Hunger should be a number-one priority in a country, especially one with growing prosperity. India, however, fails to recognize this; children & mothers are especially hit by malnutrition here, which is sad because they are the representatives & bearers (respectively) of the future of the country.
"The latest Global Hunger Index described hunger in Madhya Pradesh, a destitute state in central India, as “extremely alarming,” ranking the state somewhere between Chad and Ethiopia.
More surprising, though, it found that “serious” rates of hunger persisted across Indian states that had posted enviable rates of economic growth in recent years, including Maharashtra and Gujarat.
Here in the capital, which has the highest per-capita income in the country, 42.2 percent of children under 5 are stunted, or too short for their age, and 26 percent are underweight."-As Indian Growth Soars, Child Hunger Persist, NY Times
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