The Poshan Tracker File
Poshan Tracker vs NFHS-6: stunting is a family argument, wasting is two countries. A five-part series on India’s nutrition dashboard.
By Dr. Hemant L. Patel · Poshan Tracker monthly dumps, April 2023–August 2026 · NFHS-6 (2023–24)
Two nutrition numbers
NFHS-6: ~29% stunted, ~19% wasted. Poshan Tracker’s August 2026 district average: 25% and 3%. Stunting is a family argument. Wasting is two countries.
Read part 1 →132 districts
West Singhbhum 66% stunted. Nandurbar 63%. 132 districts the dashboard itself still puts in very high risk — 38 of them in Madhya Pradesh.
Read part 2 →634 down. 94 up.
April 2023 to August 2026: 634 districts got better, 94 got worse. Slope and level are different sentences — Gujarat can fall and still have names on the 132.
Read part 3 →Four states hold half the red
Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Tripura: 16% of districts, 52% of the very-high-risk list. Four states hold half the red.
Read part 4 →Wasting has no season
Dashboard wasting: 6.5% in April 2023, 3.2% in August 2026, no monsoon spike. Survey still ~19%. Anyone putting 3% on a success slide has to beat that gap first.
Read part 5 →