**India has the highest number of malnourished children in the world, with Madhya Pradesh being the worst-affected state. About 47% of under-fives, numbering 57 million are underweight. Even sub-Saharan Africa is better off, where 33% of the children are malnourished. **These shocking figures have been revealed in Unicef’s Progress for Children: A Report Card on Nutrition, released globally on Tuesday. The worst-affected states in India are UP, Rajasthan, Orissa, Bihar and Maharastra. Over 50% of children in some of these states are malnourished. However, some Indian states maintaining high rates of nourishment among children include Goa, Kerala, Mizoram and Tamil Nadu. The report says 27% of children in South Asian countries - around 146 million - are to be underweight, many to a life-threatening degree. More than half these children live in just three countries - Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.
And the reason for South Asia’s pitiful performance - poor food quality, low social status of women and early marriage leading to low birth weight, bad quality hygiene and high rate of illiteracy. Speaking exclusively to TOI, a day before the release of the India section of the report card, Unicef India’s chief of child development and nutrition programme, Werner Schultink, said no other country was worse off than India in the case of malnourished children. “The causes for this are many: bad quality feeding, population density, high rate of infectious diseases, high rate of illiteracy among women, high prevalence of gender inequality, low rate of immunisation and high rate of birth of underweight babies,” he said. Schultink said it the fact that malnutrition had fallen from 70% in 1970s to 47% now is testimony to India’s commitment. He added that policymakers must realise that it does not take complicated interventions to make an important impact. All they have to do is ensure mothers feed newborns on breast milk for six months from birth, reduce infectious diseases, specially diarrhoea and malaria, counsel mothers on better infant care.
This whole thing about India becoming a super power is a big joke.. Unless and until you have a strong religion (like Islam) as your state religion you can't really move forward. I guess India's major religion (Hinduism) is a major bottleneck.. People still live in tribal times and worship Animals.. Pakistan's backbone on other hand is, Islam- the best and most peaceful religion. I strongly believe if we can elect a person of Maulana Fazl-ur-Rahman's stature, we can definitely move forward than what we are.. First and foremost, we need to distance ourselves from the west completely.
On economic front as well they are quite strong, I am sure you would have googled them by now looking at all the other links you are posting so read them in detail.
Re: Indian Muslims are the most disadvantage group in India
They probably are not aware of GS and perhaps are busy ensuring victory for Mulayam Singh Yadav. *
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*Many of them may not understand GupShup especially those in UP, Bihar and South since it is a Punjabi word. *
Soon thereafter, stories started about missing children in India. Mumbai reported more than 4,000 missing children. Hyderabad estimated the figure of 8,000 missing children in Andhra Pradesh. More figures began to pile up. The Government, which was on the defensive, said that about 50,000 children were missing in India, but then the NGOs said that the number of missing children in India was closer to one million. ‘India Today’ a reputable magazine in India said that the NGOs were closer to the truth.
Goodness me !! You just made an ass of yourself. You dont even know know what you are talking about. Now whats Noida killings has to do with this Bangalore’s riot? Read the link you have posted here again, you might get better what’s there all about.
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