamirpur"
                   title="Hamirpur">
                    Hamirpur                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Jalaun"
                   title="Jalaun">
                    Jalaun                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Jhansi"
                   title="Jhansi">
                    Jhansi                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Lalitpur"
                   title="Lalitpur">
                    Lalitpur                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Madhya Pradesh"
                   title="Madhya Pradesh">
                    Madhya Pradesh                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Mahoba"
                   title="Mahoba">
                    Mahoba                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=National Family Health Survey"
                   title="National Family Health Survey">
                    National Family Health Survey                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=NFHS"
                   title="NFHS">
                    NFHS                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=NFHS-4"
                   title="NFHS-4">
                    NFHS-4                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=NFHS-5"
                   title="NFHS-5">
                    NFHS-5                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Panna"
                   title="Panna">
                    Panna                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Prevalence of Stunting"
                   title="Prevalence of Stunting">
                    Prevalence of Stunting                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Prevalence of Wasting"
                   title="Prevalence of Wasting">
                    Prevalence of Wasting                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Sagar"
                   title="Sagar">
                    Sagar                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Stunting"
                   title="Stunting">
                    Stunting                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Tikamgarh"
                   title="Tikamgarh">
                    Tikamgarh                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Under-nutrition"
                   title="Under-nutrition">
                    Under-nutrition                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Underweight"
                   title="Underweight">
                    Underweight                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Uttar Pradesh"
                   title="Uttar Pradesh">
                    Uttar Pradesh                </a>
                                <a class="tagcloud5"
                   href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Wasting"
                   title="Wasting">
                    Wasting                </a>
                        </p>
    </div>
<div class="clear"></div>
    <br><br>
    <div class="widget-top">
        <h4>Related Articles</h4>
        <div class="stripe-line"></div>
    </div>
    <div class="widget-container">
        <ul id="recentcomments">
                            <li class="recentcomments">
                    <a href="https://im4change.in/news-alerts-57/135-million-indians-exited-multidimensional-poverty-as-per-government-figures-is-that-the-same-as-poverty-reduction.html"
                       title="135 Million Indians Exited “Multidimensional" Poverty as per Government Figures. Is that the same as Poverty Reduction?">
                        135 Million Indians Exited “Multidimensional" Poverty as per Government Figures. Is that the same as Poverty Reduction?                    </a>
                </li>
                                <li class="recentcomments">
                    <a href="https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/niti-aayog-says-20-79-crore-indians-are-multidimensionally-poor-banjot-kaur.html"
                       title="Niti Aayog says 20.79 Crore Indians Are 'Multidimensionally Poor' - Banjot Kaur">
                        Niti Aayog says 20.79 Crore Indians Are 'Multidimensionally Poor' - Banjot Kaur                    </a>
                </li>
                                <li class="recentcomments">
                    <a href="https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/fatal-heatwave-in-uttar-pradesh-linked-to-climate-change-carbon-copy.html"
                       title="Fatal Heatwave in Uttar Pradesh Linked to Climate Change - Carbon Copy">
                        Fatal Heatwave in Uttar Pradesh Linked to Climate Change - Carbon Copy                    </a>
                </li>
                                <li class="recentcomments">
                    <a href="https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/prevalence-of-zero-food-among-infants-and-young-children-in-india-patterns-of-change-across-the-states-and-union-territories-of-india-1993-2021-the-lancet.html"
                       title="Prevalence of Zero-Food among infants and young children in India - The Lancet ">
                        Prevalence of Zero-Food among infants and young children in India - The Lancet                     </a>
                </li>
                                <li class="recentcomments">
                    <a href="https://im4change.in/latest-news-updates/hunger-and-malnutrition-in-india-after-a-decade-of-the-national-food-security-act-2013-neetu-sharma-jyotsna-sripada-shruthi-raman.html"
                       title="Hunger and Malnutrition in India after a Decade of the National Food Security Act, 2013 - Neetu Sharma, Jyotsna Sripada, Shruthi Raman">
                        Hunger and Malnutrition in India after a Decade of the National Food Security Act, 2013 - Neetu Sharma, Jyotsna Sripada, Shruthi Raman                    </a>
                </li>
                
        </ul>
    </div>
    <div class="comment-respond" id="respond">
    <a name="commentbox">&nbsp;</a>
    <h3 class="comment-reply-title" id="reply-title">Write Comments</h3>
    <form method="post" accept-charset="utf-8" role="form" action="/news-alerts-57/the-under-nutrition-problem-in-bundelkhand-should-receive-equal-attention-of-the-policymakers-if-not-more.html"><div style="display:none;"><input type="hidden" name="_method" value="POST"/></div>    <form class="comment-form" id="commentform" method="post" action="#commentbox" onSubmit="return validate()"
          name="cmtform">
        <input type="hidden" name="cmttype" value="articlecmt"/>
        <input type="hidden" name="article_id" value="61719"/>
        <p class="comment-notes">Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked <span
                    class="required">*</span></p>
                <p class="comment-form-author">
            <label for="commenterName">Name</label>
            <span class="required">*</span>
            <input type="text" aria-required="true" size="30"
                   value=""
                   name="commenterName" id="commenterName" required="true">
        </p>
        <p class="comment-form-email">
            <label for="commenterEmail">Email</label> <span class="required">*</span>
            <input aria-required="true" size="30" name="commenterEmail" id="commenterEmail" type="email"
                   value=""
                   required="true">
        </p>
        <p class="comment-form-contact">
            <label for="commenterPh">Contact No.</label>
            <input type="text" size="30"
                   value=""
                   name="commenterPh" id="commenterPh">
        </p>
        <p class="comment-form-comment">
            <label for="comment">Comment</label>
            <textarea aria-required="true" required="true" rows="8" cols="45" name="comment"
                      id="comment"></textarea>
        </p>
        <p class="comment-form-comment">
            <label for="comment">Type the characters you see in the image below <span class="required">*</span><br><img
                        class="captchaImg"
                        src="https://im4change.in/securimage_show_art.php?tk=1596776725" alt="captcha"/>
            </label>
        </p>
        <input type="text" name="vrcode" required="true"/>

