India has 40% of world's malnourished: Expert

[INDIC]

what percentage of your budget is it? forget the gdp.

Around 12%.

no this is the stupidest thing i herd, you shouldn't be buying aircraft carriers when your country has 40% of the world malnourished population. you should have limits india does not need to spend that much on its security.

Golden word coming from a Pakistani.

 

[scorpionx]

We have Integrated Child development service scheme since 1975 and no doubt the figures are not optimistic yet for a country with abundant food grains.We are spending almost INR 16000 Cr with an 11% rise in this financial year.This is not a small amount if spend in the right manner.

@qamar1990: We are already spending billions of dollars on several schemes for child development.If the result is still gloomy that does mean that something is wrong somewhere else.A simple reduction in defence budget won't help either.

 

[joekrish]

no this is the stupidest thing i herd, you shouldn't be buying aircraft carriers when your country has 40% of the world malnourished population. you should have limits india does not need to spend that much on its security.

By your logic Pakistan should not have an army at all, you borrow money to run one dont you?

 

[jpsingh]

One of the reason of malnourished is lack of awareness.
I have seen Many families with malnutrition kids in rural area , it is not because they can not afford foods but because they do not know much about nutrition.
Spreading awareness will surely help us to decrease this evil.

 

[faithfulguy]

On the other hand, Indian economic progress had brought a lot of people out of poverty. Lets look at some positives of what India have done, not just the negatives.

 

[shuttler]

The above said UNICEF report in PDF form：

http://www.unicef.org/sowc2013/files/SWCR2013_ENG_Lo_res_24_Apr_2013.pdf

@115 we are still behind by some 20~40 ranks from developed countries

Keep it up China!

 

[navtrek]

yeh but you dont even need to spend 40 billion on your army or give 2 billion to afghanistan

you could spend 20 billion and use the other half for your poor same with aid you giving to afghanistan.




yeh but it takes a billion fo them to do so lol, we will run out of bullets but india wont run out of people.



btw the colts are garbage

This will answer your question steps are being taken to tackle the issue in the form of food security bill

The programme would require more than 61 million tonnes of foodgrain and is expected to cost the government about Rs 1,25,000 crore.

Cabinet clears Ordinance to implement Food Security Bill - The Economic Times

thats what you get when you buy fancy planes and carriers but leave the population starving.

(Reuters) - The government launched a $22 billion welfare scheme on Wednesday to give cheap food to hundreds of millions of people, a centre-piece of the ruling Congress party's plan to win a third term in office in elections due by May 2014.

Source: http://www.defence.pk/forums/centra...giant-cheap-food-programme.html#ixzz2Y2wicfbr

 

[navtrek]

This is just sad, for a nation that spends 40 billion a year on bombs.

(Reuters) - The government launched a $22 billion welfare scheme on Wednesday to give cheap food to hundreds of millions of people, a centre-piece of the ruling Congress party's plan to win a third term in office in elections due by May 2014.

Source: http://www.defence.pk/forums/centra...giant-cheap-food-programme.html#ixzz2Y2wicfbr

 

[faithfulguy]

(Reuters) - The government launched a $22 billion welfare scheme on Wednesday to give cheap food to hundreds of millions of people, a centre-piece of the ruling Congress party's plan to win a third term in office in elections due by May 2014.

Source: http://www.defence.pk/forums/centra...giant-cheap-food-programme.html#ixzz2Y2wicfbr

This is a temporary band aid fix. India needs fundamental changes in its economy.

 

[shuttler]

All other Asian countries rank above india @49 with the exception of just 3:

@23-Afghanistan
@39-Pakistan
@47-Myanmar

And each of the above 3 countries has a smaller economy than india. In fact in the case of Pakistan whose economy is about 13% of india's, is just 10 ranks below. It is doing as much a job in controlling the mortality rate of Pakistani kids as india.

By comparison Myanmar is more outstanding when its economy is at $83 billion while it only ranks 2 places below india

 

[harpoon]

Not trying to be an apologist but this is an interesting article:

The child malnutrition myth

In the early 2000s, when the 55th (1999-2000) round of the expenditure survey showed a surprisingly sharp decline in poverty over its predecessor survey, the reform critics descended on the finding like a ton of bricks. Their critique eventually led to a healthy debate, important new research and eventual downward revision in poverty reduction numbers by the reform advocates themselves.

In total contrast, almost no objections have been raised to the absurdly high estimates of malnutrition in India trumpeted by journalists, NGOs, politicians and international institutions within and outside India. Not a day goes by without some TV channel or newspaper running the headline that the world's fastest growing economy suffers worse malnutrition than sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).

In terms of vital statistics such as life expectancy at birth, infant mortality and maternal mortality, India fares better than all except one or two of the SSA countries with comparable or lower per capita incomes. So it is puzzling that, according to World Health Organisation (WHO) statistics, it suffers from higher proportion of underweight children than every one of the 48 SSA countries and higher rate of stunting than all but seven of them. Such countries as the Central African Republic, Chad and Lesotho, which have life expectancy at birth of just 48 years compared with India's 65, have lower rates of stunting and underweight.

