The highest rate of underweight children was found to be 4.22 percent for 12-year-old girls and 3.88 percent for 15-year-old boys. Boys ages 7 and those 9 to 17 also logged record rates ...

Poor maternal health, sanitation gaps, and weak rural services fuel Karnataka chronic child malnutrition crisis State 9th in country on stunting, 10th for underweight kids Karnataka has recorded ...

Between FY16 and FY23, around 3.7 million children missed out on the supplementary diet provided at anganwadis ...

Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Madhya Pradesh has witnessed a 2% rise in the number of underweight children in 2025 over the last year, whereas the number of stunted children has gone up by 1% in the ...