Essay on malnutrition in india

The Government of India had launched multiple schemes to address the problems of the high rate of malnutrition in India. The target group of this scheme is women and children below 6 years of age. This scheme is implemented by the Ministry of Women and Child Development.

Deprived of the right nutrition, hungry children are especially vulnerable and become too weak to fight off disease and may die from common infections like measles and diarrhea. Each year, almost 11 million children die before reaching the age of five and malnutrition is associated with 53 per cent of these deaths.

The World Bank Estimate that India is ranked 2nd in the world of the number of children suffering from malnutrition after Bangladesh (1998), where 47% of the Children exhibit a degree of malnutrition.

That means one in nearly six people do not get enough food to be healthy and lead an active life. In fact, hunger and malnutrition are the number one risk to the health worldwide greater than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.