By India Blooms News Service Oct 15, 2022
New Delhi: India has slipped to the 107th position in the Global Hunger Index 2022, even behind immediate neighbours like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal, as per the website of Global Hunger Index which released the ranking on Saturday.
India stood in the 101st position last year.
The list includes 121 countries.
India is ranked behind all south Asian countries except the Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.
The publishers of Global Hunger Index - European NGOs Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe - have labelled the level of hunger as serious, as India scored 29.1. The GHI score is calculated on a 100-point scale reflecting the severity of hunger, where zero is the best score (no hunger) and 100 is the worst.
The Global Hunger Index scores are based on the values of four component indicators undernourishment, child stunting, child wasting, child mortality.
India ranks below Sri Lanka (64), Nepal (81), Bangladesh (84), and Pakistan (99).
Afghanistan (109) is the only country in South Asia that performs worse than India on the index.
China is among those countries ranked between 1 and 17, with a score of less than five.
When will the Honble PM address real issues like malnutrition, hunger, and stunting and wasting among children? 22.4 crore people in India are considered undernourished Indias rank in the Global Hunger Index is near the bottom -- 107 out of 121 countries
P. Chidambaram (@PChidambaram_IN) October 15, 2022
Former Indian Finance Minister P Chidambaram slammed the Centre over the report and tweeted: When will the Honble PM address real issues like malnutrition, hunger, and stunting and wasting among children? 22.4 crore people in India are considered undernourished. Indias rank in the Global Hunger Index is near the bottom -- 107 out of 121 countries.
Our score has worsened since 2014 in the 8 years of the Modi government 16.3 per cent of all Indians are undernourished, meaning they do not get enough food
P. Chidambaram (@PChidambaram_IN) October 15, 2022
He said: Our score has worsened since 2014 in the 8 years of the Modi government. 16.3 per cent of all Indians are undernourished, meaning they do not get enough food.
19.3 per cent of children are wasted, 35.5 per cent of children are stunted Hindutva, imposing HIndi and spreading Hate are not the antidote to Hunger
P. Chidambaram (@PChidambaram_IN) October 15, 2022
Chidambaram said: 19.3 per cent of children are wasted, 35.5 per cent of children are stunted. Hindutva, imposing HIndi and spreading Hate are not the antidote to Hunger.