08 March 2021
Indian schoolchildren waiting in line for their mid-day meal at a government primary school in the outskirts of Hyderabad, in June 2011. Districts across Maharashtra report alarming rates of childhood malnutrition that continues unabated regardless of the country’s purported economic successes. NOAH SEELAM/AFP/Getty Image
Indian schoolchildren waiting in line for their mid-day meal at a government primary school in the outskirts of Hyderabad, in June 2011. Districts across Maharashtra report alarming rates of childhood malnutrition that continues unabated regardless of the country’s purported economic successes. NOAH SEELAM/AFP/Getty Image
In 2005, Maharashtra’s Palghar district became the face of chronic child malnutrition in India as reports emerged of the death of 718 children due to malnutrition. Palghar, a predominantly tribal region, with a 37 percent Adivasi population, is only 114 kilometres away from Mumbai, the capital of Maha