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 …
In order to make the works under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme gender-friendly, the Union Rural Development Ministry is planning to advise the States to make available women-friendly tools for the workers of the fair sex. The idea is to ensure women workers
KOLKATA, 27 Sept: The state government today declared Jalpaiguri and Bankura as e-district after the chief minister inaugurated the project through which citizens can get various services through online submission of forms and delivery of certificates. The chief minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, inaugurated the citizen service kiosks through video-conferencing. At …
VISHAL, the son of a farm labourer in the west Indian state of Maharashtra, is almost four. He should weigh around 16kg (35lb). But scooping him up from the floor costs his nursery teacher, a frail woman in a faded sari, little effort. She slips Vishal
VISHAL, the son of a farm labourer in the west Indian state of Maharashtra, is almost four. He should weigh around 16kg (35lb). But scooping him up from the floor costs his nursery teacher, a frail woman in a faded sari, little effort. She slips Vishal
BHUBANESWAR: Even after three decades of its launch, the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) in Orissa is yet to achieve half of its nutritional objective. As per the latest report, the nutritional status of only 47.33 per cent children under ICDS are detected as normal as on December 31, 2009. …
India has 8.1 million children out of school, 41.6 per cent of its population lives below the poverty line, the maternal mortality rate is 450 per 1,00,000 live births and merely 16 per cent of its labour force has received formal education till the secondary level. This despite years of …
BHUBANESWAR: Finally, the Government has woken up to the severity of malnutrition gripping the State. A contingency plan has been drawn up for the 15 high-burden districts having high incidence of malnutrition. This policy imperative was disclosed by the Commissioner-cum-Secretary, Women and Child Development Department, Arti Ahuja, at Orissa MDG …
- Joint body of social activists & NGOs decides to keep tab on anganwadi centres Ranchi, May 5: There are large-scale irregularities in implementation of Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) in Jharkhand, Right to Food Campaign
The ICDS scheme is weighed down by several flaws, the worst of them being the attempt to target it for children of the poorest among the poor. At an anganwadi centre at Samar Gopalpur Kalan village in Haryana
New Delhi: An ambitious scheme envisaged to improve the nutritional status of adolescent girls aged between 11-18 years is likely to come up in the Union Cabinet on Thursday. Budgeted at Rs 4,500 crore, the Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls will empower adolescent girls by improving their …
Widespread use of child labour in India is likely to take centrestage when the Planning Commission discusses the mid-term appraisal of skill development for the 11th Plan period (2007-12). The Commission, in a draft document to be included in the mid-term appraisal, has emphasised on the need to develop institutional …
Present in every village, anganwadi workers have a standing that is turning them into a reforming force In the vast rural hinterland of India, a new social force has silently emerged, unlike anything ever seen before. Today, it numbers 30 lakh educated and mostly young women. In a few years, …
With the Budget 2010-11 preparations in full swing, there is a growing realisation within the Manmohan Singh government that its flagship programmes, including the much-touted Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) and Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) are performing much below par with the ministries concerned in some cases not …
In order to provide fresh cooked food under Midday Meal Scheme run by Rural Development Department the Women and Child Development Department will be launching Sanjha Chulha Yojana on November 1, said Minister of State for Women and Child Development Ranjana Baghel here today. Ms Baghel informed that freshly cooked …
There has been an animated debate in the past three years over the supply of food in the ICDS (Integrated Child Development Services) programme. Supplementary nutrition has been provided to all children under the age of six since the inception of the programme more than three decades ago. This was …
The ICDS programme launched in the 1970s was based on the results of extensive surveys which identified rampant child under-nutrition in India. Using the weight-for-age and height-for-age criteria, only 10 per cent children under five could be classified normal. And 15-20 per cent were underweight even when they were short. …
