They will wash their hands in the prescribed manner across the country today

NEW DELHI: About 10-crore schoolchildren will be washing their hands in the prescribed manner across the country on Wednesday as part of the global exercise to imbue better sanitary habits for a healthy living.

Alliance with UNICEF in question even though the Ministry of Women and Child Development is yet to take a decision on the conflict of interest between public-private partnerships and government policies, the ministry has launched a five-year programme on child welfare in collaboration with unicef in seven states. unicef, which often implements child nutrition programmes in India,

Participants in a workshop on Wednesday urged the poultry farm owners to take adequate bio-security measures to check spread of bird flu.
The avian flu can be checked only by ensuring bio-security at poultry farms, they told the workshop held at Natore civil surgeon

Chennai

DESPITE various schemes and programmes being offered to improve nutrition and child well-being, the National Family Health Survey III conducted in 2005-06 has revealed startling statistics about the level of child nutrition in the State.Over 70 per cent of children in the State aged between six months and three years are anaemic. Their mothers are not doing any better: over half of all married women are also anaemic.

Even as the latest UNICEF report has found that the present maternal mortality rate in India leaves the country lagging in meeting the United Nations

Rs. 1 billion drinking water supply scheme, benefiting about 50,000 people in the Hambantota District affected by drought for 8 months of the year, built by UNICEF will be declared open by President Mahinda Rajapaksa and UNICEF Resident Representative in Sri Lanka Philippe Duamelle on Friday (29).
Minister of Water Supply Mahinda Amaraweera told

Aarti Dhar

Five-year plan to also ensure safe water and sanitation, besides child protection

Setting new goals: Minister of State for Women and Child Development Renuka Chowdhury with Representative of UNICEF Karin Hulshof during the launch of the GoI-UNICEF programme of co-operation 2008-2012 in New Delhi on Thursday.

NEW DELHI: India and the United Nations Children's Fund on Thursday launched a five year action plan to help India achieve its national development goals.

The government of India and the Unicef today launched a five-year (2008-2012) action plan to help India combat the challenges of excessive malnutrition, high infant and maternal mortality rates, lack of quality education, safe water and sanitation. With seven years to go for the realisation of millennium development goals (MDGs), India is way off in terms of eradicating extreme hunger and poverty with 34.3 per cent of its people still live on less than one dollar a day.

The world is not on track to meet one of its key millennium development goals