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 …
Absence of preventive measures and affordable and accessible health care leads to nearly 500 encephalitis deaths in Uttar Pradesh. IT is a strange paradox. In a country that aspires to be a superpower and boasts of rapid economic growth, 488 children died in a State, Uttar Pradesh, from encephalitis alone …
Is India doing marvellously well, or is it failing terribly? Depending on whom you speak to, you could pick up either of those answers with some frequency. One story, very popular among a minority but a large enough group—of Indians who are doing very well (and among the media that …
The State government on Thursday announced the implementation of a Rs.44.21-crore scheme of providing sanitary napkins to adolescents, young mothers and women prisoners in rural parts of the State. Billed as first-of-its-kind in the country, the scheme will cover the section of women in the age group of 10 years …
For promising results, renewed commitment of another seven years essential An official review of the Union Government's ambitious National Rural Health Mission has described it as a “minor success”, adding that the results have been heartening compared to past experience in public health programmes. If this promising programme is not …
The residents of Sardar Sarovar Dam Project affected villages in Alirajpur district of Madhya Pradesh have been deprived of all major programmes initiated by the State Government. Surprisingly, schemes like the PDS, ICDS, MDM, and NREGS are completely dysfunctional in the villages. There is widespread and unchecked corruption in the …
Touching up on the sensitive issue of land acquisition, the Prime Minister said that land acquisition must be transparent and fair. "Our Government wants to replace the 117-year-old land acquisition law by a new forward looking and balanced law in this connection. Land acquisition is no doubt necessary for projects …
JEYPORE: Anganwadi centres are facing debt crisis. The alleged faulty funding system of the Social Welfare Department has put them on a sticky wicket with Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) staff making purchases from grocery shops on credit. In the last two months alone, the debt has mounted to Rs …
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi has formally sent the proposed National Food Security bill to the government on behalf of the National Advisory Council (NAC) that she chairs. Setting all doubts at rest about where she stands, the bill explicitly seeks that the subsidized rations be provided to at …
Accepts To Cover 75% Rural, 50% Urban Population New Delhi: The government is set to accept the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council’s recommendation tocover 75% rural and50%urban population under a food security law,butwantstokeep the percentages outside the language of the Act itself. UPA-2 is inclined to set the percentage of …
Eight pregnant women enrolled under ICDS scheme also died last year, reveals RTI reply As many as 775 children and eight pregnant women, enrolled in the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme of the Delhi government under which nutritious food and health facilities are provided to underprivileged women and children, …
Flouting court orders, the Yeddyurappa government is serving packaged food to kids, finds Imran Khan Stomachs get filled but in the long run, malnutrition takes its toll on the kids FOR THE present dispensation in Karnataka, the beleaguered BS Yeddyurappa government, which survives crisis after crisis by the skin of …
Disposal of napkins raised as a concern at consultative meet TIRUCHI: Aiming to maximise sensitisation on menstrual hygiene management and integrate it with total sanitation, the Menstrual Hygiene Management Corporation (MHMC) decentralised its operations following the UNICEF-sponsored state-level annual consultative meeting at the Kalaiarangam Hall here on Sunday. Ten regional …
Government to promote its use to tackle anaemia The Union government will promote the use of iron fortified iodised salt (double fortified salt) to battle anaemia, one of the major causes of malnutrition, particularly among women and children. To begin with, the Ministries dealing with food and nutrition programmes such …
PARADIP: Doubts are being raised by locals over functioning of the 58 Integrated Child Development Scheme centres that were opened in the district earlier this week. The scheme aims at improving the nutritional and health status of children in the age group of zero to six years. In the absence …
Census 2011 counted five million children fewer than Census 2001. The drop in the 0-6 age group from 163.8 million to 158.8 million marks a negative growth of 3.08 per cent, Registrar General of India and Census Commissioner C Chandramouli said while releasing the report. The number of boys has …
Minister Krishna Tirath stresses the need for proper implementation of women and child development schemes The lowest-ever child sex ratio of 914 overshadowed an increase in the overall sex ratio, which is now 940
Decline in malnutrition levels has been dismal since the 1990s. We ascertained decadal trend in childhood nutritional status between 1997 and 2007 in Chandigarh, India and assessed impact of Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) on childhood undernutrition. A total of 803 under-five children, 547 children between 12-23 months age, and …
The meagre allocations for critical social sector programmes point to a focus on growth for growth's sake, whose consequences can be unsettling. TERMINOLOGY tells us a lot about underlying economic ideologies. In India, increasingly, public spending that affects the basic conditions of life of the vast majority of the population …
