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Poshan Tracker Data Show Over a Third of Young Indian Children Are Stunted

With a third of children under five recorded as stunted, June 2025 Poshan Tracker figures have prompted plans to modernise over 280,000 Anganwadi centres.

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Overview

  • June 2025 data reveal that 37.07% of registered children under five are stunted, 15.93% are underweight and 5.46% are wasted nationwide.
  • Uttar Pradesh leads stunting rates at 48.83%, followed by Jharkhand (43.26%), Bihar (42.68%) and Madhya Pradesh (42.09%), while Odisha reports lower levels at 28% stunting, 12% underweight and 3.21% wasting.
  • Beneficiary registrations have dipped slightly to 8.61 crore children as of June 2025, down from 8.91 crore in mid-2024.
  • The government has approved 88,716 mini Anganwadi centres and plans to upgrade around 200,000 existing facilities into ‘Saksham Anganwadis’ with modern infrastructure and digital learning tools.
  • Underweight and wasting figures from the Poshan Tracker are notably lower than projections from NFHS-5 and are benchmarked against WHO child growth standards.