Stunting in Children
The report highlights that India contains around 40 million of world’s stunted children under five years and also contains nearly 50% of world’s wasted children. Despite these high rates, a 2013-2014 report by the government and UNICEF found that stunting had fallen from 48 % in 2005-2006 to 39% in 2014 which is double the rate of decline compared with the period 1999-2006. At the state level, stunting declined evenly across all states, however, Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh are of concern because of already high levels of stunting and lower rates of decline when compared to other ....
