-The Hindu In the last three years, important entitlements for children have been undermined by the Centre The recent notification of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, making Aadhaar compulsory for midday meals in government schools, has attracted the criticism it deserves. This notification serves no clear purpose other than to force children to get enrolled under Aadhaar. The government, unfortunately, managed to create the impression that the notification had been retracted,...
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Discrimination against girl child still continues in Odisha -Hemanta Pradhan
-The Times of India BHUBANESWAR: A newborn baby girl was found alive on Saturday morning after being buried in a manure heap at Shyamsundarpur village in Jajpur district. This incident stunned the people of the state. Child rights activists said the state needs to do more campaigns to save the girl children. Campaign Against Child Labour state convener Sudhir Kumar Sabat said the state government claims that it has sealed nursing homes...
More »On track, but more needed -R Prasad
-The Hindu Institutional deliveries are up in India, but breastfeeding within the first hour of birth needs to keep pace Despite institutional delivery being as high as nearly 79% nationally, the number of children in India breastfed within one hour of birth is less than 42% — near 43% in urban areas and 41% in rural India, according to the National Family Health Survey 4 (NFHS-4) data released a few days ago....
More »Value addition to common foods can fight India's hidden hunger -Ruchika Chugh Sachdeva
-Hindustan Times India’s performance in the recently released Global Hunger Index (GHI) report is tragic. The country which is one of the largest producers of cereals, vegetables and fruits in the world, ranks 97 among 118 countries and is home to over 184 million undernourished people. India also pays a very heavy price for vitamin and mineral deficiencies, often called “hidden hunger”, as it loses $12 billion in gross domestic product...
More »Uttar Pradesh starved an old nutrition scheme to fund a new one. Neither is working -Menaka Rao
-Scroll.in Possibly to woo voters, the state government started the Hausla Poshan Yojana last year that lasted only two months. On a cold January morning in Ayadhnagar village in Uttar Pradesh’s Hapur district, a group of 10 children huddled around a bonfire outside their anganwadi centre. Despite the warmth of the fire, they shivered. The bare and dusty centre did not have mats for them to sit on and some of...
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