-Economic and Political Weekly
Policies ensuring food security and nutrition support require a renewed focus and sense of urgency.
It is a national shame that, even several decades after independence, the country has not been able to free itself from the problem of hunger and malnutrition that endangers the life and health of the population, especially that of children, women, and vulnerable groups. The global hunger index (GHI) published this year has used four indicators—namely undernourishment, child wasting, child stunting, and child mortality—in order to assess the performance of countries in terms of reducing the problem of hunger. This index places India as one among the countries that experience “serious” levels of hunger.
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