<p>There is no report of starvation deaths from states and Union Territories, the government informed the Lok Sabha on Friday.</p>.<p>Responding to a question, Union Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani said the Global Hunger Index did not reflect India's true picture as it was a flawed measure of "hunger".</p>.<p>It should not be taken at face value as it is neither appropriate nor representative of hunger prevalent in a country, she said.</p>.<p>India ranked 107th of 121 countries in the Global Hunger Index - 2022 with its child wasting rate, at 19.3 per cent, being the highest in the world.</p>.<p>"There is no report of starvation deaths from states/UTs," Irani said in a written reply in response to a question on the number of starvation-related deaths among children and adults in India since 2014.</p>.<p>Responding to another question, Irani provided data as per which 140,575 children went missing since 2019 and 125,445 children had been recovered during the same period.</p>
<p>There is no report of starvation deaths from states and Union Territories, the government informed the Lok Sabha on Friday.</p>.<p>Responding to a question, Union Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani said the Global Hunger Index did not reflect India's true picture as it was a flawed measure of "hunger".</p>.<p>It should not be taken at face value as it is neither appropriate nor representative of hunger prevalent in a country, she said.</p>.<p>India ranked 107th of 121 countries in the Global Hunger Index - 2022 with its child wasting rate, at 19.3 per cent, being the highest in the world.</p>.<p>"There is no report of starvation deaths from states/UTs," Irani said in a written reply in response to a question on the number of starvation-related deaths among children and adults in India since 2014.</p>.<p>Responding to another question, Irani provided data as per which 140,575 children went missing since 2019 and 125,445 children had been recovered during the same period.</p>