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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More than half of country's women, kids still anaemic: Survey
-PTI Anaemia remains widespread in the country as more than half of the children in 10 out of 15 states are still anaemic, the latest national health survey released by the Union Health Ministry today said. The first phase of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) for 2015-16 which covered 13 states and two UTs also revealed that more than half of women were also found to be anaemic in eleven states and...
More »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 »India still has a high rate of malnutrition, reveals new National Health Survey -Kundan Pandey
-Down to Earth West Bengal has more wasted children than a decade ago Malnutrition in India is still high and the number of malnourished children in West Bengal is more than it was a decade back, according to the fourth National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4), that was released recently by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW). The ministry released trends regarding major indicators of health issues for the 13 states...
More »Bina Agarwal, Professor of Development Economics and Environment at the University of Manchester in UK, interviewed by Samira Bose
-CaravanMagazine.in Bina Agarwal is a Professor of Development Economics and Environment at the University of Manchester, UK. Prior to this, she was the Director and Professor of Economics at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi University. Agarwal has written extensively on land, livelihoods and property rights; environment and development; the political economy of gender; poverty and inequality; legal change; and agriculture and technological transformation. Her best known work is A Field...
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