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MALNUTRITION LEVELS IN INDIA
Palestinian Embassy calls for urgent medical aid: "If not India and Indian people, then who?"Palestine's Embassy in India has issued a dire plea for immediate medical aid, warning of a healthcare sector collapse due to ongoing confl...- BJP’s incompetence exposed by women, children health data, claims KhargeCongress leader Mallikarjun Kharge has criticized the BJP government. He claims NFHS-6 data reveals the government's incompetence in health...
- Dietary balance remains missing as India continues to gorge on cerealsMany Indians consume too many grains and not enough proteins, vegetables and fruits. This imbalance affects health, contributing to malnutr...
- Malnutrition in India: A comprehensive strategy to combat for better futureNot only are important nutrition programmes underfunded, but little funding is also not being used efficiently.
- India ranks at 94 in Global Hunger Index; experts blame poor implementation, siloed approachThe neighbouring Bangladesh, Myanmar and Pakistan too are in the 'serious' category but ranked higher than India in this year's hunger inde...
- Most states won't meet Poshan Abhiyaan targets to curb child malnutrition: StudySome of the states, which have reported the worst cases include Rajasthan, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Assam and Tripura.
- NITI Aayog moots Aadhaar-linked tracking of malnutritionThe meeting was on challenges of malnutrition and the deliberation focused on breaking the cycle of under-nutrition, disease, infections an...
- World Bank President Jim Yong Kim to visit IndiaIndia is the world's fastest growing economy and also home to 26 per cent of the global extreme poor, the World Bank president said.
- Child malnutrition declines in India but still a long way to goBetween 2006 to 2014, stunting levels in children under five declined to 39% as compared to global level of 24%, according to the India Nut...
- 22 per cent of under-5 deaths in 2013 occurred due to Malnutrition in India: ReportIndia accounts for most deaths of children aged below five years every year, with 50% of these caused mainly by malnutrition, a new policy ...
- Government must take proactive steps to tackle malnutrition: ExpertsA conference today asked the government to take proactive steps to address the problem that claims lives of thousands of children every yea...
- Maneka Gandhi for a national mission to tackle malnutritionGandhi also appreciated some experts' suggestions like setting up of an autonomous body to oversee implementation of such an action plan.
- Budget 2014: Malnutrition problem to be tackled in "Mission Mode"Expressing concern at the deteriorating malnutrition situation, the government on Thursday said that the problem needs to be tackled in a "...
- For an aspiring global power, India suffers from shocking levels of malnutritionGood news is that the BJP manifesto said that “extreme poverty and malnutrition will be treated as a national priority and will be addresse...
- Food policy: The national fight against malnutritionThe absence of a national programme to fight malnutrition denies such a platform, and results in an information void on what interventions ...
- What we need is not a food security Bill but a hunger elimination actThe food security Bill will have little or no effect on malnutrition , poverty and hunger.
- Focus on malnutrition, not hungerHunger afflicts only 2% of all households, while malnutrition stunts 45% of all children below five years.
- Malnourishment a national shame: Manmohan SinghCalling malnourishment "a national shame", Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said India cannot hope for a healthy future with 42%...
- Agri-growth and malnutritionA higher level of performance in agriculture is necessary but not a sufficient condition to reduce malnutrition.
- India below sub-Saharan Africa in hunger indexDespite robust economic growth in recent years, India’s record on hunger is worse than that of nearly 25 sub-Saharan African countries and ...
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