Lok Sabha Question No. 425 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2024-11-27
Subject: Global Hunger Index
Ministry: CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD AND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION
Asked by: Shri K Radhakrishnan

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD & PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION DEPARTMENT OF FOOD AND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION

## LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.425 TO BE ANSWERED ON 27TH NOVEMBER, 2024

## GLOBAL HUNGER INDEX

## 425 SHRI K RADHAKRISHNAN:

Will  the Minister  of  CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD AND  PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION w'it8a wr&  VIa al  VT4gfjq Real +it be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government is aware that India is placed at 101 st position among 116 countries in the Global Hunger Index 2021 with  the level of hunger described as serious;

- (b) if  so, the details of action taken thereon;

- (c) the product-wise details of  foodgrains  collected as well  as got damaged in the godowns of Food Corporation of India (FCI) during each of the last three years;

- (d) whether the Government has taken any decision to utilize  the rotten foodgrains for  the production of ethanol in the country; and if  so, the details thereof;

- (e) whether the Government intends to resume  the allocation of food grains to Kerala under the category 'Welfare  Institutions and SC/ST/OBC Hostels Scheme' which  has been stalled since 2018; and

- (f) if  so, the details thereof and if  not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

MINISTER  OF STATE  FOR MINISTRY  OF CONSUMER  AFFAIRS, FOOD & PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION

(SHRIMATI NIMUBEN JAYANTIBHAI BAMBHANIYA)

- (a): The Global Hunger Report 2024 was released by Concern Worldwide, Welt  Hunger Hilfe and the Institute for International Law  of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV).  'Fhe Global Hunger Index is a flawed measure  of  'Hunger' and does not reflect India's true position. Three out of four of its constituent indicators (namely, Stunting, Wasting and Child Mortality),  which are used for calculation of the index, are related to health of children and cannot be taken to reflect hunger in the population.

On the  Global  Hunger  Index  2024,  India  stands at rank  105 out  of  127 countries. India  stood at rank  111 out of  125 countries on the Global  Hunger Index 2023. There has been an improvement in  India's rank  in  2024 compared with  2023, which  is  mainly attributable  to  improvement in  the  fourth  constituent indicator, namely Prevalence of Undernourishment (PoU), of the Index.

(b): Government has accorded highest priority  to the issue of malnutrition  and is making serious efforts to  address this  issue. The  efforts  under the  Supplementary Nutrition Programme under Anganwadi  Services and POSHAN  Abhiyaan  have been rejuvenated and converged as 'Saksham Anganwadi  and POSHAN  2.0'  (Mission  Poshan 2.0). It  seeks to address the challenges of malnutrition in children, adolescent girls, pregnant women and lactating mothers through a strategic shift in nutrition  content and delivery  and by creation of  a convergent eco-system to develop and promote practices that nurture health, wellness and immunity.

(c): State-wise procurement of  wheat  and paddy/rice during the last three years is Annexure-I & II.

Food Corporation of  India (FCI)  is storing/handling large quantities of  foodgrains over long periods for round the year distribution  under welfare schemes of Government and for maintaining the buffer  and strategic reserve for  the country to ensure food security. Out of  these stocks negligible  quantities  of  food  grains being perishable in  nature accrued as damaged mainly due to natural calamities like Cyclone/Flood/Rain etc. Year-wise accrual of damaged food grains for the last 03 years is at Annexure-III.

(d): Production  of  ethanol  in  the  country  and  its  supply  to  Oil  Marketing  Companies (OMCs) under Ethanol blended with  Petrol (EBP) Programme has been allowed from various feedstocks.  The  National Bio-fuel Policy, 2018,  amended  in  2022, allows production of  ethanol from  sugarcane juice,  sugar containing materials like  sugar beet, sweet sorghum, starch containing  material  like  corn,  cassava, damaged food  grains  like wheat, broken rice, rotten potatoes (unfit  for human consumption).

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Very negligible quantity is accrued as danraged food grains in FCI. Such stocks are disposed as Feed Stocks or  industrial  starch purpose based on  its category. No  damaged stocks so far disposed for ethanol production.

Public Sector Oil Marketing Companies have procured 101.86 crore litre of  ethanol from damaged foodgrains from  open sources during Ethanol Supply Year 2023-24 as on 30.09.2024.

(e) and (D: Department of  Food  &  Public Distribution  has been making  allocation of foodgrains to  Government of Kerala under 'Welfare Institutions and Hostel Scheme (WI&HS)' based on the requirement received from the State Government during the F. Y.2018-19, 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25. The  recent allocation of  foodgrains to Government of Kerala under WI&HS  has been made for the period from April,  2024 to September, 2024 .

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## Annexure-I

## ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN  REPLY TO PART (c) OF THE UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.425 FOR ANSWER  ON 27.11.2024 IN THE LOK  SABHA.

## Year-wise details of procurement of Wheat

| SL No.   | STATES/UTs    |   RMS 2022-23 (in LMT) |   RMS 2023-24 (in LMT) | 1 RMS 2024-25 (in LM'F)   |
|----------|---------------|------------------------|------------------------|---------------------------|
| 1        | 96.45         |                 121.12 |                 124.57 | PUNJAB                    |
| 2        | 41.86 HARYANA |                  63.17 |                  71.5  |                           |
| 3        | 3.36          |                   2.2  |                   9.31 | UTTAR PRADESH             |
| 4        | 46.04         |                  70.97 |                  48.39 | MADHYA PRADASH            |
| 5        | 0.04          |                   0.01 |                   0.1  | BIHAR                     |
| 6        | 0.10          |                   4.38 |                  12.06 | RAJASTHAN                 |
| 7        | 0.02          |                   0    |                   0.02 | UTTARAKHAND               |
| 8        | 0.03          |                   0.1  |                   0.08 | CHANDIGAm                 |
| 9        | 0.03          |                   0.03 |                   0.03 | HINMmA D                  |
| TOTAL    | TOTAL         |                 187.92 |                 261.97 | 266.05                    |

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## Annexure-II

## ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN  REPLY TO PART (c) OF THE UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.425 FOR ANSWER  ON 27.11.2024 IN THE LOK  SABHA.

