ABSTRACT
Growing enough food and giving some of it to the poor at low price has not removed hunger from India. Private sector service delivery is no better than the government service delivery at present. There is no alternative to public provisioning in India. India needs massive investments in water supply and sanitation. Universal access to quality services in water supply and sanitation, and building of infrastructure to handle waste disposal are a must to achieve nutrition-related goals. Maternal and childcare related schemes have been in place for quite some time. Prominent among them are the integrated child development services, which provide supplementary food to undernourished pregnant and lactating mother and preschool children. National nutrition strategy mission recommends action plans to states, districts, blocks and Panchayats, and conducts competitions and awards for the best performers. Growth in agriculture through diversification, commercialisation, investments in road connectivity, commodity markets, supply chains, and so on, make agriculture look like industry.
