Odisha Malnutrition Deaths

As if the death of 19 tribal children in Odisha due to malnutrition was not bad enough, a minister in Naveen Patnaik’s government has now blamed the disaster on the large size of tribal families. “Each tribal family has 8-9 children. There’s no family planning and therefore the malnutrition deaths,” Minister of Women and Child Welfare Usha ...

As if the death of 19 tribal children in Odisha due to malnutrition was not bad enough, a minister in Naveen Patnaik's government has now blamed the disaster on the large size of tribal families.

The Odisha Human Rights Commission (OHRC) on Wednesday asked the state government to submit an action-taken report (ATR) within three weeks after at least 19 infants died allegedly due to malnutrition in three months at Nagada village in the mineral-rich Jajpur district. “Let a copy of the petition be sent to Chief Secretary, Odisha, Bhubaneswar ...

Odisha govenrment today set up a taskforce amid reports of death of at least 18 children in a span of three months allegedly due to malnutrition at a village in mineral-rich Jajpur's Sukinda valley.

As if the death of 19 tribal children in Odisha due to malnutrition was not bad enough, a minister in Naveen Patnaik’s government has now blamed the disaster on the large size of tribal families. “Each tribal family has 8-9 children. There’s no family planning and therefore the malnutrition deaths,” Minister of Women and Child Welfare Usha ...

As if the death of 19 tribal children in Odisha due to malnutrition was not bad enough, a minister in Naveen Patnaik's government has now blamed the disaster on the large size of tribal families.

The Odisha Human Rights Commission (OHRC) on Wednesday asked the state government to submit an action-taken report (ATR) within three weeks after at least 19 infants died allegedly due to malnutrition in three months at Nagada village in the mineral-rich Jajpur district. “Let a copy of the petition be sent to Chief Secretary, Odisha, Bhubaneswar ...

Odisha govenrment today set up a taskforce amid reports of death of at least 18 children in a span of three months allegedly due to malnutrition at a village in mineral-rich Jajpur's Sukinda valley.