India winning war against Hunger & Malnutrition as child shunting declines sharply!

[vsdave2302]

Let us hope that Mr. Modi do some substantial work in this area. He has many challenges. Almost all the areas were let down by congress. We can not have a better PM to deal this pathetic situation created by congress.

Poverty has increased during period of economic growth, says economist - The Hindu
Required: A new poverty line that shows 67% of India is poor - Firstbiz
India’s Growing Urban Poverty Crisis | The Diplomat
These are the reports from just a few months ago. All of a sudden there is a desperate need among NGOs, International agencies, and our Sickulars to present themselves as saviors and redeemers of Indian poverty. Expect more and more institutions of ill repute to come up with more contrived data to negate their own assessments of a few months ago.

 

[Indrani]

Let us hope that Mr. Modi do some substantial work in this area. He has many challenges. Almost all the areas were let down by congress. We can not have a better PM to deal this pathetic situation created by congress.

Of that we can be assured. We crossed an inflection point with the coming of the BJP govt. There is no going back to the bad days of sickularism and their lies and corruption.

 

[SpArK]

The progress was gradual and inevitable.

The results expected was infact slow due to issues created and maintained by administration of state and central govts over these years by ruling parties that mainly includes Congress.
This change was periodical and more than central governments , state governments are directly responsible for all the social indicators. Even if a good policy at the center ,doesnt make any effect if the state government is corrupt and inefficient. To give credit to Manmohan government over this is absurd. His regime will always be remembered as the one with astonishing scandals and convictions or non convictions over that.

A regime change wont make mother's feed their child more or their economic situation change overnight from whatever job they do. But a regime can surely make life much easier with effective management of pubic system, public administartion and public amenities along with public job creation which will have an impact on all the parameters which has kept this nation down since its creation.


I am hoping things will change from now on and the graph will move at bit higher / swifter rate towards more prosperity for my countrymen, my country.

 

[Tridibans]

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>> The number of hungry people in India has fallen to by 9.5 per cent in two decades from 1994 to 2014, but in neigbouring Pakistan the number has risen by over 38 per cent in the same period.​

No of hungry people in India falling but rising in Pakistan: Report - Economic Times​

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>> India has improved it's score from 30.30 in GHI 1990 to 17.80 in GHI 2014 - with this India now ranks 55th out of 76 countries—ahead of Bangladesh and Pakistan, but behind Nepal and Sri Lanka. ​

2014 Global Hunger Index—Background Facts and Findings for Asia | International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)​

@RiazHaq

 

[indiatester]

@Indo-guy

It talks about how if you lock an infinite number of monkeys into a room with a typewriter, eventually one of them will write Shakespeare.

In this context: eventually, even a bunch of fools will get something done right.

Sorry to disagree with you, but we have had internet for years now and enough monkeys... no Shakespeare yet.

 

[Indo-guy]

@Indo-guy

It talks about how if you lock an infinite number of monkeys into a room with a typewriter, eventually one of them will write Shakespeare.

In this context: eventually, even a bunch of fools will get something done right.

I know what infinite monkey theorem is !
But you are mistaken of it's actual meaning .

It says' mathematically' it may be possible for a monkey allowed to type random keys to churn out Shakespearean drama.

Off course if you examine closely it is rhetorical and what it means is that practically it is impossible to achieve something as monumental as Shakespearean drama just by random senseless repeatition .

That's why the simile you are using here is actually contradictory to your claim .

I however believe that UPA did provide continuity in governmental interventions which aided in the remarkable socio-economic transition that is underway . and it is not just as accidental as you are trying to show .

I hate UPA too .

and I am not giving them credit for this achievement either . But they did play a role in this . and that role has to be acknowledged keeping aside our biases .

 

[kbd-raaf]

I know what infinite monkey theorem is !
But you are mistaken of it's actual meaning .

It says' mathematically' it may be possible for a monkey allowed to type random keys to churn out Shakespearean drama.

Off course if you examine closely it is rhetorical and what it means is that practically it is impossible to achieve something as monumental as Shakespearean drama just by random senseless repeatition .

That's why the simile you are using here is actually contradictory to your claim .

I however believe that UPA did provide continuity in governmental interventions which aided in the remarkable socio-economic transition that is underway . and it is not just as accidental as you are trying to show .

I hate UPA too .

and I am not giving them credit for this achievement either . But they did play a role in this . and that role has to be acknowledged keeping aside our biases .

An infinite number of monkeys can achieve anything. It's a mathematical certainty.

It is rhetorical only in the sense that it is impossible to find an infinite number of monkeys. Or for that matter, fit them into any sort of room.

But yes, I agree with you.

 

[haviZsultan]

If we continue growing at the slow pace we are India might overtake us, if it hasn't already. Thanks to our votes to
Nawaz and Zardari.

 

[Chanakya's_Chant]

If we continue growing at the slow pace we are India might overtake us, if it hasn't already. Thanks to our votes to
Nawaz and Zardari.

Wake up gentleman - It has already overtaken!

 

[unbiasedopinion]

Sorry for trolling..but Could not resist to point out that how Pakistan is represented in saffron color in the chart..irony of the biggest kind for them..lol.

