Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Community-Based Monitoring to
Ensure Right to Food in Odisha
no. 5 | april 2015
1995
PDS
ICDS
MDM
NMBS &
NOAPS
TPDS
AAY
PUCL vs
Union of
India
NFSA
Launched as
Launched
Launched
Launched
Public
Launched as
Supreme Court
Act provides
a universal
to improve
as National
for benefit of
Distribution
a scheme for
contends right
legal right to
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nutritional
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pregnant
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to food is a
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status of
of Nutritional
women and
targetted to
poor
fundamental
children
Support
senior citizens
only BPL
between
to Primary
(above 60
households
0-6 years
Education
(NP-NSPE)
households
1940s
1995
1997
2000
2001
2013
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Village volunteers of the RTF Campaign Odisha in Nakrundi gram panchayat in Kalahandi; Ravi Narayan Singh (extreme left), block coordinator, Antodaya
trains the volunteers in these villages
2
A primary school at Amthaguda village in Karlapat Wildlife Sanctuary where, on the day of the visit, only 10 eggs were prepared for MDM to feed a class of
20 students. Though gaps remain, the mid day meals, earlier non existent, have become regular
choose to stay and work for the villages. Even those who
go away continue to be associated with the Campaign.
And for those who leave the Campaign, new volunteers are
trained at regular intervals, says Pradhan.
Notes
1 h t t p : / / w w w . p r s i n d i a . o r g / a d m i n i s t r a t o r / u p l o a d s /
general/1388728622~~TPDS%20Thematic%20Note.pdf
2 http://www.odisha.gov.in/samachar/2014/Jul/data/05-07-2014/
newspuspa_050714E.pdf
3 The latest figures are provisional
4 The survey by the ministry of women and child development with
support from UNICEF in 2013-14 is yet to be made public. The
government too hasnt accepted these numbers yet.
5 National Family Health Survey (NFHS) -3 (2005-06) DATA
6 Bera Sayantan, India Improves Its Hunger Record, Mint Tuesday,
October 14, 2014
7 h t t p : / / w w w . o d i s h a . g o v . i n / p c / D o w n l o a d / E c o n o m i c _
Survey_2013-14.pdf
8 h t t p : / / w w w . o d i s h a . g o v . i n / p c / D o w n l o a d / E c o n o m i c _
Survey_2013-14.pdf
9 h t t p : / / w w w. t e l e g r a p h i n d i a . c o m / 1 1 2 1 2 0 8 / j s p / o d i s h a /
story_16288114.jsp#.VqaliodsSfQ; as viewed on March 16, 2015
10 http://indiatogether.org/balangir-poverty; as viewed on March 16,
2015
11 Anganwadi centre is a government sponsored child-care and mothercare center as part of the oldest centrally sponsored scheme in India.
It caters to children in the 0-6 age group. The word means courtyard
shelter in Hindi. They were started by the Indian government in 1975
as part of the Integrated Child Development Services program to
combat child hunger and malnutrition.
12 Report on Monitoring of Food Security Programme through Factfinding Visits in Odisha- Right To Food Campaign, Odisha; published
March 2015
13 Right To Food (RTF) Campaign Odisha is independent of the Right To
Food Campaign which is an informal national network of organisations
working on the issue of right to food. The former is a network of 10
NGOs across the state and is independent of the SC Commissioners
office on right to food.
14 PDS- Public Distribution System; ICDS- Integrated Child Development
Services; MDM- Mid Day Meal; NMBS- National Maternity Benefit
Scheme; NOAPS- National Old Age Pension Scheme; TPDS- Targetted
Public Distribution System; AAY- Antyodaya Anna Yojana; PUCLPeoples Union for Civil Liberties
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