-The Hindu The first set of data from the National Family Health Survey-4 for 13 States and two Union Territories should be seen as a report card on how effectively India has used its newly created wealth to alter a dismal record of nutritional deprivation, ill-health and lost potential among its citizens, particularly women and Children. Given the steady growth in real per capita GDP since the 1980s, and the progress...
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Community kitchens: An idea whose time has come -Reetika Khera
-Scroll.in Institutions that provide cheap or free meals are not mere populism – they are vital for the food security of people on the margins. My first experience of a “community kitchen” was in Brazil where we were taken to try out a meal at the Popular Restaurant in Lauros de Freitas. The serpentine queue outside it surprising initially, seemed entirely unexceptional once we had been served: for one real (approximately Rs...
More »Maharashtra Government gets HC reminder on farmer suicides
-The Hindu Decade after a Bombay HC order to increase farmer suicide compensation, State still pays affected kin only Rs 1 lakh. It’s been a decade since the Bombay High Court passed an order asking the State government to increase the Rs 1 lakh compensation given to families of farmers who commit suicide. However, Maharashtra has disbursed that same amount to 1000 farmer families over the last three years. The State informed the...
More »Child stunting declines, but still high, data show -Rukmini S & Samarth Bansal
-The Hindu As of 2005-06, India had 62 million stunted Children, accounting for a third of the world’s burden of stunting. Indian states have seen some improvements in child nutrition over the last decade, the first official data in over a decade shows, but over one in three Children is still stunted, and over one in five underweight. As of 2005-6, India had 62 million stunted Children, accounting for a third of the...
More »NFHS-4 Shows Kids and Moms Bit Healthier Now
-The New Indian Express NEW DELHI: According to the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4), 2015-16, the states of Telangana, Tripura, Uttarakhand, West Bengal and the Union Territories of Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Puducherry show promising improvements in maternal and child health and nutrition. The first phase of the survey covered 13 states and two Union Territories. All the 15 have rates below 51 deaths per 1,000 live births. Infant mortality rates...
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