Vol. 9, Issue 1, Part F (2023)

Adolescent period is a critical phase that witness rapid physical growth and sexual maturity. For girls who are future mothers, this period is characterised by the onset of menstruation and hence consumption of the right nutrients is more essential than ever. Adolescent girls who suffer from malnourishment might also face complications during pregnancy and give birth to low-birth-weight babies, further continuing the cycle of malnutrition and poor health. The present study tries to finds the nutritional status and adequacy of nutrition of adolescent girls in Ranchi Town of Jharkhand with the help of primary data of 200 adolescent girls collected through stratified random sampling. In the term of natural and human resources, Jharkhand is considered the richest state but it suffers from high incidence of malnutrition among children and anaemia among adults. The t and p-value using STATA-10 has been computed to test the null hypothesis. The finding on adequacy test of consumption of different food items, that there is only adequacy in consumption in Cereals while other food items are inadequate in nature due to demand deficit which is demand side factors such as low income of the family, lack of knowledge about balanced diets, etc.