-The Indian Express The first set of findings from the fifth NFHS, conducted in 2019-20, was released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Saturday, December 12, four years after the last survey (NFHS-4, 2015-16). Pune: India’s population is stabilising, as the total fertility rate (TFR) has decreased across majority of the states. Of 17 states analysed in the fifth round of National Family Health Survey (NFHS), except for Bihar,...
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IMR improves in India, but malnutrition remains worrying, shows NFHS-5 -Neetu Chandra Sharma
-Livemint.com * The neonatal mortality rate (NMR) slipped in 15 states and UTs in comparison to NFHS-4 (2015-16) * The survey also found considerable improvement in vaccination coverage among children age 12-23 months across all states/UTs The Under 5 and infant mortality rate (IMR) has come down in 18 states and union territories but in parallel 16 states recorded an increase in underweight and severely wasted under 5 children among 22 states that...
More »The Landless women: Only 12.9% Indian women hold agricultural land -Aditi Phadnis & IndiaSpend
-Business Standard/ India Spend The index ranks states in terms of women holding land rights in percentage points Look hard. Do you see any woman among the protesting farmers? The reason is simple — Women hardly own agricultural land. Lakshadweep and Meghalaya are the best among all the 35 states and Union Territories at providing land rights to women; Punjab and West Bengal are the worst, according to an index created by the...
More »Meghalaya village turns oasis in coal mine desert -Rahul Karmakar
-The Hindu In less than a decade after Moolamylliang turned its back on rat-hole mining, it has become a green dot in a vast sea of black Guwahati: Rat-hole coal mining had sucked the life out of Moolamylliang less than a decade ago. The village in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills district has now risen like the proverbial phoenix to become a clean, green dot in a vast black blot. But Apmon Pachiang, a...
More »‘Celebrity bias’ in Editors Guild of India -Umanand Jaiswal
-The Telegraph In the letter, Patricia Mukhim mentioned Republic TV managing director Arnab Goswami who was recently arrested in a suicide abetment case Guwahati: Latent disquiet in newsrooms about the way some celebrity anchors are being defended with alacrity and others being left to fend for themselves has spilled out in the open with an editor resigning from the Editors Guild of India. Patricia Mukhim, editor of The Shillong Times, has sent her...
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