Question

Food security is essential in india and why

Answer 1

One of the confounding features of the era of rapid economic growth in India since the 1990s has been the stubborn persistence of malnutrition. It is well known that across a range of indicators of nutritional status of adults and children, India is a laggard among fast-growing economies. While improvements in nutritional status have occurred, they have been marginal relative to the pace of economic growth, prompting a recent suggestion that the first question the Indian Prime Minister should ask his ministers is not ‘How is the economy growing?’, but ‘How are the children growing?’ (Citizen's Initiative for Right of Children Under Six 2006).