Melghat is situated in the southern offshoot of Satpuda ranges. Melghat region is a part of Amravati District in the North Eastern Maharashtra. This region is hilly and is mostly covered with dense forest. The population of this region is almost rural and tribal and it mainly consists of ‘Korkus’. This region has a severe problem of malnutrition and a large number of children have died and are still dying due to this. To review and understand, as well as suggest some solutions to this problem is an urgent need of today. In this paper, the data related to various factors causing the high mortality of children have been analyzed to draw the conclusion about the reason of high mortality of children.
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Singh et al. (2008) studied this question.