Hunger and malnutrition deaths continue to be reported from Madhya Pradesh. Press reported that hunger forced a 11-year-old girl to commit suicide in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur town. It is story of Sanjeeda, a resident of Moti Nagar in Jabalpur, who committed suicide by hanging herself. She was hungry for the past two days because there was nothing to eat in the house. 'I tried to get foodgrain under the Chief Minister's Annapurna Yojana (scheme) but all in vain', said Sanjeeda's mother Praveen to the police as per press reports. Press also reported a few days back that 7 children had died due to malnutrition in Satna district. The situation of Bundelkhand is bad. Many hunger and malnutrition deaths have been reported. These are the pointers that children are dying due to hunger and malnutrition in Madhya Pradesh. Child survival is a challenge in this part of India and it is alarming. These are mere hints as to what lies beneath. These deaths seriously question efforts of the state government and the integrated child development schemes being run by the Government of India. Two UN agencies - WFP (World Food Programme) and UNICEF, are working in the state and mandated to intervene in crisis of child deaths. Probably all of them have failed to respond to this crisis of children dying due to hunger and malnutrition. Recently 'The Lancet', the international medical journal, reported that among the 20 countries where four-fifths of all undernourished children live, India is home to the largest number. Madhya Pradesh in India has highest rates of malnutrition among children till five years of age and highest infant mortality rates in India. The Lancet Series on Maternal and Child Under nutrition, a global, scientific report by a team of public health scientists - underlines the importance of the "golden interval of intervention" that ranges from pregnancy to two years of age. After the age of two, under-nutrition would have caused irreversible damage to the child's development. "India, with a large population, is also home to the most stunted children. There are 61 million stunted children in India, which is over half (51%) of all Indian children under the age of five years, and 34% of all stunted children worldwide. Highest number of stunted children are in MP. Children here are facing severe crisis, malnutrition and hunger deaths are on rise calling for an urgent intervention. Kris Kumar