How can India have more graduates? Better nutrition for infants will help

Ensuring supplementary nutrition for children in the 0-3 years age bracket could raise the number of graduates in India by 3.17 million, according to new research.

Children who received extra nutrition through government-run programmes from the time they were in their mothers’ wombs until age three were 11% more likely to acquire a graduate degree than those who received them between ages three and six, according to a new study published on January 1, 2018, in the Journal of Nutrition.

These early life beneficiaries of supplements, supplied