. Failure of schemes:

It has sustained successfully for decades, yet India has the highest number of malnourished children. The mismatches are huge, the most prominent one being more priority over universalisation and less towards improving the quality of implementation and monitoring. Malnutrition increases susceptibility towards infections and diseases, decrements cognitive growth and disintegrates physical growth, hinders educational attainment and exposes children to morbidity. On a national scale, the loss is being made to the human development and economic returns.