Malnutrition,Poverty and Food Security Problems

Malnutrition is a very major problem in India, simply too little food lacking in essential nutrients,has resulted in the world's largest proportion of stunted children with poor brains. Worse, their poor health begins before they are born,in the wombs of their "half-fed" mother.
So, lack of proper food is a major problem.

1)Malnutrition decreases educational achievement, labour productivity and economic growth.

2)India has the largest child development programme in the world, yet progress in nutrition has been limited.

3)According to the medical journal lancet,malnutrition in the first 1000 days of a child's life  is irreversible.

4)India is home to the world's largest food-insecure population.

5)India ranks 66 out of 88 countries in the Global Hunger Index(Higher the rank worse it is),it is calculated on the basis of child malnutrition of age below 5,infant mortality,population consuming calories less than 1800.

6)How the world counts its poor,in UK if the annual income is less than 11 lakh(Rupees)(family of four) you are counted as poor,same in US,in India the poverty line is calculated on the basis of consumption expenditure,which comes out to be 4,080/month for rural and 5000/month for urban.

7)Child Nutrition in India is twice of Sub-Sharan Africa which is one of the poorest regions in the world.

8)30% are born with low birth weight due to poor nutrition to women which is directly propotional to the less availability of food.

9)Starvation Deaths in 2009-10 is 3 times of the previous year.

10)Malnutrition decreased by just 1% from 1999 to 2006.

11)To reduce this hunger malnutrition problem government is bringing food bill which will cost around 1.25 lakh crore, and government can help themselves.

12)By report of 2010 about 176.83 Lakh MT of grains lying in the open including FCI and State Agencies, and due to lying in the open the food grains goes rotten due to weather effects, about 1/3rd is uneatable.

13)But according to norms not more than one year the grain should be kept in open.

14)Further more 27.38 Lakh MT of grains lying in open in Punjab, 31,574 MT lying open in Haryana.

15)According to 2013 report 11,07,683.3 MT goes waste in government godown worth 2050 crore in last 3 years.

16)There always a system in Chhattisgarh where there 298 PDS systems where food is distributed using a central server system, where each center have one GPRS enabled machine which swipes the card given to the people and the record goes to central server, but in PDS also the family is restricted to rice and lentil soup.

17)According to norms little much wastage is acceptable due to transportation and other things but in our Country where so many people suffer due to lack of food,even a single grain should not be wasted,instead of wasting so much of grains in government godowns these should be dsitributed to the needy ones.