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 …
The Centre has finally approved the rollout of the Multi-sectoral Nutrition Programme to address the problems of maternal and child under-nutrition in the country. The programme, recommended by the Prime Minister’s National Council on India’s Nutrition Challenges in 2010, will be implemented in 200 high-burden districts in two phases at …
The Centre has issued guidelines for food safety and hygiene to prevent contamination of supplementary nutrition provided to pregnant women and children under the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme. The guidelines, issued by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, bars anganwadi workers and helpers from wearing nail polish, …
This new global report published by the World Food project analyses school feeding programmes in 169 countries and says that India has the largest school feeding programme in the world, catering to over 114 million children, but stands 12th among 35 lower-middle-income countries covering 79 per cent of its total …
The state of the midday meal scheme is in a shambles in Jharkhand with children in many schools not getting regular food, the latest report by the state advisor to the Supreme Court-appointed commissioners in the Right to Food case reveals. The report, compiled after field visits in October by …
The Centre has identified Vellore as one of the high priority districts for taking action to achieve the millennium development goals (MDG) by 2015, according to Satheesh Kumar, Chief Officer, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Tamil Nadu and Kerala. He was speaking at a district-level seminar on ‘Improvement of Child …
Every third child in Gujarat is underweight, stated the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) in its performance audit of the implementation of the Centre's Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) in the state. "Despite providing supplementary nutrition to targeted children between 2007-12, the monthly progress report (March 2012) states …
This Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (C&AG;) relates to matters arising from performance audit of selected programmes and activities and compliance audit of various departments of State Government.
The Act as been enacted in Haryana, Himachal, Rajasthan, Uttaranchal, Mizoram and Delhi The Centre will review preparations for implementation of the National Food security Act with the States and UTs in a meeting here on Tuesday. The Act which got accent of President Pranab Mukherjee on September, 12 after …
Congress-ruled states like Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Mizoram and Delhi have already started implementing the National Food Security Act The United Progressive Alliance government will on Tuesday review with states preparations for the implementation of its flagship National Food Security Act Tuesday, a statement said Monday. The bill, a …
After taking a year to decide which department will parent the Mission Balam Sukham (Gujarat Nutrition Mission) and finally giving the task to a reluctant women and child development department, the government is going to recruit around 33,000 nutrition counseling volunteers (NCVs). They will work towards improving the state’s poor …
The parents of Shoaib, five, and Imran, three, got worried when the staff of a Born Learning Centre (BLC), who visited their house at Hennur in the City five months ago, told them that the brothers were malnourished. While Imran weighed only nine kg, Shoaib was just about 10 kg. …
An Act to provide for food and nutritional security in human life cycle approach, by ensuring access to adequate quantity of quality food at affordable prices to people to live a life with dignity and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Expressing surprise on the absence of latest official data on malnutrition, a Parliamentary panel has asked the government to come up with a time-bound action plan to reduce under-nutrition and ensure real time flow of information for proper monitoring. "We are surprised to note that in this modern era of …
To cover 75% of the rural and 50% of the urban population by providing them with subsidised foodgrains The Rajya Sabha on Monday passed the food security Bill after a seven-hour discussion and technical glitches in the voting system, which caused considerable delay. The Bill had been cleared by the …
Lok Sabha passed the National Food Security Bill 2013 on Monday after a series of amendments, including one-year time for states to identify beneficiaries and fixing annual grain allocation to the states. Under the new Bill, the annual allocation of gain for states have been estimated at 55 million tonne. …
Read text of the landmark National Food Security Bill, 2013. This promises to give right to the country's 80 crore people to get 5 kg of foodgrains every month at Rs 1-3 per kg. Read full text of the Bill (Download PDF) RELATED DOCUMENTS & ARTICLES Ordinance: The National Food …
Members of civil society organisations and academia on Wednesday welcomed the amendments proposed for removing the clause in Schedule II of the Food Security Bill that insists 50 per cent of food fortified with micro-nutrients should be provided in the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) and Midday Meals (MDM) scheme …
The Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme could become a lucrative monopoly of contractors and packaged food manufacturers with the Women and Child Development Ministry sticking to its stand of providing energy-dense foods to children despite disagreement from the Human Resource Development Ministry and the Health Ministry red-flagging the idea …
This National Food Security Bill, 2013 bill introduced in the Lok Sabha replaces the ordinance which was promulgated on July 5 and promises to give right to the country's 80 crore people to get 5 kg of foodgrains every month at Rs 1-3 per kg. RELATED ARTICLES Ordinance: The National …
Review of the Midday Meal (MDM) scheme on Wednesday turned into a free discussion on some important decisions to strengthen the quality and hygiene aspect of the programme. It was decided that MDM would follow the guidelines of Food Safety and Standard Authority of India (FSSAI). Established under Food Safety …
