Explained: Children Suffer as Govt. Fails to Ensure Nutrition During Lockdown

The world’s two biggest child nutrition programmes – the Integrated Child Development Scheme and the Mid-day Meal programme – run by the Government of India suffered a severe jolt in March and April this year as it failed to provide the allocated foodgrain to these schemes during the sudden and ill-conceived nationwide lockdown. In this video, Right to Food activist Dipa Sinha talks about the present as well as future implications of the lockdown on the most invisibilised group - children and women from marginalised communities.