Nutrition, education, safety get priority in budget for Women, Child Development Ministry
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Nutrition, education, safety get priority in budget for Women, Child Development Ministry

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: Focusing on nutritional support for children, pregnant and lactating women, the Women and Child Development Ministry saw an allotment of Rs. Presenting her eighth consecutive budget, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0 programmes provide nutritional support to over eight crore children, one crore pregnant and lactating women, and 20 lakh adolescent girls in aspirational districts and the northeast region. 21.960 crore to combat malnutrition and strengthen early childhood care. The initiative, including a Scheme for Adolescent Girls, has been restructured under three primary verticals: nutrition support for children and adolescent girls, early childhood care and education, and Anganwadi infrastructure.

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Laddoos, khichdi compromised for pregnant women, lactating mothers, kids
5 days, 20 hours ago

Laddoos, khichdi compromised for pregnant women, lactating mothers, kids

Hindustan Times  

MUMBAI: An estimated 62 lakh pregnant women and lactating mothers, and underweight children, in the state are being denied the benefit of central government schemes through which they can avail of nutritious food, such as 200 grams of khichdi and peanut laddoos weighing 60 grams each day. Laddoos, khichdi compromised for pregnant women, lactating mothers, kids This was brought to …

Haryana allocates Rs 5,000 crore for Lado Lakshmi Yojana, Rs 2,100/month aid
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1 week, 2 days ago

Haryana allocates Rs 5,000 crore for Lado Lakshmi Yojana, Rs 2,100/month aid

India Today  

The Haryana government has announced the Lado Lakshmi Yojana, allocating Rs 5,000 crore in the 2025-26 state budget. The introduction of the Lado Lakshmi Yojana signifies Haryana's progressive approach to women's empowerment. BUDGETARY ALLOCATION AND OBJECTIVES Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, presenting the Rs 2.05 lakh crore budget for the financial year 2025-26, emphasised that the Lado Lakshmi Yojana is …

FM Payyavula Keshav Presents AP Budget 2025-26
3 weeks, 6 days ago

FM Payyavula Keshav Presents AP Budget 2025-26

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: Andhra Pradesh government on Friday presented a Budget for over Rs 3.22 lakh crore for 2025-26 fiscal with an estimated revenue expenditure of Rs 2.51 lakh crore and capital expenditure of over Rs 40,000 crore. Finance Minister Payyavula Keshav while presenting the Budget in the state Assembly said the estimated revenue deficit is around Rs 33,185 crore and the …

Virudhunagar makes big strides in health sector among 112 aspirational districts
1 month ago

Virudhunagar makes big strides in health sector among 112 aspirational districts

The Hindu  

A holistic approach towards women and child healthcare across the district involving various departments have resulted in Virudhunagar district making a remarkable progress in health and nutrition sector among the 112 ‘aspirational districts’ in the country. NITI Aayog, which has been anchoring the programme, has given an award of ₹3 crore for Virudhunagar district for showing significant improvement in the …

Hyderabad, Medchal Malkajgiri rank lowest in supplementary nutrition for mothers and children
1 month, 1 week ago

Hyderabad, Medchal Malkajgiri rank lowest in supplementary nutrition for mothers and children

The Hindu  

Hyderabad and Medchal Malkajgiri districts recorded the lowest rates of supplementary nutrition distribution to mothers and children among all 33 districts of Telangana in 2023-24, according to the Telangana State Statistical Abstract report released by the Telangana Development Planning Society. The supplementary nutrition programme is one of the six key services offered under the Integrated Child Development Services scheme. The …

Odisha government to merge Mamata scheme with PMMVY, raise incentive for birth of girl child to Rs 12K
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Odisha government to merge Mamata scheme with PMMVY, raise incentive for birth of girl child to Rs 12K

New Indian Express  

BHUBANESWAR: The state government on Tuesday announced to integrate of its Mamata scheme with Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana and provide an enhanced cash incentive of Rs 2,000 to women on delivery of a girl child. As per the decision taken by Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi, women with a newborn son will receive Rs 10,000, while those with a …

₹11 crore to develop anganwadis as community resource centres for women and children
1 month, 2 weeks ago

