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* India has the world's largest child development program. Yet, the prevalence of underweight children is nearly double that of Sub - Saharan Africa, and among the highest in the world. This is mainly because the program has placed priority on supplementing food rather than on nutrition and health education, and mostly targets children after the age of three when malnutrition has set ఇన్.

* Every year 2.4 million children and about 136,000 women die unnecessarily in India. This is about one fifth of the global total. India’s National Rural Health Mission, launched in April 2005, has a strong commitment to reduce maternal and infant mortality and provide universal access to public health services, the delivery of which is extremely complex and involves a host of public and private, local and international players.

* A severe water crisis looms ahead for India unless the country changes the way it manages water and changes it soon. India’s dams can only store small amounts of its fickle rainfall and its groundwater is rapidly depleting. Estimates reveal that by 2020, India’s demand for water will exceed all sources of సప్లై.
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