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 …
MUMBAI: Nearly 40% of deaths registered among girls (0 to 6 years) in the city between 2010 and 2014 have been due to lack of proper nutrition, revealed a central government report. The corresponding figure for Thane district was 64%. The findings stated that the Maharashtra government spent Rs 4,500 …
A recent Government survey found that one in four kids enrolled with the anganwadi centres across the country are underweight due to poor diet. The study was conducted by the Women and Child Development Ministry under its Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS). There are around 13.3 lakh anganwadi and mini-anganwadi …
The National Food Security Act (NFSA) 2013 combines and expands the scope of some existing food-based welfare schemes. It will be distributing raw rations, meal(s) and/or cash. Approximately 81.35 crore persons or 16.57 crore households are to benefit under the targeted public distribution system (TPDS) under the Act. The annual …
Donning the role of parents for the underprivileged, the cops in Amreli have adopted 110 malnourished children. The initiative 'Ma ni Mamta' (Love of Mother) is a part of the Suraksha Setu programme of the home department aimed at bringing the police closer to the society. Each woman police personnel …
Despite substantial economic growth, India still has one of the highest undernutrition rates in the world. Because of its large population, India is home to almost 40 per cent of the world’s stunted children. To date extensive public policy initiatives such as the Integrated Child Development Services and the Public …
Can popular mobilisation activate accountability for hunger? In 2012, a group of researchers set out to explore this question through field research in four countries: Bangladesh, India, Kenya and Mozambique. The research was framed in ideas about a contemporary ‘moral economy’ – which when breached, would lead people to mobilise …
The Right to Food Campaign, a State-level forum of civil society groups undertaking a campaign for effective implementation of food security programmes, alleged that many beneficiaries in the State under the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) had been deprived of Government benefits. Attributing it to various causes, including non-functioning of …
Women And Children In State Are Malnourished To A Shameful Extent Malnutrition among women and children remains abysmally high in Uttar Pradesh despite several thousand crores spent annually on supplementary nutrition programmes. According to data kept by the Union ministry of women and child development, UP is among the worst …
Bihar Has Dubious Distinction, Maximum Percentage Of Underweight Kids: ICDS About 2.3 crore children in India, up to 6 years of age, are suffering from malnourishment and are under-weight, according to a status report on the anganwadi (day care center) programme, officially known as ICDS. This staggering number amounts to …
ICDS programme has not been implemented across the State At a time when several dozens deaths are reported from the closed and sick tea gardens of north Bengal, a report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has criticised the State Government for the poor implementation of Integrated …
More than 1.42 lakh children under the age of five year are being targeted in a diarrhoea prevention campaign that is going to be taken up by the Public Health Department and the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), a Central Government-sponsored social welfare scheme. The ‘Intensified Diarrhoea Control’ Programme would …
41 including 31 children dead Agartala: The deaths in a malaria outbreak in Tripura have risen to 41, including 31 children, a minister said here Sunday. Over 22,000 people have fallen ill in the tribal-dominated mountainous areas of Dhalai, Gomti, Khowai, North Tripura and South Tripura districts. “At least 41 …
In January 2012, PM Manmohan Singh declared half of India’s children were malnourished and that was a national shame. Yet since then, not a single comprehensive national survey was conducted to determine the acuteness of the problem or measure progress, if any, of steps initiated to address malnutrition. Worse, the …
This paper outlines India’s achievements in the area of food and nutrition security, and explores what lessons India has to offer to other South countries, and the institutions through which such knowledge sharing may be accomplished.
Despite the tall claims of the Narendra Modi-led Gujarat government on human development in the state, there are more than 1.94 lakh highly-malnourished children in 16 districts of Gujarat. This was submitted by the government, in reply during question hour of the state assembly on Wednesday. Figures for the remaining …
Leaving direct taxes untouched, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram today slashed excise duty on cars, SUVs and two-wheelers, and capital goods and consumer durables to boost manufacturing and growth. Presenting the Interim Budget for 2014-15, he also provided service tax exemption for storage and warehousing of rice like it was done …
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 …
