...Mid Day Meal Scheme ECONOMIC JOURNALISM REPORT Submitted By: Mohammad Atif, B.Sc TY-A Roll no(104) SYMBIOSIS SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS Submitted to: Ishita Ghosh, Assistant Professor, Symbiosis School of Economics Contents Introduction 2 ABSTRACT 3 History, Management and Finance of The Mid-Day Meal Scheme 4 ROLE OF HONOURABLE SUPREME COURT IN IMPLEMENTATION OF MDMS 6 Achievements And Problems 8 Early Achievements Of the MDMS 8 Universalization of Primary Education: A Misplaced Priority Under MDMS 10 Conclusion 12 Bibliography 13 Introduction The situation of children in India has been aptly described a ‘silent emergency’.India has one of the worst indicators when it comes to health and education. Nearly 50% of all Indian children are undernourished, whether we use the weigh-for-age or height-for-age criterion. Although there has been some improvement in educational indicators in recent times, the goal of universal elementary education remains quite far, especially in context of girls. Wider awareness of these issues has led to significant initiatives such as the recognition of elementary education as a fundamental right, the introduction of an “educational cess” and the launch of “Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan” (SSA). Another major intervention is the Mid-Day Meal Scheme (hereinafter “MDMS”),which was launched in 1995 with the aim of giving a boost to “universalization of primary, by increasing enrolment, retention and attendance and simultaneously impacting...
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...Major health problems in india : Major health problems in india communicable disease problem population problem environmental sanitation problem medical care problem nutritional problem COMMUNITY NUTRITION PROGRAMMES: INTEGRATED CHILD DEVELOPMENT SERVICE (ICDS) SCHEME : Integrated Child Development Service (ICDS) scheme was launched on 2nd October, 1975 (5th Five year Plan) in pursuance of the National Policy For Children started in 33 experimental blocks Success of the scheme led to its expansion to 2996 projects by the end of March 1994. Now the goal (Ninth Five Year Plan ) is universalization of ICDS throughout the country. Beneficiaries : Beneficiaries 1. Children below 6 years 2. Pregnant and lactating women 3. Women in the age group of 15-44 years 4. Adolescent girls in selected blocks Objectives : 1. Improve the nutrition and health status of children in the age group of 0-6 years 2. Lay the foundation for proper psychological, physical and social development of the child 3. Effective coordination and implementation of policy among the various departments 4. Enhance the capability of the mother to look after the normal health and nutrition needs through proper nutrition and health education. The Package of services provided by ICDS : 1. Supplementary nutrition, Vitamin-A, Iron and Folic Acid 2. Immunization 3. Health check-ups 4. Referral services 5. Treatment of minor illnesses 6. Nutrition and health education to women 7. Pre-school...
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...Onor O’Neill Right to food is indeed a laudable national commitment, it’s apt to remember that ensuring food security to the impoverished million in this country is not a government charity but a Constitutional mandate of the States. Article 21 of the Indian Constitution provides that ‘no person shall be deprived of his life and liberty except according to the procedure established by law’. It has received the widest possible interpretations. Under the canopy of Article 21 of the Constitution, so many rights have found shelter, growth and nourishment.1 While interpreting the dimensions of life and liberty guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution, the Supreme Court in Chameli Singh V. State of 1 P.M.Bakshi, The Constitution of India,...
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...The Black Money Bill-During the Budget Session, Parliament passed the Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Bill, 2015 -30% tax on undisclosed income or the value of an undisclosed asset held abroad by a resident assessee, starting from assessment year 2016–17 (tax year 2015–16) -tough penalties and jail terms on Indian residents’ unaccounted incomes and wealth holding in foreign locations that have avoided the taxman’s scrutiny - it applies only to illegal money held or earned abroad, though there is the promise of a separate bill for unaccounted/unreported incomes held in different forms within the country. -Implementing the law, of course, requires identifying undisclosed income stashed or invested in a foreign location. That, as past experience reveals, is neither easy nor rigorously pursued -the Black Money Bill seems to be just another headline-grabbing effort at making a show that the NDA government is keeping to its campaign promise of bringing back black money held abroad by Indians -it is not the weakness of the law that results in the accumulation of the black money, but the failure of the monitoring and prosecuting mechanism to prevent the generation of illegal incomes and identify tax evasion even on legally earned incomes -In fact, the way the tax laws and the system are structured, merely unearthing what is black and making it white would not, in itself, make much difference to the nature and the outcome of India’s...
