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Global Hunger Index: We need significant improvements to dent malnutrition -Dipa Sinha

-National Herald With a GHI of 31.4, India is at the high end of the “serious” category and this highlights the need for an urgent focus on interventions towards reducing malnutrition in the country The release of the Global Hunger Index (GHI) has once again brought the poor state of nutrition in India onto the spotlight. Although there are improvements in India’s hunger and nutrition indicators, on the whole its rank has...

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Criminalising Forest-Dwellers Has Not Helped India's ForeSTs or Wildlife. It's Time for a New Deal -Meenal Tatpati and Sneha Gutgutia

-TheWire.in Instead of evicting forest-dwelling communities for engaging in traditional activities in protected areas and reserved foreSTs, the government should use them for co-management. In a circular released on March 28, 2017, the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) ordered the directors of all tiger reserves to refrain from recognising the rights of forest dwellers within critical tiger habitats. Since its enactment in 2006, the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of...

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Prevalence of wasting among children is rising, shows NFHS-4 data

When it comes to child under-nutrition, the proportion of stunted and underweight children below 5 years has reduced in India during the last ten years. However, a rising trend has been observed in the prevalence of wasting among children below 5 years between the last two rounds of National Family Health Survey (NFHS). The recently released data from NFHS-4 indicates that the proportion of under 5 year children who are...

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Government pushes ahead with plan for SC/ST quota in promotions -Mahendra Singh

-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: The Centre is moving ahead on the proposal to provide reservation in promotion for SC and ST employees in government jobs with a key official report saying underprivileged sections needed affirmative action. A report prepared by the department of personnel and training (DoPT), presented to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, supported quotas in promotion for SCs and STs. "For equal opportunity and inclusive growth, there is need for...

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