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Around 99 % people in rural India, almost 100 % in urban India receive two square meals a day throughout a year: Minister

<span style="color: #222222;">Around 99 percent people in rural India and almost 100 percent in urban India receive two square meals a day throughout a year. <br />''<br />''This was informed by Statistic and Programme Implementation Minister, Rao Inderjeet Singh in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today while quoting National Sample Survey Organisation data of 2013. <br />''<br />''He also said, according to National Family Health Survey-4, stunting has been reduced to 38.4 percent in 2015-16 as compared to 48 percent in 2005-06. The Minister informed that number of underweight children has also come down to 35.8 percent in 2015-16 as compared to 42.5 percent in 2005-06.</span><br />

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