Bhubaneswar, July 23 -- Nearly 28 per cent children under six years of age in Odisha are stunted while 12 per cent are found to be underweight.
Similarly 3.21 per cent of children in the 0-5 age group were found to be wasted and 11.63 per cent children underweight, according to Poshan Tracker data for the month of June 2025.
Poshan Tracker consists of pregnant women, lactating mothers, children up to 6 years of age and adolescent girls as beneficiaries.
It keeps track of intervention to the beneficiaries and their progress is further monitored by Supervisors, CDPOs and DPOs through daily and monthly reports.
The levels of underweight and wasting in children as obtained from Poshan Tracker are much less than those projected by NFHS 5, s...