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Tracking Hunger - Stories

The hunger belt of South Rajasthan

Some 60km from the razzle-dazzle of Udaipur —a city that boasts of India ’s second-costliest residential building after Mukesh Ambani’s apartment in Mumbai— an unlettered 14-year-old in Jalampura village squats on his haunches weighing his existence.

Meo Muslims - Left out of the development loop

Suman prances about like a normal six year old, except that she gets irritated when people call her "angrez" (westerner). Vitamin-A deficient children with golden hair abound at village Thoss in the Tijara block of Rajasthan's Alwar district - for understandable reasons too.

Delhi's irony: Urban Poverty

Each time 25 year old Salma takes her one year old son Zubair to the Batla Clinic (a private clinic in Delhi) for a shot of the DPT, the cost of transportation and the vaccine adds up to approximately Rs.500.

It can happen in India

A determined bureaucrat re-imagined government to show how India's dismal malnutrition statistics can be improved without great cost. All it requires-a plan, innovation and great commitment. Pramit Bhattacharya reports.

Govt working in new flexi-PDS system

The government is considering providing every poor person an option to choose between direct cash transfer or taking ration from fair price shops in the revamped Public Distribution System under the proposed National Food Security law.

Among the Sahariyas, India falls apart

The Congress rules state and centre, but money set aside for Rajasthan's malnourished tribal children does not reach dysfunctional crèches and other urgent needs. Srinand Jha reports. See full coverage

Tribals hungry as Congress-ruled Centre, Rajasthan squabble

Rs. 72 crore fund meant to stop chronic malnutrition and hunger deaths among the state’s 90,000 Sahariya tribals unspent or used for welfare of officials. Srinand Jha reports.

‘Destitutes’ to benefit from tweaked food security bill

The government will redraft the food security bill on the recommendations of UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi to widen its reach, particularly among special populations. Some original provisions that had been pared down are back on the menu. Zia Haq reports.

Widening the scope

A bad return on investment

Why the world's largest child-welfare scheme cannot stop children dying from malnutrition in India's city of gold. Pramit Bhattacharya reports. Listen to podcast podcast

A nutrition crisis amid prosperity

Wealthy Mumbai is now one of India’s most malnourished districts, and the data suggest it could be worse. Why cheap food, welfare schemes won’t help. Pramit Bhattacharya reports. See photogallery | Listen to podcast

Nature of poverty

Counting India's poor and how

India has struggled for more than three decades to put a figure to the number of poor in the country. Hindustan Times looks at some of the fundamental questions around the debate.

SC panel urges for foodgrain subsidy to BPL families

Even as the UPA government deliberates on a new food security law, a Supreme Court-appointed panel has asked the Centre to supply foodgrain to the states at Antyodaya Anna Yojana rates for all the Below Poverty Line families, in the 172 poorest districts identified. Bhadra Sinha reports.

Govt waters down NAC draft of food law

New tensions are emerging between the government and its think tank, with the food ministry making major changes to a National Advisory Council (NAC) draft of a new law slated to become the blockbuster social-security scheme of the UPA's troubled second tenure. Samar Halarnkar reports. The battle within

Rs 17,000-cr warning for India's food gamble

Unpaid bills of Rs. 17,000 crore — and growing — have revealed hidden food subsidies and acute financial mismanagement as the government prepares to adopt the costliest, most ambitious legislation of its tenure. Samar Halarnkar reports. Skyrocketing: The great food-subsidy gap

‘NAC food law draft in 15 days’

Riding on the determination of United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi, the draft law that will make access to food a constitutional right will be ready within 15 days, a minister said on Monday, even as police detained some members of the National Advisory Council. Samar Halarnkar reports.

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