Click to play videoNew Delhi: The Human Development Report has said that high economic growth is no guarantee in reducing malnutrition.
According to the report, Gujarat is the worst among the high per-capita states in the country in fighting malnutrition.
Gujarat has been placed 13th among the major states in hunger index, even below Orissa, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Assam.
The report further says that Punjab and Kerala fare the best in the hunger index while Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh are the worst.
According to the report, India is the worst performer of low birth rate, underweight and wasting children among the BRIC and the SAARC countries.
The report says that child malnutrition in rural areas is higher than in urban areas, adding that Aneamia among children has increased with rising rural-urban disparity.
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