The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Non-availability of female teachers, absence of safe drinking water, poor maintenance of sanitation facilities and low awareness is what keeps the young girls in the educationally backward and Muslim-dominated Mewat district of Haryana away from schools, a recently conducted study commissioned as part of the National Women Empowerment Mission, under …
Actor Aamir Khan, who has been earning accolades for highlighting social issues through his television programme Satyamev Jayate , will soon be seen spreading awareness about the problem of malnutrition as part of a major publicity campaign by the government. “The Women and Child Development [WCD] Ministry has planned a …
An ambitious plan for poverty eradication is set to benefit thousands of below poverty line households in Bharatpur and make the district poverty-free by 2015. Through a well-planned strategy for self and wage employment generation, the plan would benefit 11,000 BPL families of the total of 49,394 such households in …
Nutritious diet expert of Department for International Development (DFID), Steves Collin called on Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan here on Thursday. He held talks with the Chief Minister on the efforts for early solution to the problem of serious malnutrition. It may be mentioned that DFID is extending technical and …
Days after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described malnutrition as national shame, the Centre’s move to pump in massive resources into hunger-related schemes are pending the Planning Commission’s approval. The project appraisal and management division (PAMD) of the Planning Commission has objected to women and child development (WCD) ministry’s demand of …
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday said the skewed sex ratio among children in Delhi was a matter of concern and her government was working on improving the gender disparity. Census 2011 reveals that the Capital’s sex ratio among children up to six years has dropped from 868 girls per …
The government is likely to announce setting up of a national programme to deal with the danger posed by Japanese Encephalitis (JE) and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) on Tuesday. Officials in the Union health ministry disclosed that the GoM, which is slated to meet on Tuesday, is likely to announce …
The National Mission for Empowerment of Women will soon establish a state-level resource centre to bring about coordination among the schemes of different government departments to ensure the empowerment of all sections of women. This was disclosed during a consultative meet and workshop on Operationalisation of NMEW in Assam organised …
Minister of State (independent charge) for Woman and Child Development and Minister In-charge of Khandwa district Ranjana Baghel launched School chale hum abhiyan and Shala Praveshutsav at Khandwa. Addressing a programme organised at Anandnagar middle school, Baghel said that the resolution of the Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to make …
SC Asks Addl Solicitor General To File Reply By Friday New Delhi: The health and women and child development ministries have refused to give an affidavit to the Supreme Court on how many children die of hunger in India every year. UNICEF says 50% of all the deaths of children …
Concerned over the sharp decline in the child sex ratio as reflected in the provisional Census figures, the Centre on Saturday reconstituted the Central Supervisory Board set up under the Pre-conception & Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1994 (PC & PNDT Act). Chaired by the Union Minister for Health and Family …
With a view to empowering adolescent girls, a 'Sabal Yojna' is being implemented in 15 districts of the state. The State Cabinet has sanctioned the Yojna on February 7 at its meeting. Under the Yojna, living standard of the adolescent girls will be improved with paying attention on their health …
BHUBANESWAR: Women and Child Development Minister Prafulla Samal today admitted that though there was a 20-point guideline for the procurement of dal these were never enforced in a proper manner at the district level. The dal was meant to be given to schoolchildren and pregnant women under the mid-day meal …
NEW DELHI: The State Government has claimed that malnutrition among women and children is much less in Meghalaya than the figures recorded in a national survey. "The survey which was conducted recently might have been conducted at random which also includes non-ICDS areas," Minister for Health and Family Welfare JA …
The health ministry and the women and child development ministry have sought a ban on sponsorship by baby food manufacturers or their front organizations of health workers, doctors or meetings of their associations. One of the most prominent institutions to violate this instruction is the prestigious PGI, Chandigarh which is …
MUMBAI:The state government is formulating a scheme for cash incentives to citizens to combat female infanticide. Under the scheme, planned by the state ministry of women and child development, families with girl children will be given incentives on fulfilling certain conditions, including school enrollment and delay in marriage of the …
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: The Union Women and Child Development Ministry will map the high-risk and vulnerable districts to strengthen nutrition surveillance. It will also set up a working group for surveillance in health and nutrition at the Central level under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and the Integrated …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has decided to provide pre-school kits to children in the anganwadi centres to attract them to schools. A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting presided over by Women and Child Development Minister Pramila Mallik at the Secretariat here today. Children in the age …
