-BBC Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has branded Malnutrition among children a "national shame", after a report said nearly half of children under five in the country were underweight. According to the report, 42% of children in that age bracket are suffering from Malnutrition. Mr Singh said the level of Malnutrition in India was "unacceptably high". The Hunger and Malnutrition Report also said that one in three malnourished children in the world is Indian. India...
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National shame: child Malnutrition still very high
-Governance Now Child Malnutrition may have fallen in recent years but 42 percent of the children under the age of five are underweight, according to the Hunger and Malnutrition survey conducted by Naandi Foundation. A report with the survey findings says that the growth of nearly 60 percent children is stunted. This has happened despite the economy growing at more than seven percent since the last eight years. The survey collected data...
More »Nutrition surprise in rich kids by GS Mudur
Even wealthy children show signs of poor nutrition in some Indian states, according to a new report on child Malnutrition from a non-government organisation released by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today. The report, based on a survey across 100 districts in six states with poor child development indicators, has shown that child Malnutrition is widespread — 42 per cent of children under five years of age are underweight, and 59 per...
More »42 per cent of Indian children are underweight by Aarti Dhar
Manmohan calls new report's findings a ‘national shame’ A new study based on a survey of the height and weight of more than one lakh children across six States has found that as many as 42 per cent of under-fives are severely or moderately underweight and that 59 per cent of them suffer from moderate to severe stunting, meaning their height is much lower than the median height-for-age of the reference...
More »Every third malnourished child is an Indian: report
-CNN-IBN Prime Minister Manmohan Singh released the first-ever citizens' report on child Malnutrition in the national capital on Tuesday. "The problem of Malnutrition is a national shame," the Prime Minister said. The statistics in the HUNGaMA (Hunger and Malnutrition) report say that every third malnourished child on the planet is an Indian. The report, on the survey conducted by Naandi Foundation, has been made at the insistence of the Citizens' Alliance against...
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