2. INDIA is home to some 230 million undernourished people – that is, 27 per cent of all undernourished people in the world. Worse still, more than half of all child deaths in India are because of malnutrition, and over 1.5 million children in the country are at the risk of being malnourished because of the rising food prices. According to figures released by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) last year, more than 70 per cent of the children under five in India are anaemic and 40 per cent of the women have chronic energy deficiency. The WFP report came down heavily on the most extensive poverty alleviation programme in the country, the targeted public distribution system (PDS), for failing to help the needy because of “imperfect information, inexact measurement of household characteristics, corruption and inefficiency”.
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