-Hindustan Times India saw a dip of over 14% in the number of malnourished Children in the age group of 0 to 6 years -- the sharpest decline in 25 years -- a UNICEF survey has revealed. The country, however, lags behind sub-Saharan Africa where 21% Children are malnourished. According to the survey, commissioned by the women and child development ministry of the UPA-2 government, the percentage of underweight Children in the...
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Growing illiteracy in rural India -TCA Sharad Raghavan
-The Hindu Only 5.4 per cent has crossed higher secondary school stage The Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011 (SECC) released on Friday has found that 36 per cent of the 884 million people in rural India are illiterate. This is higher than the 32 per cent recorded by the Census of India 2011. Of the 64 per cent literate rural Indians, a more than a fifth have not even completed primary school....
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-The Economist The government withholds a report on nutrition that contains valuable lessons A REMARKABLE story has been unfolding in the past decade in India. A new study—conducted by the government and the UN agency for Children, Unicef—offers evidence of a steady and widespread fall in malnutrition. But the picture is still grim. Judged by measures such as the prevalence of “stunting” (when Children are unusually short for their age) and “wasting”...
More »Poor Bear the Brunt of Corruption in India’s Food Distribution System -Neeta Lal
-IPSNews.net NEW DELHI: Chottey Lal, 43, a daily wage labourer at a construction site in NOIDA, a township in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, is a beleaguered man. After a gruelling 12-hour daily shift at the dusty location, he and his wife Subha make barely enough to feed a family of seven. Nor is the couple ever able to procure the subsidized rations they are legally entitled to, under a...
More »Mystery surrounds India health survey -Justin Rowlatt
-BBC Good health data is rare in India. The last time the country published a comprehensive, state-wide survey was back in 2007. So why hasn't a vast survey of women and Children carried out by the Indian government with the UN agency for Children, Unicef, been released? India's so-called Rapid Survey of Children was a huge undertaking. Almost 100,000 Children were measured and weighed and more than 200,000 people interviewed across the country's...
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