Dikhyaa Mohanty 
India’s ranking in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) in the years 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 was 80, 97, 100, 103, 102 and 94, respectively, and its score improved from 38.9 to 27.2 in 2020, the Parliament.
According to the reports, Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food, and Public Distribution, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti stated to Lok Sabha in a written reply that India has shown consistent improvement over the years in terms of the GHI brought out by Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe.
She further stated that the Centre accords high priority to the issue of hunger and has been providing food grains at highly subsidised prices to the targeted population through state governments/Union Territory administrations under National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2013 and Other Welfare Schemes (OWS).
NFSA provides for coverage of up to 75 per cent of the rural population and up to 50 per cent of the urban population for receiving food grains under Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) at Rs 1/2/3 per kg for coarse grains/wheat/rice, respectively.
She further added that at present, the Act is being implemented in all the states/UTs covering about 79.51 crore persons to get highly subsidised food grains. “The coverage under the Act is substantially high to ensure that all the vulnerable and needy sections of the society get its benefit.
