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Detailed explanation-1: -Jharkhand has become the third state after Bihar and Odisha in eastern India to have Food Security Atlas for its rural areas.

Detailed explanation-2: -India has ranked 101 among the 116 countries on the Global Hunger Index, 2021.

Detailed explanation-3: -Largest number of food insecure people are in the states of West Bengal, Jharkhand, parts of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, South eastern and eastern parts of Uttar Pradesh.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Food Atlas suggests that districts with high multidimensional poverty also are highly insecure districts in terms of overall food security and also have very poor food security outcomes. It also mentions that the state has high instability in food grain production.

Detailed explanation-5: -Chhattisgarh government was the first who took the initiative to pass the first food security act in the country.