Hunger persists despite spectacular economic expansion
India with its population is growing. Its economy too is growing . However increasing population is a problem and almost all the development is consumed in feeding hungry children I am quoting from Hindustan Times with full reference below:
“Hunger persists despite spectacular economic expansion, and it is disproportionate to rising incomes. With per capita income crossing $1,000, India is now considered a middle-income country.”
“India’s latest hunger ranking, delivered by the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington D.C., did not make it to television news. In the newspapers, it was buried, just another bad news story in a nation that, increasingly, does not like to hear such news.”
“In Asia, everyone, except Bangladesh, which is just one rank below India, is doing better. China is at number nine, Pakistan at 59, Nepal at 56. India is bested by a host of tottering States, including Guinea-Bissau, Togo, Burkina Faso, Sudan, Rwanda and Zimbabwe.”
“The IFPRI’s Global Hunger index ranks India in the ‘alarming’ group (the categories: moderate, serious, alarming and extremely alarming), below many failed States ruled by tyrants and despots. The ranking considers the number of children under five who are underweight, malnourished or wind up dead, particularly girls. “
“India’s approach to hunger has been to throw a programme at every failing. So, the world’s largest programme for nutritional, health and school needs of children under six, the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), which runs 1.4 million centres nationwide with a budget of R7,806 crore for 2020-11. So, the world’s biggest cooked-meal programme, covering 119 million children in government schools up to class VIII with a budget of R9,440 crore. So, the world’s largest public distribution system (PDS) for subsidised food, with a budget of R55,578 crore. So, the world’s biggest cash-for-work programme, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), with a budget of R40,100 crore. Hunger in India is definitely not a problem of resources.”
What, then, is the problem?”
Source :
http://www.hindustantimes.com/specials/sports/cwg-2010/Now-the-bad-news/...
Let us go back to nature to solve this problem. Change our food habits eat more plants in raw form and get proper nourishment. Malnourished children could also be in rich people eating in fast food jaunts. Nourishment is a problem to be tackled at all fronts.
We can achieve success everywhere let us achieve here also .
Nature will help us to achieve this.
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