It is an
irony of the fact that on one hand India has earned accolades for
emerging as one of the fastest growing economies of the world, on the
other hand a vast chunk of country’s population is still wallowing in
poverty and even have no access to a square meals a day.
According to latest report on state of Food Security in the World 2015, released by the UN's Food and Agricultural Organization, India accounts for the highest estimated number of undernourished people in any single country, with an estimated 194.6 million, or about one in every four such people in the world. The report has categorically earned India the sobriquet of the Hunger capital of the world.
According to latest report on state of Food Security in the World 2015, released by the UN's Food and Agricultural Organization, India accounts for the highest estimated number of undernourished people in any single country, with an estimated 194.6 million, or about one in every four such people in the world. The report has categorically earned India the sobriquet of the Hunger capital of the world.
Globally, the number of undernourished people has fallen by 216 million
between 1990-92 and 2015, from just over a billion to 795 million.
However, India's contribution to this fall has been small, with its
numbers down by just 15.5 million. The report makes a telling
commentary on government’s inability to provide food to every citizen
notwithstanding hordes of schemes launched by the past as well as the
present governments for the benefits of the poor and the downtrodden.
Providing food to its citizens is the most basic and fundamental responsibilities of the government of any country. If the report on undernourished people in India is anything to go by, we as a nation has failed to feed a vast chunk of our population. The government and authorities concerned need to give a serious thought to remove undernourishment and hungry from our country which in fact have badly tainted image of India among the comity of nations in the world.
Bare Hunger Facts
1. Hunger remains the No.1 cause of death in the world. Aids, Cancer etc. follow.
2. There are 820 million chronically hungry people in the world.
3. 1/3rd of the world’s hungry live in India.
4. 836 million Indians survive on less than Rs. 20 (less than half-a-dollar) a day.
5. Over 20 crore Indians will sleep hungry tonight.
6. 10 million people die every year of chronic hunger and hunger-related diseases. Only eight percent are the victims of hunger caused by high-profile earthquakes, floods, droughts and wars.
7. India has 212 million undernourished people – only marginally below the 215 million estimated for 1990–92.
8. Over 7000 Indians die of hunger every day.
9. Over 25 lakh Indians die of hunger every year.
Providing food to its citizens is the most basic and fundamental responsibilities of the government of any country. If the report on undernourished people in India is anything to go by, we as a nation has failed to feed a vast chunk of our population. The government and authorities concerned need to give a serious thought to remove undernourishment and hungry from our country which in fact have badly tainted image of India among the comity of nations in the world.
Bare Hunger Facts
1. Hunger remains the No.1 cause of death in the world. Aids, Cancer etc. follow.
2. There are 820 million chronically hungry people in the world.
3. 1/3rd of the world’s hungry live in India.
4. 836 million Indians survive on less than Rs. 20 (less than half-a-dollar) a day.
5. Over 20 crore Indians will sleep hungry tonight.
6. 10 million people die every year of chronic hunger and hunger-related diseases. Only eight percent are the victims of hunger caused by high-profile earthquakes, floods, droughts and wars.
7. India has 212 million undernourished people – only marginally below the 215 million estimated for 1990–92.
8. Over 7000 Indians die of hunger every day.
9. Over 25 lakh Indians die of hunger every year.
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