By way of international comparisons, there are two primary means of measuring India’s position in terms of hunger and nutrition. First, the Prevalence of Undernourishment (PoU), which measures overall hunger in the country; the second is the Prevalence of Underweight Children under five years of age, which is monitored by UNICEF. Both these feed into what is known as the Global Hunger Index, in which 12 of the 29 Indian states fall in the ‘alarming’ category.
