-The Indian Express It requires a far wider spectrum of interventions than mere clinical management. The latest edition of the Global Nutrition Report 2015 by the International Food Policy Research Institute, released on Tuesday, brings back the concerns over malnutrition into sharp focus. In July, the government of India, after much avoidable controversy, released malnutrition (used synonymously as undernutrition) figures from the Rapid Survey on Children (RSoC) data that was collected...
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Biraj Patnaik: time to diversify PDS, start giving pulses, oil, fruits, eggs -Shriya Mohan
-CatchNews.com India fares quite badly in the world when it comes to nutrition. It's ranked 55th among 76 emerging economies on the Global Hunger Index, 2014, lower than even Ghana, Iraq, Sri Lanka and Nepal. As many as 2.3 crore of the eight crore children below 6 years of age who attend Anganwadis are malnourished, according to a status report on the ICDS. Nearly 59% children under 5 are anaemic as are more...
More »Can’t relax against Hunger -Tajamul Haque
-The Hindu Business Line A valuable account of how holistic, small-farmer based agriculture can show the way MS Swaminathan is well known as the key architect of India’s Green Revolution in the mid-1960s and an all-time crusader against Hunger and food insecurity. His latest book, entitled Combating Hunger and Achieving Food Security, broadly shows the road map for a Hunger-free and food-secure India. The book has 30 chapters, each suggesting some sweet...
More »SC queries food security delay
-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Supreme Court today asked the Centre to explain its failure to implement the previous government's flagship food security programme, aimed at providing cheap grains to two-thirds of the population with a special focus on children and pregnant and lactating women. The scheme, estimated to cost Rs 1.25 lakh crore a year, was launched in 2013 and was to come into force from July last year. But the...
More »Number of students up 38% in 10 years, shows census -Subodh Varma
-The Times of India In the space of a decade, between 2001 and 2011, the student population in India exploded from about 229 million to 315 million. That's a jump of nearly 38%. The overall population growth in the same period was 18%. But Census data released on Friday underscores a much bigger shift within these gross figures. Students in the age group 15 to 19 years increased by a dramatic 73%...
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