Nutritional Indicators News Today

Four major districts with urban populations – Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara, and Rajkot – experienced a sharper increase in stunting, wasting, severe malnutrition, and underweight cases compared to some of the tribal districts between 2015-16 and 2020-21.

India is planning to use surplus rice, besides sugarcane, to meet its biofuel target of blending 20% ethanol with petrol. Could this impede India’s c goals or worsen nutritional indicators? Mint explores.