Join the Outlook Poshan Awards 2019 as Indranil Roy, CEO of Outlook Group, delivers a warm welcome address. Discover his opening remarks, highlighting the significance of the event in recognizing and celebrating efforts towards combating malnutrition. Be part of this prestigious ceremony and witness the collective commitment to building a healthier and nourished society.
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00:00 Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. It is my pleasure to welcome you all to the first
00:04 edition of the Outlook Potion Forum and Awards. I thank the Honourable Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh,
00:11 Sri Bhupesh Bagelji, to kindly accept our invitation.
00:14 It is not often that a mainstream media group looks beyond what is more healthy,
00:23 a low carb or a low fat diet. Does red meat cause cancer? Will a glass of wine keep the doctors
00:30 away? The fact that we are daring to provoke a discussion on 200 million Indians, one third of
00:38 the India's world's top undernourished, who go to sleep hungry every day and do not read our
00:44 magazine, makes this event even more special for the Outlook group. We are grateful to the million
00:49 of our readers who have supported us through the years and we hope they join us in this journey.
00:54 India inherited poverty, hunger and famine as a legacy of the British Raj.
01:01 For successive decades after that, we came up with over 21 plans, programs and policies to
01:07 advocate hunger, anemia, malnutrition, disease and deaths. Just look at us. We have gone through
01:14 great transformation in every field. We have risen to become a global powerhouse, a software
01:19 giant, one of the world's best performing economies, a top military spender, a geopolitical
01:26 sweet shop. Yet millions of our children are too thin, too short, too weak and too hungry to think
01:33 beyond a feast full of rice. The drumbeat of shame started from 2007 when international bodies
01:39 started bringing out reports that showed that we are at the beset with some of our very fundamental
01:44 problems. Of the world's 820 million hungry people, 24% lives in India and 3 of our every
01:56 10 stunted children in the world and that the world's largest number of underweight children
02:00 lives in India. The cost of malnutrition is high. India faces a GDP loss of 11% every year.
02:08 We believe that the time is right. The moment of critical mass as the Prime Minister Modi
02:14 expressed unprecedented political commitment in the fight against malnutrition. With this
02:19 multisectoral synergistic people's movement, the Poshan Abhiyan is turning into a headline news.
02:25 The changes on the ground for the premise and promises and the potential we will analyze by
02:30 our speakers today and we have an amazing area of speakers from across the country and the world.
02:35 We are extremely privileged that Mr. Sean Baker, Director of Nutrition Bill and Melinda Gates
02:41 Foundation is with us to share his insight and perspective on our platform. Ladies and gentlemen,
02:48 last week Outlook editorial team went out to do a fieldwork and they captured some stories.
02:54 I am sharing with you one such video.
03:08 So,
03:21 so,
03:29 so,
03:36 so,
03:49 so,
04:01 so,
04:12 so,
04:23 these are very depressing visuals, but that also gives us enough reason to come together
04:38 and work harder and keep our hopes up. Thank you everyone. Thank you for coming.