On 12 December 2020, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare under the Government of India launched the report of the first phase of National Family Health Survey 2019-20 (NFHS-5) for the 22 states and Union territories. Researchers, policymakers and other stakeholders, including the parents of millions of children, were expecting to hear the great news that India had made massive progress toward eliminating the problem of child malnutrition. Unfortunately, the first-phase report gives startling revelations of no progress toward reducing child undernutrition in the last five years since 2015-16 (NFHS-4). The estimates from the report indicate that instead of making progress, states are reversing the headway made in the last decades. Out of 22 states and UTs, 18 have more than 25% stunted children and 16 have greater than 25% underweight ones. Meghalaya, with an increase of 2.7%, has the most (46.5%) stunted children while Bihar (42.9%) is at the second place with a 5.4% reduction during this period.