• Key Facts

• Farmers' suicides

• Rural distress

• Debt Trap

• Unemployment

• Migration

• GENDER

• Displacement

• Right to Food  

• Right to Work (MG-NREGA)

• Social Audit

• Right to Information

• Right to Education

• Forest and Tribal Rights

• Policy/ Action so far

• Poverty and inequality

• Hunger Overview

• Malnutrition

• HDI Overview

• Education  

• Public Health

• Mid Day Meal Scheme (MDMS)

• PDS/ Ration/ Food Security  

• MDGs

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• Impact on Agriculture

• Time Bomb Ticking

• Social Justice

• Access to Justice

• Human Rights

• Corruption

• General Insecurity

• Disaster & Relief

Change in welfare plan funding pattern

stricts or societies operating in states, and will instead provide the money to the state exchequer, having concluded that the existing system was the reason for multi-crore scams like the one in the National Rural Health Mission. The new system to put funds in the consolidated fund of states is apparently aimed at putting central funds under the scanner of audits and various other checks that seem to have escaped the health mission irregularitie

A constitutional contradiction-Manoj Rai

ngthening local governance in India? The involvements of panchayats, for example, in various central and state schemes, programmes and processes are often cosmetic in nature. Why, for example, do the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) or Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) have separate departmental implementation committees such as VHSNC (village health sanitation and nutrition committees) and VEC (village education committee) in every village? These commi

Urban Health Mission to cover 7.75 crore people

public health care system, targeted outreach services and involvement of the community and urban local bodies. The NUHM will be on the lines of the Health and Family Welfare Ministry's flagship National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) launched in 2005 to address the health challenges of rural India. The interventions under this sub-mission will aim to result in the reduction of the Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) and the Maternal Mortality Ratio (M

Hunger deaths cast a cloud on Kerala district

he past four months, but NGOs working with the tribals say more than 40 children died in the past three months alone. A random survey of 700 men and women by the Kerala health department and the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) said 483 were suffering from severe malnutrition and anemia. State social welfare minister MK Muneer, who visited the hills on Monday, said: "Some government agencies failed to report the ground situation. Fo

Government admits it has failed to meet RTE targets-Prashant K Nanda

schedule of implementation. RTE is one of three key flagship social programmes of the Union government, the other two being the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and the National Rural Health Mission. RTE is even more significant to its poll fortunes next year as it came into force on 1 April 2010, during the second term of the UPA. The other two schemes came into force during its first term. HRD ministry offici

When schemes turn anaemic -Anumeha Yadav

has been the story in most districts in Jharkhand after the Central government discontinued supplying medical kits containing IFA, vitamin A, zinc tablets and Oral Rehydration Solution packets under National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) to States. “In 2010, state governments were asked to do this. Here, district civil surgeons were asked to procure this but some bought expensive non-generic IFA tablets and exhausted funds. A month back the tende

UPA’s addition to health budget falls short of requirements-Kirthi Rao and Vidya Krishnan

ase is barely 10% over the previous year.” Sengupta said. The budgetary allocation for the health sector in 2012-13 is Rs.37,330 crore. The unified health mission, an expanded version of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) that includes urban areas, has got Rs.21,239 crore of this. The allocation for urban areas is just Rs.0.89 crore.   “The allocations are laughable. It has been 1.5 years since the HLEG document was

A model that delivers-Ramya Kannan

ading it on to its much-feted achievements in maternal and child health care,” explains A. Padmanabhan, Advisor, Public Health Administration, National Health Systems Resource Centre, under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM). The tipping point came, said Dr. Padmanabhan, who has also served as Director of Public Health in the State, when people began asking for more. “People started protesting and complaining. They started dema

The Doctor Only Knows Economics-Lola Nayar and Amba Batra Bakshi

ed after a proper selection process, only 900 joined the service,” disclosed a spokesman of the Uttar Pradesh health directorate. Because of the shortage of doctors in government hospitals, the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) had started to recruit those trained in the Ayurvedic, Unani, Siddha and homoeopathic streams, but the process was stalled by a Rs 5,000 crore scam. So the poor continue to suffer. In a general ward of Krishnanagar

Sonia Gandhi to launch child health scheme under National Rural Health Mission

-The Economic Times UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi would launch a new scheme on Wednesday to improve child healthcare under the National Rural Health Mission, under which every child younger than six years would be screened for 30 select deficiencies and disorders. To be kicked off at Palghar, a tribal block in Maharashtra's Thane district, the scheme envisages issuing a follow-up or treatment guidance to children, depending on their symptoms an