Karnataka: Experts fear rise in child malnutrition due to govt inaction

Public health experts in Karnataka fear that many children of lower socio-economic backgrounds in the state can develop malnutrition symptoms and related ailments in the coming months. This, due to the reduction in government’s efforts to provide nutrition during the lockdown that was announced to curb the spread of the Coronavirus, and subsequent economic distress, which, experts believe, could undo improvements in children’s nutrition that have been made in the last decade.

The state government had issued an order in the beginning of November to distribute dry ration kits pending since June to students studying in government and aided schools. From June to October, lakhs of students in the state were deprived of the food they would otherwise receive through the mid-day meal scheme. Activists have also pointed out that the Ksheera Bhagya Scheme under which milk was given to school children was also withdrawn with the onset of the pandemic.

Karnataka: Experts fear rise in child malnutrition due to govt inaction

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