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how they confirmed ? by listening to Tigers ?

Malnutrition has become silent emergency
Special Correspondent

CHENNAI: As the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development observes its annual National Nutrition Week this week throughout the country, there is little to cheer about the state of the country s nutrition, experts say.

Malnutrition in India is so acute that it has become a silent emergency, said M.S. Swaminathan, agricultural scientist and chairman, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, speaking here on Monday. Fortysix per cent of children in India under the age of three were malnourished, while 72 per cent of children below 12 months and 77 per cent between the ages of one and two were anaemic

http://www.hindu.com/2007/09/06/stories/2007090658470200.htm

SECOND TO SHOW THE GOVT that they can come to the head quarters in north and east and attack and safely return

lol who tell this:) give me the source of the info? the same info source that you got saying LTTE gonna get back Thunukkai on election day or Ranil is wining the Provincials?

For a country that suffers no significant food shortages and provides extensive, free maternal and child health services, it is rather paradoxical that malnutrition affects nearly one-third of children and one quarter of women.

Almost one out of five children are born with low birth weight - Around 29 per cent of under fives are reported to be underweight, rising as high as 37.4 per cent, in some deprived districts.
14 per cent of under fives suffer from acute malnutrition (wasting) when their weight is compared to the weight of a normal child of the same height.
Nearly 58 per cent of infants between 6 and 11 months and 38 per cent children between 12 - and 23 months are anaemic.
Main factors contributing to malnutrition

The immediate and underlying causes of childhood malnutrition in Sri Lanka range from disease factors and inadequate dietary intake to knowledge and cultural factors that influence the utilization of health services and available food.

Poverty in its many manifestations (among these, low household income, inadequate basic infrastructure, limited access to media), affects nearly 23 percent of households in Sri Lanka and is closely intertwined with household food security. However, while poverty is an important basic determinant of child under nutrition, it does not solely explain the high rates of child malnutrition prevailing in Sri Lanka. Other major determinants of malnutrition in the country include inappropriate feeding practices, micronutrient deficiencies and disease

SECOND TO SHOW THE GOVT that they can come to the head quarters in north and east and attack and safely return.I think you know the importance of trinco base for the sldf for their survival:))

Never imagined that it could happen in Sorry lanka...

...that your SLAF had to set fire to the Garbages !

Can happened...according to WMD Peelamaya..their pilots are low weight....:-)