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While some improvement has been made by the country, efforts to ensure nutritional security are more important than ever

It’s been three years since the Government of India launched the Prime Minister’s Overarching Scheme for Holistic Nutrition, or Pos...

This document presents the prevalence of anemia, underweight and stunting among children, adolescent and women for 342 Districts (17 States and 5 Union Territories) of India from the fourth (2015-16) and fifth (2019-20) National Family Health Survey...

The provisional verdict from the fifth round of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS 2019-20 factsheets on the burden of child undernutrition is not encouraging, with few exceptions. For the most part, this assessment has relied on the measure of a...

Reducing the burden of child undernutrition has been central to the developmental goals of the Government of India. The flagship programme, POSHAN Abhiyaan, launched in 2018, provided a much-needed fillip to the nutrition agenda. Dedicated budgetary...

This article is a response to Srinivas Goli’s article “Unreliable Estimates of Child Malnutrition” (EPW, 9 February 2019) that had questioned the reliability of methodologies of Akshay Swaminathan et al’s article “Burden of Child Malnutrition in India: A...

In India, data on key developmental indicators used to formulate policies and interventions are routinely available for the administrative unit of districts but not for the political unit of parliamentary constituencies (PC). Recently, Swaminathan et al...

In India, data on key developmental indicators that formulate policies and interventions are routinely available for the administrative units of districts but not for the political units of Parliamentary Constituencies (PC). Members of Parliament (MPs)...