THE state government's initiative to distribute rice at Re 1 per kg to the poor cannot ensure food security, unless and until other essential commodities needed to tackle malnourishment are simultaneously given at subsidised prices to the people, said Sabine Pabst, Asia coordinator of Food First Information and Action Network (FIAN), a German-based NGO.

Madhura Swaminathan

The poverty line that the Tendulkar Committee proposes depends on reduced calorie consumption, and fails to provide for reasonable household expenditures on schooling and health.

Pune Maharastra still figures among states that show a high prevalence of malnutrition and it is the slum areas in urban pockets that have an increasing incidence, said a report on the nutritional
crisis in Maharashtra. The report also observed that not only are half the women anaemic in the state, almost half the children under five are stunted.

Shireen Vakil Miller

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.

THE 97TH Indian Science Congress is in session at Thiruvananthapuram (January 3 to 7, 2010), the capital of the state of Kerala.

Hyderabad, Dec. 21: Malnutrition has become a real danger particularly among growing children thanks to the skyrocketing prices of essential commodities in the market.