- Poverty-stricken parents demand ICDS classes be shut but want to take home food for kids

The magnitude of problem of malnutrition among children and anaemia amongst women in India, including Gujarat, is borne by the fact that 41 per cent of children are underweight and 55 per cent wome

Interventions to fight malnutrition must be simultaneous with outcomes being monitored by an overarching body.

The introduction last month of double fortified salt (DFS)—containing an iron supplement in addition to the usual iodine—brings a new edge to the fight against malnutrition.