why Indian children are malnourished despite our food grain production having more than doubled in last 2 decades?
Hunger is a function of other factors than availability of food like - purchasing power and economic slowdown(CES survey decline in cosumption expenditure in rural areas by 8%), sanitation and hygiene (gastrointestinal diseases resulting in poorer absorptive capacity of children), cultural norms(meta son preference, elder son preference, early age of marriage, househld size ), reduced expenditure on and underutilisation of welfare scehme (only 14 states utilised MDM funds entirely and allocation for MDM reduced by 33% between 2014 and 2021 acc to John Dreze), nutritional illiteracy, cheap bad calories and expensive healthy food.
What more points can be added?
nice answer+ better targeting of bpl households and the antoyadaya for effective dist of grains!
@D503 yeah could be a filler, fact no 1 and 3 and points are nice value add
