The screening was done as part of the Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK), a union government's initiative for such screening done with the state government.

TNIE reached out to four of the six people credited as contributors and reviewers in the report on Monday for clarification, all of whom said they would have to check and get back.

The report also cited the outcome of an earlier screening of 44 lakh children enrolled in Anganwadi centres in March 2022 under the Ilam Siraar Nanvazhvai Thedi (Towards wellbeing of young children) initiative, which found 10.3 lakh to be undernourished.

However, a subsequent screening of these 10.3 lakh children under RBSK found 5.78 lakh (56.3 %) to be normal in all three forms of nutrition viz., weight for age, height for age, weight for height while another 4.5 lakh (43.68 %) to be undernourished.

A release from the government said, the report presented to CM provided a comprehensive overview of child nutrition, focusing specifically on the causes and strategies to be adopted for SAM and MAM, based on the inputs shared by experts who took part in the workshop organised in this regard by the State Planning Commission in March. 

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