Global Hunger Index | The news of ‘India’s starvation’ has started making headlines in the world

As per the 2021 rankings, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal have fared better than India

The 2021 report, prepared by Irish aid agency Concern Worldwide and German organization Welt Hunger Hilfe, said the level of hunger in India is ‘alarming’.

GHI scores are calculated on four parameters — undernourishmentchild wasting (percentage of children below five years of age who have low weight for their height, reflecting acute undernutrition), child stunting (percentage of children below five years of age who have low height for their age, reflecting chronic undernutrition) and child mortality (the mortality rate of children under the age of five).

The news of ‘India’s starvation’ has started making headlines in the world… Is this the achievement of the BJP government?

With inputs from Agencies