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...have their origins in England and surrounding countries. Many of the ingredients and ideas were imported from places such as China, North America, and India during the British Empire as a result immigration after the war (“Ploughman’s Lunch- Icons of England”, 2007). English food was historically characterized by its simplicity and reliance on high quality of natural produce during the Early Modern Period. Many of the qualities taken from this era can still be found in modern recipes for bread, cheese, roasted and stewed meats, meat and game pies, broths and boiled vegetables, and freshwater and saltwater fish. (“Ploughman’s Lunch- Icons of England”, 2007) Other now famous meals, such as fish and chips, were once street food sold by vendors to pedestrians on the street. England has now adopted new cuisines like curries from India and Bangladesh, and stir-fries from China and Thailand. Along with these foreign foods, French and Italian dishes are also now popular among English inhabitants. Britain also took to the fast food trend brought about from the United States. England continues to absorb culinary ideas from around the world while still keeping to their roots of natural produce and agriculture. English Breakfast On an average day a typical English person might begin the day with just a light breakfast. This morning meal might consist of cereal, scrambled or boiled eggs, or sometimes poached kippers, a type of fish. Sometimes a typical continental breakfast or porridge...
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...Since the older times, women have been treated as second rate citizens of all across the globe. The situation is almost the same everywhere-irrespective of the developed country or the developing country-caste, community, colour or creed a position which is comparable in many ways, with that of racial minorities. Women have been relegated to secondary position despite the fact that they numerically constitute about half the world population today. This situation has caused immense loss to their self-dignity as human beings and also their independent entities, associated with men, apart from other matter, in context with intellectual and professional capability. In the very beginning of civilization, women enjoyed a respectable position in society-at par with men. They actively participated in social, religious affairs as well as in warfare. The social, religious ceremonies were considered incomplete unless women participated in them. However, it was their physical constitution which acted as hurdles on the way to doing their various different difficult tasks. Gradually, they became dependent on men for food, protection for their other necessities. It was due to the strong built-up of men they risked their lives in course of hunting and food collection. It is really ironical that superiority is not accorded to the fair sex who are responsible for carrying forward lives on this planet but to men who have muscle power with the help of which they can subjugate others. Later, woman...
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...MADHYA PRADESH HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION SUMMER INTERNSHIP -2012 TOPIC: HUMAN RIGHTS- RIGHT TO FOOD ACKNOWLEDGMENT I owe a great many thanks to a great many people who helped and supported me during the preparation of this project. My deepest thanks to the Deputy Secretary Mr. Kuldeep Jain, the guide of the project for guiding and correcting various documents of my research with due attention and care. He has taken to go through the project and make necessary changes as and when needed. I also thank other staff and members of MPHRC for extending their support whenever I was in need of it. My deep sense of gratitude to my institute, National Law Unversity, Odisha for providing me with the opportunity to work at such a brilliant institution in the field of Human Rights. Thanks and appreciation to my co-internees at MPHRC for their support. Introduction The right to food is a human right. It protects the right of all human beings to live in dignity, free from hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition. The right to food is not about charity, but about ensuring that all people have the capacity to feed themselves in dignity. The right to food is protected under international human rights and humanitarian law and the correlative state obligations are equally well-established under international law. The right to food is recognized in the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), as well as a...
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...based in Kolkata,[2] India. It sells its Britannia and Tiger brands of biscuit throughout India. Britannia has an estimated 38% market share.[3] The Company's principal activity is the manufacture and sale of biscuits, bread, rusk, cakes and dairy products. BISCUITS The company's factories have an annual capacity of 433,000 tonnes.[3] The brand names of biscuits include VitaMarieGold, Tiger, Nutrichoice Junior,Good day, 50 50, Treat, Pure Magic, Milk Bikis, Good Morning, Bourbon, Thin Arrowroot, Nice, Little Hearts and many more. Tiger, the mass market brand, realised $150.75 million in sales including exports to countries including the U.S. and Australia, or 20% of Britannia revenues in 2006. VARIANTS New Britannia Tiger Britannia Tiger, one of the biggest brands in the kids segment, has re-invented itself to revolutionize the concept of kids' nutrition in the country. Equipped with a new vision of leading the kids' nutrition space, Britannia Tiger has revamped its offerings to embody fun and energy on one hand and health and nutrition on the other. Enriched with growth nutrients across all its variants -Glucose, Krunch Cookies and Creams, Britannia Tiger comes with the credo of 'Roz Badho'. Aimed at addressing every mother's concern on their kid's nutrition, Britannia Tiger has undergone a considerable shift in its product offering, transforming itself into a healthier and tastier avatar. Britannia NutriChoice Oat Cookies For the first time in India we have Britannia...
