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Gadchiroli: Turning the tide
Kusum Gadpayale, a SEARCH supervisor examines records. Regular supervision and a system of rewards and penalties have ensured SEARCH's success. Photograph by Pramit Bhattacharya  

Gadchiroli's trudging doctors spell hope
One of India's most backward districts and Maharashtra's worst ranked in human development indicators, Gadchiroli, today finds itself at the forefront of a healthcare revolution that can potentially save millions of infant lives. Pramit Bhattacharya reports. Pics
Lessons from Melghat's health crisis
At a time when India plans a multi-pronged attack on malnutrition in 200 high-burden districts, it will pay to examine the cracks in state institutions that have led to past failures and can still derail well-intentioned plans. Pramit Bhattacharya reports. Pics

 

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Mahabharat
Not much on the plate
As India prepares to make food a fundamental right, we should look at Brazil's model for eliminating hunger. Samar Halarnkar writes.
Maha Bharat
 The PM's last stand
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh fought the food security Bill to the end. How long can the UPA fight itself? Samar Halarnkar writes.

Hunger must go
Alarmist views over the cost of Food Security Bill are meant to mislead. In any case should our priorities be so skewed? Jean Dreze writes.
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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.
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.
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Statistics

Alarming child malnutrition levels in major states
 State % of underweight children % of under-nutritioned children % of hunger deaths under the age of 5
Rajasthan 40.4% 14.0% 8.5%

Gujarat

 44.7% 22.3% 6.1%
Madhya Pradesh 59.8% 23.4% 9.4%
Maharashtra 36.7% 27.0% 4.7%
Karnataka 37.6% 28.1% 5.5%
Kerala 22.7% 28.6% 1.6%
West Bengal 38.5% 18.5% 5.9%
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