Mumbai: Voicing concern over death of 17,000 persons due to malnutrition in tribal areas of Maharashtra in the last one year, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday asked the state government to take immediate steps to tackle it and submit details of central grants received for tribal welfare.
A division bench of Justices VM Kanade and Swapna Joshi was hearing a bunch of PILs regarding malnutrition among children in Melghat region of Vidarbha and other tribal areas in Maharashtra.
One of the petitioners showed the court a reply received through the Right to Information (RTI) Act which said over 17,000 persons, including women and children, had died due to malnutrition in the state in the last one year.
"This is a very serious matter that so many people have died due to malnutrition in the state. We direct the government to take immediate steps to tackle the menace", said the judges.
The Maharashtra government on Wednesday submitted to the High Court a report of the core committee formed to tackle the menace of malnutrition in tribal areas.
However, it had taken measures to improve the health conditions of the people in tribal areas because of which the number of deaths due to malnutrition had come down, said the government pleader.
A division bench of Justices VM Kanade and Swapna Joshi was hearing a bunch of PILs regarding malnutrition among children in Melghat region of Vidarbha and other tribal areas in Maharashtra.
One of the petitioners showed the court a reply received through the Right to Information (RTI) Act which said over 17,000 persons, including women and children, had died due to malnutrition in the state in the last one year.
"This is a very serious matter that so many people have died due to malnutrition in the state. We direct the government to take immediate steps to tackle the menace", said the judges.
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The Maharashtra government on Wednesday submitted to the High Court a report of the core committee formed to tackle the menace of malnutrition in tribal areas.
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However, it had taken measures to improve the health conditions of the people in tribal areas because of which the number of deaths due to malnutrition had come down, said the government pleader.
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