Nutritious diet expert of Department for International Development (DFID), Steves Collin called on Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan here on Thursday. He held talks with the Chief Minister on the efforts for early solution to the problem of serious malnutrition. It may be mentioned that DFID is extending technical and financial cooperation to Woman and Child Development Department.

Days after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described malnutrition as national shame, the Centre’s move to pump in massive resources into hunger-related schemes are pending the Planning Commission’s approval.

The project appraisal and management division (PAMD) of the Planning Commission has objected to women and child development (WCD) ministry’s demand of over `2 lakh crores for restructuring of the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme Launched in 1975, the ICDS scheme aims at providing supplementary nutrition to children in the age group of 0-6 years.

Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday said the skewed sex ratio among children in Delhi was a matter of concern and her government was working on improving the gender disparity. Census 2011 reveals that the Capital’s sex ratio among children up to six years has dropped from 868 girls per 1,000 boys in 2001 to 866 girls. The national average dropped from 927 to 914 girls during this period.

The government is likely to announce setting up of a national programme to deal with the danger posed by Japanese Encephalitis (JE) and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) on Tuesday.

Officials in the Union health ministry disclosed that the GoM, which is slated to meet on Tuesday, is likely to announce the programme as had in-principle decided of it earlier.

The National Mission for Empowerment of Women will soon establish a state-level resource centre to bring about coordination among the schemes of different government departments to ensure the empowerment of all sections of women.

This was disclosed during a consultative meet and workshop on Operationalisation of NMEW in Assam organised by the ministry of women and child development in collabora

Minister of State (independent charge) for Woman and Child Development and Minister In-charge of Khandwa district Ranjana Baghel launched School chale hum abhiyan and Shala Praveshutsav at Khandwa.

Addressing a programme organised at Anandnagar middle school, Baghel said that the resolution of the Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to make Madhya Pradesh a golden state would be fulfilled only

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New Delhi: The health and women and child development ministries have refused to give an affidavit to the Supreme Court on how many children die of hunger in India every year.

UNICEF says 50% of all the deaths of children aged below five years are from malnutrition. That works out to 2,438 children dying every day for lack of food.

Concerned over the sharp decline in the child sex ratio as reflected in the provisional Census figures, the Centre on Saturday reconstituted the Central Supervisory Board set up under the Pre-conception & Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1994 (PC & PNDT Act).

Chaired by the Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare and co-chaired by the Minister of Women and Child Development, the Board

With a view to empowering adolescent girls, a 'Sabal Yojna' is being implemented in 15 districts of the state. The State Cabinet has sanctioned the Yojna on February 7 at its meeting. Under the Yojna, living standard of the adolescent girls will be improved with paying attention on their health and ensuring nutrition meals.

BHUBANESWAR: Women and Child Development Minister Prafulla Samal today admitted that though there was a 20-point guideline for the procurement of dal these were never enforced in a proper manner at the district level. The dal was meant to be given to schoolchildren and pregnant women under the mid-day meal (MDM) scheme and supplementary nutrition programme (SNP).