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Bimal Prasanna Mohanty ¹, D. Karunakaran ¹, Arabinda Mahanty ¹, Satabdi Ganguly ¹, Dipesh Debnath ¹, Tandrima Mitra ¹, Sudeshna Banerjee ¹, Anil Prakash Sharma ¹, T. V. Sankar ², R. Anandan ², Suseela Mathew ², K. K. Asha ², Kajal Chakraborty ³, P. Vijayagopal ³, B. N. Paul ⁴, N. Sridhar ⁴, S. Chanda ⁴, Debajit Sarma ⁵, Nityanand Pandey ⁵, Neetu Shahi ⁵, Pushpita Das ⁵, Partha Das ⁵, Md. Shahbaz Akhtar ⁵, J. Syama Dayal ⁶, K. K. Vijayan ⁶, S. Kannappan ⁶, G. Venkateshwarlu ⁷, S. D. Singh ⁸, Madan Mohan ⁸, B. Meenakumari ⁸, S. Ayyappan ⁹

Affiliations
1 ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Barrackpore, Kolkata 700 120, IN
2 ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Technology, Cochin 682 029, IN
3 ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Cochin 682 018, IN
4 ICAR-Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture, Bhubhaneswar 751 002, IN
5 ICAR-Directorate of Coldwater Fisheries Research, Bhimtal 263 136, IN
6 ICAR-Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture, Chennai 600 028, IN
7 ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Mumbai 400 061, IN
8 ICAR-Fisheries Science Division, Krishi Anusandhan Bhawan II, Pusa, New Delhi 110 012, IN
9 Krishi Bhavan, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi 110 012, IN

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K. K. Asha ¹, Suseela Mathew ¹, M. M. Prasad ¹, C. N. Ravishankar ¹

Affiliations
1 ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Technology, Matsyapuri PO, Cochin 682 029, IN

Abstract

In India, nutrient-deficient diets are a fact of everyday life for millions of people, and the largest undernourished population in the world lives in our country. Several factors are responsible for the current serious levels of malnutrition seen in the country, some of which are inadequate maternal nutritional status, unpredictable lactation behaviour, inappropriate infant and young children feeding practices, lack of women’s education, and scant regard for sanitation. High levels of child malnutrition potentially result in poor physical growth, recurrent childhood illnesses that further impede development, low cognitive skills and educational attainment, and diminished productivity in adult years, thus impeding socio-economic development of the country. Though several government programmes are in place, there is lack of effective use of nutritional data generated and knowledge gained across studies to address the multifaceted problem of undernutrition. The current grave circumstances of undernutrition in India emphasize on the urgent need to take appropriate actions to improve the nutrition of its population so as to enable the country to meet its Agenda of Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.

Keywords

Child Nutrition Indicators, Global Nutrition Targets, Sustainable Development Goals, Undernutrition.

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