Sharp rise in malnourished kids, 1000-1500 dying every day: UNICEF official

By A Representative
A senior UNICEF official has regretted that the children below six have not been at the centre of any announcements for relief following the March 25 lockdown, claiming, as a result of the closure of anganwadi services, there a sharp rise in malnourished and undernourished children, with a whopping 1,000-1,500 dying every day.
Expressing concern at a webinar in Delhi organized by the Right to Education (RTE) Forum, Sushina Ahuha, who is education specialist on early childhood and care with UNICEF, advised the government to “immediately initiate the work of vaccination, growth monitoring should be started, only then it will be appropriate to start the process of learning and teaching. ”
Participants in a webinar, even as focusing on the rights and challenges of children below six, pointed out said that in the current “era of online education, basic problems like network, mobile charge, data packs and unavailability of mobile sets have excluded vast population from the realm of education.”
Those took part in the web-conversation included Vinita Kaul, professor-emeritus, Ambedkar University, Delhi; Prof Rekha Sharma Sen, Indira Gandhi National Open University; Sumitra Mishra, convener, Alliance for Right to Early Childhood Development; and Ambarish Rai, and convener, RTE Forum.

Incarceration of Prof Saibaba 'revives' the question: What is crime, who is criminal?

By Kunal Pant* In 2016, a Supreme Court Judge asked the state of Maharashtra, “Do you want to extract a pound of flesh?” The statement was directed against the state for contesting the bail plea of Delhi University Professor GN Saibaba. Saibaba was arrested in 2014, a justification for which was to prevent him from committing what the police called “anti-national activities.”

Manufacturing, services: India's low-skill, middle-skill labour remains underemployed

By Francis Kuriakose* The Indian economy was in a state of deceleration well before Covid-19 made its impact in early 2020. This can be inferred from the declining trends of four important macroeconomic variables that indicate the health of the economy in the last quarter of 2019.

Food security? Gujarat govt puts more than 5 lakh ration cards in the 'silent' category

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