Supreme Court gives final chance to Centre to frame policy on community kitchens

The court said that a welfare state has a constitutional duty to ensure that no dies of hunger.

Scroll Staff

· Nov 16, 2021 · 03:56 pm

India’s nutrition crisis has widened during the pandemic – especially for women and children

The focus is on providing food grains to the very poor as against supporting that with more funding for existing nutrition-focussed welfare programmes.

Deepanshu Mohan

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Vanshika Shah

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Advaita Singh

· Jun 27, 2021 · 09:00 am

With 45% of Indians excluded from the food security net, it’s time to univeralise the PDS

Poverty is growing, thanks to the Covid-19 economic slowdown. It’s time for the Centre to provide subsidised foodgrains to most Indians.

Swati Narayan

· Jun 20, 2021 · 07:30 am

In Jharkhand, suspected starvation death sheds light on deprivation of a whole settlement

Chintaman Malhar, who died on June 14, had not eaten a proper meal in two days, his son said. His neighbours live just as precariously.

Swati Narayan

· Jun 25, 2018 · 09:00 am

Global hunger on the rise for the first time in a decade: UN report

It has affected 815 million people, or 11% of the world’s population.

Scroll Staff

· Sep 15, 2017 · 09:50 pm

Watch: This film from Pakistan asks what happens to the unfinished food on your plate

The Urdu film is told from the point of a view 14-year-old car mechanic.

Scroll Staff

· May 05, 2017 · 05:00 pm

Food handouts won't solve the malnutrition problem stalking Adivasi communities

The government must empower these once proud people – now reduced to lining up for free meals – by giving them real rights to forest resources.

Brian Lobo

· Oct 04, 2016 · 10:30 am

Seven reasons why India needs eggs on the menu of midday meals

They're very nutritious, have a relative long shelf-life and could boost rural employment.

Reetika Khera

· Jun 10, 2015 · 12:30 pm