Dilemma: An estimated 821 million people were hungry undernourished in 2017. And nearly 2 billion are overweight. Approximately 1.3 billion tonnes of the food gets lost or wasted every year, enough to feed 2 billion At the same time
Plate Full and Stomach Full
Free foodgrain scheme named ‘PM Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana The Centre has named its new free foodgrain scheme under the National Food Security Act, 2013, as ‘Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY)’, the Union Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution said Wednesday. “Implementation of the new scheme has started from January 1, …
Praised by the world but lesser by Indians
Majority of the people in the world of literature did not take due note when Rabindranath Tagore wrote Geetanjali. But when that poetry was published in London, the world of literature went on to shower praise on the ‘poetic thought of Tagore’. Then he became the first Indian to get Nobel Prize in the literature. …
‘Furthest behind’ can be taken along with those who are ahead.
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development agreed by the UN 193 United Nations Member States pledged to ensure “no one will be left behind” and to “endeavour to reach the furthest behind first.” That resolve made by world leaders in 2015 was ambitious. In practice, this means taking explicit action to end extreme poverty among 7.5 …
POSHAN Abhiyaan
Zero Hunger -SDG 2 does not mean give food to fill the stomach. It also means providing right nutrition . Earlier Prime Minister Dr. Man Mohan Singh called India’s very high incidence of malnutrition among children as ‘national shame’. The Prime Minister Modi took up the challenge and initated Overarching Scheme for Holistic Nutrition or …