Global hunger index underlines the alarming state of india’ children
Among the 116 countries ranked by the Global Hunger Index 2021, our country ranks an appalling 101st. It’s not just that our children show higher levels of undernourishment compared to most countries in the world, including neighbours Bangladesh (76), Nepal (76), and Pakistan (92), we are doing worse relative even to ourselves. India’s GHI score has declined significantly between 2012-2021.And before someone comes crying ‘foreign conspiracy’ note that this decline does not just derive from domestic datasets it is loudly echoed there. The first phase of the National Family Health Survey 2019-20 has most states reporting worsened indicators since NFHS 2015-16, with the proportion of severely wasted children going up in 14 out of 18 states (including the UT of J&K). Exacerbations of the trend by the pandemic can be reasonably assumed.
This is obviously a multi-prolonged challenge. Too many mothers lack the health to make healthy babies. Then diseases like diarrhoea take a heavy toll, with improvements in sanitation and drinking water supply still not showing improvements in children’s disease burden. Diets are also crying for improvement, not just in quantity but also quality, and diversification. The appalling data surely reflects appalling failures at different levels of government.
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