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70 percent children below 5 are anemic
30 Aug 2011

As per the National Family Health Survey-3, 2005-06, the percentage of children below the age of 5 with underweight and anemia is 42.5% and 69.5% respectively in the country. The Minister of State (I/C) of Women and Child Development Krishna Tirath stated this in Rajya Sabha.

She said that the problem of malnutrition is multidimensional and intergenerational nature which needs to be tackled through focused and coordinated intervention in areas of food security sanitation and safe drinking water, nutrition, health, family welfare and poverty alleviation and income generation .Since there are multiple determinants of malnutrition, this can not be addressed by single sector scheme or intervention alone. This requires multi sectoral, direct and indirect interventions. Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) Scheme is one of the many schemes which address the problem of malnutrition.

The Minister further stated that ICDS is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme, implemented by the State Government / UT Administrations. It provides a package of services including supplementary nutrition to children below six years of age, pregnant and lactating mothers. Supplementary nutrition under the ICDS is primarily designed to bridge the gap between the Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) and the Average Dietary Intake (ADI) and is not a substitute to any meals to be given to children at home. Beneficiaries under the ICDS are required to be provided Supplementary Nutrition, in accordance with Guidelines issued by Government of India.

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Coca-Cola doesn't consider 'negative' publicity for cola behind poor consumption of the aerated beverage in India. As per its books, brand Coca-Cola has registered consecutive growth for past 27 quarters and has been a leader with a brand volume of 30 per cent. For Coca-Cola the target is to turn it into a 'Coke Nation', on the lines of Mexico where per capita annual consumption is 745 bottles..Whether Indian consumer exercises restraint in gulping the drink whose health consequences are all but known, the flipside to the story is that  the state governments are falling prey to Coca-Cola's investment plans?
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The clock has turned full circle! After dumping industrial and toxic trash in the developing world all these years, Europe is now shopping for garbage to keep its cities, schools and homes heated. What better place than the developing world to shop for garbage! Reports indicate that northern Europe needs more than 700 million tons of trash to keep its waste-to-energy plants running. Most of its current demand is either domestically met or from garbage shipped from southern Europe.Yet, the demand is far more than what neighboring countries can spare after meeting their domestic needs. 

As more waste incinerators are being built in Sweden, Norway, Austria and Germany to meet the growing demand for heating public places, these countries are left with two options - either encourage households to produce more trash or else import garbage from across the world. For sure, it is easy to import than to produce! A company in England is already shipping some 1,000 tons of garbage to keep its systems running. Since incinerators have cornered environmental controversy in India and for rightful reasons, there exists an opportunity to explore feasibility of exporting as much as 109,589 tonnes of garbage that piles our streets on a daily basis. 
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