₹11 crore to develop anganwadis as community resource centres for women and children

The Hindu  

The State budget has earmarked ₹11 crore for the development of anganwadis as community resource centres for women and children. An amount of ₹138 crore has been earmarked as the State share for the Integrated Child Development Scheme, a decline from ₹194.32 crore last year. The allocation for ‘Our Responsibility to Children’ scheme being implemented for care and development of …

Measures to tackle malnutrition among children in Tiruchi
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Measures to tackle malnutrition among children in Tiruchi

The Hindu  

The Integrated Child Development Scheme has initiated measures to combat malnutrition among children in Tiruchi. They have embarked on providing nutritional kits, regular health check-ups, immunization, referral services for critical cases, and promoting breastfeeding to support the overall health and well-being of children between zero months and six years old and pregnant and lactating mothers. Malnourished lactating mothers and infants …

Healthcare gets an infrastructure and insurance boost
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Healthcare gets an infrastructure and insurance boost

The Hindu  

The Union Budget of 2024-25 provides support to healthcare delivery through increased investment in infrastructure and expansion of the health workforce. This will help in meeting health workforce shortages that are limiting access to needed health services, even as the demand for health services will rise due to a growing and ageing population. This is needed, since the government earlier …

Union Budget 2025: Centre to focus on increasing women’s financial empowerment
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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Union Budget 2025: Centre to focus on increasing women’s financial empowerment

The Hindu  

The Union Budget for 2025-26 presented on Saturday focusses on enhancing financial independence of women and providing them an enabling atmosphere to work. Union Budget 2025 LIVE updates In order to facilitate financial independence for women, the budget also announced a new scheme under which five lakh women would be provided entrepreneurship loans of up to two crore for the …

Bihar appears to have got bonanza, why Andhra Pradesh so cruelly ignored: Congress on Budget
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Bihar appears to have got bonanza, why Andhra Pradesh so cruelly ignored: Congress on Budget

The Hindu  

Taking a swipe at the Modi government over its budget announcements, the Congress on Saturday said Bihar appears to have got a bonanza and asked why the other pillar of the NDA, Andhra Pradesh, has been so "cruelly ignored". — Jairam Ramesh February 1, 2025 The Congress leader also hit out at the government over announcements related to nutritional support …

How India can break the cycle of hunger: Insights from Sudarshan Suchi, CEO of Bal Raksha Bharat
6 months, 3 weeks ago

How India can break the cycle of hunger: Insights from Sudarshan Suchi, CEO of Bal Raksha Bharat

Hindustan Times  

Malnutrition among women and children has been a persistent public health issue at the global, national and local levels and the recent UNICEF-WHO-World Bank Group Joint Malnutrition Estimates show that globally, 149.2 million children under five years were stunted in 2020, and 45.4 million suffered from wasting. Breaking the cycle of hunger: How India’s bold new plan could end malnutrition …

Hyderabad: Students' Body Slams Nutrition Deficit Budget
8 months ago

Hyderabad: Students' Body Slams Nutrition Deficit Budget

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Students' Federation of India has condemned the 2024-25 Union Budget alleging the Centre failed to address critical issues affecting India's children. The SFI highlighted a 1.5 per cent cut in the Anganwadi programme budget, reducing it from Rs 21,523 crore in 2023 to Rs 21,000 crore in 2024-25. While the Budget increased funding for the PM-Poshan scheme, including …

Union Budget 2024 to focus on 5 key social sections
1 year, 2 months ago

Union Budget 2024 to focus on 5 key social sections

Hindustan Times  

Budget 2024: Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s pre-election budget is set to focus on welfare schemes for five key sections of society—women, poor, youth, farmers and tribals—as the Bharatiya Janata Party -led National Democratic Alliance aims a third term in office on the back of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s promise of inclusive growth. Accordingly, allocations for existing schemes for these …

State's annual spend for nutrition at Rs 2,300 crore: CM Jagan
1 year, 7 months ago

