-Factly.in The Supplementary Nutrition Programme under ICDS aims to close the nutrition gap among pregnant and breastfeeding mothers as well as children under the age of six. SNP is provided in two ways: Take-Home Rations (THR) and Hot-Cooked Meals at Anganwadi Centres (AWCs). &NBSp;NITI Aayog’s recent report identifies best practices from states across the Take-Home Rations value chain.&NBSp; Public policy is often fraught with myriad challenges since they do not have any...
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UP headed towards drought? Less than normal rainfall in 96% districts -Vivek Mishra and Aryan Kapoor
-Down to Earth Police stop farmers from using tube wells to irrigate their fields &NBSp; India’s largest state, Uttar Pradesh, appears headed for a drought. Seventy-two of its 75 districts (96 per cent) recorded ‘below normal’ rainfall till July 20, 2022, according to India Meteorological Department (IMD) data. Fifty-nine of the 75 districts recorded ‘extremely low’ rainfall. These districts are suffering a ‘large deficit’, which means they received less than 60 per cent...
More »Eggs, chikkis, and bananas now on Karnataka midday meal menu -Shilpa P
-The New Indian Express Students of Classes 1-8 of all dists to get these for 46 days in a year BENGALURU: The Karnataka Department of School Education and Literacy announced that eggs, bananas or peanut chikkis (supplementary nutrition) would be included in the midday meal scheme as part of ‘PM Poshan shakti Nirman’ for students of Classes 1-8 studying in government and aided schools for 46 days a year in all districts. The...
More »DNA Special: How the menace of illegal mining is harming India
-DNA India Between 2013 and 2017, over 4 lakh incidents of illegal mining were reported. The mineral wealth of the country is openly looted by mining mafia. What would you do if some people stole some items from your house? You would immediately go to the police against this and ask the police to find your stolen goods? Any person would do the same. But now imagine if some people steal the mineral...
More »Traders’ body pitches for withdrawal of 5% GST on unbranded foodgrains
-Livemint.com The CAIT has urged the states to call an emergency meeting of the GST Council immediately to decide on the withdrawal of the tax on these items Bengaluru: The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) on Wednesday wrote to chief ministers and finance ministers of all states demanding the withdrawal of the 5% goods and services tax imposed on unbranded foodgrains and other items that came into effect from Monday.&NBSp; The association...
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