The guidelines issued by the Ministry have also mentioned that the fortified rice kernel should resemble the ordinary rice to the maximum possible limit. In his Independence Day speech from the ramparts of the Red Fort, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that his government will begin rice fortification under different government schemes including Public Distribution … Read more
The UN’s State of Food Security and Nutrition report highlights that last year 21% of children under 5 were stunted, 6.9% were too thin and 5.6% overweight. By Swaran Singh An invisible crisis is building in the wake of COVID-19. According to a UN report titled The State of Food Security and Nutrition 2020, the … Read more
Adolescent period is our great window of opportunity to break this intergenerational malnutrition cycle. By Dr. Jaideep Malhotra For any country to do well as far as the health of its population is concerned, the focus has to be at the right points of breaking the intergenerational cycle of Malnutrition. According to UNICEF, almost 80% … Read more
NITI Aayog said that the dashboard will help the government provide data in order to identify a cluster of malnutrition cases that needs to be tackled at the local level with the use of data science. Fighting Malnutrition: Under Swasth Bharat Prerak Programme, a malnutrition hotspot dashboard has been developed in Balrampur, according to NITI … Read more