Ranchi: Recording media reports that highlight the seizure of beneficiaries that meet the requirements under the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) of additional nutrition during the locking period, the National Human Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued a notification to the Center and Government Government.
The survey was conducted with food campaigns, Jharkhand, in 159 blocks of state which included 8,818 beneficiaries (children from 6 months to 6 years, pregnant and lactating mothers) at 2,037 Angganwadi Center.
The aim of the survey, which was carried out in the last week of June, was to find the status of additional nutritional distribution under the ICDS, especially during the Covid-19-induced locking period.
This report was released on July 5 in Ranchi before the panel who also attended public hearings.
The hearing confirmed the findings of reports that as many as 45% of beneficiaries in the age group 3 to 6 years (entitled to heated food) and 68% of beneficiaries consisted of children 6 months to 3 years, pregnant and excessive women (titled for THR Bring the Republic THR) deprived of their legal rights.
The Commission has observed that the contents of media reports, if true, enhancing serious problems of food rights, which is one of the basic human rights, which is generated by the state.
Therefore, he has issued a notification to the Secretary of the Chief, the Jharkhand Government and Secretary, the Ministry of Women and Children, called for detailed reports in this problem within six weeks.
The commission in a press statement released on Tuesday also referred to that reportedly in Jharkhand, every second child was dwarf or less severe and every third child was influenced by stunting, and about 70% of children were anemic in accordance with national family health survey data.
Convener RTF, Jharkhand, Asharfi Nand Prasad, said the government is expected to take problems seriously after NHRC consumes this problem.
“We have approached the government also with findings and marks this problem as a violation of the National Food Security Act,” he said.
Prasad added that because ICDS problems were included in Section 4 and 5 NFSA, the center was equally responsible for the state government.
“The center and country are permitted to release funds and together monitor, implement NFSA.
So if there is a violation, both must be accounted for, where the NHRC has noted,” he said.