Differences in child malnutrition aged between 0-5 years exist at not just the state and district level, but also, especially, at the village level
A new Harvard study that analysed data across 597,121 census villages in the country says that India must incorporate village-level data in its policies on child malnutrition to target beneficiaries and their specific needs more effectively
For instance, Hortoki, a village in Mizoram featured in the study, reported stunting in 11.4% of its child population but the figure for another village just 60 km away, Bukvannei, was 55.9%
We had reported these many deaths in 2020
Experts say that NNM’s target of reducing child undernutrition by at least 2% per annum can be reached only by using data on local issues at the village-level