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. …
New Delhi: The child stars of Slumdog Millionaire are truly the lucky ones. Government spend on child-specific schemes has doubled in the last five years of the UPA
New Delhi: Nearly 63% of children in the 0 to six years group in Delhi suffer from anaemia. Pre-school education is available to only 2.7 lakh children in the three to six years group, out of the eligible 12 lakh. These figures are preliminary findings of an alternate report on …
BHUBANESWAR: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has recommended that the implementation of the mid-day meal (MDM) scheme should be fully offloaded from the teachers to give them adequate time for teaching activities. In its latest report, the CAG has exposed several loopholes in the execution of the …
Chandigarh: With an aim to expand the benefits of the mid-day meal scheme, the Education department has decided to include madrasas, as well as a school for the physically and mentally challenged in the scheme. The plan has already been tabled before the Administration. While all the Government schools in …
Shutdown Led To Shortage And Spiralling Of Prices: PIL TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: Health minister Anbumani Ramadoss may have been able to get away without a political cost for his controversial decision to close down three public sector units manufacturing many life-saving vaccines, but he has run into the …
New Delhi: Laying down nutrition and feeding norms for the state governments to follow, the Centre doubled the budget allocated under the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme. Hoping to bring down the malnutrition figures, the daily budget per child has now been increased from Rs two to Rs four. …
In a face saving exercise after it was rapped for discontinuation of vaccine production in public sector units, the Health Ministry announced selective and phased-manner re-starting of vaccine production at the three public sector undertakings, which had been directed to stop production one year ago. Answering questions in the Lok …
Mumbai: The national allocation for the midday meal scheme in the interim budget announced on Monday remains the same as last year. The programme, which is one of the world's biggest school-feeding schemes, has been given Rs8,000 crore for 2009-10. There has been no increase in the allocation this year …
Commercial interests determine content The oil we eat is essential for our body to function. We cannot do without it. Thus it is important to understand its chemistry. It is agreed that healthy oil is one which has less saturated fat, more monounsaturated fat (mufa) and polyunsaturated fats (pufa) is …
Heart diseases Trans fats in the hydrogenated oils are worse than saturated fats. They decrease the amount of good cholesterol (hdl). This makes consumption of hydrogenated fats especially bad for the heart. For example, increase of five grammes of trans fats per day could lead to a 25 per cent …
Where is the public in public health policy? Years ago, when this author studied policy making in public health at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in Baltimore, his teachers harped regularly on one point. They said public health is 90 per cent about people and just 10 per cent …
This paper reviews recent evidence on food intake and nutrition in India. It attempts to make sense of various puzzles, particularly the decline of average calorie intake during the last 25 years. This decline has occurred across the distribution of real per capita expenditure, in spite of increases in real …
This paper reviews recent evidence on food intake and nutrition in India. It attempts to make sense of various puzzles, particularly the decline of average calorie intake during the last 25 years. This decline has occurred across the distribution of real per capita expenditure, in spite of increases in real …
The implementation of the nutrition support to Primary Education Scheme, popularly known as mid-day meal (MDM), is far from satisfactory in Uttar Pradesh. Right from the enrolment stage, the poor quality of food, improper transportation, dubious role of NGOs and insincere monitoring have only added to the poor implementation of …
New Delhi: 7 lakh students up to Class VIII to be part of scheme now, says government Once bitten twice shy, the Delhi Government is waiting for a final report before announcing the expansion of the midday meal scheme for schoolchildren up to Class VIII. While the government had said …
DC orders inquiry into alleged JMC negligence Fifteen students of Shri Mahavir Jain Higher Secondary School fell unconscious here this morning after they came in contact with methane gas that emanated from a cesspit of a house. The Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) staff was cleaning the septic tank in a …
The government is open to starting the mid-day meal (MDM) scheme in private Christian schools, not yet covered under the scheme. The HRD Ministry today set up a high-level committee to look at the need and feasibility of providing the scheme to private Christian schools, primarily those in the tribal …