## Year-wise details of procurement of Paddy/Rice

|                 | KMS 2021-22   | KMS 2021-22    | KMS 2022-23   | KMS 2022-23   | KMS 2023-24   | KMS 2023-24   |
|-----------------|---------------|----------------|---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------|
| States/UTs      | I             | ilIIF;iFI LMT) | ;''           |               | Pom I         | LMT)          |
| ANDHRA PRADESH  | 66.58         | 44.61          | 41.13         | 27.55         | 30.43         | 20.38         |
| TELANGANA       | 110.35        | 73.94          | 93.86         | 62.89         | 95.32         | 63.86         |
| ASSAM           | 5.66          | 3.79           | 5.98          | 4.01          | 3.94          | 2.64          |
| BIHAR           | 44.90         | 30.09          | 42.05         | 28.17         | 30.79         | 20.63         |
| CHANDIGARH      | 0.27          | 0.18           | 0.19          | 0.13          | 0.25          | 0.17          |
| CHHATTISGAR H   | 92.01         | 61.65          | 87.53         | 58.65         | 123.88        | 83.00         |
| (JUJARAT        | 1.22          | 0.82           | 1.77          | 1.18          | 0.85          | 0.57          |
| HARYANA         | 55.32         | 37.06          | 59.36         | 39.77         | 58.94         | 39.49         |
| HIMACHAm        | 0.28          | 0.19           | 0.14          | 0.09          | 0.23          | 0.15          |
| JHARKHAND       | 7.53          | =1             | 1.73          | 1.17          | 0.74          | 0.50          |
| J&K             | 0.41          | 0.27           | 0.34          | 0.22          | 0.24          | 0.16          |
| KARNATAKA       | 2.19          | 1.47           | 0.21          | 0.14          | 0.00          | 0.00          |
| KERALA          | 7.48          | 5.09           | 7.31          | 4.97          | 5.59          | 3.80          |
| MADHYA PR.      | 45.83         | 30.70          | 46.30         | 31.02         | 42.16         | 28.25         |
| MAHARASHTR A    | 18.32         | 12.27          | 18.48         | 12.38         | 11.64         | 7.80          |
| ODISHA          | 71.04         | 48.31          | 79.16         | 53.83         | 70.84         | 48.17         |
| PUNJAB          | 187.28        | 125.48         | 182.11        | 122.01        | 185.28        | 124.14        |
| NEF (Tripura)   | 0.58          | 0.39           | 0.45          | 0.30          | 0.32          | 0.2 ]         |
| TAMILNADU       | 27.58         | 18.76          | 33.84         | 23.01         | 34.96         | 207           |
| U.P. (EAST)     | 44.22         | 29.63          | 43.91         | 29.42         | 37.03         | 24.81         |
| U.P. (WEST)     | 21.31         | 14.28          | 21.59         | 14.47         | 16.77         | 11 .24        |
| TOTAL U.P.      | 65.53         | 43.91          | 65.50         | 43.89         | 53.80         | 36.05         |
| UTTRAKHAND      | 11.55         | 7.74           | 8.96          | 6.00          | 7.30          | 4.89          |
| WEST BENGAL     | 35.31         | 24.01          | 32.09         | 21.82         | 24.61         | 16.79         |
| RAJASTHAN       | 0.07          | 0.05           | 0.00          | 0.00          | 0.00          | 0.00          |
| ALL INDIA TOTAL | 857.30        | 575.88         | 808.45        | 543.20        | 782.20        | 525.44        |

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## Annexure-III

ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN  REPLY TO PART (c) OF THE UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.425 FOR ANSWER ON 27.11.2024 IN THE LOK SABHA.

## Year-wise Accrual of Damaged Foodgrains in Food Corporation of India (FCI) during the F.Y. 2021-2022, 2022-23 and 2023-24.

| Year     | Commodity   |   Accrued Quantity of Damagedfoodgrains (in Lakh Tonnes) |   Offtake quantity (excluding DCP states) (in Lakh Tonnes) | % Damaged foodgrain against offtake quantity   |
|----------|-------------|----------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
| 2021 -22 | Wheat       |                                                   0.006  |                                                    445.948 | 0.001                                          |
| 2021 -22 | Rice        |                                                   0.011  |                                                    320.133 | 0.003                                          |
| 2021 -22 | Total       |                                                   0.017  |                                                    766.081 | 0.002                                          |
| 2022-23  | Wheat       |                                                   0.004  |                                                    260.334 | 0.001                                          |
| 2022-23  | Ric;        |                                                   0.012  |                                                    415.492 | 0.003                                          |
| 2022-23  | Total       |                                                   0.016  |                                                    675.826 | 0.002                                          |
| 2023..24 | Wheat       |                                                   0.0564 |                                                    246.784 | 0.023                                          |
| 2023..24 | Rice        |                                                   0.047  |                                                    223.935 | 0.021                                          |
| 2023..24 | Total-      |                                                   0.1035 |                                                    470.719 | o.oT2                                          |

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