Plugging gaps in child care, nutrition
India’s ICDS-anganwadi is one of the most extensive government-created networks of child and mother care in the world.
India’s ICDS-anganwadi is one of the most extensive government-created networks of child and mother care in the world.
The unsavoury dispute arose in Nuagaon village under Ghalimala Gram Panchayat, where residents had boycotted the centre for nearly three months.
Delhi Women and Child Development (WCD) Minister Kailash Gahlot on Monday visited Anganwadi centers in the Kusumpur Pahari area of New Delhi district to review the services provided under the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), formerly known as Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan.
ntire family of Sheikh Rasu, a resident of Muslim Para in booth 118 of Nabagram panchayat, under Pandaveswar block of West Burdwan have taken shelter in the local ICDS centre after subsidence in their house.
As many as 13 school kids fell sick at a village in West Bengal's Bankura district after consuming mushrooms which they cooked at an Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) centre.
The revised guidelines, framed by the department, emphasize at bolstering the existing child protection mechanisms and introducing provisions to ensure that such children are protected under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015.
In the panchayat areas, the villagers and farmers seem unswayed by the measures as most of the villagers, in the early hours of the day, trot to the vegetable market at Baidyabati near the Tarakeshwar and Delhi highway junction, making them vulnerable to virus contagion.
All harvests are invaluable but this time the harvest will be more important because our country and the entire world are passing through an unprecedented crisis.
As reports of malnutrition in the midst of affluent subsistence trickle in from different parts of the country, it is…
According to a survey report prepared by the district administration, there were at least 391 children below 5 years who were suffering from malnutrition till July 2018 in the 23 blocks of Burdwan East district.