        <p class="form-submit" style="width: 200px;">
            <input type="submit" value="Post Comment" id="submit" name="submit">
        </p></form>
</div>
<style>
    .ui-widget-content {
        height: auto !important;
    }
</style>
<div id="share-modal"></div>
<style>
    .middleContent a{
        background-color: rgba(108,172,228,.2);
    }
    .middleContent a:hover{
        background-color: #418fde;
        border-color: #418fde;
        color: #000;
        }
</style>
<script>
    function shareArticle(article_id) {
        var options = {
            modal: true,
            height: 'auto',
            width: 600 + 'px'
        };
        $('#share-modal').html("");
        $('#share-modal').load('https://im4change.in/share_article?article_id=' + article_id).dialog(options).dialog('open');
    }

    function postShare() {
        var param = 'article_id=' + $("#article_id").val();
        param = param + '&y_name=' + $("#y_name").val();
        param = param + '&y_email=' + $("#y_email").val();
        param = param + '&f_name=' + $("#f_name").val();
        param = param + '&f_email=' + $("#f_email").val();
        param = param + '&y_msg=' + $("#y_msg").val();

        $.ajax({
            type: "POST",
            url: 'https://im4change.in/post_share_article',
            data: param,
            success: function (response) {
                $('#share-modal').html("Thank You, Your message posted to ");
            }
        });
        return false;
    }
</script>                </div>
            </div>
            <!-- Right Side Section Start -->
<!-- MAP Section START -->
<aside class="sidebar indexMarg">
    <div class="ad-cell">
        <a href="https://im4change.in/statemap.php" title="">
            <img src="https://im4change.in/images/map_new_version.png?1582080666" alt="India State Map" class="indiamap" width="232" height="252"/>        </a>
        <div class="rightmapbox">
            <div id="sideOne" class="docltitle"><a href="https://im4change.in/state-report/india/36" target="_blank">DOCUMENTS/
                    REPORTS</a></div>
            <div id="sideTwo" class="statetitle"><a href="https://im4change.in/states.php"target="_blank">STATE DATA/
                    HDRs.</a></div>
        </div>
        <div class="widget widgePadTop"></div>
    </div>
</aside>
<!-- MAP Section END -->
<aside class="sidebar sidePadbottom">
    <div class="rightsmlbox1" >
        <a href="https://im4change.in/knowledge_gateway" target="_blank" style="color: #035588;
    font-size: 17px;">
            KNOWLEDGE GATEWAY
        </a>
    </div>
    <div class="rightsmlbox1">

        <div>
            <p class="rightsmlbox1_title">
                <a href="https://im4change.in/newsletter" target="_blank">
                    NEWSLETTER
                </a>
            </p>
        </div>
    </div>
        <div class="rightsmlbox1" style="height: 325px;">
        <div>
            <p class="rightsmlbox1_title">
                Interview with Prof. Ravi Srivastava
            </p>
            <p class="rightsmlbox1_title">
                <a href="https://im4change.in/video/interview-with-prof-ravi-srivastava-on-current-economic-crisis">
                <img width="250" height="200" src="/images/interview_video_home.jpg" alt="Interview with Prof. Ravi Srivastava"/>
                </a>
                <!--
                <iframe width="250" height="200" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MmaTlntk-wc" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>-->
               
            </p>
            <a href="https://im4change.in/videogallery" class="more-link CatArchalAnch1" target="_blank">
                                More videos
                            </a>
        </div>
    </div>
    
        <div class="rightsmlbox1">
        <div>
            <!--div id="sstory" class="rightboxicons"></div--->
            <p class="rightsmlbox1_title"><a href="https://im4change.in/list-success-stories"  target="_blank">Success Stories</a></p>
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="rightsmlbox1">
        <div>
            <p class="rightsmlbox1_title"><a
                        href="https://im4change.in/interviews"  target="_blank">Interviews</a>
            </p>
        </div>
    </div>

    <div class="rightsmlbox1">
        <div>
            <p class="rightsmlbox1_title"><a href="https://www.commoncause.in/page.php?id=10" >Donate</a></p>
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="rightsmlbox1">
        <div>
            <p class="rightsmlbox1_title"><a
        href="https://im4change.in/marquee"
        class="isf_link more-link" title="India Focus?" style="border: 4px solid #fdd922;width: 90%;background-color: #fdd922;text-align: center;color: #000000;font-size:18px"  target="_blank">India Focus</a></p>        </div>
    </div>

    <div class="rightsmlbox1" style="height: 104px !important;">
        <a href="https://im4change.in/quarterly_reports.php" target="_blank">
            Quarterly Reports on Effect of Economic Slowdown on Employment in India (2008 - 2015)
        </a>
    </div>
    
<!--     <div class="rightsmlbox1">
        <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.im4.im4change" target="_blank">
            
        </a></div> -->
    <!-- <section class="cat-box recent-box secMarg">
        <h2 class="cat-box-title">Most Visited</h2>
    </section> -->
    <!-- accordion Starts here -->
    <!-- <div id="accordion" class="accordMarg">
            </div> -->
    <!-- accordion ends here -->
    <!-- Widget Tag Cloud Starts here -->
    <div id="tag_cloud-2" class="widget widget_tag_cloud">
        <section class="cat-box recent-box secMarg">
                <h2 class="cat-box-title">MOST VISITED TAGS</h2>
            </section>
        <div class="widget-top wiPdTp">
           
