India is high on the hunger map. Despite the government's tall promises on the food security bill nearly 50 per cent of the world's hungry live in India. Nutritional and health indicators are also extremely low.

About 35 per cent of India's population - around 350 million - do not know where their next meal will come from. Nearly nine out of ten pregnant women aged between 15 and 49 years suffer from malnutrition and anemia.

India has some of the world's largest food-based welfare schemes. Yet, the country is home to 40 per cent of the world's undernourished children and prevalence of vitamin and mineral deficiencies is among the highest in the world.