State's annual spend for nutrition at Rs 2,300 crore: CM Jagan

Deccan Chronicle  

VIJAYAWADA: Chief Minister Y.S. At the review meeting he held on women and child welfare here, the Chief Minister virtually launched the YSR Sampoorna Poshana-Take Home Ration programme. Two kg of Ragi powder, 1 kg of rice flakes, 3 kg rice, 250 grams each of jaggery, chikki and dry dates, 1 kg of red gram, half a litre of edible …

More than just mothers: Why women’s and girls’ nutrition deserves our collective attention
1 year, 7 months ago

More than just mothers: Why women’s and girls’ nutrition deserves our collective attention

Hindustan Times  

Nutrition is crucial for leading a healthy and productive life. Nutrition for girls and women is a gender equity issue much beyond maternal and newborn outcomes; it involves prioritising overall quality of life for their own well-being as well as their families and communities and for achieving their full potential as a citizen of the society and country. A comprehensive …

Odisha cabinet approves ₹3,354-crore MSPY nutrition scheme after HC bashing
1 year, 9 months ago

Odisha cabinet approves ₹3,354-crore MSPY nutrition scheme after HC bashing

Hindustan Times  

The Odisha cabinet on Wednesday approved expenditure of Rs. 3,354.4 crore under the Mukhyamantri Sampoorna Pushti Yojana to significantly alter the nutrition goals of adolescent girls, pregnant women & lactating mothers, severely acute malnourished and severely underweight children of under 6 years of age across the state over a period of five years. 250 crore, it was raised by nearly …

Focus on education and health care sectors in Wayanad district panchayat Budget
2 years ago

Focus on education and health care sectors in Wayanad district panchayat Budget

The Hindu  

The Budget estimates of the Wayanad district panchayat for the 2023-24 fiscal have given priority to agriculture, health care and education sectors in the district. Addressing media persons here after the Budget presentation, District panchayat president Samshad Marakkar said that various comprehensive projects had been included in the Budget for the overall development of agriculture, health care and education sectors …

Puducherry Budget | Subsidy for gas cylinders, support for unemployed youth, funds for girl children are among new schemes announced
2 years ago

Puducherry Budget | Subsidy for gas cylinders, support for unemployed youth, funds for girl children are among new schemes announced

The Hindu  

A subsidy of ₹300 per month for 12 LPG cylinders in a year, a fixed deposit scheme of ₹50,000 for a newborn girl, a 1% subsidy on the purchase of land and machinery for unemployed youth to start industrial units and setting up of a corpus fund of ₹2 crore for traders welfare: all of these schemes form part of …

The Importance of Nutrition in Building the Human Capital
2 years ago

The Importance of Nutrition in Building the Human Capital

News 18  

Undernutrition is a major public health problem leading to adverse health consequences and also affecting the economy. Studies suggest long term benefits on adult human capital and health by improving the nutrition of pregnant women and young children. The need for investing more and more in the human capital including good education, nutrition and healthcare to India’s children is more …

The social sector has been short-changed once again
2 years, 1 month ago

The social sector has been short-changed once again

The Hindu  

The 2023 Budget did not have any big welfare announcements, which are usually expected from a government’s last full Budget before it faces national elections, and especially when there is a general economic slowdown that has particularly affected the poor. Along with grant-in-aid for capital assets, the budget estimate for effective capex is now ₹13.7 lakh crore, which is 4.5% …

Saksham Anganwadi: An important step towards a healthier future for India
2 years, 6 months ago

Saksham Anganwadi: An important step towards a healthier future for India

Hindustan Times  

Early years of childhood provide a unique opportunity to give children the best start to life, especially the first 1,000 days, in which the foundation for optimum health, growth and brain development across the lifespan can be established. India had adopted the Integrated Child Development Services Scheme in 1975, a flagship early childhood care and development programme, to address malnutrition …

Fertility falls, obesity goes up in India , says National Family Health Survey
2 years, 10 months ago

Fertility falls, obesity goes up in India , says National Family Health Survey

The Hindu  

The Total Fertility Rate, an average number of children per woman, has further declined from 2.2 to 2.0 at the national level between National Family Health Survey 4 and 5. There are only five States in India which are above replacement level of fertility of 2.1 — Bihar, Meghalaya, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand Manipur — as per the national report of …

Union Budget 2022: Child rights NGOs seek increased allocation for elimination of child labour
3 years, 1 month ago