            <div class="stripe-line"></div>
        </div>
        <div class="widget-container">
            <div class="tagcloud">
                                    <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Agriculture"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Agriculture</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Food Security"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Food Security</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Law and Justice"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Law and Justice</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Health"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Health</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Right to Food"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Right to Food</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Corruption"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Corruption</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=farming"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">farming</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Environment"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Environment</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Right to Information"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Right to Information</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=NREGS"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">NREGS</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Human Rights"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Human Rights</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Governance"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Governance</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=PDS"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">PDS</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=COVID-19"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">COVID-19</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Land Acquisition"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Land Acquisition</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=mgnrega"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">mgnrega</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Farmers"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Farmers</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=transparency"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">transparency</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Gender"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Gender</a>
                                        <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Poverty"
                       target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Poverty</a>
                                    
                                <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Farm Laws" target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Farm Laws
                </a>
                <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Citizenship Amendment Act" target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Citizenship Amendment Act
                </a>
                <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=CAA NPR NRIC" target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">CAA NPR NRIC
                </a>
                <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Job Losses" target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Job Losses
                </a>
                <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Migrant Workers" target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Migrant Workers
                </a>
                <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=Unemployment" target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">Unemployment
                </a>
                <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=PMGKAY" target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">PMGKAY
                </a>
                <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=PM-KISAN" target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">PM-KISAN
                </a>
                <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=PM-CARES" target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">PM-CARES
                </a>
                <a href="https://im4change.in/search?qryStr=LFPR" target="_blank" class="tag-link-4 font4">LFPR
                </a>
                
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
    <!-- Widget Tag Cloud Ends here -->
</aside>
<!-- Right Side Section End -->
        </div>
        <section class="cat-box cats-review-box footerSec">
    <h2 class="cat-box-title vSec CatArcha">Video
        Archives</h2>
    <h2 class="cat-box-title CatArchaTitle">Archives</h2>
    <div class="cat-box-content">
        <div class="reviews-cat">
            <div class="CatArchaDiv1">
                <div class="CatArchaDiv2">
                    <ul>
                                                    <li>
                                <a href="https://im4change.in/news-alerts-57/moving-upstream-luni-fellowship.html"  target="_blank">
                                     Moving Upstream: Luni – Fellowship                                </a>
                            </li>
                                                        <li>
                                <a href="https://im4change.in/news-alerts-57/135-million-indians-exited-multidimensional-poverty-as-per-government-figures-is-that-the-same-as-poverty-reduction.html"  target="_blank">
                                     135 Million Indians Exited “Multidimensional" Poverty as per Government...                                </a>
                            </li>
                                                        <li>
                                <a href="https://im4change.in/news-alerts-57/explainer-why-are-tomato-prices-on-fire.html"  target="_blank">
                                     Explainer: Why are Tomato Prices on Fire?                                </a>
                            </li>
                                                        <li>
                                <a href="https://im4change.in/news-alerts-57/nsso-survey-only-39-1-of-all-households-have-drinking-water-within-dwelling-46-7-of-rural-households-use-firewood-for-cooking.html"  target="_blank">
                                     NSSO Survey: Only 39.1% of all Households have Drinking...                                </a>
                            </li>
                                                    <li class="CatArchalLi1">
                            <a href="https://im4change.in/news-alerts-57"
                               class="more-link CatArchalAnch1"  target="_blank">
                                More...
                            </a>
                        </li>
                    </ul>
                </div>
                                    <div class="CatArchaWidth">
                        <img class="CatArchaImg"
                             src="https://img.youtube.com/vi/I51LYnP8BOk/1.jpg"
                             alt=" Im4Change.org हिंदी वेबसाइट का परिचय. Short Video on im4change.org...">
                        <p class="CatArchaPPad">
                            <a href="https://im4change.in/video/Short-Video-on-im4change-Hindi-website-Inclusive-Media-for-Change"  target="_blank">
                                 Im4Change.org हिंदी वेबसाइट का परिचय. Short Video on im4change.org...                            </a>
                        </p>
                    </div>
                                        <div class="CatArchaWidth">
                        <img class="CatArchaImg"
                             src="https://img.youtube.com/vi/kNqha-SwfIY/1.jpg"
                             alt=" "Session 1: Scope of IDEA and AgriStack" in Exploring...">
                        <p class="CatArchaPPad">
                            <a href="https://im4change.in/video/Session-1- Scope-of-IDEA-and-AgriStack-in-Exploring-Digitalisation-in-Agriculture-29-April-2022"  target="_blank">
                                 "Session 1: Scope of IDEA and AgriStack" in Exploring...                            </a>
                        </p>
                    </div>
                                        <div class="CatArchaWidth">
                        <img class="CatArchaImg"
                             src="https://img.youtube.com/vi/6kIVjlgZItk/1.jpg"
                             alt=" "Session 2: Farmer Centric Digitalisation in Agriculture" in Exploring...">
                        <p class="CatArchaPPad">
                            <a href="https://im4change.in/video/Session-2-Farmer-Centric-Digitalisation-in-Agriculture-in-Exploring-Digitalisation-in-Agriculture-29-April-2022"  target="_blank">
                                 "Session 2: Farmer Centric Digitalisation in Agriculture" in Exploring...                            </a>
                        </p>
                    </div>
                                        <div class="CatArchaWidth">
                        <img class="CatArchaImg"
                             src="https://img.youtube.com/vi/2BeHTu0y7xc/1.jpg"
                             alt=" "Session 3: Future of Digitalisation in Agriculture" in Exploring...">
                        <p class="CatArchaPPad">
                            <a href="https://im4change.in/video/Session-3-Future-of-Digitalisation-in-Agriculture-in-Exploring-Digitalisation-in-Agriculture-29-April-2022"  target="_blank">
                                 "Session 3: Future of Digitalisation in Agriculture" in Exploring...                            </a>
                        </p>
                    </div>
                    


