According to the Hunger Watch-2 Survey, India\u2019s second wave that didn\u2019t see a national lockdown like in the first failed to significantly alleviate economic distress and hunger among the poor.<\/span><\/p>\n The Survey was commissioned by the Right To Food Campaign and The Center for Equity Studies to evaluate economic distress following the second wave.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Around 6,500 respondents in 14 States had participated in the survey.<\/span><\/p>\n Note: <\/b>The same organizations had conducted a similar survey, Hunger Watch\u20131 to measure the fallout of the first wave.<\/span><\/p>\n Decrease in Income: <\/b>Around 66% of the respondent’s income had decreased as compared to the pre-pandemic period. This proportion was larger among urban households, among households earning less than \u20b93,000 per month and among Muslim households.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Food Insecurity:<\/b> Around 79% of the households reported some form of food insecurity and 25% reported severe food insecurity. Those belonging to socially vulnerable groups reported a higher decline in the consumption of food.<\/span><\/p>\n Nutritional Quality<\/b>: As many as 41% of households reported that the nutritional quality of their diet had deteriorated compared to pre-pandemic levels.<\/span><\/p>\n Source of Income:<\/b> Non-agricultural casual labour was a prominent source of employment in rural and urban areas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n School Dropout: <\/b>18% of all households reported that a child that was in school before the pandemic had dropped out.<\/span><\/p>\n PDS System:<\/b> PDS system is providing relief. Around 84% of the households had a ration card and over 90% of those who were eligible received some food grains. However, other schemes such as Mid\u2013Day Meal Scheme<\/a> or the Integrated Child Development Services<\/a> weren\u2019t effective.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Source<\/b>: This post is based on the article \u201c<\/b>India\u2019s second COVID-19 wave too saw penury: study<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in The Hindu<\/b> on 24th February 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? According to the Hunger Watch-2 Survey, India\u2019s second wave that didn\u2019t see a national lockdown like in the first failed to significantly alleviate economic distress and hunger among the poor. What is the Hunger Watch-2 Survey? The Survey was commissioned by the Right To Food Campaign and The Center for Equity… Continue reading Hunger Watch-2 Survey: India\u2019s second COVID-19 wave too saw penury: study<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1305,7965,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-170710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-index-reports-bodies","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700773331,"cached_date":1704866624},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is the Hunger Watch-2 Survey?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What are the key findings of the Hunger Watch-2 Survey?<\/b><\/h5>\n