-The Times of India JAIPUR: The officials of Food Corporation of India (FCI) at Chanderia in Chittorgarh are under scanner for 'watering' food grain sacks to increase their weight and selling the 'excess' in the black market. The incident came to light after a home guard at a godown shot a video of supervisors watering the grains. The video was shot on September 27. The home guard filed a complaint with the...
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ICDS being revamped, says Maneka
-The Hindu Business Line Supplementary nutrition scheme to be standardised New Delhi: The flagship Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS), which aims to provide nutritious food to children aged 0-6, is being revamped and may be standardised to address the issue of “high” malnutrition. As per the Global Nutrition Report, 39 per cent of children (0-5 years) in India are stunted, much higher than the global average of 24 per cent. Tackling malnutrition The Women &...
More »Lethal gases from Jharia's coalfields fire continue to wreck havoc a century later -Valay Singh
-The Economic Times 5:20 am. Twelve-year-old Sandeep rubs his eyes. Prodded by his mother Savitri, he reluctantly steps out of his two-room mud house. Together, they head out in the darkness. Savitri walks purposefully, Sandeep trudges along. They are going to the opencast coal mine that is a 10-minute walk from their village Ghansaddi. On the way, they are joined by scores of people. In a curving file, they descend the...
More »App to tackle hunger
-The Telegraph New Delhi: Maneka Gandhi today unveiled a new tool to fight malnutrition - a mobile app. In a first of its kind effort, the Union ministry for women and child development unveiled the application that would chart the nutrition status of every child under the Integrated Child Development Scheme and alert health workers through colour-coded graphs. Apart from day-to-day tracking of each child, the app - developed in collaboration with the...
More »On malaria, the government’s rhetoric must meet reality -Vivekananda Nemana & Ankita Rao
-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...
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