According to the report, “As primary caregivers, women play a pivotal – if not the most crucial – role in whether children are eating well, yet far too many women are excluded from decision-making.”

In a diverse country like India, the officials say, the same parameters cannot be used for measuring the stunted growth as anthropology differs for children from state to state.

India is home to the largest number of anaemic women in the world. The findings of the new Global Nutrition Report 2017 place India at the bottom of the table with the maximum number of women suffering from anaemia in the world. Countries at the bottom of the heap in terms of the number of anaemic […]