India has 40% of world's malnourished: Expert

[Koovie]

OT now:

1.) Stop this defense spending BS, we spend less than 2 % of our GDP on defense, which is BTW one of the most important factors for development. Development spending is much much much higher than defense spending.... I am not sure whether this applies for all countries in our neighbourhood

Besides, social indicators like health care, education etc etc etc are the responsibility of the state and not the GOI! Thats why there are such big regional disparities within India.... from states with HDI (the highest in ALL of South Asia) levels comparable to developed nations to states which HDI levels of sub Saharan nations.

If you dont even know such fundamental things about India, just stop writing stupid comments or just admit that you are trolling.

If money was the only reason for such problems, there would not be such poverty in many parts of India... Just because of the incompetency and failures of the responsible state governments and departments, its no reason to attack the defense ministry for their failures, corruption etc etc etc.... So stop crying.

2.) India`s spending on anti poverty measures and infra projects is among the highest in the world... and I am talking about insanely high amounts of money.

3.) India is eradicating those problems on a high pace. Just compare the various figures from 10 years ago and today. India is lifting million out of poverty each year.


And even with all poor states together Indias HDI is at medium level (The highest on the subcontinent BTW)... something truly astonishing if you compare it to the figures of 2000.

 

[Koovie]

That may be true as many of these factors do not have the counts in foreign food and medical aid
So African countries fare better than Kerala

foreign food and medical aid to Kerala ?!

 

[474474]

India need to impose 2 child policy then only we can overcome this problem, Indian Muslims are biggest culprits of holding back my countries growth by giving birth to more than 5-6 children per couple, so 2 child policy will check fundamental demographics change as well as give our policy planners a breathing space.

And for that 40 B $ remark by some but hurts , I can understand their agony of sleepless nights.

Here in Dubai almost all the major indian investments and businesses are owned by these Indian muslims, in fact they are the ones providing jobs to all the indian hindus like you when they come to dubai in swarms

 

[Broccoli]

India should gear up it's resources to tackle this sort of issues, but instead they choose to use their money on missiles (Agni V, etc) they do not really need. Same goes for Pakistan too.

 

[474474]

The way you count today . .and the way the world counts today, was brought to this world by "astonishingly poor in simple math" people.



The language of mathematics and counting, brought to the world by India:

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu–Arabic_numeral_system

The Hindu–Arabic numeral system[1] or Hindu numeral system[2] is a positional decimal numeral system developed between the 1st and 4th centuries by Indian mathematicians.

If this was completed in the fourth century, how is it that the Chinese already had the value of pi down to 5 decimals in the 3rd century, and to 10 d.p.s in the 5th century?

 

[Koovie]

India should gear up it's resources to tackle this sort of issues, but instead they choose to use their money on missiles (Agni V, etc) they do not really need. Same goes for Pakistan too.

read post #76

 

[Spring Onion]

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.

For understanding nutrition ratio one has to have nutrition aka food to begin with.

So kindly do not accuse the down trodens of ignorance.

Food insecurity will be a big issue for many countries in coming decades.

India is already investing in farmland in Africa to fulfill grain needs.

dont know how much it will help but thats the news.

 

[INDIC]

If this was completed in the fourth century, how is it that the Chinese already had the value of pi down to 5 decimals in the 3rd century, and to 10 d.p.s in the 5th century?

They used fractions to find the value of pi, no decimal points involved.

 

[Koovie]

22 billion?
so around 1200 rupees per person every year?

Who the hell told you that these subsidies are for the entire population ?! oO

It will only go to the poor in states which cannot properly help them.

For understanding nutrition ratio one has to have nutrition aka food to begin with.

So kindly do not accuse the down trodens of ignorance.

Food insecurity will be a big issue for many countries in coming decades.

India is already investing in farmland in Africa to fulfill grain needs.

dont know how much it will help but thats the news.

There is enough food within India, but even the food which is meant to reach the poor cannot do it because of incompetency on the highest levels...

