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Govt living in denial: Congress on India's Global Hunger Index ranking

The Congress on Saturday hit out at the BJP government, saying it is "living in denial" and is suppressing facts, after India was ranked 107 out of 121 countries in the Global Hunger Index 2022. Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge said India has slipped in the hunger index yet again, now ranking 107, lagging behind every South Asian country except Afghanistan. "BJP's living in denial and trying to suppress facts has led India to this massive crisis," he said on Twitter. "Are there anymore excuses still left, Modi ji," he asked, targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Congress also put out a tweet alleging that the "Modi government is equal to disaster". "India ranks 107th in the Hunger Index, out of a list of 121 countries. Till last year the ranking was 101. "Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sudan, Nigeria, Rwanda. These countries are in a better position than us. Was this 'Acche Din' promised by the fake Vishwaguru," the Congress posted in Hindi on its official Twitter handle.

Global Hunger Index ranking: An effort to taint India's image, says govt

India's ranking at 107 in the Global Hunger Index is part of a consistent effort to taint the country's image as "a nation that does not fulfil the food security and nutritional requirements of its population, the Centre said on Saturday and added the index suffers from serious methodological issues and is "erroneous measure of hunger". The Women and Child Development Ministry, in a statement, said the matter was taken up with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) not to use such estimates based on FIES (Food Insecurity Experience Scale) survey module data in July 2022 as the statistical output of the same will not be based on merit. "Though an assurance was forthcoming that there will be further engagement on this issue, the publication of the Global Hunger Index report irrespective of such factual considerations is regrettable, the ministry said. India ranked 107 out of 121 countries in the Global Hunger Index 2022 with its child wasting rate at 19.3 per cent, being the ...

Global Hunger Index 2022: India ranks 107 out of 121; hunger level serious

The 2022 Global Hunger Index has once again brought India face to face with the grim reality of hunger crisis, child malnutrition in the country

Need to fix the concept of food subsidies to tackle world hunger crisis

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Humanitarians aim to feed 16 mn people in drought-stricken Ethiopia: UN

Humanitarians in Ethiopia are targeting more than 16 million people for drought aid while more than 1.7 million people face flooding, a UN spokesman said

Try, try, and fly away: How Gotabaya Rajapaksa escaped from Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa managed to flee Sri Lanka in the early hours of July 13 and soon the government announced the imposition of an emergency in the island nation

Ukraine war adds to hunger woes; 47 mn people risk starvation: UN

World Food Program Executive Director David Beasley said growing hunger will add at least 47 million people to the 276 million marching to starvation before Russia's invasion of its smaller neighbour

Smriti Irani raised doubt over accuracy of Global Hunger Index

Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2021 had ranked India 101st out of 116 countries. In 2020, India was ranked 94th out of 107 countries

Global Hunger Index does not reflect India's true picture: Ministry

Global Hunger Index (GHI) does not reflect India's true picture as it is a flawed measure of 'Hunger', the Ministry of Women and Child Development said

Abhijit Banerjee flags methodology used for Global Hunger Index rankings

India should not take the drop in its Global Hunger Index ranking "seriously" as the methodology used for the exercise is 'model-based' and not survey-based, Banerjee said

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Global Hunger Index 2021 reflects India's reality post Covid: Oxfam

India's Global Hunger Index 2021 ranking at 101st position "unfortunately" reflects the reality of the country, Oxfam India said

Will economic stress and hunger lead to political change?

Will economic distress affect how people perceive the role of the political class as a whole, and judge how they responded to their suffering?

Dip in India's rank in Global Hunger Index 2021 'shocking', says govt

The Centre on Friday said it was shocking that India's rank was lowered on the Global Hunger Index, terming the methodology used for rankings "unscientific". India slipped to 101st position in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2021 of 116 countries, from its 2020 position of 94th. It is now behind its neighbours Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal. Reacting sharply to the report, the Women and Child Development Ministry said it is "shocking" to find that the Global Hunger Report 2021 has lowered the rank of India on the basis of FAO estimate on proportion of undernourished population which is found to be "devoid of ground reality and facts and suffers from serious methodological issues". "The publishing agencies of the Global Hunger Report, Concern Worldwide and Welt Hungerhilfe, have not done their due diligence before releasing the report," the ministry said in a statement. The methodology used by FAO is "unscientific", the ministry claimed.

India slips to 101st rank in Global Hunger Index 2021; behind Pak, B'desh

India has slipped to 101st position in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2021 of 116 countries, from its 2020 position of 94th and is behind its neighbours Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal

No work, no food: Coronavirus pandemic deepens global hunger

An estimated 270 million people are expected to face potentially life-threatening food shortages this year - compared to 150 million before the pandemic - according to analysis from World Food Program

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Despite improvements, India still leads the world in acute malnutrition

India's relative fall, despite improvements, shows that some countries that lagged behind it earlier progressed better on the parameters used to determine the hunger index

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