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Minute-A-Day 08: Hungry v. India
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The NITI aayog SDG Report has put out hundreds of pages of data on how sustainably developed Indian states really are.
This is surprising for many reasons. Because as country, we are starved for data. And as per the Report itself reveals, we’re also starved for food.
Topping the charts for the worst performing Index out of the 17 SDGs, is that of achieving ‘zero hunger’ a target that India is missing by nearly 200 million people. Which means that if ‘undernourished people in India’ was a separate country by itself, it would be the 8th most populated country..in the world.
The report has some startling revelations – over one third of our children under 5 are underweight and stunted, while over half of India’s pregnant women are anaemic. No wonder the second worst performing index, is gender equality
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