2,400 MT wheat rotting in govt granaries for past 2 years
http://articles.timesofindia.indiat...9090187_1_global-hunger-index-wheat-ghi-score

Getting rid of idiots here would be already enough instead of importing food from Africa or crying about defense cuts

 

[AADHAAR]

If this was completed in the fourth century, how is it that the Chinese already had the value of pi down to 5 decimals in the 3rd century, and to 10 d.p.s in the 5th century?

Because they didn't actually compute the "decimals". .neither did Greeks or Romans (who continued to use the numerals:

I II III IV V VI VII VIII etc to do simple counting).

You need to study "history of mathematics" how it evolved.

Still, to answer your question .. the ancients expressed pi() as a sum of a series .. and many times just approximating the value of the cicumference of a circle by another figure.

Even Greeks could calculate pi() and they didn't have a positional number system... just some symbols like I II III IV V ...

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Back to the issue of Hindu numeral system ... the system itself was a process in making since Vedic times (1500 BC), wasn't invented one fine day !!!!

Mahabharata refers to several "Akshauhini" to measure strength of armed forces:

Akshauhini - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Maharbharata was written in BC era (something like 1000 to 500 BC) .. and there is no way represent such large numbers and do operations on them in terms of "Roman Numerals" ... I II III IV etc.

An Akshauhini (Sanskrit: अक्षौहिण&#2368, was an ancient battle formation that consisted of 21,870 chariots (Sanskrit ratha); 21,870 elephants; 65,610 cavalry and 109,350 infantry,[1] as per the Mahabharata (Adi Parva 2.15-23). The ratio is 1 chariot : 1 elephant : 3 cavalry : 5 infantry soldiers. In each of these large number groups (65,610, etc.), the digits add up to 18.

Even doing simple things like division, ratios .. even summations without positional number system .. on large numbers can be a nightmare..

The elegant way is to use a positional number system ... which became a necessity because Indians were dealing with very large numbers.

 

[indiatester]

For understanding nutrition ratio one has to have nutrition aka food to begin with.

So kindly do not accuse the down trodens of ignorance.

Food insecurity will be a big issue for many countries in coming decades.

India is already investing in farmland in Africa to fulfill grain needs.

dont know how much it will help but thats the news.

India produced 257 billion Kg of food grains in 2011-2012. Even if we assume ~500gms per person per day, the requirement comes to 219 Billion Kgs. So food is available! Now if food is available and is not reaching the needy, then there is a distribution issue which is debatable.

In availability of subsidized food for the downtrodden, if it is not being used, it has to be partly blamed on ignorance.

 

[Spring Onion]

India produced 257 billion Kg of food grains in 2011-2012. Even if we assume ~500gms per person per day, the requirement comes to 219 Billion Kgs. So food is available! Now if food is available and is not reaching the needy, then there is a distribution issue which is debatable.

In availability of subsidized food for the downtrodden, if it is not being used, it has to be partly blamed on ignorance.

food is available but the as you said not reaching to needy so if they dont have power to buy food for survival do you expect a balanced diet habit ?

 

[indiatester]

food is available but the as you said not reaching to needy so if they dont have power to buy food for survival do you expect a balanced diet habit ?

Not reaching the needy will be a small percentage of the overall number. It cannot be said that all the needy are not getting the subsidy. This malnutrition number is a combination of
1) Bad nutrition habits of masses
2) Improper statistics
3) Actual suffering group.

2 & 3 are easier to fix, 1 will take time.

 

[AADHAAR]

food is available but the as you said not reaching to needy so if they dont have power to buy food for survival do you expect a balanced diet habit ?

That's why:

1. It will supplied to 67% of Indian population at Rs 2 per kg for wheat and Rs 3 per kg for rice.

Market price is around Rs 22 per kg and price paid to farmers is about Rs 1500 per quintal (i.e. 15 per kg).

2. In future, when logistics permits, cash will be directly paid to people so that they have the money to buy at fair economic price i.e. Rs. 22 per kg. That's what will kill any corruption involved in distributing it at 2-3 rupees .. but only when direct cash transfers become feasible.

 

[A1Kaid]

This is good news the more malnourished India is the weaker it's citizenry and population will become. Poverty, disease, corruption, starvation and more are all rampant and growing in India. Many of these malnourished Indians will grow up to become thieves and troublemakers ruining Indian society even more.