Summary:
The drastic change in the number of malnourished children in BMC school is mainly because of the change in terminology used by BMC since 2016. While in 2015-16, over 64,681 students were found malnourished in BMC school's health check-up, as per a Right To Information (RTI) response received by Praja Foundation, in 2016-17, the BMC stated that they found no malnourished child in BMC schools. Change in terminology has drastically reduced the number of malnourished children in BMC schools. Which means that they have added the malnourished students under the category of underweight students. As per the data received from public health department under RTI for malnourished students found in BMC schools, the response stated that "No malnourished students found in MCGM Schools for 2016-17.".