Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that the objective behind constituting Atal Child Health and Nutrition Mission is to rid the State of the curse of malnutrition and also all-round healthcare of children. Chouhan also instructed for chalking out a strategy to implement the mission with community participation.

RASHME SEHGAL
NEW DELHI

Not only has food grain production declined in the last decade but despite high inflation, food expenditure levels of the rural public have remained frozen at Rs 87 to buy 9 kg of grain

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ACCORDING to paediatric specialists and nutritionists, around 240 children die every day in Bangladesh because of malnutrition and about 110 babies for not getting breast milk within one hour of birth. The figure has been estimated on the basis of some reports published by the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey, UNICEF and Lancet.

Last week, the central government celebrated five successful years of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and its outreach programmes. But an international report from the voluntary group Save the Children, to be released on May 3, comes as a dampener. The figures show India topping the global list for child mortality under five years.

In the land that once sheltered Lord Ram, Mawasi tribals tell SHRIYA MOHAN that they struggle to feed their children every day

Delhi with a malnutrition rate of 47% among the urban poor and an overall rate of 35% in the city, is much worse than even Sub-Sahara at 33%, stated experts at a consultation on

NEW DELHI:

Shivpuri: Kartar Adivasi, a one-year-old, weighed just 6.342 kg when he was admitted to the nutritional rehabilitation centre (NRC) at Narwar in Madhya Pradesh.

Born to Banwari and Binia of village Kiranpura (Barkhadi), the child was kept at the NRC for 14 days and then under followup care at his house, with the result that his weight increased to 9.3 kg by the time he was 15 months old.