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 proposes to move at least 250 amendments to the National Food Security Bill when it is tabled in Parliament during the current Budget session. The Bill, which seeks to give subsidised foodgrains to identified beneficiaries, will take into consideration the recommendations made by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on …
New Delhi: A decade after a CAG audit revealed how a scheme to help infants and young children was failing, a fresh report tabled in Parliament on Tuesday says the number of malnourished children exceeds the 40% mark in 10 states as on March, 2011. The audit of the flagship …
The Integrated Child Development Scheme came in for praise from Finance Minister P Chidamabaram during his budget speech for having spent its entire budget allocation — it had got a 50 per cent hike last year — but the hike it got this year was modest. The Rs 17,700 crore …
Budget 2013-2014: speech of P. Chidambaram, Minister of Finance. Read Finance Minister P Chidambaram's budget speech February 28, 2013 Madam Speaker, I rise to present the Budget for the year 2013-14. 2. I recall my last tenure as Finance Minister and acknowledge with gratitude the splendid support that I received …
Jharkhand has ranked third among all states in implementation of the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) and delivery of services and monitoring. Mridula Sinha, principal secretary, state social welfare department, said the most important part of the whole process was monitoring the 40,000 anganwadi centres. Progress was reviewed during frequent …
Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh has urged Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram to sanction a special economic package of Rs 7,565 crore to tide over the difficult financial situation created in the state due to the reportedly faulty recommendation of the 13th Finance Commission. Virbhadra Singh met the Union minister in …
Survey has identified 282 malnourished childrenin 26 slums of the district World Vision, a development and advocacy organisation, has implemented a project to tackle child malnutrition in Coimbatore since January. It has been taken up in collaboration with Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), a Central Government-sponsored social welfare scheme. The …
New Delhi: The UPA is set to redraft the National Food Security Bill with greater benefits than what the government had earlier offered or the parliamentary standing committee had recently recommended. The move comes after the intervention of the Congress high command to ensure that the bill does not fall …
An Act to provide for food and nutritional security by ensuring access to adequate quantity of food and other requirements of good nutrition for people of the State, at affordable prices, at all times to live a life with dignity and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
JAIPUR: One tablet a week could decrease the prevalence of anaemia among adolescents in the state. These tablets would soon be distributed to school children from Class 6 to 12 in government schools. Medical health and family welfare department is likely to introduce the weekly iron and folic acid supplementation …
The Parliamentary Standing Committee examining the National Food Security Bill is considering to recommend to the government to do away with the categorisation of “general” and “priority” (similar to the below poverty line) households in the legislation and provide uniform food guarantee to 75 per cent of the rural population …
In Bihar’s Dalit hamlets, the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) has not reached over half of the eligible children in the stipulated age group of zero to six, a survey conducted by NGOs Bihar Lok Adhikar Manch (BLAM) and Child Rights and You (CRY) has revealed. The survey was conducted …
A bill to provide for food and nutritional security by ensuring access to adequate quantity of food and other requirements of good nutrition for people of the State, at affordable prices, at all times to live a life with dignity and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. This Act …
Protesting against the Centre’s proposal to extend the cash transfer scheme to the Public Distribution System, the Right to Food Campaign on Saturday demanded that the government bring in a comprehensive national food security Act that provides for universal PDS. Ensuring nutrition through various measures should be the focus of …
This Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) on Government of Odisha relates to matters arising from Performance Audit of selected programmes and activities and Compliance Audit of Government departments and Autonomous Bodies. The primary purpose of the Report is to bring to the notice of the …
This study is an attempt to study the issue of food security in 25 villages in three blocks in Nainital district, Uttarakhand. Further attempts have been made to study of penetration of various government schemes like PDS, ICDS, MDM, MNERGS, Annapoorna, and Antodaya in these villages. This study reveals the …
Two commissioners of the Supreme Court in the right to food case have recommended setting up an independent Special Investigation Team, similar to the one for the 2G spectrum scam, to investigate corruption and quality in food procurement for the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS). Following a comprehensive investigation of …
Lucknow: With no government order on Rs 9,000 crore contract for supply of food supplements under the Centrally sponsored scheme, over 2.8 crore children and pregnant women wait for their share of nutrition. Although the UP government had awarded the contract for the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) to Ponty …
New Delhi: Private companies have hijacked the government’s flagship scheme to provide food to poor children and their mothers, the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS), with contractors in Maharashtra alone controlling Rs 1,000 crore worth of supplies in contravention of Supreme Court orders, a report of the SC commissioners office …
BHUBANESWAR: An independent study on nutrition status in Odisha’s Rayagada district has revealed that a whopping 75 per cent children face stunting, thanks to acute malnutrition. The study findings showed that the share of severely wasted children indicates a serious humanitarian crisis, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) classifications, …
