Dying young!
I'm sure there are happier things to think about. But this surely cannot be overlooked at any cost!
I learnt in my Paediatrics class today that our country has close to TWO MILLION children dying below the age of five, half of them due to malnutrition. Close to 54 million children are underweight. It's high time we stop seeing these just as numbers! IT IS happening here! Yes!
This is a shocking fact even though we boast of an impressive economic growth in past two decades!!
Look at this 18-month child in the pic above. Note how prominent her bones are. Imagine a million other children like her...suffering and dying unnoticed...UNJUST death I'd say. But WHO CARES?
The child above cannot even stand!
The Government has crores to spend on 'development' for Commonwealth games and has dearth of funds when it comes to real issues like this that plague the country. That is a blinkered approach if you ask me.
I don't say that we shouldn't be having Commonwealth games around. But atleast increase the outlay for social sector in your budgets..Revise the much-corrupted Food Distribution System..Atleast, pretend to care!
A blame game persists..States like Madhya Pradesh (having maximum number of deaths due to malnutrition), Jharkhand and Bihar blame the Central Govt. The centre blames state. And it never ends.
Health ministry and Women & Child ministry make up fictious records of number of children dying and present it at each year's end. RTI or no RTI...Who cares?
All this even when our country has got what it needs...Why wouldn't the rural population turn apathic to government I ask!?!?
Seeing all this, let us just not take all the comforts in life for granted..nutrition, health and good education we all have access to.
I learnt in my Paediatrics class today that our country has close to TWO MILLION children dying below the age of five, half of them due to malnutrition. Close to 54 million children are underweight. It's high time we stop seeing these just as numbers! IT IS happening here! Yes!
This is a shocking fact even though we boast of an impressive economic growth in past two decades!!
(Photo Source : PCVHR)
(Photo Source : http://sites.google.com/site/malnutritioninindia)
I don't say that we shouldn't be having Commonwealth games around. But atleast increase the outlay for social sector in your budgets..Revise the much-corrupted Food Distribution System..Atleast, pretend to care!
A blame game persists..States like Madhya Pradesh (having maximum number of deaths due to malnutrition), Jharkhand and Bihar blame the Central Govt. The centre blames state. And it never ends.
Health ministry and Women & Child ministry make up fictious records of number of children dying and present it at each year's end. RTI or no RTI...Who cares?
All this even when our country has got what it needs...Why wouldn't the rural population turn apathic to government I ask!?!?
Seeing all this, let us just not take all the comforts in life for granted..nutrition, health and good education we all have access to.
hmmm what it shows is nothing compared to the ground reality yogi.... it is just iceberg tip phenomeenon u have said here... Indian govt had never sincerely put forward any of the eforts to dal with it.. otherwise picture could definitely had been better...
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