It must be very hard to live in democratic India as child? Child malnutrition rate is too alarmingly high in India. Is this because children don't have rights to VOTE?
"Overcoming malnutrition requires not just an end to denial but also a decision that eradicating malnutrition is as much of a priority for India as its recent decision to build a hundred new ships for its navy over the next decade. Biraj Patnaik, a principal architect of the Right to Food campaign, is intransigent on the topic: My question is if the government can spend 25 billion U.S. dollars on defense, why cant it spend an equivalent amount on ensuring the food security of the people of India? Smiling, he added: Of course its a rhetorical question. I know perfectly well we all know perfectly well that neither the government this country now has or, for that matter, is ever likely to have, will ever lower the defense budget. But sometimes its vital to ask rhetorical questions.
For many Indians, the Chinese example provides a counterpoint and possibly even a model.
As an aid worker put it to me, Democracy is without question good for adults, but Im not convinced its necessarily the friend of small children. What she meant was that the undemocratic Chinese government had the power to make malnutrition a priority and spend what it took to reduce it to comparatively inconsequential levels. "
Indias Malnutrition Dilemma - NYT