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'Childhood poverty remains a reality in India'
Wednesday January 11, 2012 07:10:22 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Despite
India developing as a major economy, the country's children have a
bleak future due to malnutrition leading to stunted growth, high
school dropout rates and poverty, a report said Wednesday.
"The Impact of Growth on Childhood Poverty in Andhra Pradesh" was
conducted by NGO-Young Lives from 2002 and has collected data on
2,011 children aged between six to 18 months and 1,008 children
aged between 7-and-half to 8-and-half years.
Findings from its third round of data collection were released
here Wednesday.
"We chose Andhra Pradesh because it is a forward looking state and
moreover its not about the percentages but the trends that reflect
the whole of India," Young Lives India director Renu Singh told
IANS.
"The findings reflect the state of childhood poverty across the
country," she added Singh.
According to the study, despite falling poverty, considerable
economic growth and the development of significant policies,
two-fifths of the world's malnourished children live in India.
"A third of children surveyed are stunted, which has serious
long-term implications for health, psychosocial well-being and
educational achievement," said Singh.
"The research also shows that despite higher enrolment, drop-out
and school quality remain critical issues," she added.
On the government highlighting nutrition as a key policy concern
in the upcoming Twelfth Five-Year Plan, Singh said that the focus
given to poor nutrition is welcome but calls for a multi-sectoral
approach.
She further said that by age 15, only 75 percent of children are
in school.
"Improving the impact of education for children, however, requires
improving the quality of schools as well as retaining children in
school, and ensuring that other pressures - including poverty - do
not undermine children's ability to learn," said Singh.
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