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India was ranked 94th out of 107 countries in the 2020 Global Hunger Index and is in the ‘severe’ hunger category with experts blaming poor implementation processes, lack of effective monitoring, isolated approach to tackling malnutrition and the poor performance of the large states behind the low ranking. Last year, …

The country has the highest prevalence of “wasted children”; even Bangladesh and Pakistan perform better India has the highest prevalence of children under five years of age with wasting in the world, reflecting acute malnutrition, according to the Global Hunger Index 2020. The situation has worsened in the period 2015-19, …