If you still do not believe the absurdity of these malnutrition numbers, compare Kerala and Senegal. Kerala exhibits vital statistics edging towards those in the developed countries: life expec-tancy of 74 years, infant mortality rate of 12 per 1,000 live births and maternal mortality rate of 95 per 1,00,000 live births. The corresponding figures for Senegal are far worse at 62, 51 and 410, respectively. But nutrition statistics say that Kerala has 25% stunted children compared to 20% of Senegal and 23% underweight children relative to 14.5% of the latter. In Punjab, which has a life expec-tancy of 70 years and is the breadbasket and milk dairy of India, 37% of children are stunted and 25% underweight.

To make sense of this nonsense, we must look at how the stunting (and underweight) rates are calculated. To classify a child of a given age and sex as stunted, we must compare his height to a pre-specified standard. The WHO sets this standard. In the early 2000s, it collected a sample of 8,440 children representing a population of healthy breastfed infants and young children in Brazil, Ghana, India, Norway, Oman and the United States. This "reference" population provided the basis for setting the standards.

As expected, when comparing children of a given age and sex even within this healthy sample, heights and weights differed. Therefore, some criterion was required to identify stunting and underweight among these children. In each group defined by age and sex, the WHO defined the bottom 2.14% of the children according to height as stunted. The height of the child at 2.14 percentile then became the standard against which children of the same age and sex in other populations were to be compared to identify stunting. A similar procedure applied to weight.

The key assumption underlying this methodology is that if properly nourished , all child populations would produce outcomes similar to the WHO reference population with just 2.14% of the children at the bottom stunted and underweight. Higher rates of stunting would indicate above normal malnutrition. So the million-dollar question is whether this assumption really holds for the population of children from which the estimate of half of Indian children being stunted is derived?

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As it happens, the answer to the question can be found buried in a 2009 study published by the government of India. The latest estimate for stunting in India has been derived from the third National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3). The report draws a highly restricted sample from the fuller NFHS-3 sample consisting of 'elite' children defined as those 'whose mothers and fathers have secondary or higher education, who live in households with electricity, a refrigerator, a TV and an automobile or truck, who did not have diarrhoea or a cough or fever in the two weeks preceding the survey, who were exclusively breastfed if they were less than five months old, and who received complementary foods if they were at least five months old'.

If the assumption that proper nutrition guarantees the same outcome as the WHO reference population is true, the proportion of stunted children in this sample should be 2.14%. But the study reports this proportion to be above 15%! The assumption is violated by a wide margin.

The implication of this and other facts is that Indian children are genetically smaller on average. A competing hypothesis - which says that nutrition improvements may take several generations - fails to explain how, without a genetic advantage, the far poorer SSA countries, which lag behind India in almost all vital statistics, could have pulled so far ahead of India in child nutrition. Moreover, the trend of the stunting proportions based on WHO standards, available for India since the late 1970s, would suggest that nearly all those born in the 1950s or before - the writer included - are stunted!

Either way, the statistic that half of Indian children today are stunted needs to be viewed far more sceptically and investigated more deeply. The right treatment requires a right diagnosis.

The writer is a professor at Columbia University.

The child malnutrition myth - Times Of India

 

[shuttler]

Not trying to be an apologist but this is an interesting article:

The child malnutrition myth - Times Of India

If his implication is to have a total overhaul of the statistics so as to reflect the real situation of mortality rates of kids under five in india, then he should suggest a world wide overhaul for the rest of the countries covered by UNICEF

By that time, I bet india will rank just as bad

And this is just the under 5-year-old category

BTW, the author is indian

 

[harpoon]

If his implication is to have a total overhaul of the statistics so as to reflect the real situation of mortality rates of kids under five in india, then he should suggest a world wide overhaul for the rest of the countries covered by UNICEF

By that time, I bet india will rank just as bad

And this is just the under 5-year-old category

BTW, the author is indian

That doesn't make this article any less valid. The article clearly shows how states in India which are having higher HDI is also having higher stunted growth of Children than African countries who are much worse in every statistics.

 

[doremon]

no this is the stupidest thing i herd, you shouldn't be buying aircraft carriers when your country has 40% of the world malnourished population. you should have limits india does not need to spend that much on its security.

dude u live in us but ur knowledge about the worlds is worse than my pet ,we wouldnot have spent so much money on building bombs if our neighbours were not blood sucking monster

 

[shuttler]

That doesn't make this article any less valid. The article clearly shows how states in India which are having higher HDI is also having higher stunted growth of Children than African countries who are much worse in every statistics.

I am not challenging the validity of the report. I am just pointing out the same methology should be also applied to other countries covered by UNICEF and not just india alone

mismanangement corruptions etc are factors leading to indicators of HDI and rate of stunted growth go in sync