While observing World Food day that aims to unite the world together to fight and to eradicate the global hunger, India had seemingly stayed with words of reiteration and void grounds of actions towards uplifting its population from the hands of poverty and food scarcity as the recently published 'Global Hunger Index 2019' had provenly revealed that India ranks far behind its neighboring nations in feeding its own citizens that had certainly pictured the prevailing plight among most of the people in accessing safe, proper and healthy nutrition and dietaries.
The Index had graphed India under the category of serious levels of hunger where out of 117 countries that were studied and researched, India stood at 102nd rank for the current year after accounted for drastic and alarming decrease from 95th rank in 2010 in what it appears that the existing mechanisms and governance had taken back the country backwards while claiming to march towards development. India is absolutely not in the stage to convince itself by having 15 countries behind it as most of the neighboring countries like Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Myanmar had recorded with the ranks that had placed ahead of India and despite of being listed out in danger levels, these countries had grounded the capable parameters to tackle and to free its people out of hunger.
While India ranked in 102nd spot, the Central African Republic is at the last place through its worse food policies that wasn't too far from India. The index had indicated that of 117 countries, about 47 countries have been mapped under serious and alarming hunger levels and India is one among them due to having gruesome governance to counter the hunger where the on ground food scarcity had led to the dramatic rise of malnutrition and child undernourishment as India had failed in all criterion and indicators of the index based on which the final listings of the countries have been graphed. The four indicators are child undernourishment, child wasting, child stunting and child mortality.
India had reserved its place that can't easily be warred with neighboring countries as Nepal had stood at 73rd rank, Sri Lanka at 66th, Bangladesh spotted at 88th rank while Myanmar managed at 69th rank whereas Pakistan overruled India by placing in 94th rank. China is one among the advanced countries in Asia that had stood at 25th rank. The Index had also exposed that India is the only country to rank lowest in the bowl of South Asian countries while it was trailing far behind the BRICS nations where South Africa has been second lowest in BRICS after India where it was ranked at 59th spot.
Along with throwing embarrassment on India for its worst hunger strategy, the Global Hunger Index had uncovered another awful statistics that only 9.6 percent of infants in India aged from six to twenty three months have access for minimal acceptable diet which had evidently shown that the rest 90% of the infants don't have proper access for healthy nutrition that had indeed brought in uncertainty among the lives of such infants.
The Global Hunger Index had categorized 117 countries through 100 points scale from best to worst as the countries which scored zero points will be termed as best countries to have no hunger rate and if the countries score 100 points, will be labeled as worst countries to have deadly hunger index while values less than 10 shows low hunger, values from 20 to 34.9 shows serious hunger and values from 35 to 49.9 are under the grounds of alarming index whereas the values above fifty are extremely alarming. Out of this scale, India accounts with the score of 30.3 that had driven the country under the category of series hunger. While picturing the real danger grounds, the report had also warned that the drastic change in climate has been flagging worse levels of hunger as climate change has been severely affecting and impacting the quality and safety of food.
For full list visit 'https://www.globalhungerindex.org/results.html'
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