-Frontline Odisha shows the way in the implementation of the ICDS scheme to ensure that children receive nutrition and care in their earliest years, but the Centre’s moves to slash budgetary allocations could wreak havoc on such programmes. At the Tasarda anganwadi centre in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district, as the auxiliary nurse and midwife (ANM) pulled out the blood pressure (BP) instrument to check a pregnant woman, the children at the anganwadi began...
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CAG finds financial irregularity, poor quality blight mid-day meal scheme -Akshaya Mukul
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: CAG's performance audit report of Mid-Day Meal has not only found financial mismanagement by the HRD ministry but it has also discovered states having indulged in diversion of funds to the tune of Rs 123.29 crore meant for the scheme. But what the CAG found most disturbing is the total disregard to quality of meal being given to children. The system of involving mothers in the...
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The nation can be proud of running some of the world's largest programmes on social safety nets, says the latest report by World Bank. However, public spending on safety nets is still low in comparison to neighbouring countries Bangladesh and Pakistan. India tops the list of 136 countries for running the world's largest school feeding programme i.e. the Mid Day Meal Scheme (MDMS), and also the biggest public works programme i.e....
More »Village Rebels Against Chouhan, Serves Eggs in Mid-Day Meals -Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar
-TheWire.in New Delhi: As an expression of resentment against vegetarian Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s insistence to not allow serving of eggs in mid-day meals across the State since he considers it a ‘sentimental issue’, the Sahariya children of Shirpura village in Shivpuri district were on Friday afternoon served eggs along with khichri through village contributions. For a large number of children who turned up to get a boiled egg...
More »MNREGA world's largest public works programme: World Bank
-PTI WASHINGTON: India's rural employment guarantee programme MNREGA has been ranked as the world's largest public works programme, providing social security net to almost 15 per cent of the country's population, World Bank has said. India is among the five middle-income countries running the world's largest social safety net programmes, said a World Bank Group's report 'The State of Social Safety Nets 2015'. "The world's five largest social safety net programmes are all...
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