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The Mid-day Meal Scheme for school children is another such intervention. However, challenges of effective implementation persist. (Representational Image)

How to tackle malnutrition effectively

January 29, 2024 10:02 am

Government programmes to fortify staples should be supplemented with initiatives on balanced diets

HC summons Nandurbar district collector over child deaths due to malnutrition

September 13, 2022 12:55 pm

The court also pulled up the state government about a large number of vacant posts for doctors in the region.

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‘For addressing malnutrition, we need to go down to the village level’

October 07, 2019 3:27 am

According to the findings of the India State Level Disease Burden Initiative, published in the Lancet Child and Adolescent Health recently, if trends upto 2017 continue the National Nutrition Mission (NNM) 2022 and WHO and UNICEF targets 2030 will not be achieved in most Indian states.

Palghar: Parents migrate to earn bread, undernourishment kills children

April 11, 2019 9:26 pm

Child deaths, owing to chronic illnesses and undernourishment, are a reality in Palghar, which is situated barely three hours away from Mumbai. Activists put this down mainly to the annual pattern of migration for work.

Awareness Campaign In Bastis Malnutrition death of three sisters serves as call for action for 50 youth

Awareness Campaign in Delhi's bastis: Malnutrition death of three sisters serves as call for action for 50 youth

January 09, 2019 1:01 am

Working alongside social workers from various organisations, the youth have been visiting bastis in five districts since August, armed with a petition

As malnutrition deaths in tribal areas continue, Bombay HC raps Maharashtra government

October 05, 2017 3:57 am

“Are you boasting of your achievements? If you were actually implementing the schemes, you should be able to say that there is not even one death (because of malnutrition),” the bench said.