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...EFFECT OF CHANGES IN INFRASTRUCTURAL FACILITIES ON SCHOOL ENROLLMENT RATES AND LEARNING LEVELS IN RURAL INDIA Sara Abraham Table of Contents Sl. No. | Content | Page No. | 1. | Methodology | 1 | 2. | Sampling Method | 1 | 3. | Scope and Challenges faced | 1 | 4. | Introduction | 2 | 5. | Performance of States | 2 | 6. | Inferences and Concluding Remarks | 4 | 7. | References | 5 | 8. | Appendix | 6 | Methodology The primary data source for this project is the ASER reports from 2007,2009-2012. Analysis of the obtained data has been done by constructing state-wise tables for school infrastructural facilities and studying the trends in both, time-series and cross-sectional data. Only disaggregated data was available for school enrollment and learning levels (disaggregated age-group wise and gender-wise. While such data prove useful for analysis of gender, age and social gaps, for this project, they were more of an impediment). Ranking of different states was done for all of the disaggregated data and a weighted average (equal weights assigned to each state) was taken to determine the final ranking of states in terms of school attendance and learning levels. Working papers from CDS and DSE, obtained from the respective websites and EPW articles have also been used to aid the analysis. Cross-checking as to whether the inferences drawn from the analyses are in line with other reports and studies have also been done. Sampling Method A sample of eight...
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...Why India cut down on calories as it grew (The Indian Paradox) As Indian economy grows, data broadly shows a fall in calorie consumption. By Hyacinth Zia The Indian economy has recently grown at historically unprecedented rates and is now one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. Real GDP per head grew at 3.95% a year from 1980 to 2005, and at 5.4% a year from 2000 to 2005. Measured at international prices, real per capita income in India, which was two-thirds of Kenya’s in 1950, and about the same as Nigeria’s, is now two and a half times as large as per capita income in both countries. Real per capita consumption has also grown rapidly, at 2.2% a year in the 1980s, at 2.5% a year in the 1990s, and at 3.9% a year from 2000 to 2005. Although the household survey data show much slower rates of per capita consumption growth than do these national accounts...
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...My dear fellow-citizens, Brothers, sisters and dear children, I greet you all on this Independence Day. Today is certainly a day of joy for us. But on this celebration of independence we also feel pain in our hearts that our brothers and sisters in uttrakhand had to face devastation about two months back. Our deepest sympathies are with all the families that suffered loss of life or property. I want to assure the people of Uttarakhand today that the whole country stands with them in this moment of crisis. Our government is working with all the resources at its command to rehabilitate those whose houses have been destroyed and rebuild damaged infrastructure. Our army, paramilitary forces and numerous officers and staff of the Central and State governments worked in difficult conditions in partnership with the common people to perform an outstanding task in providing relief to those who were stranded. We especially pay homage to the officers and men of the Air Force, ITBP and NDRF who sacrificed their lives to save others. We are also deeply pained that we lost the submarine, INS Sindurakshak in an accident yesterday. Eighteen brave sailors are feared to have lost their lives. The accident is all the more painful because the Navy had recently achieved two major successes in the form of its first nuclear submarine, INS Arihant and the aircraft carrier, INS Vikrant. We pay homage to the brave hearts we have lost. We also congratulate the Navy on its successes. Brothers and...
