[dhaneshnm]

    Do you think hundreds of millions of malnourished children would suddenly have food in their mouths? 

Yes.Because part of the problem is that the distribution system is broken.It is broken because the system is inefficient.It is inefficient 'cause it is corrupt.If you reduce to a level where it is not an acceptable thing for the society,it would be far easier to deal with all other problems you talked about.

   Don't confuse the effects of corruption and incompetence

No.There are states like kerala where all of the above problems have been solved in past.(ie Malnutrition,food security,education etc) They pretty much have the same education system and political system like rest of India,just that society is less tolerant to mass corruption and mismanagement.So issue number one is corruption and the value system that tolerates it.

[wsxcde]

It is inefficient 'cause it is corrupt

Corruption contributes, but you're utterly clueless if you think all inefficiency will go away with corruption. For starters transportation infrastructure is poor, fuel is much too costly, people don't have the facilities to cook. Just throwing rice at kids won't work. You need vegetables, you need clean water, you need stoves. All of this is just not there. If you'd been to a village you would know people still cook using firewood and a three thousand year old stove design, they don't have easy access to drinking water, they're utterly dependent on self-grown vegetables. They don't have refrigeration or electricity. Fixing all this will cost serious money on top of organizational and logistical skills which simply aren't there at the scale that is required.

There are states like kerala where all of the above problems have been solved in past.

Bullshit. Did you even try a google search for malnutrition in Kerala before making this claim? Kerala is better than other Indian states for sure, but it's nowhere near the levels of a developed country. The communist government and associated land reforms have a lot more do with Kerala's successes than "reduced tolerance for corruption". Which isn't to say Kerala is less corrupt than the other states, it's just that you have the causation the wrong way.

[dhaneshnm]

Did I say corruption is the only issue? no.But corruption is the main issue. Competence won't get any better if corruption does't come down to "acceptable" level. The communist government and associated land reforms have a lot more do with Kerala's successes than "reduced tolerance for corruption And why did that happen? Because the land reforms were executed well.And it was executed well because system was not corrupt.People generally don't think that "let us dupe the system and get away with that".