The India Health Report on Nutrition 2015 offers a critical analysis of the current situation with nutrition at the national and state levels in India. It provides easy-to-understand, state-wise data dashboards for 28 states and Delhi that give a comprehensive view of nutrition and its determinants.
Undernutrition imposes a staggering cost worldwide in terms of lives lost, forgone productivity, healthcare spending, and reduced lifetime earnings. In India, nutrition policies recognize the multifaceted nature of interventions necessary to accelerate progress in nutrition.
The anganwadi at a slum in southeast Bengaluru opens at 10.30am, but a group of barefooted children, clad in old and torn clothes throng the premises by 9am itself.
This publication provides an overview on the main issues debated during the development and passage of the India’s National Food Security Act (2013), which legally binds national and state governments to extend far-reaching social protection to the country’s population.
The Ministry of Women and Child Development has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Vedanta to develop and modernise 4000 Anganwadis in the country.
To enhance community-based initiatives in educating mothers and caregivers on nutrition issues, the West Bengal government is observing National Nutrition Week till next Monday.
In India, policies are in place to address the set of nutrition-specific interventions that will accelerate progress in nutrition, if implemented at scale.
PANAJI: Despite the stipulated requirement of a minimum area of 60 sq m for an anganwadi centre, when 713 centres in the state were selected for scrutiny audit, 71% of them were found to be functio
Question raised in Lok Sabha on ICDS Scheme, 31/07/2015. Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) Scheme is a centrally sponsored scheme being implemented by the State Governments/UT Administrations.
