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Swaminathan on Monday released ‘Make Hunger Free India’, a book by Rajagopal Velamoor, former director of the Central Plantation Crops Research Institute. He identified calorific deficiency; protein hunger deficiency; micronutrients deficiency; and access to clean drinking water, sanitation and healthcare as those issues. Mr.
Swaminathan said that there were four issues to deal with to make India food secure. He spoke on tackling food wastage and mooted the idea of Chennai having a “hunger fighters association” to end wastage. Mr.
Rajagopal, founder-director of Tirupati's Society for Hunger Elimination, said that a hunger-free India is an achievable goal that requires collective social responsibility..