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Bharat Dogra
Tragic Implications of Sinking Nutrition Budget
15 Feb 2021
Nutrition standards across the country are falling and this is directly linked to the falling expenditure on critical nutrition schemes.
Ditsa Bhattacharya
Health Budget 2021-22: Where is the ‘Unprecedented’ Hike in Allocation?
01 Feb 2021
‘The increase in allocation to the Department of Health and Family and Welfare is not extraordinary and the allocation for nutrition even saw a decrease of 27%. Hence, the claim of an increase of 137…
Praneta Jha
Budget Fails Indian Children Yet Again
01 Feb 2020
Critical nutrition schemes see zero to marginal hikes in allocations.
Ditsa Bhattacharya
Only 6.4% of Indian Children Get Minimum Adequate Diet, Says Study
11 Oct 2019
The Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey, the first ever nationally representative nutrition survey of children and adolescents in India was released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
Ronak Chhabra
UN Report: Modi Government Fails To Reduce Child Stunting As Per NNM Target
26 Jun 2019
Our current rate of reduction in child stunting is 1 per cent per year, at which rate — the slowest among the developing countries — 31.4 per cent of India’s children will be stunted by 2022.
Newsclick Report
Mid-Day Meals: Activists Slam National Institute of Nutrition For ‘Unscientific’ Report On Akshaya Patra
13 May 2019
Run by religious organisation ISKCON, the Akshaya Patra Foundation has been refusing to supply eggs and even onion and garlic in the food supplied for government schoolchildren in Karnataka.
Amit Sengupta
Very Poor Implementation of Schemes on Public Health Nutrition: Vandana Prasad
28 Sep 2017
Dr. Amit Sengupta talks to Dr. Vandana Prasad, national convenor of the Public Health Resource Network. They talk about the state of public nutrition in India. Statistics tell us that more than 40%…
Bodapati Srujana
Wealth Inequality In India
23 Jul 2016
Today, wealth inequality in India is much sharper than ever before. The top 1% that owned a little more than a third of India's wealth in 2000, now own more than half the wealth in the country.
Amit Sengupta
Lessons from the National Family Health Survey
06 Feb 2016
The Fourth National Family Health Survey (NFHS 4) was conducted in 2015 and preliminary results from a few states are now available. NFHS 4 follows similar countrywide surveys conducted in 1992 (NFHS…
Amit Sengupta
Suppression of Child Malnutrition Survey Data to Shield Gujarat
09 Jul 2015
Mired by controversies and scandals, the NDA Government has now secured another rare achievement. Recent disclosures, first reported in the ‘Economist’ magazine, indicate that the government has…