A French journalist once wrote: The more things change, the more they stay the same. Perhaps the same can be said about nutritional status of children in West Bengal at present in comparison to the past. At the time when Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, the then Chief Minister of West Bengal, was entertaining private capital in Singur and Nandigram, the rate of undernutrition was quite high in his state. A little less than...
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How villages in four states are tackling malnutrition -Sonal Matharu
-GovernanceNow.com Hamlets in four states show how community efforts can combat malnutrition among children. Funds for the initiative, however, are drying up As the trees and bushes give way to Bada Doomartoli, a hamlet of Singhpur village in Nagri block of Ranchi, one can see a bunch of children running around playfully in the verandah of the first house. Their screeching can be heard from a distance. The younger children sit...
More »Parliamentary panel slams govt for ‘casual’ approach in tackling infant mortality
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: A parliamentary panel has strongly criticised the government for its "casual" approach in tackling the problem of infant and child mortality. Taking serious note of the high rate of stunting and wasting among children under five years of age, the Parliamentary Committee on Estimates in its report on 'Malnutrition in Infant and Mother' criticised the ministry of health. "The committee had expressed apprehension regarding achievements of...
More »IFPRI report shows under-nutrition has fallen
The country has made significant gains in raising the rate of exclusive breastfeeding among infants from 46 to 65 percent between 2005-06 and 2013-14. This has been revealed by the 2015 Global Nutrition Report, which was released by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in September. The report has quoted preliminary data on nutrition, which was collected via the Rapid Survey on Children (RSOC) in 29 states by the...
More »India’s Malnutrition Shame -Rajib Dasgupta
-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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