What Does India Weigh On The Malnutrition Scale?

When Walls Talk

Wall paintings on maternal nutrition etched in high footfall areas in 4 blocks of Udaipur

Coutesy: Gajinder Kalia

Durga Patel, ANM in Karanpur Village, Bhinder Block

Gajinder Kalia

The sibling duo waiting for their mother to serve them food

Courtesy: Suresh K Pandey

A girl eating her food in the slum areas of Delhi

Courtesy: Suresh K Pandey

A girl anxiously waiting for food while her mother is cooking.

Courtesy: Suresh K Pandey

A Girl eating food

Courtesy: Suresh K Pandey

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy holds a during the inauguration of  YSR Sampoorna Poshana Plus and YSR Sampoorna Poshana schemes for pregnant and lactating mothers, at the Camp Office, Tadepalli in Guntur district.

PTI Photo

A child happily drinks water after being offered by another person in Delhi ( Image Credit: Suresh Kumar Pandey)

Child feeding Banana to another in Ghaziabad. (Image credit: Suresh Kumar Pandey)

A child feeds another child in New Delhi (Image Credit: Suresh Pandey)

A man has his lunch at footpath in New Delhi. (Image Credit: Suresh Pandey)

Poor children waiting for food in the streets of New Delhi (Image Credit: Suresh Kumar Pandey)

ASHA workers hold protest in Delhi's Jantar Mantar demanding better pay and protection amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic (Image Credit: Tribhuvan Tiwari)

ASHA workers hold protest in Delhi's Jantar Mantar demanding better pay and protection amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic (Image Credit: Tribhuvan Tiwari)

Truck drivers prepare food on a highway in Ghaziabad (Image Credit: Tribhuvan Tiwari)

Preparation of food for doctors in Park Hotel in New Delhi (Image Courtesy: Jitender Gupta)

A seven -year-old boy from a labourer's family carrying ration kit to his home being distributed in Vaishali (Image Courtesy: Tribhuvan Tiwari)

Delhi: Locals queuing up for thermal screening before being provided meal packages (Image Courtesy: Jitender Gupta)

Braving the heat, people stand in long queues outside Congress office in New Delhi for food (Image courtesy: Jitender Gupta)

A food delivery agent enjoys a quick lunch aboard his bike before resuming work in New Delhi (Image credit: Jitender Gupta)

People in Vaishali, Delhi, buy vegetables across a gate as the lockdown eases across the country (Image courtesy: Tribhuvan Tiwari)

People in Vaishali, Delhi, buy vegetables across a gate as the lockdown eases across the country (Image Credit: Tribhuvan Tiwari)

Stranded migrants waiting for food at Kalyanpuri in New Delhi (Image Credit: Suresh Kimar Pandey)

Stranded migrants waiting for food at Kalyanpuri in New Delhi (Image Credit: Suresh Kumar Pandey)

Food packets being handed out to hungry and thirsty migrants in Kolkata

Hungry and thirsty, migrant labourers trudge homewards without knowing where their next meal will come from...

Hungry and thirsty, migrant labourers trudge homewards without knowing where their next meal will come from...

Timely intervention by local health workers ensured that a severly malnourished 16 month old Rani Behera from a remote Odisha village turned into a healthy happy child in just two weeks.

Timely intervention by local health workers ensured that a severly malnourished 16 month old Rani Behera from a remote Odisha village turned into a healthy happy child in just two weeks.

The incidences of stunting, wasting and malnourishment is high among many of indigenous tribal groups in Chhattisgarh, with an inordinately large number of children falling in the Severe Acute Malnutrition

Daily Bread

Roti Bank has inspired similar initiatives in other towns

Photograph by Jitender Gupta

Charmed Circle

Chandra Sekhar Kundu serves a wholesome meal to children in Asansol

Photograph by Sandipan Chatterjee

Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Harsh Vardhan with Secretary, (H&FW), Preeti Sudan (R) inaugurates a ‘Poshan Maah 2019’ (National Nutrition Month) programme, at Nirman Bhawan in New Delhi. The scheme was launched in March 2018 to addresse various malnutritional challenges.

PTI Photo/Arun Sharma

Harvest Season

Launch of Poshan Maah in Manipur’s Thoubal district

Women and Child Development (WCD) Minister Smriti Irani with Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma visits 'Umdihar Anganwadi Centre' to oversee the implementation of 'Poshan Abhiyaan', in Shillong. The national nutrition mission, 'Poshan Abhiyan', aims to bring down stunting of children in the age...

PTI Photo