Records show that nearly 78,000 children in Madhya Pradesh were malnourished.
Bhopal:
Nearly 78,000 children were found to be malnourished in Madhya Pradesh in the first three months of this calendar year, the state government said in the Legislative Assembly today.
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan provided the data in a written reply to a question from opposition leader Govind Singh on Tuesday.
Malnourished children are often weak and in poor health due to a lack of food or a lack of food that is good for them. It can cause dwarfism and wasting in children and make them underweight.
Mr. Singh, a Congress MLA from Lahar in Bhind district, had been trying to find out whether about 78,000 malnourished children had been found in the first three months of this year.
“The figures include 21,631 acutely malnourished children,” Singh said, citing figures from the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Child Health and Nutrition Mission.
According to the government’s written response, the Indore division had the highest number of malnourished children in the state at 22,721. The division includes the tribal dominated districts of Alirajpur and Jhabua.
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