                <div class="divWidth">
                    <ul class="divWidthMarg">
                                                    <li>
                                <a href="https://im4change.in/video/Public-Spending-on-Agriculture-in-India-Source-Foundation-for-Agrarian-Studies"
                                   title="Public Spending on Agriculture in India (Source: Foundation for Agrarian Studies)"  target="_blank">
                                     Public Spending on Agriculture in India (Source: Foundation for...</a>
                            </li>
                                                        <li>
                                <a href="https://im4change.in/video/Agrarian-Change-Seminar-Protests-against-the-New-Farm-Laws-in-India-by-Prof-Vikas-Rawal-JNU-Source-Journal-Of-Agrarian-Change"
                                   title="Agrarian Change Seminar: 'Protests against the New Farm Laws in India' by Prof. Vikas Rawal, JNU (Source: Journal Of Agrarian Change) "  target="_blank">
                                     Agrarian Change Seminar: 'Protests against the New Farm Laws...</a>
                            </li>
                                                        <li>
                                <a href="https://im4change.in/video/Webinar-Ramrao-The-Story-of-India-Farm-Crisis-Source-Azim-Premji-University"
                                   title="Webinar: Ramrao - The Story of India's Farm Crisis (Source: Azim Premji University)"  target="_blank">
                                     Webinar: Ramrao - The Story of India's Farm Crisis...</a>
                            </li>
                                                        <li>
                                <a href="https://im4change.in/video/water-and-agricultural-transformation-in-India"
                                   title="Water and Agricultural Transformation in India: A Symbiotic Relationship (Source: IGIDR)"  target="_blank">
                                     Water and Agricultural Transformation in India: A Symbiotic Relationship...</a>
                            </li>
                                                    <li class="CatArchalLi1">
                            <a href="https://im4change.in/videogallery"
                               class="more-link CatArchalAnch1"  target="_blank">
                                More...
                            </a>
                        </li>
                    </ul>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</section>    </div>
    <div class="clear"></div>
    <!-- Footer option Starts here -->
    <div class="footer-bottom fade-in animated4">
        <div class="container">
            <div class="social-icons icon_flat">
                <p class="SocialMargTop"> Website Developed by <a target="_blank" title="Web Development"
                                                                  class="wot right"
                                                                  href="http://www.ravinderkhurana.com/" rel="nofollow">
                                                                  RAVINDErkHURANA.com</a></p>
            </div>
            <div class="alignleft">
                <a
     target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/objectives-8.html"
    class="link"
    title="Objectives">Objectives</a> | <a
     target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/about-us-9.html"
    class="link" title="About Us">About Us</a> | <a
     target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/media-workshops.php"
    class="ucwords">Workshops</a> | <a
     target="_blank" href="https://im4change.in/disclaimer/disclaimer-149.html"
    title="Disclaimer">Disclaimer</a>            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
    <!-- Footer option ends here -->
</div>
<div id="connect">
    <a target="_blank"
       href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://im4change.in/news-alerts-57/the-under-nutrition-problem-in-bundelkhand-should-receive-equal-attention-of-the-policymakers-if-not-more.html"
       title="Share on Facebook">
        <img src="https://im4change.in/images/Facebook.png?1582080640" alt="share on Facebook" class="ImgBorder"/>
    </a><br/>
    <a target="_blank"
       href="http://twitter.com/share?text=Im4change&amp;url=https://im4change.in/news-alerts-57/the-under-nutrition-problem-in-bundelkhand-should-receive-equal-attention-of-the-policymakers-if-not-more.html"
       title="Share on Twitter">
        <img src="https://im4change.in/images/twitter.png?1582080632" alt="Twitter" class="ImgBorder"/>    </a>
    <br/>
    <a href="/feeds" title="RSS Feed" target="_blank">
        <img src="https://im4change.in/images/rss.png?1582080632" alt="RSS" class="ImgBorder"/>
    </a>
    <br/>
    <a class="feedback-link" id="feedbackFormLink" href="#">
        <img src="https://im4change.in/images/feedback.png?1582080630" alt="Feedback" class="ImgBorder"/>
    </a> <br/>
    <a href="javascript:function iprl5(){var d=document,z=d.createElement('scr'+'ipt'),b=d.body,l=d.location;try{if(!b)throw(0);d.title='(Saving...) '+d.title;z.setAttribute('src',l.protocol+'//www.instapaper.com/j/WKrH3R7ORD5p?u='+encodeURIComponent(l.href)+'&amp;t='+(new Date().getTime()));b.appendChild(z);}catch(e){alert('Please wait until the page has loaded.');}}iprl5();void(0)"
       class="bookmarklet" onclick="return explain_bookmarklet();">
        <img src="https://im4change.in/images/read-it-later.png?1582080632" alt="Read Later" class="ImgBorder"/>    </a>
</div>
<!-- Feedback form Starts here -->
<div id="feedbackForm" class="overlay_form" class="ImgBorder">
    <h2>Contact Form</h2>
    <div id="contactform1">
        <div id="formleft">
            <form id="submitform" action="/contactus.php" method="post">
                <input type="hidden" name="submitform" value="submitform"/>
                <input type="hidden" name="salt_key" value="a0e0f2c6a0644a70e57ad2c96829709a"/>
                <input type="hidden" name="ref" value="feedback"/>
                <fieldset>
                    <label>Name :</label>
                    <input type="text" name="name" class="tbox" required/>
                </fieldset>
                <fieldset>
                    <label>Email :</label>
                    <input type="text" name="email" class="tbox" required/>
                </fieldset>
                <fieldset>
                    <label>Message :</label>
                    <textarea rows="5" cols="20" name="message" required></textarea>
                </fieldset>
                <fieldset>
                    Please enter security code
                    <div class="clear"></div>
                    <input type="text" name="vrcode" class="tbox"/>
                </fieldset>
                <fieldset>
                    <input type="submit" class="button" value="Submit"/>
                    &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="#" id="closefeedbakcformLink">Close</a>
                </fieldset>
            </form>
        </div>
        <div class="clearfix"></div>
    </div>
</div>
<div id="donate_popup" class="modal" style="max-width: 800px;">
    <table width="100%" border="1">
        <tr>
            <td colspan="2" align="center">
                <b>Support im4change</b>
            </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td width="25%" valign="middle">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo2.jpg?1582080632" alt="" width="100%"/>            </td>
            <td style="padding-left:10px;padding-top:10px;">
                <form action="https://im4change.in/donate" method="get">
                    <table width="100%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
                        <tr>
                            <td width="33%" style="font-family: 'Script Font', cursive, Arial;font-size: 20px;font-weight: 700;">
                                10
                            </td>
                            <td width="33%" style="font-family: 'Script Font', cursive, Arial;font-size: 20px;font-weight: 700;">
                                100
                            </td>
                            <td width="33%" style="font-family: 'Script Font', cursive, Arial;font-size: 20px;font-weight: 700;">
                                1000
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td colspan="3">
                                &nbsp;
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td  style="font-family: 'Script Font', cursive, Arial;font-size: 20px;font-weight: 700;">
                                50
                            </td>
                            <td  style="font-family: 'Script Font', cursive, Arial;font-size: 20px;font-weight: 700;">
                                500
                            </td>
                            <td  style="font-family: 'Script Font', cursive, Arial;font-size: 20px;font-weight: 700;">
                                <input type="text" name="price" placeholder="?" style="font-family: 'Script Font', cursive, Arial;font-size: 20px;font-weight: 700;">
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td colspan="3">
                                &nbsp;
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td colspan="3" align="right">
                                <input type="button" name="Pay" value="Pay"
                                       style="width: 200px;background-color: rgb(205, 35, 36);color: #ffffff;"/>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                    </table>
                </form>
            </td>
        </tr>
    </table>
</div><script type='text/javascript'>

