UNDERWEIGHT CHILDREN

Gujarat sees marginal rise in underweight children: Rajya Sabha data

the percentage of underweight children also rose marginally from 39.3 per cent in NFHS-4 to 39.7 per cent in NFHS-5. MP Laxmikant Bajpayee asked whether the government is working on any plan to ascertain the number of women and children facing starvation. He also sought whether the government plans to include millets as a nutritional component in the rationing scheme.