India is home to 40 per cent of the world's malnourished children and 35 per cent of the developing world's low-birth-weight infants
* Every year 2.5 million children die in India, accounting for one in five deaths in the world
* More than half of these deaths could be prevented if children were well nourished. India's progress in reducing child malnutrition has been slow.
* The prevalence of child malnutrition in India deviates further from the expected level at the country's per capita income than in any other large developing country
* India has many nutrition and social safety net programs, some of which (such as Integrated Child Development Services [ICDS] and the Public Distribution System [PDS]) have had success in several states in addressing the needs of poor households. All of these programmes have potential, but they do not form a comprehensive nutrition strategy, and they have not addressed the nutrition problem effectively so far, according to the International Food Policy Research Institute
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