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Hunger haunts Indians then that country. We are ranked 102 in Weakest nation

117 countries and Pakistan at 79th place.
The list put on the website of GHI,
Even countries like Bangladesh and
Nepal are in better condition than us. In
the Modi regime, India has fallen further which monitors hunger and mal-
nutrition, states that 18 countries
down the Global Hunger Index (GHI). Not including Belarus, Ukraine,
t was 48 years ago when the then While the country is But the truth was completely reversed. only has India reached the worst ranking Turkey, Cuba and Kuwait topped
Prime minister Indira Gandhi gave beating the drums of The running of the government in corpo- among South Asian countries, it is also in the GHI score with less than five.
a slogan in the 1971 election — Ga- rate style has made the country’s burn- a worse GHI condition than neighboring A report jointly prepared by
reebee Hatao (remove poverty). $5-trillion economy, the ing issues more serious and they have no Pakistan, facing a severe economic situa- Ireland’s agency Concern World-
I Now even almost after five decades latest figures of attention of the present regime. tion. India’s score 30.3 has been found in wide and Germany’s Walt Hunger
poverty and hunger figures are putting This is also shameful for us tha ruling the GHI, which is considered in the “Seri- Hilfe has described the level of
country in embarrassment in front of Global Hunger Index on India’s party’s people keep teasing Pakistan as ous Hunger category”. hunger in India as a result of
the world. The data of Global Hunger starvation raise concern beggar, but our starvation graph is worst According to the latest GHI data, in inadequate food availability.
Index 2019 shows that today when we 2015, India was ranked 93rd in the Glob- India’s ranking in the
are beating the drums of five trillion al Hunger Index, today it is ranked 102
economy, we are ranked 102nd among out of a total of 117 countries. The Modi Global Hunger Index sis has been given to these countries to
the 117 countries in the world in terms of government may be beating the drums indicates a massive give immediate and serious attention to
starvation. of reaching the country of five trillion it. According to the Global Hunger Index,
It is the tragedy of this country that economy, the new GHI report speaks failure of government 90.6 per cent of children in the age group
elections are neither fought on the most something else. policy. India’s ranking of six to 23 months are unable to get as
burning issues, nor are they able to be a The report reveals that India is in the much food as they need in India.
part of any big debates. Recently organ- worst state of starvation in “BRICS” coun- of Global Hunger The GHI states that due to India’s large
ised “Howdy Modi” programme, with tries. Last year, India was ranked 79th in IDEX has been falling population, its hunger indicator has a
spending lakhs of rupees become the the GHI rankings. These figures indicate great impact on the overall indicators of
main programs of our TV channels, but that the current governance in the coun- continuously since the region. India ranks 102 in the Global
they remain silent on the country’s most try is not paying any attention to the real 2014, now it has Hunger Index, while only 117 countries
burning issues like hunger. issues. For India worst thing is that GHI are included in it. The hunger level in
If we see, in the Lok Sabha elections in its report has attributed India to the become 102/14. India is 30.3 points in the report, which is
of 2019, the issue of “nationalism” was poor ranking of South Asia. It says that quite serious.
raised by the main political party BJP. It is South Asia’s ranking has fallen due to This ranking reveals The index also raises concerns about
a matter of concern that in this “national- India’s poor performance. The GHI con- the huge failure of high stunting (stunted growth of chil-
ism”, the main issues of the country like tains data from 2014 to 2018 and based on dren) rate in India. However, it has
hunger, illiteracy, poverty, unemploy- three indicators show the proportion of the policies of the improved compared to previous years.
ment had no place. What kind of nation- undernourished children in the country, government and According to the report, in 2010, the
alism is this, in which the issues of real children under five years of age, whose stunting rate among children under the
nationalism are missing. So it is clear that weight or length is lower by age, and has exposed the age of five in India was 42 per cent, com-
this nationalism is nationalism only of death rate among children under five. hollow claims of PM pared to 37.7 per cent in 2019. The report
elections and votes. Countries are ranked at 100 points states that the rate is also very high in
After coming to poverty, leaders are in the GHI. Less than ten points means Modi’s Sabka Saath terms of public health importance.
not worried about the country’s popula- What is Global Hunger Index? German volunteer institute named the right condition, 20 to 36.4 points are Sabka Vikas Eradicating hunger and poverty in the
tion and their burning issues. This is evi- The Global Hunger Index (GHI) Welt Hunger Life and was first re- called serious hunger, 35 to 79.7 points country is now becoming a big challenge
dent from the fact that only 9.7 per cent calculates worldwide hunger levels leased in the year 2006. A year later, a are considered alarming and more than — rahul Gandhi, Congress leader as the rulers are competing in a false
of children between the ages of 9 and and imbalances. Four indicators are volunteer organization from Ireland 50 points are considered in the highly race to only show the positive side of the
23 months are getting minimum diet in considered for this index, includ- also joined this campaign. The higher alarming category. country in front of the world. The focus of
India. On the one side there is dazzle of ing undernutrition, weakness in the global index score, the better Statistics show that the rate of weak- India has been placed in the category the people in power is to build the image
programs like “Howdy” and on the other children, child mortality, and stunted will be the situation in that country, ness in children of India is increasing at of vesting due to its low weight with of the leader only. They are, unfortunate-
hand children, women and men dying of growth of children. Its index is and the more it means, the starva- a very fast rate. Worryingly, it is above all children. Research by UNICEF says that ly, seriously indifferent to the internal
starvation. released every year with data. The tion in that country is in worrisome countries. According to the Global Hun- there is a high probability of death of condition and problems of the country.
When Narendra Modi came to power index shows the achievements and condition. There are four grounds for ger Index, children in India have been such children. Lack of food and illnesses This is a sign of great danger as the burn-
with the “Gujarat Model” in the year 2014, failures of the worldwide campaign measuring this, including malnutri- witnessing increasing weakness since are the main reasons for the vulnerabil- ing issues of the country will reach explo-
it was felt that he was the Chief Minister against hunger. In fact, such a survey tion, severe malnutrition in infants, 2010. In the year 2010, the rate of weak- ity of children. sive levels in the coming years.
in a state for four times and a person who was initiated by the International stunted child development, and child ness in children up to the age of five was This report states that countries with Report by Rakesh Rocky
understood the ground reality would do Food Policy Research Institute and a mortality. 16.5 per cent, which has increased to 20.4 a vesting rate of more than 10 per cent
politics of the real issues of the country. per cent in the year 2019. are in a very serious condition. Empha- letters@tehelka.com

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