Malnutrition getting worse in India

In a special report on the rising cost of food, BBC reports on the rising malnutrition in children in India. If you are interested in statistics, then about 60% of all the children in the state of Madhya Pradesh are malnourished. Thats abut 6 million children in a single state.

Adding insult to injury, a recent article in The Times of India reports that about one million tonnes of food grains were damaged when in storage in the Food Corporation of India storage facilities. According to this article, these grains could have fed 10 million people for an entire year. In other words, the wasted food grains could have fed all of the children in Madhya Pradesh for an entire year potentially saving them from malnutrition and may be even saving lives.

This would have saved mothers of these children from making a choice between seeing their child alive and thinking about where the next meal for this child is going to come from. This is a choice which no mother should need to make.