Even after seven decades of independence, the level of malnutrition among common Indians, especially children and women, is extremely worrying. Even though the rates of hunger and malnutrition are already declining in India, we still remain home to the highest number of hungry and underdeveloped and malnourished children in the world. At a time when the entire country is dreaming of becoming a world leader, yet a large population of the country does not get enough food and nutritious food. In such a situation, dreaming of a world leader would be inadequate and unfair to all of them. Because man may make civilization proud by touching the heights of knowledge, science and spirituality, but the first need of man is to have a balanced diet in proper quantity. Before knowing how malnutrition harms the nation, it would be appropriate to know properly about malnutrition. Malnutrition is a condition in which the body does not get adequate nutrition due to not taking nutritious food and balanced food. However, malnutrition is not just related to the lack of nutrients, but it is related to the imbalance, excess and deficiency of nutrients. It also has many stages. Like an undernourished person, underweight in a child i.e. low weight as per age, wasting i.e. low weight as per height and stunting i.e. low height as per age and secondly overweight or obesity is also included in this. Thus, both the conditions of less or more than required in the body i.e. undernutrition and overnutrition give rise to malnutrition, which hinders the physical and mental development of any person or child and blocks his all-round development. If we talk about statistics, even after 75 years of independence, hunger and malnutrition remain a serious issue in the country. India is ranked 107th out of 121 countries in the Global Hunger Index, 2022 and has been placed in the severe' category with an overall score of 29.1. Even among Asian countries, India's performance is low. According to a study, in 2022, the level of stunting among children under five years of age across the country was about 31 percent, that is, every third child is short for his age. According to the Global Hunger Index, the wasting rate among infants was recorded at 19.3 percent i.e. one out of every five children is underweight for his height. Whereas in India, 2.8 percent children are overweight for their age.