Material & Methods
Study design: It was a community based cross-sectional
study carried out by the National Nutrition Monitoring
Bureau (NNMB) by adopting multi-stage random
sampling procedure. The study was carried out in
120 Integrated Tribal Development Authority (ITDA)
villages8 in nine states viz. Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat,
Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh,
Odisha, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal during 2007-
2008.