Analysis of India's Quest for Ensuring Food Security

Abstract

Loss of human life due to malnutrition is an cyclic phenomenon occurring in human history. With development of agro technology, several measures are taken prevent any loss of human life due to the famines. India, at the time of its independence, was facing a severe shortage of food grains and ensuring food security is one among the priority problems that independent India is forced to deal with. In this paper, a systematic effort is made to present a critical analysis of various measures that India has undertaken to control under-nutrition as well as malnutrition.