Schemes For Malnutrition

The Bombay High Court on Monday said welfare schemes for the tribal population are only on paper and sought to know from the Maharashtra government what steps it has taken to prevent deaths of children due to malnutrition in the tribal regions.

Umesh is three years old but weighs the same as a one-year-old. At 8 kg, he's underweight by 4 kg or 33 per cent. And his height is 84 centimetres, or 6.6 per cent less than ideal. With no schools amid the coronavirus crisis, there are also no midday meals - the government's food scheme - for his nine-year-old brother. Their mother, Pramila Bhambre...

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.

The 'community kitchen' scheme, a nutritional meal programme envisaged to address the malnutrition issues of tribals in Kerala, will soon be extended to all tribal hamlets across the state, Minister for Welfare of Scheduled Tribes AK Balan said in Thiruvananthapuram today.

In 2012, a Supreme Court-appointed panel found that the quality of food being provided under the Anganwadi scheme in Uttar Pradesh (along with three other states) was sub-standard.

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.

In a grim reminder of the continuing misery of the poor in India, a report by a Supreme Court panel has revealed that food worth thousands of crores meant for underprivileged children in Maharashtra has been siphoned off by private companies. Instead, the children, who were entitled to the benefit under the anganwadi scheme, were fed stale and low-...

The Bombay High Court on Monday said welfare schemes for the tribal population are only on paper and sought to know from the Maharashtra government what steps it has taken to prevent deaths of children due to malnutrition in the tribal regions.

Umesh is three years old but weighs the same as a one-year-old. At 8 kg, he's underweight by 4 kg or 33 per cent. And his height is 84 centimetres, or 6.6 per cent less than ideal. With no schools amid the coronavirus crisis, there are also no midday meals - the government's food scheme - for his nine-year-old brother. Their mother, Pramila Bhambre...

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.

The 'community kitchen' scheme, a nutritional meal programme envisaged to address the malnutrition issues of tribals in Kerala, will soon be extended to all tribal hamlets across the state, Minister for Welfare of Scheduled Tribes AK Balan said in Thiruvananthapuram today.

In 2012, a Supreme Court-appointed panel found that the quality of food being provided under the Anganwadi scheme in Uttar Pradesh (along with three other states) was sub-standard.

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.

In a grim reminder of the continuing misery of the poor in India, a report by a Supreme Court panel has revealed that food worth thousands of crores meant for underprivileged children in Maharashtra has been siphoned off by private companies. Instead, the children, who were entitled to the benefit under the anganwadi scheme, were fed stale and low-...