Maharashtra Malnourishment

There has been a drop in the number of severe acute malnourished (SAM) children in Maharashtra between 2019 and 2021, the feat getting achieved despite the COVID-19 pandemic and the hardships it brought about.

Over 33 lakh children in India are malnourished and more than half of them fall in severely malnourished category with Maharashtra, Bihar and Gujarat topping the list, the Ministry of Women and Child Development has said in response to an RTI query

In a heart-warming gesture, Maharashtra Social Justice Minister Dhananjay Munde has rushed to the aid of a severely malnourished, pre-natal female baby dumped on thorny bushes near railway tracks in his native village Parli in Beed district.

Mumbai: Maharashtra government’s proposed plan to provide ready-to-use therapeutic food packets for malnourished children has not found approval from the health activists. According to the activists, when the packet containing a sweet paste was given to malnourished children in a pilot project in Nandurbar district, the improvements shown were v...

Palghar, Maharashtra: With the release of  the National Family Health Survey 2015-16, Maharashtra woke up to an embarrassing reality. 83,000 children, below the age of six years, were found to be severely underweight in the state. Worst affected was the tribal-dominated Palghar district with over 7,320 manourished children and over 200 child deat...

Palghar, Maharashtra: As Maharashtra’s tribal-dominated Palghar grapples with the malnourishment crisis, for the 337 anganwadis in the area, the challenges are mounting. For seven years, anganwadi worker Vandana Gangurde’s one room home has doubled up as an anganwadi for children up to the age of six. It’s the same for Suman Deshmukh who ru...

New Delhi/Mumbai: After the National Human Rights Commission sent a notice to the Maharashtra government two weeks ago, the state faced strong criticism by the Supreme Court on Tuesday for failing to tackle the malnourishment crisis. “You don’t bother when children die because you think it is a small figure in a country with large population,...

Palghar: The district administration has undertaken the screening of all children in Palghar’s four tribal talukas in Maharashtra following a number of malnutrition cases coming to light. About 60 per cent of the screening work, being done with help of angangwadi workers, has been completed, District Collector Abhijit Bhangar said. A total of 2,2...

Alarmed over the rising deaths of tribal children due to malnourishment in Mokhada tehsil in Palghar district, Maharashtra Governor C Vidyasagar Rao has directed the state to converge various government schemes to tackle the issue efficiently.

Thane: Palghar district in Maharashtra is grappling with severe child malnutrition, a survey has shown. During the recent health camps, nearly 28 per cent children were found to be severely underweight in tribal-dominated Mokhada taluka in the rural Palghar district. State Health Minister Deepak Sawant visited the camps held at five villages in the...

After NDTV exposed how tax collected to help feed malnourished children in Maharashtra was being diverted for maintenance of buses, the Director of Pune's bus transport department, which owes 50 crores, has apologised for the insensitivity and promised to deposit the money.

Every time a commuter in Pune, Mumbai takes a bus, 10 to 15 paise of the ticket fare is set aside for a fund to help feed malnourished children, an inspired scheme considering 66 children die of malnutrition in the state everyday.

The police have sprung into action after NDTV's expose showed how food for malnourished children in Thane district of Maharashtra was being siphoned off and sold as chicken feed. The middleman Yashwant Thakre who was ready to sell the food to NDTV, has been arrested and charged with cheating and misappropriation. The police arrested him on Thursda...

The Maharashtra government has suspended an anganwadi supervisor and expelled another worker after an NDTV expose which showed that food meant for malnourished children was siphoned off and sold in the market as chicken feed.

The Maharashtra government today released malnourishment figures for the state which shockingly show that over 24,000 children died of malnourishment in the past one year.

There has been a drop in the number of severe acute malnourished (SAM) children in Maharashtra between 2019 and 2021, the feat getting achieved despite the COVID-19 pandemic and the hardships it brought about.

Over 33 lakh children in India are malnourished and more than half of them fall in severely malnourished category with Maharashtra, Bihar and Gujarat topping the list, the Ministry of Women and Child Development has said in response to an RTI query

In a heart-warming gesture, Maharashtra Social Justice Minister Dhananjay Munde has rushed to the aid of a severely malnourished, pre-natal female baby dumped on thorny bushes near railway tracks in his native village Parli in Beed district.

Mumbai: Maharashtra government’s proposed plan to provide ready-to-use therapeutic food packets for malnourished children has not found approval from the health activists. According to the activists, when the packet containing a sweet paste was given to malnourished children in a pilot project in Nandurbar district, the improvements shown were v...

Palghar, Maharashtra: With the release of  the National Family Health Survey 2015-16, Maharashtra woke up to an embarrassing reality. 83,000 children, below the age of six years, were found to be severely underweight in the state. Worst affected was the tribal-dominated Palghar district with over 7,320 manourished children and over 200 child deat...

Palghar, Maharashtra: As Maharashtra’s tribal-dominated Palghar grapples with the malnourishment crisis, for the 337 anganwadis in the area, the challenges are mounting. For seven years, anganwadi worker Vandana Gangurde’s one room home has doubled up as an anganwadi for children up to the age of six. It’s the same for Suman Deshmukh who ru...

New Delhi/Mumbai: After the National Human Rights Commission sent a notice to the Maharashtra government two weeks ago, the state faced strong criticism by the Supreme Court on Tuesday for failing to tackle the malnourishment crisis. “You don’t bother when children die because you think it is a small figure in a country with large population,...

Palghar: The district administration has undertaken the screening of all children in Palghar’s four tribal talukas in Maharashtra following a number of malnutrition cases coming to light. About 60 per cent of the screening work, being done with help of angangwadi workers, has been completed, District Collector Abhijit Bhangar said. A total of 2,2...

Alarmed over the rising deaths of tribal children due to malnourishment in Mokhada tehsil in Palghar district, Maharashtra Governor C Vidyasagar Rao has directed the state to converge various government schemes to tackle the issue efficiently.

Thane: Palghar district in Maharashtra is grappling with severe child malnutrition, a survey has shown. During the recent health camps, nearly 28 per cent children were found to be severely underweight in tribal-dominated Mokhada taluka in the rural Palghar district. State Health Minister Deepak Sawant visited the camps held at five villages in the...

After NDTV exposed how tax collected to help feed malnourished children in Maharashtra was being diverted for maintenance of buses, the Director of Pune's bus transport department, which owes 50 crores, has apologised for the insensitivity and promised to deposit the money.

Every time a commuter in Pune, Mumbai takes a bus, 10 to 15 paise of the ticket fare is set aside for a fund to help feed malnourished children, an inspired scheme considering 66 children die of malnutrition in the state everyday.

The police have sprung into action after NDTV's expose showed how food for malnourished children in Thane district of Maharashtra was being siphoned off and sold as chicken feed. The middleman Yashwant Thakre who was ready to sell the food to NDTV, has been arrested and charged with cheating and misappropriation. The police arrested him on Thursda...

The Maharashtra government has suspended an anganwadi supervisor and expelled another worker after an NDTV expose which showed that food meant for malnourished children was siphoned off and sold in the market as chicken feed.

The Maharashtra government today released malnourishment figures for the state which shockingly show that over 24,000 children died of malnourishment in the past one year.