Punjab, HCL ink deal to roll out e-District plan
The Government of Punjab has entered into an agreement with HCL Infosystems to roll out e-District pilot projects in Kapurthala and Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar (Nawanshahar) districts of the state.Under the deal HCL Infosystems will deliver state of the art Humanitics e-District Platform to deliver electronic services to the common citizen.
The Government of Punjab has entered into an agreement with HCL Infosystems to roll out e-District pilot projects in Kapurthala and Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar (Nawanshahar) districts of the state.Under the deal HCL Infosystems will deliver state of the art Humanitics e-District Platform to deliver electronic services to the common citizen.
Dhanbad prison e-Connected for visitors
Relatives and friends of under-trials and prisoners lodged in Dhanbad Jail will no longer have to wait for hours in long queues to meet them as all the eight block headquarters of Dhanbad district have now been e-connected to the prison to facilitate video conferencing.the move would greatly reduce stress among prisoners regarding the well-being of their family members.
Relatives and friends of under-trials and prisoners lodged in Dhanbad Jail will no longer have to wait for hours in long queues to meet them as all the eight block headquarters of Dhanbad district have now been e-connected to the prison to facilitate video conferencing.the move would greatly reduce stress among prisoners regarding the well-being of their family members.
Cisco plans to buy Skype
Cisco has made a bid to buy Skype for around US $5 billion, before the privately-held Internet phone company goes public, the influential Silicon Valley blog TechCrunch reported on Monday. Skype allows users to make free Internet telephone and video calls to other Skype users and charges relatively low rates for calls from computers to land and mobile phones.
Cisco has made a bid to buy Skype for around US $5 billion, before the privately-held Internet phone company goes public, the influential Silicon Valley blog TechCrunch reported on Monday. Skype allows users to make free Internet telephone and video calls to other Skype users and charges relatively low rates for calls from computers to land and mobile phones.
India extends moratorium on certain projects
The Environment Ministry on Tuesday announced that it will extend the moratorium on developmental projects in critically polluted industrial clusters till October 31. The government imposed a temporary moratorium on January 1 on consideration of developmental projects, including the projects in the pipeline for clearance, in these clusters till August 30.
The Environment Ministry on Tuesday announced that it will extend the moratorium on developmental projects in critically polluted industrial clusters till October 31. The government imposed a temporary moratorium on January 1 on consideration of developmental projects, including the projects in the pipeline for clearance, in these clusters till August 30.
MP to raise special auxiliary police brigade
The Madhya Pradesh State Cabinet has decided to raise a 'Special Auxiliary Police Brigade' for improving law and order situation in the state.The brigade comprising retired soldiers of Indian Army from Madhya Pradesh would consist of 100 Nayaks, 850 Sainiks and 50 Sainiks(drivers). Initially, the security personnel would be appointed for a period of one year.
The Madhya Pradesh State Cabinet has decided to raise a 'Special Auxiliary Police Brigade' for improving law and order situation in the state.The brigade comprising retired soldiers of Indian Army from Madhya Pradesh would consist of 100 Nayaks, 850 Sainiks and 50 Sainiks(drivers). Initially, the security personnel would be appointed for a period of one year.
Really timely decision taken by the government because today's children are tomorrow's deciding personalities may they grow healthier to built a healthy India. Nutritionist have their vital role in this concern. The right time to implement the same.
We the staff of department of Foods & Nutrition, MS University of Baroda have an extensive experience in these issues as we are also a WHO collaborating center for chronic disease control and would appreciate if our department receives invitations for such important meetings as we can truly cotribute to development of nutrition policies for schools and through this channel request the WCD minister to include us in their panel constituted to develop the policy and other related issues.
one more nutrition policy, but still the majority of my country's children live in the villages, there food itself is the matter of concern and not obesiety. lets get food for every mouth first.govt policies sometimes only remain in the books, let us bring them into practice. let us feed every mouth and teach every child that will ensure a healthy nation.
Congratulations for initiating a nutritional policy.Minister for Women and child Development and Minister for Health are deeply concern about Indians children and their recent activities came through media put lots of hope among us.Let me clear who is concern about children? A parent? we put our child in a washing machine and add some detergent!(Money)and we hope system will work -- some polished CEO/GM/Engineer/Doctor/etc comes out and by the same way they put their children in the same washing machine...
What is FOOD?
What is Nutrition?
What is Health?
What is Optimal Health?
We all know the definition there are lots of paper we can cite but what we eat day and night? Who will take charge!! 70% Indian children suffering from anemia?
One in every ten children in Kolkata is at the risk of heart attack (TOI 8.4.08).
Guide me what I can do for INDIA?
Regards
Durgasankar Bandyopadhyay
Congratulations for initiating a nutritional policy. The policy should address malnutrition which includes undernutrition as well as overnutrition[obesity]. Undernutrition is common in muncipal/govt schools while obesity in pvt schools. There is aneed to involve health dept&edu dept with parents associations. An integrated approach is the need of hour. A concept of child to child approach, which we are following will do wonders.
We are at the cross-roads.The approach must be holistic & intersectoral for both the situations-over as well as under nutrition.Iron Deficiency(Nutritional)Anaemia is the biggest nutritional problem all over the world.Same thing applies to other Micro-nutrients.We can change the socio-economic status of the country by applying small measures which go a long way.Congratulations to the Ministry!
While one welcomes such moves by a concerned Govt to minimise these lifestyle diseases, there is an urgent need to look at how information communication technologies and its gadgets have changed the way, perhaps for ever, we live. With everything being served by just click of a button, how would any child motivate himself/herself to go 'to fetch a pail of water'. With increasing pocket money and easy accessibility of instant food joints, we can't blame the child if he indulges in some easy pleasures. My point is, how about parents or teachers or resident welfare associations in cities to make it compulsory to ensure that every child does some excercise or outdoor games daily. We can also follow Great Britain and introduce an obesity tax to deter the bulging child populace. Peer group pressure will ensure that when these 'fads' catches on, it will spread like wildfire and become a prestige issue for any child. Easy accessibility to a neighbourhood play ground would also be beneficial, of course. And the parents should also lead by example and not indulge in too much couch potato activities. Even bicycle riding would ensure some much needed flexing of muscles besides its eco-friendly feature. Surely, a matter of great great concern in changing times for everybody. Kudos to minister for raising the issue and trying in finding a f(a)ight(t)y solution.
This is indeed a very commendable initiative taken by the WCD dept. In order to implement the policy and overcome this situation of overnutrition and undernutrition it would be necessery to take Education dept and health department as an active partner, Thanks
This is indeed a very commendable step. We are already late. Studies carried out in the Dept. of Foods & Nutrition, The M.S. University of Baroda have generated enough data and also identified the risk factors associated with overweight and obesity in school age children. That is not all, undernutrition and overnutrition co exist in this group. They show low hemoglobin levels, poor vitamin A status coupled with obesity and overweight. It requires active participation by schools and parents to affect behaviour change.
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