All India Congress Committee (AICC) General Secretary and former Chief Minister Digvijay Singh expressed serious concern over the report submitted to United Nations Human Rights Council by The Asian Legal Resources Centre (ALRC). The report said that Madhya Pradesh is number one in child mortality rate in the whole world!
Using the estimates of child survival probability obtained on the basis of "children ever born" and "children surviving" data collected at different population census, this article analyzes progress towards child survival in Madhya Pradesh during the two decades between 1981 and 2001.
Concerned by the lack of substantial steps by states to control infant deaths in the country, the 13th Finance Commission has recommended linking states
The anomaly between impressive economic growth and appalling rates of malnourishment is not peculiar to Bihar. The country as a whole records malnourishment rates that do not reflect the economic growth. A scene in Madhya Pradesh.
IN THE old days, the job of eradicating disease fell to governments and inter-governmental bodies. Then charities, often led by celebrities or entrepreneurs, joined in. Finally, in the Western world at least, governments accepted the need to pool their efforts with those of private donors, big and small. The effort still seems unequal to the task.
Almost 20 years after India signed the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), experts are now looking at the glass as half full, on indicators related to child survival and development.