Union Budget 2022: Child rights NGOs seek increased allocation for elimination of child labour

Firstpost  

Other suggestions include enhanced budgetary allocation for rehabilitation of bonded labour, which is a part of the overall budget head of the National Child Labour Project to 2.46 per cent. Other suggestions include enhanced budgetary allocation for rehabilitation of bonded labour, which is a part of the overall budget head of the National Child Labour Project. Elaborating on the multiple …

Failing on food: The Hindu Editorial on child malnutrition and the value of good school meals
3 years, 5 months ago

Failing on food: The Hindu Editorial on child malnutrition and the value of good school meals

The Hindu  

The approval of the PM POSHAN scheme by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs until 2025-26 comes at a critical time when real income declines and the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic have affected the ability of families to ensure good nutrition. The centrally supported hot meal programme in Government and Government-aided schools, covering 11.8 crore children, will be …

High levels of maternal and child under nutrition continue to plague India: UNICEF official
3 years, 5 months ago

High levels of maternal and child under nutrition continue to plague India: UNICEF official

The Hindu  

Arjan De Wagt, Head, Nutrition, UNICEF India speaks to The Hindu’s Bindu Shajan Perappadan on how high levels of maternal and child under nutrition continue to plague the country, and the impact COVID-19 has had on the gains India has made in economic and human development in recent decades. Some data has been gathered from telephone surveys, community assessments and …

'Children come hungry to school, breakfast could make a difference' | The Hindu In Focus Podcast
3 years, 7 months ago

'Children come hungry to school, breakfast could make a difference' | The Hindu In Focus Podcast

The Hindu  

Earlier this month, the Union Education Ministry told a parliamentary panel that the plan to serve breakfast to students in government schools had to be shelved as the Finance Ministry had refused to sanction the Rs. The refusal comes at a time when the country is facing a malnutrition crisis -- data from the latest National Family Health Survey shows …

Due to pandemic, underprivileged children in Delhi unable to get nutrition and health services
3 years, 9 months ago

Due to pandemic, underprivileged children in Delhi unable to get nutrition and health services

India Today  

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic and consecutive lockdowns, underprivileged children in Delhi are unable to access much-needed nutrition and health services. We must remember that schools are not just for learning, but also places where children socialise, develop emotionally and, for some, find a refuge from troubled family life,” said Jatin Mondar, deputy director of programme management at the non-governmental …

India must strengthen ICDS, midday meals to tackle paradox of falling nutrition outcomes amid rising GDP
3 years, 11 months ago

India must strengthen ICDS, midday meals to tackle paradox of falling nutrition outcomes amid rising GDP

Firstpost  

The COVID-19 pandemic has shifted policy focus to health in an unprecedented manner. The data on stunting, wasting and underweight are usually collected from Demographic and Health Surveys, a collection of nearly 400 surveys across 90 countries. The percentage of GDP spent by India on health has been low compared to countries like China, and the average in Latin America …

Federalism and India’s human capital
4 years, 1 month ago

Federalism and India’s human capital

The Hindu  

Investing in human capital through interventions in nutrition, health, and education is critical for sustainable growth. Editorial | Discouraging numbers: On National Family Health Survey 2019-20 International experience suggests that one reason why these interventions are not leading to better outcomes may be India’s record with decentralisation. The Fourteenth Finance Commission increased the States’ share in tax devolution from 32% …

Why This Budget Reflects a New India That Refuses to Compromise on Aspirations, Come What May
4 years, 1 month ago

Why This Budget Reflects a New India That Refuses to Compromise on Aspirations, Come What May

News 18  

A century after Spanish Flu, the world was struck again by a devastating pandemic. Push for Making Railways Future-Ready For the rail sector, one the most critical transport infrastructure, this year’s allocation witnessed highest-ever plan for capital expenditure, to the tune of a whopping Rs 2,15,058 crore, of which Rs 1,07,100 crore is being allocated from the Union Budget while …

Why Child Rights Experts Feel Budget 2021 Missed Out on Children
4 years, 1 month ago

