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Representational Image Twitter ICDS And Mid-Day Meal Scheme To Provide Fortified Rice From April About 65 per cent of India s population consumes rice as a staple food. Fortification of rice is a cost-effective and complementary strategy to increase vitamin and mineral content in diets and a step towards nutritional security PTI | Mar 12, 2021 In a bid to ensure nutritional security, thegovernment has decided to scale up the distribution of fortified rice and start its supply through IntegratedChild Development Services and Mid-Day Meal scheme from April, a senior food ministryofficial said on Thursday. Currently, fortified rice is being distributed viaration shops, also called the public distribution system (PDS), in one district each in six states out of the15 states identified for implementation of a central scheme on a pilot basis for three months in 2019-20. ....
Anganwadi team interacting with a beneficiary at her home in Datauli village How Anganwadi Workers Changed The Lives Of Women And Children In Haryana The tireless efforts of the Anganwadi workers and the officials of the women and child development department are bringing in significant improvement in the realm of health and nutrition of Haryana There was a time when people in Ganaur Tehsil of the Sonipat district in Haryana hardly felt any need to take special care of a pregnant woman in their family. Following the tradition, they relied on the life experience and wisdom of elderly women in the family. For all medical assistance, they engaged a ‘daai’, a local midwife who was not qualified to offer her services. People hardly took pregnant women for regular medical check-ups at nearby public health centres. They did not even go for the immunization of pregnant women and babies. In most cases, babies were delivered at home with ....
Representational Image PTI Empowering Women In Family Planning Helps Mother and Child Gender Inequality denies Indian women reproductive choices, which is linked to maternal and children’s mortality and health and nutrition outcomes. The theme of International Women’s Day 2021 is Choose to Challenge. This theme urges us all to take action for equality by raising awareness against bias to build a gender-equal world. The health sub-theme for this year recognises a women’s health as her capital and encourages women to be empowered enough to make informed reproductive decisions. In this piece, I strive to raise awareness about the lack of control that women in India face over their choice of contraceptive use. ....
Representational Image Planning A Kitchen Garden? Here’s A Primer For You Stop fretting over pesticides and toxic chemicals in your food. Grow fresh vegetables and fruits at home. At a time when the whole world is rooting for organic farming and trying to re-visit and revise the farm-to-fork culture, it makes sense to use your backyard or terrace for a homegrown garden. That little patch of green is not only soothing for your eyes, it also delivers fresh homegrown veggies and fruits which are as safe as you want them to be. Here’s the fundamental 4‘W’s and 1‘H’ to follow when you start, to ensure that you get it right/ ....