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Singh Calls India’s Malnutrition 'National Shame'
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh released results of the Hunger and Malnutrition Survey, which monitored 73,000 households across nine Indian states.
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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called malnutrition in the country "a national shame" on Tuesday as he released a major survey that found 42 percent of children under five were underweight, January 10, 2012. (AFP)
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An Indian boy mixes rice and pickle to feed his brother at his home in a slum in Hyderabad, January 10, 2012. (AFP)
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Indian children eat their mid-day meal at an Government High School in Hyderabad. Levels of under-nutrition in the country were "unacceptably high" despite impressive GDP growth, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on January 10, 2012. (AFP)
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An Indian teacher serves the mid-day meal to children at a Government High School in Hyderabad, on January 10, 2012. (AFP)