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Alarming malnutrition pushing children out of school - I |
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Sunday, 05 July 2009 |
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Despite several schemes, chronic malnutrition persists in Tamilnadu and this is very likely a major cause for continuing poor performance and high dropout rates of children in Tamilnadu’s government schools. Ironically, the state leads the country in nutritional interventions and has improved its standing in comparison to other states in the last two decades since the scaling up of nutrition schemes. Yet, nutritional status have only marginally improved and in some cases like the anaemia count going up, perplexing activists, policy researchers, and funding organisations. The state is a study in contradictions: It gave the country its direct nutrition intervention in the form of the Noon-meal Programme (NMP), and yet has alarming levels of hunger, according to the International Food Policy Research Institute's India State Hunger Index (ISHI) of 2008. The index gave the state this rating from a choice of: low, moderate, serious (6 states), alarming (10 states including TN), extremely alarming (Madhya Pradesh). The ratings are based on the prevalence of calorie-energy deficiency, child mortality and the number of children below the age of 5 who are underweight. To read further http://www.indiatogether.org/2009/jun/hlt-malnutr1.htm Krithika Ramalingam is a Chennai-based development journalist. This article is part of a series on education sponsored by Confederation of Indian Organisations for Service and Advocacy, in India Together. |
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CIOSA invites nominations for Dr KS Sanjivi award |
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Saturday, 16 May 2009 |
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CIOSA and Udhavum Ullangal are inviting nomination for 5th Dr KS Sanjivi Awards from doctors and intitutions. The Dr. Sanjivi awards are instituted in the year 2004 in the memory of Dr. K. S. Sanjivi, the doyen of Community Health Care in Chennai and founder of the Voluntary Health Services, Taramani, Chennai. The award recognizes and honours doctors and institutions that exemplify Dr. Sanjivi's ideal of dedication to the practice of medicine as a service vocation and have a track record of non-commercial services to the poor and the needy without compromising professional excellence.
Doctors' Day 2009:
This year's awards programme is scheduled to be held on July 19th , Sunday 2009 at Kumararani Meena muthiah college,gandhi nagar,adyar,chennai from 10 am to 1 pm. The last date for receiving nominations is 30th June.
To download the nominations form, click here . |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 01 July 2009 )
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Zip through class V, drop out at class X |
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Tuesday, 24 March 2009 |
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With Tamilnadu being a high-ranking state in the Educational Development Index in the country, one would expect children in government-run schools in metros like Chennai to be ahead of their counterparts elsewhere. Wrong. Krithika Ramalingam did a reality check. This article is part of a series on education sponsored by Confederation of Indian Organisations for Service and Advocacy, published by India Together Fifteen-year-old A Ramya prepares for school at the crack of dawn, learning by repetition for the third mock Secondary School Leaving Certificate examination at her school. A class X student at a government Adi Dravida High School in Chennai's suburbs, Ramya goes through three books – the prescribed textbook and two sets of guide books recommended by her teachers – in preparation for the board examination set to start in late March. She leaves for her school at 8 am to sit through the mock examinations. She will then answer exam papers from the question bank repetitively till they become her second nature. The teachers drill the students on how to answer questions, starting from how many words to a line, to a page to how to pack in all information in the first two paragraphs. For more visit http://www.indiatogether.org/2009/mar/edu-chnschool.htm Krithika Ramalingam is a Chennai-based development journalist. Names of children have been changed to protect their identity. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 24 March 2009 )
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