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 government plans to centralise the purchase of medicines for its dispensaries and healthcare centres across the country, a health ministry official said. The step is being taken after social activists have alleged that a decentralise procurement system is breeding corruption, the official, who did not want to be named, …
In order to bring down the incidences of malnutrition in the country, the Women and Child Development Ministry has revised nutritional and feeding norms for the supplementary nutrition programme (SNP) in the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme. To bridge the gap between the recommended dietary allowance (RDA) and the …
The ambitious Food Security Bill may look at being more inclusive------------- Every Morsel Counts The alternative version Jean Dreze, Economist 1. Food security guarantee will have to come from the Centre 2. Does not want to freeze number of BPL families at any inflexible level 3. Wants clear criteria to …
BHUBANESWAR: The positive deviance approach (PDA) introduced in early childhood care through integrated child development scheme (ICDS) has started showing results. The National Family Health Survey-III indicates that the level of malnutrition among children under three years has declined from 50 to 40 per cent. The nutrition and health profile …
Despite the Planning Commission and the PMO's objection to packaged food in government creches, women and child development minister Renuka Chowdhury wrote to states in February to provide these to the children In April she approached the Supreme Court for a directive that would make her note to the states …
Malnutrition has assumed alarming proportions in the State but in spite of the grave situation government has not made significant efforts in this direction. Earlier Women and Child Development Department of the State had sanctioned a paltry sum of Rs 2.70 per day for a malnourished child and this amount …
New Delhi: Even as it pledges to guarantee food for the vulnerable in its manifesto, the Congress-led government has on the sly tried one last ploy to push the case of contractors and middlemen in supplying nutrition to eight crore poor children under the Integrated Child Development Scheme. The proposition …
More than 39 lakh children in Madhya Pradesh suffer from malnutrition and ten districts have been identified as malnutrition-affected, Minister of State for Women and Child Development Ranjana Baghel told the Assembly today. In a written reply to a question by Sunil Jaiswal (Cong), Ms Baghel said 39,69,454 children were …
Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Bill: Changes arrest, custody and remand procedure. National Tax Tribunal Bill: Sets up tribunal for taxation issues. Disaster Management Bill: To set up authority to deal with disasters. Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill: Permits plea bargaining. Brings safeguards for witnesses. Maintenance of Parents Bill: Makes it …
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. …
Haryana Women and Child Development Department will implement a new scheme to curb anaemia among children, adolescent girls and pregnant and lactating mothers. The state Government has allocated Rs 10 crore as one time Central assistance for the current financial year. Announcing this on the occasion of Children
THE final five kilometres to Ramnagar (Khokla), as the village is officially called, in Satna district of Madhya Pradesh has to be done on foot down a hill thick with shrubs and bushes. As we enter the village, eager eyes scan us for food or some other kind of livelihood …
A new Child Development and Nutrition Resource Centre, launched here earlier this week, will provide focused and rapidly usable information and other resources for early child care and development and nutrition for toddlers to promote healthy parenting among young couples and train the resource persons working in the rural areas. …
THE efforts of a Geneva-based organisation called Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) to set up an infant and young child nutrition (IYCN) alliance in India have raised the hackles of groups involved in the promotion of breastfeeding and child and infant survival. At a time when the question whether …
THE air almost crackles with heat. The faces of the children are wilting. A gaping hole in the back wall leads to the 'kitchen', a sooty mess, which lacks not only a gas connection but also vessels to cook. This is the status of an anganwadi in New Jothiammal Nagar, …
