Why India remains Malnourished
Two-and-a-half-year-old Rabina weighs 6.5 kg. A healthy child of her age should weigh at least 8 kg. But Rabina could not escape the curse of being born in Shivpuri district of Madhya Pradesh—ill-famed as one of the highly malnourished districts of the country for the past 30 years.
Rabina was not always so. At birth, she was healthy and weighed just right—a little more than 2.5 kg. But something went wrong, and she did not grow at a healthy pace. At nine months, the Anganwadi worker of her tribal-dominated village Udvaya declared her severely acutely malnourished, a condition that could stunt her physical growth and cognitive development forever. Shivpuri has 11,392 severely acutely malnourished children, show the district administration’s records of 2012.
Source: https://www.downtoearth.org.in/coverage/health/why-india-remains-malnourished-42697
