Two years since launch, officials apathy affects welfare plan ...

88.90 lakh adolescent girls benefit by Sabla

About 88.76 lakh adolescent girls had been provided better nutrition under the 'Sabla'(Empowered) scheme of the Ministry of Women & Child Development, by December 2012. Also, 14,654 adolescent girls were mainstreamed to the school system in 2012-13 ...

OUR CORRESPONDENT KATHUA : Two awareness camps were organised at village Barnoti and Sounthal under the scheme SABLA separately by Child Development Project Officer Barnoti which was attended by large number of women, adolescent girls and other local people ...

The Government of India enacted the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act (PCMA) 2006, prohibiting the solemnisation of child marriages and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. This Act came into force with effect from 1st November ...

The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2012 report, released by Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations, has stated that there is a reduction of 34.9 per cent in prevalence of undernourishment from 1990-1992 to 2010-2012 ...

The Millennium Development Goal (MDG) -1 is regarding Eradication of Extreme Poverty and Hunger, which have 2 targets namely, (i) Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the percentage of population below the National Poverty Line and (ii) Halve, between 1990 ...

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As per the National Family Health Survey-3 (NFHS-3), 2005-06, the percentage of acute malnourished (weight-for- height) children under 5 years is 19.8 % in whole of the country. The problem of malnutrition is complex, multi-dimensional and ...

The estimated number of underweight children with 42.5 per cent would be 5,62,37,872 in under five population as per National Family Health Survey 3 (NFHS3- 2005-06). The Government has accorded high priority to the issue of malnutrition in the ...