India, Feb. 10 -- The government'sPoshan Abhiyaan's implementation is poor and targets are unambitious, according to the State of India's Environment 2020 report

India stares at a steeply uphill task in meeting the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) on child malnutrition, according to the latest State of India's Environment Annual , released on February 9, 2020 by Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot.

This is despite the fact that India's economy has doubled since 1991 and the world's largest programme to tackle child malnutrition, the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), has been in force in the country since 1975.

In 2017, some 1.04 million under-five children died in the country. Over 68.2 per cent of the ...