Adding diversity to plate
The Government of India has proposed mandatory rice fortification to tackle the issue of malnutrition in the country. The process of fortification includes externally adding nutrients to a food item with
Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS)
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Jalpaiguri & Bankura now e-districts
KOLKATA, 27 Sept: The state government today declared Jalpaiguri and Bankura as e-district after the chief minister inaugurated the project through which citizens can get various services through online submission of forms and delivery of certificates. The chief minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, inaugurated the citizen service kiosks through video-conferencing.
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Putting the smallest first
VISHAL, the son of a farm labourer in the west Indian state of Maharashtra, is almost four. He should weigh around 16kg (35lb). But scooping him up from the floor costs his nursery teacher, a frail woman in a faded sari, little effort. She slips Vishal
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Putting the smallest first
VISHAL, the son of a farm labourer in the west Indian state of Maharashtra, is almost four. He should weigh around 16kg (35lb). But scooping him up from the floor costs his nursery teacher, a frail woman in a faded sari, little effort. She slips Vishal
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Orissa lagging behind in ICDS achievement
BHUBANESWAR: Even after three decades of its launch, the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) in Orissa is yet to achieve half of its nutritional objective. As per the latest report, the nutritional status of only 47.33 per cent children under ICDS are detected as normal as on December 31, 2009.
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Spent farce
India has 8.1 million children out of school, 41.6 per cent of its population lives below the poverty line, the maternal mortality rate is 450 per 1,00,000 live births and merely 16 per cent of its labour force has received formal education till the secondary level.
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Hard to swallow
The
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Food for a billion first course
NAC HAS REDEFINED
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Government readies a nutrition plan
BHUBANESWAR: Finally, the Government has woken up to the severity of malnutrition gripping the State. A contingency plan has been drawn up for the 15 high-burden districts having high incidence of malnutrition.
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Food forum punches holes in child scheme
- Joint body of social activists & NGOs decides to keep tab on anganwadi centres Ranchi, May 5: There are large-scale irregularities in implementation of Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) in Jharkhand, Right to Food Campaign
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Blinkered vision
The government has chosen to look at the problem from the wrong end of the looking glass, the survival end.