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Opinion | When Will Centre Understand That India's Malnutrition Problem Is Real?
Uttar Pradesh tops the list in zero-food children. Madhya Pradesh allocates a meagre Rs 12 daily to tackle malnutrition. An elderly disabled woman crawls in Odisha to collect her pension and rations.
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Rs 12 Per Child To Tackle Malnutrition In Madhya Pradesh. Is It Enough?
Over 1.36 lakh children are currently malnourished in Madhya Pradesh, but the state government's daily allocation for severely malnourished children remains a modest Rs 12.
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"Cheetahs Won't Change This": Scant Cheer Among Locals Over Historic Move
After releasing cheetahs, extinct in India for seven decades, in Madhya Pradesh's Kuno National Park on his 72nd birthday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the feline's reintroduction would be a blessing for the region.
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Madhya Pradesh Food Scam: Shivraj Chouhan Silent On Child Malnutrition
The massive financial irregularities over the Take Home Ration scheme in Madhya Pradesh, which was exposed by NDTV last week, have once again brought to the fore the core issue of malnourishment in children
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Tech To Help Anganwadi Workers In Indore To Battle Malnutrition
Anganwadi workers in rural areas of Indore district could now monitor the health and nutritional status of women and children online with the help of tablet computers.
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Malnutrition Responsible For 15% Of India's Total Disease Burden In 2016: Report
Disease burden due to child and maternal malnutrition in India was 12 times higher per person than in China in 2016 even as the life expectancy at birth in the country improved by over a decade, said a report on Tuesday.
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Rights Panel Notice To Madhya Pradesh Government Over Death Of 116 Children
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued a notice to Madhya Pradesh government over reported deaths of 116 children due to malnutrition-related ailments in Sheopur district in the last five months.
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After Malnourishment Deaths, Sheopur’s Nutrition Centres In Madhya Pradesh Overburdened
Sheopur, Madhya Pradesh: The three nutrition rehabilitation centres in Sheopur district of Madhya Pradesh had handful of children in August. Today, they are overcrowded. The centres, nearly 450 km from Bhopal, can cater to 80 children at one time, but are now accommodating over 400 children. 11 malnutrition deaths have been reported from the distr...
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Where hunger has killed 65 children in three months
Savitri sits in her hut with her two young sons. Till recently, she had another child. The two-year-old died last month. In local parlance, he died of "sukhni"-which literally means a child shrivelling from hunger.In this part of north Madhya Pradesh, so many children die of hunger that the region has actually coined its own term to describe the ho...
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Madhya Pradesh: Battle for food gets desperate, grain rotting continues
When hunger stalks, several stories of desperation are born. In Madhya Pradesh, Rajesh Gond, a tribal man, was arrested for stealing wheat from his neighbour's house so that he could feed his family. Rajesh stole a seventy-kilo sack of wheat worth one thousand rupees from his neighbour's house. For a tribal villager like him whose ...
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Madhya Pradesh: Holes in tribal food basket
The government is all set to pass the Food Bill that aims at giving monthly subsidised foodgrains to families Below the Poverty Line (BPL). However, the picture is not as peachy as it may seem. In a shocking story from the Shivpuri district of Madhya Pradesh nine tribal children have died in just five months due to malnutrition. This incident has o...
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NDTV Impact: Minister visits hunger-struck Jhabua
The Union Minister for Women and Child Welfare Krishna Teerath came calling after NDTV reported that 43 children have died in malnutrition-related cases.
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MP's shame: Six children die in three days
Five children have died in Khandwa and one in Jhabua in the last 3 days in Madhya Pradesh due to malnutrition.
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Opinion | When Will Centre Understand That India's Malnutrition Problem Is Real?
Uttar Pradesh tops the list in zero-food children. Madhya Pradesh allocates a meagre Rs 12 daily to tackle malnutrition. An elderly disabled woman crawls in Odisha to collect her pension and rations.
-
Rs 12 Per Child To Tackle Malnutrition In Madhya Pradesh. Is It Enough?
Over 1.36 lakh children are currently malnourished in Madhya Pradesh, but the state government's daily allocation for severely malnourished children remains a modest Rs 12.
-
"Cheetahs Won't Change This": Scant Cheer Among Locals Over Historic Move
After releasing cheetahs, extinct in India for seven decades, in Madhya Pradesh's Kuno National Park on his 72nd birthday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the feline's reintroduction would be a blessing for the region.
-
Madhya Pradesh Food Scam: Shivraj Chouhan Silent On Child Malnutrition
The massive financial irregularities over the Take Home Ration scheme in Madhya Pradesh, which was exposed by NDTV last week, have once again brought to the fore the core issue of malnourishment in children
-
Tech To Help Anganwadi Workers In Indore To Battle Malnutrition
Anganwadi workers in rural areas of Indore district could now monitor the health and nutritional status of women and children online with the help of tablet computers.
-
Malnutrition Responsible For 15% Of India's Total Disease Burden In 2016: Report
Disease burden due to child and maternal malnutrition in India was 12 times higher per person than in China in 2016 even as the life expectancy at birth in the country improved by over a decade, said a report on Tuesday.
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Rights Panel Notice To Madhya Pradesh Government Over Death Of 116 Children
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued a notice to Madhya Pradesh government over reported deaths of 116 children due to malnutrition-related ailments in Sheopur district in the last five months.
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After Malnourishment Deaths, Sheopur’s Nutrition Centres In Madhya Pradesh Overburdened
Sheopur, Madhya Pradesh: The three nutrition rehabilitation centres in Sheopur district of Madhya Pradesh had handful of children in August. Today, they are overcrowded. The centres, nearly 450 km from Bhopal, can cater to 80 children at one time, but are now accommodating over 400 children. 11 malnutrition deaths have been reported from the distr...
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Where hunger has killed 65 children in three months
Savitri sits in her hut with her two young sons. Till recently, she had another child. The two-year-old died last month. In local parlance, he died of "sukhni"-which literally means a child shrivelling from hunger.In this part of north Madhya Pradesh, so many children die of hunger that the region has actually coined its own term to describe the ho...
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Madhya Pradesh: Battle for food gets desperate, grain rotting continues
When hunger stalks, several stories of desperation are born. In Madhya Pradesh, Rajesh Gond, a tribal man, was arrested for stealing wheat from his neighbour's house so that he could feed his family. Rajesh stole a seventy-kilo sack of wheat worth one thousand rupees from his neighbour's house. For a tribal villager like him whose ...
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Madhya Pradesh: Holes in tribal food basket
The government is all set to pass the Food Bill that aims at giving monthly subsidised foodgrains to families Below the Poverty Line (BPL). However, the picture is not as peachy as it may seem. In a shocking story from the Shivpuri district of Madhya Pradesh nine tribal children have died in just five months due to malnutrition. This incident has o...
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NDTV Impact: Minister visits hunger-struck Jhabua
The Union Minister for Women and Child Welfare Krishna Teerath came calling after NDTV reported that 43 children have died in malnutrition-related cases.
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MP's shame: Six children die in three days
Five children have died in Khandwa and one in Jhabua in the last 3 days in Madhya Pradesh due to malnutrition.
