On Children's Day, millions of children have little to celebrate. Their life is marked by struggle, and they cannot be assured of three meals a day. Many of them suffer from malnutrition, and education is not even a …
According to the United Nations, a mother dies every ten minutes in India which means that along with malnutrition caused by poverty, India is likely to miss the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) related to maternal health as …
Though India's poverty rates fell from 51% to 37% between 1990 and 2008 it will still not reach the required Poverty Headcount Ratio (percentage of population below the national poverty line) of 23.9% by 2015 to achieve the …
Around 48 percent of children under five years of age in India are underweight, ranging from 20 percent of the child population (under-five years) in Sikkim to a whopping 60 percent in Madhya Pradesh, according to NGO Child …
