-The Times of India • States like Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka are already using some of the fortified products. • According to health experts, more than 50% of child mortality under five years of age can be attributed to malnutrition. In a concerted effort to tackle under-nutrition in the country, the goverment is PLAnning to provide fortified food products like wheat, rice, salt, and milk in schools' midday meal and...
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Bengal Chief Secretary holds meeting with DMs
-The Hindu Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Secretary Basudeb Banerjee held video conferences with District Magistrates on Tuesday to iron out the glitches in the government’s distribution of digital ration cards. The meeting took PLAce at the State Secretariat. The development comes after a number of issues cropped up regarding the implementation of the government’s related initiative including delay in the issuing of digital ration cards and confusion among beneficiaries about the...
More »On the farm front, make a bold move -Ashok Gulati
-The Indian Express The budget is an opportunity for government to address the simmering discontent and disillusion in rural India. The first advance estimates of GDP growth, at 2011-12 constant prices, put the growth for FY16 at 7.6 per cent over the previous year. This is the highest growth rate in the first four years of the forgotten 12th Five-Year PLAn. No wonder this makes the Narendra Modi-led NDA government somewhat...
More »A judgment for women’s rights -Devaki Jain
-The Hindu Economic agency is one of the most enabling elements to release women from oppression, violence and powerlessness. A Supreme Court Bench has once again proved that our judiciary can be the torchbearer of progressive attitudes towards women. In 2013, the Justice J.S. Verma Committee, while responding to the horrific December 16, 2012 gang rape in Delhi, prepared a report that drew from the observations of members of the women’s movement among...
More »NIMHANS to unveil Urban Mental Health PLAn -Afshan Yasmeen
-The Hindu Bengaluru: With heightened concern over the impact of excessive use of technology — especially social media addiction — on mental health in our cities, the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS) is PLAnning to come up with an Urban Mental Health PLAn. Revealing this at the 20th convocation of NIMHANS here on Saturday, institute Director B.N. Gangadhar said the current district mental health PLAn largely catered to issues...
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