The GDP rate in India has been increasing for 10 years now, (with just two exceptions in 2014 and 2015), and so is the rate of malnutrition and hunger. The rate of malnutrition is so high that India just secured its place amongst the highest-ranking countries in the world for the number of children suffering from malnutrition. And the worse fact is, that India has double the number of malnutritioned children that are there in the Sub-Saharan-African countries, while India’s GDP is 400 points more than these countries.
Still, more than one-third of the world's malnourished children live in India. And the contrast is, we have the world’s largest film production industry that contributes around 30% to total GDP of our country in the same city where we have more than 1 lakh malnutritioned people.
The inequality in the distribution of economy is one of the most important, and fundamental reason because of which India holds 67th On the Global Hunger Index India is on place 67 among the 80 nations having the worst hunger situation which is worse than nations such as North Korea or Sudan.
The economic inequality has been dwelling in India for so long that, it has now given birth to two different types of malnutrition: undernutrition and over-nutrition. As the facts say, a third of the wealthiest children are over-nutritioned
The ever-increasing rate of child-mortality can be justified with the same reason, since, the malnutritioned women give birth to either dead or unhealthy children, the children born this way are either very weak and gets easily trapped with the diseases like tuberculosis and pneumonia, which are also the major issues.
Now, if the country has a large growth rate and an increasing GDP, why are our children dying?