    /* <![CDATA[ */

    var tievar = {'go_to': 'Go to...'};

    /* ]]> */

</script>
<script src="/js/tie-scripts.js?1575549704"></script><script src="/js/bootstrap.js?1575549704"></script><script src="/js/jquery.modal.min.js?1578284310"></script><script>
    $(document).ready(function() {
        // tell the autocomplete function to get its data from our php script
        $('#s').autocomplete({
            source: "/autocomplete"
        });
    });
</script>
<script src="/vj-main-sw-register.js" async></script>

<script>function init(){var imgDefer=document.getElementsByTagName('img');for(var i=0;i<imgDefer.length;i++){if(imgDefer[i].getAttribute('data-src')){imgDefer[i].setAttribute('src',imgDefer[i].getAttribute('data-src'))}}}
window.onload=init;</script>
</body>
</html>'

}
$cookies = []
$values = [
	(int) 0 => 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
]
$name = 'Content-Type'
$first = true
$value = 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
header - [internal], line ??
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emitHeaders() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 55
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

Home हिन्दी

The under-nutrition problem in Bundelkhand should receive equal attention of the policymakers, if not more

Published on Dec 26, 2021   Modified on Jan 20, 2022

Recent media reports point out that the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh is likely to get about Rs. 6,300 crore projects ahead of the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, including a Rs. 400 crore worth plant for the propulsion system of anti-tank guided missiles in Jhansi. The foundation was laid for the first project in the Jhansi node (related to the Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor) on November 18, 2021. The two Defence Industrial Corridors of Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu are expected to attract a total investment of Rs. 20,000 crore by the year 2024-25. The Arjun Sahayak project on the Dhasan river, built at a cost of around Rs. 2,600 crore in Mahoba district, is anticipated to provide irrigation facilities to 1.5 lakh farmers in 168 villages of Banda, Hamirpur and Mahoba districts. The Uttar Pradesh State Government led by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has claimed recently that nearly 76 percent of the work on the 296-km Bundelkhand Expressway (whose foundation was laid on February 29, 2020), connecting Etawah, Auraiya, Jalaun, Hamirpur, Banda, Mahoba and Chitrakoot, has been completed. The Ken-Betwa river interlinking project is supposed to end the water crisis of Bundelkhand, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on December 11, 2021 while inaugurating the Saryu canal project at Balrampur in Uttar Pradesh.   While the Bundelkhand region of Central India received attention from social scientists, researchers and civil society organisations for its socio-economic backwardness, in recent times it has received attention for political reasons thanks to the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls to be held early next year. The Bundelkhand region of Central India is spread across 7 districts of Uttar Pradesh and six districts of Madhya Pradesh. The districts of Chitrakoot, Banda, Jhansi, Jalaun, Hamirpur, Mahoba and Lalitpur, which are part of the Bundelkhand region lie in Uttar Pradesh. The districts of Madhya Pradesh that belong to the Bundelkhand region are Chhatarpur, Tikamgarh, Damoh, Sagar, Datia and Panna. Annual precipitation is often erratic with a deluge followed by a long spell without rainfall. Although more than 95 percent of the rainfall occurs between June and September (with maximum rain generally in July-August), the small amount of rainfall taking place during November-May is quite useful for farming in the region. Owing to the geology and topography, and the pattern of the rainfall received, Bundelkhand region is affected by both drought and flood. Impermeable rocky layer exists at fairly shallow depths in most parts of the region. Rainwater runoff is high. It means that rainwater has little time to penetrate the soil in this region.  Agriculture is the mainstay of the majority of the rural people residing in Bundelkhand. Besides farming, they rely on secondary activities like animal husbandry and dairying, poultry, fisheries, bee-keeping and sericulture. Successive droughts (caused by climate change in recent years) and uncertain monsoons have affected the livelihoods of the people residing in this region. Water shortage (due to the lack of assured irrigation facilities) coupled with low farm productivity has not only affected the purchasing power of the people, but also the food and nutrition security of both children and adults. Out-migration from the Bundelkhand region to other places of India for livelihood security is quite common.  Against the above-stated background, an attempt has been made (using the National Family Health Survey-NFHS data) to assess the status of child nutrition in various districts of Bundelkhand region vis-à-vis the overall child nutrition situation in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. In the present analysis, 3 indicators have been considered -- proportion of children under 5 years who are stunted (height-for-age); proportion of children under 5 years who are wasted (weight-for-height); and proportion of  children under 5 years who are underweight (weight-for-age). It should be noted that as per the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), under-nutrition includes being underweight for one’s age, too short for one’s age (stunted), dangerously thin (wasted), and deficient in vitamins and minerals (micronutrient malnutrition). Prevalence of stunting among children under five years The recently released data of the NFHS shows that for the country as a whole, the percentage of children below 5 years who are stunted has reduced from 38.4 percent to 35.5 percent between 2015-16 and 2019-21 i.e., by -2.9 percentage points. While for Madhya Pradesh, the percentage of children below 5 years who are stunted has gone down from 42.0 percent to 35.7 percent between 2015-16 and 2020-21 (i.e., by -6.3 percentage points), for Uttar Pradesh the same has decreased from 46.3 percent to 39.7 percent between the two time points (i.e., by -6.6 percentage points). Please see chart-1. While in Damoh (-2.9 percentage points), Datia (-12.1 percentage points), and Tikamgarh (-22.2 percentage points) districts the percentage of children below 5 years who are stunted has decreased between NFHS-4 and NFHS-5, in Chhatarpur (+2.4 percentage points), Panna (+2.8 percentage points), and Sagar (+1.7 percentage points) districts the percentage of children below 5 years who are stunted has increased between the two time points. In Chitrakoot (-3.4 percentage points), Jalaun (-0.5 percentage points), and Mahoba (-2.3 percentage points) districts the percentage of children below 5 years who are stunted has gone down between NFHS-4 and NFHS-5, whereas in Banda (+4.3 percentage points), Hamirpur (+9.5 percentage points), Jhansi (+4.8 percentage points), and Lalitpur (+5.9 percentage points) districts the percentage of children below 5 years who are stunted has climbed up between the two time points. So, in seven out of 13 districts that fall in Bundelkhand, the proportion of children under 5 years who are stunted has increased between 2015-16 and 2020-21. The prevalence of stunting among children under five years in 2020-21 is higher in Chhatarpur (45.1 percent), Damoh (40.3 percent), Datia (36.8 percent), Panna (45.1 percent) and Sagar (42.7 percent) in comparison to Madhya Pradesh (35.7 percent). The prevalence of stunting among children below five years in 2020-21 is higher in Banda (51.0 percent), Chitrakoot (47.5 percent), Hamirpur (48.0 percent), Jalaun (45.1 percent), Jhansi (40.9 percent), Lalitpur (46.6 percent), and Mahoba (42.3 percent) as compared to Uttar Pradesh (39.7 percent). Note: Please click here to access the data of the above chart in a spreadsheet format Source: Madhya Pradesh -- District Factsheet: Chhatarpur, Madhya Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please click here to access  *** District Factsheet: Damoh, Madhya Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please click here to access  *** District Factsheet: Datia, Madhya Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please click here to access  *** District Factsheet: Panna, Madhya Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please click here to access  *** District Factsheet: Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please click here to access *** District Factsheet: Tikamgarh, Madhya Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please click here to access  *** Madhya Pradesh Factsheet, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please click here to access  --- Uttar Pradesh --  District Factsheet: Banda, Uttar Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please click here to access  *** District Factsheet: Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please click here to access  *** District Factsheet: Hamirpur, Uttar Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please click here to access  *** District Factsheet: Jalaun, Uttar Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please click here to access  *** District Factsheet: Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please click here to access  *** District Factsheet: Lalitpur, Uttar Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please click here to access   *** District Factsheet: Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please click here to access  *** Uttar Pradesh Factsheet, NFHS-5, 2020-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please click here to access   --- India Factsheet, NFHS-5, 2019-21, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, please click here to access   ----- According to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), stunting, or low height for age, is responsible for irreversible physical and mental damage to children. A child who is stunted is too short for their age, does not fully develop and stunting reflects chronic under-nutrition during the most critical periods of growth and development in early life. Stunting prevalence is defined as the percentage of children, aged 0 to 59 months, whose height for age is below minus two standard deviations (moderate and severe stunting) and minus three standard deviations (severe stunting) from the median of the World Health Organisation-WHO Child Growth Standards. Stunting is associated with an underdeveloped brain, with long-lasting harmful consequences, including diminished mental ability and learning capacity, poor school performance in childhood, reduced earnings and increased risks of nutrition-related chronic diseases, such as diabetes, hypertension, and obesity in future. Experts have noted that stunting starts from pre-conception when an adolescent girl who later becomes mother is undernourished and anaemic and it worsens when infants’ diets are poor, and when sanitation and hygiene are inadequate. It is irreversible by the age of two. Stunting adversely affects school attendance and performance. This, in turn, can reduce later adult income-generation. Under-nutrition reduces economic advancement due to losses in productivity, poorer cognition and poorer educational outcomes. The immediate and underlying factors causing stunting include infant and child care practices, hygiene and limited food security among the poorest households. It is closely connected to reproductive and maternal nutrition and is often determined in the womb by a mother's social status and level of education. Traditional beliefs related to food intake and quality of care of an adolescent girl and of a woman during pregnancy and breastfeeding are also factors. While exclusive breastfeeding practices have improved in the past 10 years, complementary feeding practices have worsened. It should be noted that poverty is not a clear cause of stunting as there are stunted children even among the richest households.   Prevalence of wasting among children under five years For India, the percentage of children below 5 years who are wasted has gone down from 21.0 percent to 19.3 percent between 2015-16 and 2019-21 i.e., by -1.7 percentage points. For Madhya Pradesh, the percentage of children below 5 years who are wasted has declined from 25.8 percent to 19.0 percent between 2015-16 and 2020-21 (i.e., by -6.8 percentage points), whereas for Uttar Pradesh the same has gone down from 17.9 percent to 17.3 percent between the two time points (i.e., by -0.6 percentage points). Please consult chart-2. In Chhatarpur (-1.4 percentage points), Damoh (-4.8 percentage points), Datia (-9.8 percentage points), Panna (-0.8 percentage points), and Sagar (-1.7 percentage points) districts the percentage of children below 5 years who are wasted has decreased between NFHS-4 and NFHS-5, whereas in Tikamgarh district (+0.5 percentage points) the percentage of children below 5 years who are wasted has increased between the two time points. Although in Chitrakoot (-8.5 percentage points), Hamirpur (-11.7 percentage points), Jalaun (-12.7 percentage points), Jhansi (-2.0 percentage points), and Lalitpur (-20.3 percentage points) districts the percentage of children below 5 years who are wasted has fallen between NFHS-4 and NFHS-5, in Banda (+7.7 percentage points) and Mahoba (+1.1 percentage points) the percentage of children below 5 years who are wasted has risen between the two time points. Therefore, in three out of 13 districts that come under Bundelkhand region, the proportion of children under 5 years who are wasted has increased between 2015-16 and 2020-21. The prevalence of wasting among children under five years in 2020-21 is higher in Panna (23.2 percent) and Tikamgarh (19.7 percent) in comparison to Madhya Pradesh (19.0 percent). The prevalence of wasting among children below five years in 2020-21 is higher in Banda (25.7 percent), Chitrakoot (24.8 percent), Hamirpur (20.6 percent), Jalaun (19.5 percent), Jhansi (25.2 percent), Lalitpur (18.7 percent), and Mahoba (25.0 percent) as compared to Uttar Pradesh (17.3 percent). Note: Please click here to access the data of the above chart in a spreadsheet format Source: Same as Chart-1 --- According to the UNICEF, wasting refers to a situation when a child is too thin for his or her height. Wasting happens due to recent rapid weight loss or the failure to gain weight. A child who is moderately or severely wasted faces an increased risk of death, but treatment is possible. Wasting is considered as a life-threatening condition attributable to poor nutrient intake and/or disease. Characterised by a rapid deterioration in nutritional status over a short period of time, children suffering from wasting have weakened immunity, increasing their risk of death due to greater frequency and severity of common infection, particularly when severe. Wasting is considered to be the most immediate, visible and life-threatening form of malnutrition. It results from the failure to prevent malnutrition among the most vulnerable children. Children with wasting are too thin and their immune systems are weak, leaving them vulnerable to developmental delays, disease and death. Some children affected by wasting also suffer from nutritional oedema, characterised by a swollen face, feet and limbs. Wasting and other forms of acute malnutrition occur due to maternal malnutrition, low birth weight, poor feeding and care practices, and infection exacerbated by food insecurity, limited access to safe drinking water, and