Gargi Parsai

NEW DELHI: The Centre has asked the States to put a cap on the number of Below Poverty Line (BPL) beneficiaries under the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) for purposes of theproposed National Food Security Bill. It also wants the BPL population identified afresh now, and every five years thereafter, as part of the TPDS reform.

Feed malnutrition with policy India has eight million malnourished children. Yet the country has no policy on what food should be given to treat malnutrition. Lack of policy has led international development agencies to adopt varied approaches like giving highly nutritious ready-to-use food. Such measures have often led to confusion and stand-offs with the government. unicef, for example,

Gargi Parsai

NEW DELHI: Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on Saturday favoured a universal public distribution system but added that there could be a multiplicity of vehicles for delivery to have a wider reach and equitable supply of food grains to the needy.

MUKESH RANJAN
To witness abject poverty, as it exists in subSaharan Ethiopia, one need not travel to that country.
Similar situation exists in India, as Madhya Pradesh (MP) has human development indicators which match the Ethiopian reality.

New Delhi: In a critical comment on India, one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, the World Bank said robust economic growth and food security alone would not remove the tag of being

World Bank will provide 40,000 US dollar as grant to each of the 20 selected civil society organisations of South Asian countries to address the issue of improving infant and child nutrition.

In order to bring down the incidences of malnutrition in the country, the Women and Child Development Ministry has revised nutritional and feeding norms for the supplementary nutrition programme (SNP) in the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme.