Malnourished Children

There are over 14 lakh severely malnourished children in the country as per the government's Poshan Tracker, the Women and Child Development Ministry said on Wednesday. Children who are severely malnourished have very low weight for their height, and are nine times more likely to die in case of diseases due to their weakened immune system. Responding to a question in Rajya Sabha, Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani said under Poshan Tracker, the ICT application for monitoring service delivery under Mission Poshan 2.0, out of approximately 5.6 crore children measured in the month of February 2023, the percentage of severely malnourished children is 2.6 per cent. The number comes to be 14,56,000. The percentage of malnourished children was found to be 7.7 per cent which comes to around 43 lakh, the ministry said.

Union minister Smriti Irani on Saturday said there are 1,736 malnourished children in Amethi, and urged the society to come forward and work in a united manner to help them. The Amethi MP inaugurated and laid foundation stones of various developmental projects worth Rs 170 crore here. The Union minister for women and child development said the government is building stadiums, medical colleges, hospitals and undertaking various development projects in Amethi. But there are 1,736 malnourished children here and to help them, awareness is needed in the society. People have to come forward and all of us have to make an effort, Irani said. The minister, who is on a two-day tour of Amethi and Rae Bareli, also inaugurated an 'Amrit Sarovar' (pond) and distributed laptops to children who had lost their parents to Covid. She also distributed nutritious meals to malnourished children. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had given a call for every district to have 75 ponds (Amrit Sarovar) during th

The total 33,23,322 (33.23 lakh/3.3 million) is a compilation of data from 34 states and union territories, the ministry said in response to an RTI query by PTI.

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The district collector of Umaria is working under a fan even when the mercury is shooting through the roof. Reason? He has removed air conditioners from his chamber and office halls for them to be installed in centres for malnourished children.Swarochish Somavanshi, the District Collector of Umaria, ensured relief to the children in the scorching summer getting air conditioners fixed in all the four Nutrition Rehabilitation Centres (NRC) under his jurisdiction.Terming it a spontaneous decision, Somavanshi said with a beaming smile, "It was really hot inside the NRC building. We were trying to arrange for air conditioners but we felt it had to be installed immediately considering children are admitted in these centres. We have 4 NRCs in the block, we got ACs installed in all four."The government-run centres are for children suffering from malnutrition and related problems."For malnourished children, heat only aggravates the problem. Hence, such action was inevitable," the officer ...

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India is home to the largest number of malnourished children in the world, a report said today, advocating that the country needs to frame policies with a focus on reducing health and social inequities."Over the decade (2005-15), there has been an overall reduction in the infant mortality rate and under-five mortality rate in India, yet the country is housing about 50 per cent of undernourished children of the world," said the joint study by Assocham and EY.The report found that towards the end of 2015, 40 per cent of the Indian children were undernourished.On the other hand, it pointed out that urban India is faced with the challenge of over nutrition.India is ranked as the third most obese nation in the world after the US and China and also the diabetes capital of the world, with about 69.2 million people living with it as per the 2015 data by World Health Organisation, said the report."About 37 per cent of our under-five children are underweight, 39 per cent are stunted (low ...