194 million people in India today do not have enough food to eat, the largest in any one country in the world. According to the Global Hunger Index 2021, India falls under the ‘serious’ hunger category with a rank of 101 among 116 countries.
These statistics however, do not take into account the effects of COVID-19. The resultant migration, unemployment and loss of earning members of households has pushed millions of Indians into extreme poverty and hunger.