poverty. Growing evidence suggests that wasting occurs very early in life and disproportionally affects children under 2 years of age. The number of children who suffer from wasting can increase dramatically as a result of conflict, epidemics and food insecurity, including that caused by climate change–induced droughts and flooding. Yet, wasting is not only a characteristic of crisis. In fact, two thirds of all children with wasting live in places that are not facing emergencies. While the number of children being treated for wasting and other forms of life-threatening malnutrition has increased in recent years, only one in three children with severe wasting are reached with the timely treatment and care they require to survive and thrive. Technically, it is defined as the number (also proportion) of under-fives falling below minus 2 standard deviations (moderate and severe) and minus 3 standard deviations (severe) from the median weight-for-height of the reference population. Percentage of children under 5 years who are underweight For the country as whole, the percentage of children below 5 years who are underweight has decreased from 35.8 percent to 32.1 percent between 2015-16 and 2019-21 i.e., by -3.7 percentage points. Although for Madhya Pradesh the percentage of children below 5 years who are underweight has fallen from 42.8 percent to 33.0 percent between 2015-16 and 2020-21 (i.e., by -9.8 percentage points), for Uttar Pradesh the same has decreased from 39.5 percent to 32.1 percent between the two time points (i.e., by -7.4 percentage points). Please have a look at chart-3. In Chhatarpur (-6.7 percentage points), Damoh (-5.7 percentage points), Datia (-17.5 percentage points), Panna (-1.6 percentage points), and Tikamgarh (-8.4 percentage points) districts the percentage of children below 5 years who are underweight has gone down between NFHS-4 and NFHS-5, whereas in Sagar district (+5.3 percentage points) the percentage of children below 5 years who are underweight has risen between the two time points. Although in Chitrakoot (-10.7 percentage points), Hamirpur (-3.5 percentage points), Jalaun (-13.1 percentage points), Jhansi (-0.2 percentage points), Lalitpur (-14.0 percentage points), and Mahoba (-14.3 percentage points) districts the percentage of children below 5 years who are underweight has fallen between 2015-16 and 2020-21, in Banda district (+8.3 percentage points) the percentage of children below 5 years who are underweight has increased between the two time points. Banda is the only district in Bundelkhand region, which has experienced a rise in all three indicators of under-nutrition i.e., prevalence of stunting, wasting as well as underweight among children below 5 years of age. In just two out of 13 districts that belong to Bundelkhand, the proportion of children under 5 years who are underweight has grown between 2015-16 and 2020-21. The prevalence of underweight among children under five years in 2020-21 is higher in Chhatarpur (34.6 percent), Panna (39.2 percent), Sagar (35.8 percent), and Tikamgarh (34.9 percent) in comparison to Madhya Pradesh (33.0 percent). The prevalence of underweight among children below five years in 2020-21 is higher in Banda (49.8 percent), Chitrakoot (41.8 percent), Hamirpur (36.3 percent), Jalaun (36.1 percent), Jhansi (39.3 percent), Lalitpur (34.8 percent), and Mahoba (33.4 percent) as compared to Uttar Pradesh (32.1 percent).   Note: Please click here to access the data of the above chart in a spreadsheet format Source: Same as Chart-1 --- According to the United Nations, the prevalence of (moderately and severely) underweight children is the percentage of children aged 0-59 months whose weights for age are less than two standard deviations below the median weight for age of the international reference population. The international reference population, often referred to as the NCHS/WHO reference population, was formulated by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) as a reference for the United States and later adopted by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Children with low weight-for-age are known as underweight. A child who is underweight may be stunted, wasted, or both. The mortality risk is increased in children who are even mildly underweight, and the risk is even greater in severely underweight children.  Data on child mortality indicators Although data is available for the three child mortality indicators i.e., Neonatal Mortality Rate (NNMR), Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) and Under-Five Mortality Rate (U5MR) at the national and state-levels (Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh), it is unavailable for various districts that are part of Bundelkhand region. As a result of this, we could not look at the trends of child mortality in the 13 districts of Bundelkhand region. References The DHS (Demographic and Health Surveys) Program, National, State and Union Territory, and District Fact Sheets 2019-21 National Family Health Survey NFHS-5 (English), USAID, please click here and here to access   Stop stunting, UNICEF, please click here to access, please click here to access   Malnutrition, UNICEF, April 2021, please click here to access  Child Nutrition, October 2019, please click here to access Progress for Children: A Report Card on Nutrition, Number 4, May 2006, please click here to access   Millennium Development Goals Indicators, United Nations Statistics Division, please click here to access  Malnutrition, World Health Organisation, 9 June, 2021, please click here to access   Malnutrition in children: Stunting, wasting, overweight and underweight, World Health Organisation, please click here to access Voices of the Invisible Citizens II: One year of COVID-19 -- Are we seeing shifts in internal migration patterns in India? prepared by Migrants Resilience Collaborative (a Jan Sahas initiative) in collaboration with EdelGive Foundation and Global Development Incubator, released on 25th June, 2021, please click here to access Water Resources Management of Bundelkhand, Uttar Pradesh Planning Department, Government of Uttar Pradesh, please click here to access Bundelkhand: Overview of 2018 Monsoon, SANDRP, 12 October, 2018, please click here to access   Bundelkhand: Building on Partnership -Rakesh Singh, Pradan (NGO), NewsReach March–April 2015, please click here to access  Assessment of Impact of Drought on Men, Women and Children: An Inter-Agency Initiative, Rapid Assessment Survey conducted in Banda, Chitrakoot, Siddharth Nagar, Sonbhadga & Mahoba districts of Uttar Pradesh during 2016, Prepared by CASA, ActionAid, UNICEF, please click here to access Bundelkhand Drought Impact Assessment Survey 2015, Swaraj Abhiyan in association with Parmarth, Orai, please click here to access Bundelkhand Historic Region, India, Britannica.com, please click here to access   Study on Bundelkhand, Planning Commission, please click here to access   In five years we have done more work on Saryu canal project than what was done in five decades: PM, 11 December, 2021, please click here to access Defence Industrial Corridors, Ministry of Defence, Press Information Bureau, 3 December, 2021, please click here to access Expressways, airports, AIIMS: Yogi government’s big infra race before polls -Maulshree Seth, The Indian Express, 27 November, 2021, please click here to read more  PM Modi to launch Rs.6300 crore projects in Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh -Haidar Naqvi, Hindustan Times, 18 November, 2021, please click here to access Dried Wells, Broken Dams, Distressed Villagers Define UP's Multi-Crore 'Bundelkhand Package' -Dheeraj Mishra, TheWire.in, 27 October, 2021, please click here to access  No one needs the Ken-Betwa Link Project -Himanshu Thakkar, The Indian Express, 8 April, 2021, please click here to read more    Image Courtesy: UNDP India

