-Newsclick.in Mewat is a living example of how Haryana government has failed to look at malnutrition amongst adolescent girls as a socio-economic problem. Neha Dixit reports "Her father needed money for installing a tube well in the fields, we had no option," says Afra. She is the mother of Humra, 15, who passed away in the Punhana block of Mewat district in Haryana on September 22nd. She bled to death while delivering...
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'Food, Glorious Food'-Anuradha Sajjanhar
-The Business Standard India has to come to terms with a growing obesity problem that is rapidly becoming a crisis Obesity, an epidemic often thought to be exclusive to wealthy countries, is becoming a rapidly growing crisis for India. The National Family Health Survey of 2006 revealed that roughly one in four urban Indians was overweight or obese, and several more recent studies indicate that these numbers are increasing. A new study...
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-The Times of India PUNE: After a failed effort to register attendance of school students online, the state education department will now attempt to conduct it via SMS. Only 10% of the one lakh schools in the state responded to the online attendance system which prompted the education department to initiate the attendance through cellphones used widely by school officials and teachers. The department conducted a survey to find out how many schools...
More »Case study on Bihar's Super 30 by University of East London and TISS -Pranav Chaudhary
-The Times of India PATNA: The University of East London, UK, in partnership with Mumbai based Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), has done a case study on Bihar's Super 30 as part of a research project, entitled, "Exploring good practices in overcoming deprivation in India and UK." Super 30 is just one of three case studies selected from India and only one from Bihar. Two other case studies have been taken...
More »Delhi tops chart of children taking ill at mid-day meals -Tabassum Barnagarwala
-The Indian Express New Delhi: This July, 23 school children from a village in Bihar died after eating mid-day meals contaminated with pesticide. While the incident was the first such to be reported in the country, data shows that in the past 10 years, 2,069 children across the country have taken ill after consuming food provided under the mid-day meal scheme, with figure from Delhi topping the list. According to data collected...
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