India is the epicenter of a global stunting crisis. At least 39% of the country's children under five - about 47 million souls - suffered from stunting in 2015. That's more stunted children, proportion-wise, than in all of Africa, where the figure is 32%.
Simply put, stunting is abnormal weight-height ratio. It's inter-generational in that it often starts in the womb. One way to address the crisis is through nutritional schemes for pregnant women and children. While such programmes exist, state support to them hasn't been adequate of late, as laid out in a report titled Under Nutrition In India - A Nutrition Budget Disconnect.

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