Women and Child Welfare people eating away the new-born's food ? India has the highest percentage of undernourished children

There is a budget allocation of 12,650 crores  from centre alone for child nutrition and women welfare , but we top the world with high degree of underweight children.

Alarmingly India counts to 42 % of the total underweight and mal-nutrition children in India

These politicians seems to eat even the new-born's food. This is really a pathetic situation in the country. These are the details.

According to the new survey of Global Hunger Index, India has the high preponderance of underweight children especially below the age of five. The country ranks 67 among the 84 countries and the hunger level are quite dismaying. According to International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) of Washington, while Somalia, Angola, Afghanistan and Chad had the highest death rate of children under age 5 while underweight children of about 40% were found in countries like India, Bangladesh, Yemen and Timor Lest

Getting overall results it was found that “Index of children who are underweight is more globally”, according to the survey underwent by ‘Global Hunger Index’. GHI depends on three ratios:

• The ratio of children who are under nourishment
• The ratio of underweight children who are below five age
• The ratio of mortality rate of children

In South Asia, among the other countries, India was found to be having higher hunger rate than the per capita Gross National Income (GNI), even when compared to China

The reports found for India discovered that “The high underweight level of child is mainly because of the less social status of women as well as low nutrition to women”

Even factors like poor administration, gender discrimination, inequality, conflict and diseases all contribute to the high level of hunger rate. Moreover it was found that more boney children live in Africa and Asia than other countries at the rte of 40% and 36% respectively. According to the results of World Health Organization, about 44 % children in India were underweight and about 48% were found stunted.

According to the report of UNICEF, “In India, the underweight children counts to about 42% of overall world’s underweight children, with 31% stunted”