Ministry of Women and Child Development

The 2024 Global Hunger Index (GHI) suggests that India’s undernourished population this year would effectively rank as the seventh most populous country in the world — with roughly the population of Brazil, a staggering 200 million people. In stark terms, this is about 14% of India’s existing population. The 2024 GHI, which is the report’s 19th edition, considers comprehensive sets of data in its findings. In India’s case, it considers the Sample Registration System statistical reports, that the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation publishes annually, which provide data such as on births, deaths, infant and maternal mortality, based on reports by the Ministry of Women and Child Development and NITI Aayog.In 2024, the scorecard for the 127 nations analysed ranges from “low” t...

Let us look at the overall picture in the Union Budget 2024-25 as far as children are concerned. The overall allocation for children is ₹1,09,921 crore, which marks a 5.5% increase from the previous year; 77.3% of the child Budget is allocated to education. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s full Union Budget speech outlined India’s plan to become an economic powerhouse or the vision of a Viksit Bharat by 2047, with a continued focus on the four major categories of the population, i.e., the poor, women, youth, and farmers. There is an emphasis on addressing immediate needs such as employment, skilling, and a focus on micro, small and medium enterprises and the middle class, with a specific focus on thematic domains that include agriculture, urban development and energy security. T...

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Abject failure: On India’s Global Hunger Index ranking