Why Child Rights Experts Feel Budget 2021 Missed Out on Children

News 18  

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1 presented the Union Budget 2021 in Lok Sabha. And while the government announced a slew of tax reforms and an increase in healthcare spending, child health and protection experts are calling this year’s budget the “worst for children in the last ten years”. Children of India receive only 2.46 percent of the total …

Union Budget 2021: Childs rights budget lowest its ever been in 10 years leaving NGOs disappointed
4 years, 1 month ago

Union Budget 2021: Childs rights budget lowest its ever been in 10 years leaving NGOs disappointed

Firstpost  

Child rights bodies on Monday expressed disappointment over the “lowest” budgetary allocation for children in a decade and said they require financial resources the most now in the aftermath of COVID-19 pandemic. Commenting on the budget for children Priti Mahara, Director of Policy Research and Advocacy at CRY said, “This year’s share of budgetary allocations for children as proportion of …

Child nutrition crisis may derail India’s aspirations
4 years, 3 months ago

Child nutrition crisis may derail India’s aspirations

Deccan Chronicle  

It can be tempting to blame every crisis on the Covid-19 pandemic. Children in the 6-50 months group who are anaemic has risen from 65.7 per cent in 2015-2016 to 72.8 per cent in 2019-2020 Or take Gujarat, a relatively affluent state. “We don’t have granular data for all states and Union territories as yet but the first lot of …

Need to step up efforts to meet nutrition targets, says NITI Aayog report
4 years, 4 months ago

Need to step up efforts to meet nutrition targets, says NITI Aayog report

The Hindu  

The National Nutrition Mission or the Poshan Abhiyaan — the world’s largest nutrition programme for children and mothers — must be stepped up in order to meet the targets set by the Centre to reduce stunting, wasting, and anaemia by 2022, warns a report by NITI Aayog with only a little over a year left to reach its goals. We …

Rajasthan govt to give Rs 6,000 to women becoming mothers for second time
4 years, 4 months ago

Rajasthan govt to give Rs 6,000 to women becoming mothers for second time

India TV News  

Rs 6,000 will be given to women becoming mothers for the second time, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said on Thursday. On the birth anniversary of former prime minister Indira Gandhi, Gehlot launched Indira Gandhi Matritva Poshan Yojana through a video conference. "If a pregnant woman gets adequate nutrition, then the baby will also be born healthy," Gehlot said, adding …

Delhi Govt Launches Helpline to Promote Nutrition, Maternity Benefits for Women and Children
4 years, 6 months ago

Delhi Govt Launches Helpline to Promote Nutrition, Maternity Benefits for Women and Children

News 18  

The Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights on Tuesday launched a health and nutrition helpline to ensure children under six years of age get nutritional supplements and regular immunisation doses. Delhi Women and Child Development Minister Rajendra Pal Gautam, who launched the helpline, said he is committed to reducing malnutrition and stunting in the national capital by half by …

Nutrition and the Budget’s fine print
5 years, 1 month ago

Nutrition and the Budget’s fine print

The Hindu  

A few months ago, the Global Hunger Index, reported that India suffers from “serious” hunger, ranked 102 out of 117 countries, and that just a tenth of children between six to 23 months are fed a minimum acceptable diet. The urgency around nutrition was reflected in the Union Finance Minister’s Budget speech, as she referred to the “unprecedented” scale of …

Task force to be set up for recommending marriageable age for women: Nirmala Sitharaman
5 years, 1 month ago

Task force to be set up for recommending marriageable age for women: Nirmala Sitharaman

India TV News  

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said a task force will be set up to recommend marriageable age for women. Presenting the Budget for 2020-21, Sitharaman said Rs 9,500 crore has been provided for senior citizens and Divyangs, while Rs 35,600 crore has been allocated for nutrition related programme in FY21. The finance minister further said that Rs 85,000 crore …

Budget 2020: Read details of Education, Health related announcements
5 years, 1 month ago

Budget 2020: Read details of Education, Health related announcements

Op India  

Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget 2020-2021 on Saturday. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman also announced several measures to boost the social sectors of Health, Educational and Skill sectors in the country. Health in Budget 2020 Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her budget speech announced that the government has provided an additional Rs 69,000 crore for the health …

