When I saw the report ‘More Indians hungry now than in 1990s’, in Times of India, I could not believe my eyes. For the last few months, I have been continuously writing about the success of Indian economy. So, how come there are more hungry people now! Indian government has claimed that poverty in India has been reduced significantly in the last few years. Most of all, Indian economy is growing at a very rapid face. Well, A UN report on India has depicted this sad picture. Kounteya Sinha wrote in Times of India:
“An UN report on on the Extent of Chronic Hunger and Malnutrition has said that even though India has enough food to feed its one billion people, hunger and household-level food insecurity have increased since the latter half of the 1990s.
Expressing doubts over the government's claim that poverty fell across India from 36% to 26% between 1993-2000, Ziegler said there was considerable debate whether poverty had actually fallen or whether the drop was a result of changes in the data collected.”
The irony is that now India is not suffering from any kind of food shortage but Indian government has not been able to find an effective way to distribute food among the poor people.
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