Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
SHILLONG: The Meghalaya Government has entrusted the task of evaluation study to the Council for Social Development (CSD) of Hyderabad which is recognised by Indian Council of Social Science Research under the ministry of Human Resource Development, to study on the progress of centrally sponsored scheme-Mid-day Meal in the State. …
- City NGO to provide free medical treatment through hospital tie-up ANTARA BOSE Some respite for child workers Jamshedpur, March 9: A city NGO has now decided to launch a card to good health by providing identity tags to children living in the margins and providing them with free access …
Mid-Day Meal Scheme The National Programme of Nutritional Support to Primary Education commonly called the Mid-Day Meal Scheme is being impeded in the absence of any effective mechanism initiated by the Department of School Education. Lack of supporting infrastructure and basic facilities like drinking water, besides the delayed procurement of …
The Comptroller and Auditor General in its latest report has said that for the last three years the Jammu & Kashmir Government has been feeding school children lesser quantity of cooked meal thereby defeating the objective of the mid-day meal scheme. The CAG report tabled in the State Assembly on …
Lack of creche exposing them to risk, says NGO activist Sangeetha Neeraja | ENS Chennai, THE children of the brick kiln workers have this characteristic lost look with sun bleached hair, with faces tainted with running noses, unclothed and unattended, they play in sand and everywhere. February 21 was no …
MUMBAI: Over nine lakh children below five years of age were administered polio drops in the city on Sunday. This was 69.1% of the total target in Mumbai, a drop from the last polio drive when 72% of the city's children were covered. The best coverage was reported from Parel-Lalbaug, …
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention collected health, housing, and environmental data in a single integrated national survey for the first time in the United States in 1999
This report highlights that the region faces enormous challenges in addressing inequalities in reproductive health of poor women, and focuses on the risks they face. This phenomenon perpetuates an inter-generational cycle of poverty. The report calls for an integration of reproductive health services and decentralized planning to target poor geographic …
This health manifesto targeted at the political parties ahead of elections demands for effective measures to achieve the achieve the right to health, which includes the right not only to timely appropriate quality health care but also to the underlying socio economic and environmental determinants of health.
Is not cool, it increases risk of various diseases, says report THE rich and the middle class are spending more on unhealthy food, according to the quick estimates of the national consumption expenditure 2007-08. The study measures the amount of money that consumers spend on food. This has led to …
