According to Common Wealth or Common Hunger? Malnutrition and its impact on Child Survival in the Commonwealth (2010), Save the Children, http://www.savethechildren.in/custom/recent-publication/Report–Common_Wealth_or_Common_Hunger%282%29.pdf: • India, host to the 2010 Commonwealth Games, has both the highest number and the highest proportion of malnourished children in the world. Nearly half of all under-fives in India–55 million children–are malnourished, almost…
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According to Tracking Progress on Child and Maternal Nutrition: A survival and development priority, UNICEF (2009),http://www.unicef.org/publications/files/Tracking_Progress_on_Child_and_Maternal_Nutrition_EN_110309.pdf: • A child’s future nutrition status is affected before conception and is greatly dependent on the mother’s nutrition status prior to and during pregnancy. A chronically undernourished woman will give birth to a baby who is likely to be undernourished as…
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According to The State of Food Insecurity in the World Report 2009: Economic Crises-Impacts and Lessons Learnt, http://www.fao.org/docrep/012/i0876e/i0876e00.htm: • In the case of India, proportion of undernourished in the total population has increased from 21% in 2000-02 to 22% in 2004-06. The number of undernourished people in India has increased from 223.0 million in 2000-02 to 251.5…
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Very high enrollment figures for rural India Private school enrollment is rising in most states Basic reading levels showing decline in many states Arithmetic levels also show a decline across most states Main findings from school visits: Children’s attendance has declined More than half of all Std 2 and Std 4 classes are sit together…
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According to Children in India 2012-A Statistical Appraisal, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, GoI, http://www.im4change.org/docs/659Children_in_India_2012.pdf: • Statistics of School Education (2009-10) shows that there are 14,49,420 educational institutions in the country, of which there are 67,822 Pre-Primary/ Pre-basic schools, 8,23,162 Primary/ Junior basic schools, 3,67,745 Middle/ Sr. Basic schools, 1,23,726 High/ Post Basic schools,…
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Key findings of the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2011, http://pratham.org/images/Aser-2011-report.pdf, are as follows: Very high enrollment figures for rural India • 96.7% of all 6-14 year olds in rural India are enrolled in school. This number has held steady since 2010. • States that had a high proportion (over 10%) of 11-14 year old girls…
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According to Global Education Digest 2011-Comparing Education Statistics Across the World, UNESCO, http://www.uis.unesco.org/Library/Documents/global_education_digest_2011_en.pdf: • The most populated country in South Asia, India, accounts for three-quarters of the regional leap in enrolment. From 1970 to 2009, enrolment in secondary education increased from 21 million to 102 million in this country alone. • In Afghanistan and India…
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The distribution of iron fortified rice is part of the Government of India’s push to combat anaemia and it will become a near mandatory programme for the poor, for whom this rice will be inescapable i.e., PDS, ICDS, school meals, etc. The fact-finding visit was organised by Alliance for Sustainable & Holistic Agriculture (ASHA-Kisan Swaraj)…
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The Annual Status of Education Report 2009,http://www.asercentre.org/asersurvey/aser09/pdfdata/national%20highlights.pdf show: Fewer girls 11-14 out of school • The overall percentage of children (6-14) who are out of school has dropped from 4.3% in 2008 to 4% in 2009. • Out of school girls in the age group 11 to 14 has dropped from 7.2% in 2008 to 6.8% in 2009. In…
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