The finance minister’s budget includes a big boost in spending on reducing malnutrition, clearly the priority among the social services programs of the Congress party-led government. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said India will increase spending on malnutrition programs by 58% in fiscal 2012-13 to 158 billion rupees, or about $3 billion. Included in this new spending is a plan to reorganize the Integrated Child Development Services, the central government-led initiative that has...
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5.3 % share for children in Budget-Aarti Dhar
As much as 5.3 per cent of the Union Budget for 2012-13 is Budget for Children (BfC) with an increase of 0.3 per cent since 2011-12. This must be set against the inflation rate of 6.6 per cent. The increase can be attributed to the increased allocation in the development sector by 66.2 per cent and Health by 29.7 per cent. However, as always, the share of the protection sector remains...
More »Fasting Ganga activist referred to AIIMS
-PTI Noted environmentalist GD Agrawal, who is on "fast-unto-death" to press for cleaning up of river Ganga, was on Monday referred from BHU to AIIMS in New Delhi after his Health deteriorated further. Also known as Swami Gyanswaroop Anand, Agrawal was recently transferred to the Sir Sundal Lal Hospital of Benaras Hindu University (BHU) from the district hospital after suffering a heart attack. He was taken to New Delhi on an air...
More »Change in scavenging Act soon, court told by J Venkatesan
The Centre on Friday informed the Supreme Court that appropriate steps would soon be taken to amend the Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act, 1993 to eliminate manual scavenging. Additional Solicitor General Harin Raval told a Bench of Justices H.L. Dattu and C.K. Prasad that necessary amendments would be introduced in the monsoon session of Parliament. The ASG also assured the court that the government would...
More »Nestle India hauled up for flouting advertisement norms
-The Times of India A Delhi court has charged Nestle India for violating the law in advertisements and labelling of its infant food products. The order, which was in response to a 17-year-old complaint, said that Nestle India had violated the Infant Milk Substitutes Feeding Bottles, and Infant Foods (Regulation of Production, Supply and Distribution) Act. Reacting to the order, the complainant Dr Arun Gupta, representing the Association for Consumers Action on Safety...
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