Man holds his seven months old grand child, Rohit, suffering from grade 4 malnourishment. The seven-month-old twins Rohini and Rohit from a tribal family have been declared malnourished by a team of the city's civic administration doctors, local media reported. India, home to millions of underfed children despite its flourishing economy, will have eradicated malnutrition by 2015, the country's health minister said. A government survey released this year found that 46 percent of children under the age of three years were undernourished. (image by Adeel Halim)
Man holds his seven months old grand child, Rohit, suffering from grade 4 malnourishment. The seven-month-old twins Rohini and Rohit from a tribal family have been declared malnourished by a team of the city's civic administration doctors, local media reported. India, home to millions of underfed children despite its flourishing economy, will have eradicated malnutrition by 2015, the country's health minister said. A government survey released this year found that 46 percent of children under the age of three years were undernourished.
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