-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Indian government is mulling monetary incentives to private doctors who provide correct treatment to patients with tuberculosis and financial and nutritional support to patients under new strategies to eliminate TB as a public health problem by 2025. The Union health ministry's "national strategic plan for tuberculosis elimination 2017-2025" also seeks to enhance investments in diagnostic tools and treatment to help cut the country's new TB cases from...
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Bihar's Burden of Child Stunting A District-wise Analysis -Vani Sethi, Arti Bhanot, Shivani Dar, Rabi N Parhi & Saba Mebrahtu
-Economic and Political Weekly Vani Sethi (vsethi@unicef.org) is with the Child Development and Nutrition section of UNICEF India’s country office. Shivani Dar and Rabi N Parhi are with UNICEF’s Bihar field office. Arti Bhanot is an independent consultant. Saba Mebrahtu was former chief of the Child Development and Nutrition section at UNICEF India’s country office. The prevalence of child stunting in Bihar is as high as 48%. This study of the immediate...
More »Amended maternity law goes a long way, but has a long way to go still -Shalini Nair
-The Indian Express The new law allows maternity leave up to 12 weeks for women who adopt a child below the age of 3 months, and for commissioning mothers (in cases of surrogacy) The Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Bill, 2017, passed by Parliament last week, has made 26 weeks of paid maternity leave mandatory for all women employed in the organised sector. The more than doubling of the existing entitlement of 12 weeks...
More »Aadhaar linked to mid-day meal: Why put the burden on children? -Kiran Bhatty and Dipa Sinha
-Hindustan Times The last few weeks have seen a spate of government notifications making Aadhaar mandatory for receiving the benefits of government programmes. The most recent orders relate to an Aadhaar requirement for children to access schools (even under their fundamental right to education), mid-day meals, supplementary nutrition (ICDS) and scholarships. These directives raise a number of ethical as well as practical questions, besides violating children’s right to education, nutrition and...
More »Environmental degradation affects poor rural women -Nidhi Jamwal
-DNA The joint study has found an increase in female-headed households (FHHs) and greater engagement of rural women in agricultural labour. Three days from now, March 8, is the International Women's Day. An important lesson on the relation between women and environment was first taught to us by rural women in the Himalayan region of Uttar Pradesh (now Uttarakhand) who, in the early 1970s, embraced trees to save them from state-backed...
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