More than 43 lakh children in the 0-5 age group were identified as obese or overweight last month, accounting for around 6% of the total children surveyed at Anganwadi centres across the country, according to official data.
The data collected from the government-run rural childcare centres also showed that the percentage of obese or overweight children was almost the same as that of severely and moderately malnourished children found in Anganwadis, which is 6%.
Out of the 7,24,56,458 children “measured” in the 0-5 years age category, approximately 6% or 43,47,387 children, were classified as obese or overweight, showed the data collated from the growth monitoring app ‘Poshan Tracker’.