 

[Chanakya's_Chant]

South Leads the Way -

Child nutrition in India’s developed States improves​

In southern states have seen improvements in child nutrition over the last five years, says the data.​

India’s more developed States, especially its southern States, have seen improvements in child nutrition over the last five years, but have a patchy record on immunisation, new official data shows.

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has begun releasing data for the fourth round of the District Level Health Survey, which covers all of the country, except the eight backward northern States known as the Empowered Action Group (EAG) states, and Assam. As of Friday, data for all the other major States, except Gujarat, was available. The new numbers deal with nutritional and health coverage for 2012-13 based on a large sample survey conducted by the Mumbai-based International Institute for Population Studies.

The DLHS data confirms the fall in child stunting previously reported by The Hindu from other sources. In all five southern States, child stunting has declined to between 20 and 30 percentage of all children. Maharashtra, Karnataka, Haryana and Punjab have seen the largest declines in child stunting.

India’s more developed States also show large increases in breastfeeding and in institutional deliveries. The mean age at marriage has risen to 20 in the southern States, and indices show that fertility will continue to fall in India; the proportion of women aged 20-25 with more than two children has declined, most sharply in Maharashtra and Karnataka.

However, on several other health indicators, the picture is more mixed. Female sterilisation remains by far the most common method of family planning, with over 95 per cent of all contraception in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh being female sterilisation. In several developed States – Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Haryana and Punjab – the proportion of children between one and two years of age who are fully immunised has actually fallen.

“Routine immunisation has suffered at the cost of aggressive pushing of the polio vaccine,” a senior health official said, asking not to be named. However in Tamil Nadu, for instance, immunisation against all diseases, including polio has declined, The Hindu found. “There is also not enough investment going into outreach workers,” the official added.

While stunting, recently identified by the World Bank as the key indicator of malnutrition, has declined, the proportion of children underweight and those with a below average weight for height has increased in some States including Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra. The situation in less developed States, moreover, remains unknown.

“The EAG States and Assam are being covered by the Annual Health Survey conducted by the Registrar General of India, and hence our mandate was not to cover those states,” IIPS director Dr. Faujdar Ram explained to The Hindu. The AHS, however, does not include malnutrition data for the EAG states.

Source:- Child nutrition in India’s developed States improves - The Hindu

 

[Chanakya's_Chant]

From the Economist -

Appetite for change

But few countries think about nutrition when crafting education or welfare policies. When they do, the results can be striking. In Maharashtra, the prevalence of stunting among under-fives fell from 37% in 2005-06 to 24% in 2012. Many small improvements explained the change: economic growth and poverty reduction were slightly above the Indian average; spending on nutrition programmes doubled from a low level; female education rates rose from a high level; and implementation of some policies improved (staff vacancies in nurseries, for example, were cut from 50% to 15%).

Even more heartening, data released at the conference in Rome, though not yet in India, suggest that stunting among under-fives nationally fell from 48% in 2005-06 to 39% in 2014, meaning 13m fewer undernourished children. Perhaps India, where malnutrition is a bigger problem than anywhere else, is finally pushing the right buttons. And if it can, so can others.

Source:- Malnutrition, nutrients and obesity: Feast and famine | The Economist

 

[Chanakya's_Chant]

India sees dip in malnutrition​

India saw a dip of over 14% in the number of malnourished children in the age group of 0 to 6 years -- the sharpest decline in 25 years -- a UNICEF survey has revealed.

According to the survey, commissioned by the women and child development ministry of the UPA-2 government, the percentage of underweight children in the age group of 0-6 went down from 45.1% in 2005-06 to an all-time low of 30.7% in 2013-14. The percentage of children with stunted growth also went down from 48% to 39% during the same period, the Rapid Survey on Children said.

Apart from malnutrition, the Rapid Survey on Children also revealed improvement in other indicators of the well-being of children below six years and their mothers.

For example, the total immunization coverage in India increased from 61% to 65.2% from 2009 to 2013-14 though it dipped in Gujarat from 56.6% to 56.2% in the same period. As against the national average of 6.7%, 6.2% children in Gujarat did not receive any vaccination during the period.

According to the report, the percentage of “wasted” children (low weight for given height) in the country fell from 20% to 15%. The number of infants aged under six months who are exclusively breastfed also went up from 46 % to 72 %.

The UNICEF report is based on a nationwide household-cum-facility survey in 28 states and New Delhi. The survey covered 105,483 households and 5,630 Anganwadi centres leading to more than 210,000 interviews.

 

[PatriotLover]

If we continue growing at the slow pace we are India might overtake us, if it hasn't already. Thanks to our votes to
Nawaz and Zardari.

Even Bangladesh is about to overtake us soon. They are increasing their social indicators and per capita GDP alarmingly fast. I read that 2015-2016 they will cross us in GPD per capita. India has been quite successful in spreading problems in our country. If it had not been for terrorism spread by India we would have been top in South Asia along with Sri Lanka.

 

[BDforever]

Even Bangladesh is about to overtake us soon. They are increasing their social indicators and per capita GDP alarmingly fast. I read that 2015-2016 they will cross us in GPD per capita. India has been quite successful in spreading problems in our country. If it had not been for terrorism spread by India we would have been top in South Asia along with Sri Lanka.

currently Pakistan GDP per capita arund $1,350 and Bangladesh GDP per capita $1,314