-The Times of India Forseeing a bleak future for the country's children, an independent report said poverty was leading to malnutrition, stunted growth and high school dropout rates. The 'Impact of Growth on Childhood Poverty in Andhra Pradesh' was conducted by NGO-Young Lives from 2002 and has collected data on 2,011 children aged between six to 18 months and 1,008 children aged between seven-and-half to eight-and-half years. Findings from its third round...
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Enhance incomes, education and sanitation to tackle malnutrition
-The Economic Times It is a shame, said the Prime Minister, releasing a new report that says 42% of India's children suffer from malnutrition. Dr Manmohan Singh went on to talk of the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS), the government's preferred scheme for tackling the problem, and of the need to to focus on 100 extremely backward districts. An ICDS-like scheme is entirely appropriate but it would be a big mistake to...
More »Around 13% of Food samples found contaminated nationwide by Kounteya Sinha
After milk, the Food Safety Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has found contamination to be quite common among Food items across the country. A comparative analysis has shown adulteration rates as high as 40% in Chhattisgarh, 34% in Uttarakhand, 29% in Uttar Pradesh, 23% in Rajasthan and 20% in West Bengal and Himachal Pradesh. Besides, nearly 17% of the Food samples tested in Bihar and Chandigarh, 16% in Nagaland, 15% in...
More »Human safaris exploit Jarawas with cops’ aid
-The Times of India Shocking video has emerged of naked Jarawa tribals in the Andaman islands being made to dance before tourists for Food and money during the course of 'human safaris' organized by operators in connivance with local authorities. According to a report in the UK-based 'Observer' newspaper, which also released the footage taken by its reporter, the safaris brazenly flout laws that prohibit close contact with the tribals and photographing...
More »High court takes note of milk adulteration in Delhi
-IANS The Delhi high court Wednesday took suo moto cognizance of media reports that 70 per cent of the milk in the national capital was adulterated and issued notice to the city government's Food adulteration department and the Food Safety Standards Authority of India (FSSAI). Acting Justice AK Sikri and Justice Rajiv Shah sought a response from the central and state governments by Jan 25. The court took note of a report filed...
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