A world record for India – it has 194.6-million undernourished persons, the highest in the world

India has successfully sent the Mangalyaan to Mars to check out the feasibility of settling on the Red Planet at a future date and, it also has earned the unique distinction of accommodating the highest number of undernourished people in the world.
The figure is 194.6-million as revealed in the State of Food Security in the World 2015, released by the UN's Food and Agricultural Organization in Rome. This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 28 May 2015.

This is a real paradox since the number of crorepatis is continuously on the rise as is the number of undernourished people in any single country – the figure works out to roughly one in every four.
We Indians boast of latest jet fighters in our skies, latest submarines in the oceans, latest battle tanks on the frontiers. We want bullet trains to run in our country, we want to create Smart Cities, we want to clean up the highly polluted Ganga River. And we can now be proud about the highest number of undernourished people.
When we consider the global scenario, the number of undernourished people has fallen by 216 million between 1990-92 and 2015 – it has dropped from just over a billion to 795 million. India's contribution to this decrease has been marginal - its numbers are down by just 15.5 million.
The undernourished constitute just over 15% of the population in India and the government of the day needs to work out suitable measures to improve upon this.
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