Tribal kids in MP malnourished, anaemic: Report

February 2010

Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh is a state where 71.4 per cent tribal children were malnourished and 82.5 percent anaemic, a human rights group said.

In its recent report to the UN Human Rights Council, the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) also added that 43 children had died of malnutrition in just three tribal villages in the last three months.

The ALRC — which has consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) — has written that in Madhya Pradesh the mortality rate among tribal children under the age of five is far higher than the state and national average. 

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