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...ECONOMICS TERM PAPER Theme: Health expenditure by Government in India Title: Health care and expenditure: an analysis of Indian Government’s Welfarism Name: Prakhil Mishra Semester : IV Roll no.: 13BAL027 Table of contents Sr.No. | Content | Page number | 1 | Abstract | 03 | 2 | Introduction | 04 | 3 | Why health expenditure is important | 04 | 4 | Trends in public spending | 05 | 5 | Core areas of spending | 10 | 6 | Conclusion and critical comments | 11 | 7 | Learning outcomes | 12 | 8 | Bibliography | 12 | Abstract Healthcare is a prime indicator of the development in a country. It is the basic function of a state to look after the needs of its citizens pertaining to health and nutrition. In India, there are high numbers of malnourished and undernourished people, and most of them are children under the age of fourteen. Health expenditure in India is a holistic approach of the government as a welfare state to ensure proper distribution at highly subsidized rates for the resource less people. The paper deliberates upon the government spending on health (Where it spends and how much it spends) and tracing of the changing trends in entailment of expenditure. Key matter of contention includes: * Introduction to public spending on health * Why spending on health is important * Changing trends in public spending on health and family welfare * Core areas where spending is done: analysis with the help of laws * Conclusion and critical analysis Key...
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...104120 Introduction A restaurant prepares and serves food and drink to customers in return for money. Meals are generally served and eaten on premises, but many restaurants also offer take-out and food delivery services. Restaurants vary greatly in appearance and offerings, including a wide variety of the main chef's cuisines and service models. A fast food restaurant, also known as a Quick Service Restaurant or QSR within the industry itself, is a specific type of restaurant characterized both by its fast food cuisine and by minimal table service. Food served in fast food restaurants typically caters to a limited menu, is cooked in bulk in advance and kept hot, is finished and packaged to order, and is usually available ready to take away, though seating may be provided. Fast food restaurants are usually part of a restaurant chain or franchise operation, which provisions standardized ingredients and/or partially prepared foods and supplies to each restaurant through controlled supply channels. Variations on the fast food restaurant concept include fast casual restaurants and catering services. Fast casual restaurants have higher sit-in ratios, and customers can sit and have their orders brought to them. These are destinations that are popular with the bulk of the populous. One of Bangalore's restaurateurs, Mr. Prabhakar, opened an outlet called Upahara Darshini in mid 1980's. The novelty was that the food is cooked just behind the serving counter, visible to the customers...
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...with taste’ value proposition to an emerging set of health-conscious and discerning consumers. This case study analyzes the evolution of the NutriChoice brands over the last decade and examines various strategies adopted by Britannia to grow the brand into its present marketleading position. The Journey • Britannia NutriChoice was the first brand to recognize the needs of the fast-emerging segment of health conscious consumers in India and, for the first time, attempted to combine health with taste in the biscuits market. Through this proposition, Britannia NutriChoice attempted to mitigate the myth of healthy food being low on taste and flavor. • Until 2005 the company market-tested a number of product concepts under the NutriChoice umbrella and, in the process, developed a deep understanding of the need states of India's emerging healthconscious population. The company’s restructuring in 2005 gave a fresh perspective to its otherwise quiescent product portfolio. • NutriChoice was instrumental in broadening the scope of the biscuits segment in India. It has successfully positioned biscuits as a healthy alternative to traditionally consumed savory snacks and, in the process, has expanded competition into a number of other categories such as savory snacks, instant noodles and popcorn, among others. • NutriChoice’s repositioning appears even more apt given that, around the same time, the lifestyle of...
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...The Grading Of Tea How Is Tea Graded? The grading of tea is an accepted method of classifying the tea and it relates to the quality of the tea leaves. The grading of tea facilitates the international trade in tea and is the central component in the assessing of a money value for the various types of tea This classifying of tea into grades is an important tool for the tea experts in their task of making evaluations and comparisons between the different varieties of tea that are grown and manufactured throughout the world. The accepted methods of grading tea relate to the grading of Black tea only. The two main factors which affect the grading of tea are: 1. The size of the tea leaves: Whole, large tea leaves gain a higher grading 2. The method of production of the tea: There are 2 methods of manufacturing tea.Manufacturing of tea and these are the traditional method of production of tea by hand and the more modern mechanized method which is aptly called the CTC process (Crush, Tear and Curl). It is considered that the mechanized method damages the tea leaves and as a result the tea leaves bear a lower grading. In respect of Green tea and Oolong tea, as opposed to black tea, no single accepted method of grading has been developed. For these teas there exists a whole range of grading systems and these differ from tea grower to tea grower, from tea growing region to tea growing region and so on. These tea grading methods are based on and depend on factors different from those...
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