Need a different approach to address child malnutrition
5 years, 2 months ago

Need a different approach to address child malnutrition

The Hindu  

Globally over 200 million children below five years of age are chronically malnourished causing persistent problem in middle- and low-income countries. District level trends Now, a team from Harvard and Cambridge University has assessed district-level trends in the prevalence of malnutrition and how wealth disparity plays a role in five important malnutrition indicators such as stunting, underweight, wasting, low birth …

Children’s Day 2019: India can break the vicious cycle of malnutrition
5 years, 4 months ago

Children’s Day 2019: India can break the vicious cycle of malnutrition

Firstpost  

The face of malnutrition today is complex. Consider this: half of all the world’s children under the age of five suffer from “hidden hunger”. The pulls of globalization, urbanization, fast-food commercialization, the changing but still narrow role of women in society, all contribute to “the triple threat of malnutrition”: undernutrition, hidden hunger, and overweight among children under the age of …

Over 80% adolescents in India suffer from hidden hunger: UNICEF
5 years, 4 months ago

Over 80% adolescents in India suffer from hidden hunger: UNICEF

India Today  

Over 80 per cent adolescents in India suffer from "hidden hunger", a form of undernutrition, and less than 10 per cent of boys and girls consume fruits and eggs daily, according to a new UNICEF report released on Thursday. "From UNICEF perspective, we urge three key interventions in adolescents diets, behaviours and services that can break this cycle of poor …

Feeding India’s future: Why malnutrition is bad for the economy
5 years, 6 months ago

Feeding India’s future: Why malnutrition is bad for the economy

Al Jazeera  

India will likely have the world’s largest workforce by 2030, but many of its children still go hungry. ‘Unacceptably high’ Though decades of economic expansion have made many Indians wealthier, levels of malnutrition remain “unacceptably high” according to the 2018 Global Nutrition Report, an annual assessment of food security around the world commissioned by governments, donor organisations, civil society, multilateral …

Union Budget 2019-20: Women-led initiatives and child protection services get a boost
5 years, 8 months ago

Union Budget 2019-20: Women-led initiatives and child protection services get a boost

The Hindu  

The government on Friday announced setting up of a committee to assess budgetary allocation through a gender lens. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman spoke of the need for policies to encourage women-led initiatives instead of women-centric ones, a theme in the BJP’s manifesto too. The Minister said that every verified member of a Self Help Group possessing a Jan Dhan …

Budget 2019: Social sector seeks fiscal incentives for boosting health, education
5 years, 9 months ago

Budget 2019: Social sector seeks fiscal incentives for boosting health, education

India Today  

The social sector has sought several proactive steps from the Finance Minister including promoting social entrepreneurship amongst the young population, fiscal incentives for recycling of waste water and rainwater harvesting and increased budgetary allocation towards nutrition of infants, among its suggestions to the Finance Ministry to be considered for the upcoming Budget. The present government is committed for improving the …

Union Budget 2019: Social sector experts urge Nirmala Sitharaman to spend more on education, hygiene, woman safety
5 years, 9 months ago

Union Budget 2019: Social sector experts urge Nirmala Sitharaman to spend more on education, hygiene, woman safety

Firstpost  

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman should focus on education, hygiene, woman safety, nutrition of infants in the forthcoming budget, suggested social sector experts in their pre-budget meeting New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman should focus on education, hygiene, woman safety, nutrition of infants in the forthcoming budget, suggested social sector experts in their pre-budget meeting. They also asked the minister to …

For a malnutrition-free India
5 years, 10 months ago

For a malnutrition-free India

The Hindu  

In this election season, it is important to keep promises made not just to voters, but also those made to improve the lives of children, the future of the nation. According to the National Family Health Survey -4, India has unacceptably high levels of stunting, despite marginal improvement over the years. The plan is to reduce stunting prevalence in children …

Tackling child malnutrition
6 years ago

Tackling child malnutrition

The Hindu  

Despite the National Family Health Survey-4 showing an encouraging improvement in child nutrition, India continues to fare poorly in world rankings on child nutrition. The focus must be on the pregnant, breastfeeding mother and the child, especially in the first two years of the child’s life, which is the crucial phase for physical, mental and cognitive development. They should also …

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