A French journalist once wrote: The more things change, the more they stay the same. Perhaps the same can be said about nutritional status of children in West Bengal at present in comparison to the past. At the time when Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, the then Chief Minister of West Bengal, was entertaining private capital in Singur and Nandigram, the RATe of undernutrition was quite high in his state. A little less than...
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The environmental costs of subsidies -Kunal Singh
-Livemint.com It’s time to look at the deleterious environmental impact of subsidies so as to attain correct pricing of resources A few days before Delhi’s odd-even rule—a road RATioning scheme in which odd- and even-numbered cars were allowed to ply on roads on alternate days—was to be implemented, Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia appeared on a television channel to answer questions on the rule. During the show, Sisodia admitted that the...
More »India still has a high RATe of malnutrition, reveals new National Health Survey -Kundan Pandey
-Down to Earth West Bengal has more wasted children than a decade ago Malnutrition in India is still high and the number of malnourished children in West Bengal is more than it was a decade back, according to the fourth National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4), that was released recently by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW). The ministry released trends regarding major indicators of health issues for the 13 states...
More »How villages in four states are tackling malnutrition -Sonal Matharu
-GovernanceNow.com Hamlets in four states show how community efforts can combat malnutrition among children. Funds for the initiative, however, are drying up As the trees and bushes give way to Bada Doomartoli, a hamlet of Singhpur village in Nagri block of Ranchi, one can see a bunch of children running around playfully in the verandah of the first house. Their screeching can be heard from a distance. The younger children sit...
More »Most Indians are healthier, says govt health survey -Jyotsna Singh
-Livemint.com National Family Health Survey finds child malnutrition, maternal mortality RATes have declined significantly in the 13 states including in Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal New Delhi: A large part of India has shown substantial improvement in health of its citizens over the past decade, a new government survey says. Results from the first phase of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) 2015-16 show that child malnutrition, as well as...
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