-The Indian Express Nine Children from anganwadi No. 159, which had only Dalit Children, have been shifted to No. 160, while 19 Children from the Thakore, Patel and Rawal communities in No. 160 have now gone to No. 159. Hajipur (Patan): Three months after The Indian Express reported about a separate anganwadi for Dalit Children in Gujarat’s Patan district, the state government has taken corrective steps. Nine Children from anganwadi No. 159,...

-The Indian Express We have turned our back to the intense food and drinking water distress across states India has transformed spectacularly in innumerable ways in the last two decades. One of the least noted changes is in the way the country — governments, the press and people — respond to drought and food scarcities. Back in the late-1980s, many states across India were reeling under back-to-back droughts for three consecutive years, not...

-GovernanceNow.com Blame it on misplaced policies and priorities The sun had just set in this village of Tikamgarh district in Madhya Pradesh. The sudden darkness engulfed us as our car was about to hit the well-carpeted single-lane road at the end of a nearly 2.5 km dirt track. Our vehicle came to a screeching halt. As the dust began to settle, 10, 50, 60… over 100 faces emerged in the yellow...

-The Hindu The Health Ministry’s plan for a malaria-free India by 2030 is laudable, but grand pronouncements are meaningless as long as manipulated data distort our knowledge and bad governance impedes genuine attempts to fight the disease This month, the Health Ministry will unveil an ambitious new plan to eliminate malaria from the country by 2030. A malaria-free India certainly sounds like a dream, or maybe an early campaign promise: the disease...

-The Times of India New Delhi: Zainab, Sana, Sumaila, Saima, Saina and Alisha, if not attending tuition classes, while away the day in the narrow bylanes of Hazrat Khwaja Peer Dard Colony, a stone's throw from their school, Nigam Pratibha Vidyalaya on Turkman Road in Delhi. The Children may be happy that they don't have to go to school, but their parents worry that the kids are missing out on nutritious...