Malnutrition, Not Illiteracy, Afflicts India

Bangalore: The famous saying, “Children are the pillars of success,” seem valueless in a country like India where 79 percent of its children are anaemic. According to the Child Rights and You (CRY) report, several children in this country do not get adequate food and the child sex ratio is the lowest in the country with 914 girls for every 1000 boys, reports Shreya Bhandary of TOI.

Despite the enactment of the right to education, the country’s dropout rate at the elementary level is still 40 percent, the report revealed.

Puja Marwaha, CRY CEO exclaimed, "Children are invisible citizens of this country. We have the largest population of kids in the world and yet there has been no national data to check the nutrition level of children since 2005. We are talking about various laws and policies that are being introduced as rights for children but are they availing the same?" reports TOI.

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