Tagged with: Banda Bundelkhand Region Bundenkhand Chhatarpur Chitrakoot Damoh Datia Hamirpur Jalaun Jhansi Lalitpur Madhya Pradesh Mahoba National Family Health Survey NFHS NFHS-4 NFHS-5 Panna Prevalence of Stunting Prevalence of Wasting Sagar Stunting Tikamgarh Under-nutrition Underweight Uttar Pradesh Wasting

Related Articles

• 135 Million Indians Exited “Multidimensional" Poverty as per Government Figures. Is that the same as Poverty Reduction?
• Niti Aayog says 20.79 Crore Indians Are 'Multidimensionally Poor' - Banjot Kaur
• Fatal Heatwave in Uttar Pradesh Linked to Climate Change - Carbon Copy
• Prevalence of Zero-Food among infants and young children in India - The Lancet 
• Hunger and Malnutrition in India after a Decade of the National Food Security Act, 2013 - Neetu Sharma, Jyotsna Sripada, Shruthi Raman

 

Write Comments

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Name *

Email *

Contact No.

Comment

Type the characters you see in the image below *

Video Archives

Archives

• Moving Upstream: Luni – Fellowship
• 135 Million Indians Exited “Multidimensional" Poverty as per Government...
• Explainer: Why are Tomato Prices on Fire?
• NSSO Survey: Only 39.1% of all Households have Drinking...
• More...

Im4Change.org हिंदी वेबसाइट का परिचय. Short Video on im4change.org...

"Session 1: Scope of IDEA and AgriStack" in Exploring...

"Session 2: Farmer Centric Digitalisation in Agriculture" in Exploring...

"Session 3: Future of Digitalisation in Agriculture" in Exploring...

• Public Spending on Agriculture in India (Source: Foundation for...
• Agrarian Change Seminar: 'Protests against the New Farm Laws...
• Webinar: Ramrao - The Story of India's Farm Crisis...
• Water and Agricultural Transformation in India: A Symbiotic Relationship...
• More...

Website Developed by RAVINDErkHURANA.com

Objectives | About Us | Workshops | Disclaimer

Support im4change
	10 100 1000   50 500