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A report submitted in the Supreme Court on Friday indicted the Maharashtra government and Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan over a &ldquo;close nexus between politicians, contractors and bureaucrats,&rdquo; facilitating extensive wrongdoings in supply of supplementary nutrition to children through...'
$disp = '<div style="text-align: justify">-The Indian Express</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">A report submitted in the Supreme Court on Friday indicted the Maharashtra government and Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan over a &ldquo;close nexus between politicians, contractors and bureaucrats,&rdquo; facilitating extensive wrongdoings in supply of supplementary nutrition to children through the Central government-sponsored Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS).</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">The report, prepared by the principal adviser to SC-appointed Commissioner Biraj Patnaik, also highlighted that in Uttar Pradesh, supply of supplementary nutrition has been contracted out with private companies like &lsquo;Great Value Foods&rsquo;, which is promoted by prominent liquor baron Ponty Chadha. This, the report averred, was in &ldquo;in complete violation of the Supreme Court order&rdquo;. It wondered why the company continues to be engaged even though the NHRC came out with an adverse report against it on the issue.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">A similar situation was found in states like Karnataka and Meghalaya. In Meghalaya, it was found that a company operating out of Noida in UP, namely Continental Milkose (India) Ltd, &ldquo;provides supplementary nutrition for ICDS&rdquo; in the state.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">The report, submitted before a Bench led by Justice T S Thakur in connection with a PIL by &lsquo;People&rsquo;s Union for Civil Liberties&rsquo;, has lamented that many states were breaching the SC orders to keep private contractors at bay since they might have commercial interests in supply of nutrition to children.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">The court had favoured women&rsquo;s self-help groups, mahila mandals and gram panchayats for this task to ensure better quality of food and overall development of villages.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">The report&rsquo;s findings come at a time when the National Family Health Survey-3 has found that nearly 5,000 children die in India everyday due to preventable causes like malnutrition.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">Adducing its &ldquo;preliminary&rdquo; findings on the state of affairs at Maharashtra, the report read that the facts, in pursuant to investigations, established linkages between private contractors and the women&rsquo;s self-help groups supplying nutritional products in anganwadis.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">The report also blamed the Maharashtra government for introducing a new system in 2009 which in fact &ldquo;allowed back door entry of big private contractors with only commercial interests&rdquo;. It says that independent laboratory tests also showed that the Take Home Rations (THR) being supplied to children in the state do not meet nutritional norms.</div><div style="text-align: justify"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify">The report is likely to be taken up by the court on November 23.</div>'
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Report in SC slams states for ‘politician-contractor nexus’-Utkarsh Anand

-The Indian Express A report submitted in the Supreme Court on Friday indicted the Maharashtra government and Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan over a “close nexus between politicians, contractors and bureaucrats,” facilitating extensive wrongdoings in supply of supplementary nutrition to children through the Central government-sponsored Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS). The report, prepared by the principal adviser to SC-appointed Commissioner Biraj Patnaik, also highlighted that in Uttar Pradesh, supply of supplementary nutrition has been contracted out with private companies like ‘Great Value Foods’, which is promoted by prominent liquor baron Ponty Chadha. This, the report averred, was in “in complete violation of the Supreme Court order”. It wondered why the company continues to be engaged even though the NHRC came out with an adverse report against it on the issue. A similar situation was found in states like Karnataka and Meghalaya. In Meghalaya, it was found that a company operating out of Noida in UP, namely Continental Milkose (India) Ltd, “provides supplementary nutrition for ICDS” in the state. The report, submitted before a Bench led by Justice T S Thakur in connection with a PIL by ‘People’s Union for Civil Liberties’, has lamented that many states were breaching the SC orders to keep private contractors at bay since they might have commercial interests in supply of nutrition to children. The court had favoured women’s self-help groups, mahila mandals and gram panchayats for this task to ensure better quality of food and overall development of villages. The report’s findings come at a time when the National Family Health Survey-3 has found that nearly 5,000 children die in India everyday due to preventable causes like malnutrition. Adducing its “preliminary” findings on the state of affairs at Maharashtra, the report read that the facts, in pursuant to investigations, established linkages between private contractors and the women’s self-help groups supplying nutritional products in anganwadis. The report also blamed the Maharashtra government for introducing a new system in 2009 which in fact “allowed back door entry of big private contractors with only commercial interests”. It says that independent laboratory tests also showed that the Take Home Rations (THR) being supplied to children in the state do not meet nutritional norms. The report is likely to be taken up by the court on November 23.