Islamabad: India’s so-called economic development stands exposed as a new study says there is an alarming prevalence of zero-food children in India.
According to Kashmir Media Service, a Harvard study said children aged 6-23 months going without milk, solid or semisolid food in a 24-hour period are zero-food. A staggering 6.7 million children are going without food in a day in Modi’s India, it added.
The study said India has the most zero-food children at 6.7 million among the 92 countries included in the Harvard study. It said a staggering 19.3 percent of children in India are categorized as zero-food children.
It said India accounts for almost half of all zero-food children among the 92 countries included in the Harvard study. Prevalence of zero-food children in India is comparable to the prevalence rates in West African countries such as Guinea and Mali, it maintained.
The study said poverty and marginalization are among factors playing a role in exacerbating the issue of the prevalence of zero-food children in India, adding extreme food deprivation has severe consequences for children in India
Instead of boasting about its economic development, the Modi regime must take steps to tackle the problem of food deprivation among children, the study suggested.
