The countries’ development status is reflected from the amount of investment in the health improvement sector and malnutrition alleviation programs. India, being a developing nation, is facing a daunting task to fight with these problems which when coupled with poverty and illiteracy increases the gravity of the problem manyfold.

The National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-4 (2015-16) Report reflects the issue more serious in India as 35.7 % children below five years are underweight, 38.4 % are stunted and 21 % are wasted in the country. In the State of Madhya Pradesh, the issue of health and malnutrition is even more complicated as 42.8 % children below five years are underweight, 42 % are stunted and 25.8 % are wasted. Further in the State of Madhya Pradesh the districts of Barwani and Sheopur have reported highest (55%) of children under 5 years who are underweight during 2015-16 (NFHS-4). The infant and children (under 5 years of age) mortality rates are 41 % and 50 % respectively.

Per the NFHS-4, the women between 15-19 years of age who were already mothers or pregnant at the time of the survey were 7.9 % as compared to 16.0 % to its predecessor report. The anaemic women between 15-49 years of age were 53.1 %.

Although, the figures provided in the recent report provides some relieve when compared to the NFHS-3, the current data is still unacceptable in a welfare society. The need of the hour is to formulate policies and the involvement of the civil societies to create pressure on the state and to intervene directly for the betterment of the unprivileged.

Our team is dedicatedly organising camps and sessions for awareness for health and malnutrition at various levels and create lobby to improve the state at substantial levels.