Its very embarassing that despite many government initiatives, we witness acute malnutrition (especially among children). It is also reflected in the Global hunger report, brought by IFPRI (international food policy research institute). The reasons are:
1. drought ( so that government initiatives are unable to show fruitful results)
2. structural deficiency (so that multiplier effect of government policies, do not come out efficiently)
We need to deploy innovative measures to solve the malnutrition problem:
1.monetary benefits , for e.g. giving Rs 6000 to pregnant lactating women; need to go beyond this; only monetary benefits to selective population- a more better strategy would be mass upheaval programme. Fund a pool of money- from actors, civil society, government, NGOs, corporates, FDI, borrowing etc., then randomly distibute this money to all who are admitted in the hospitals (who are currently undergoing treatment for malnutrition such as anameia, child stunting, wasting etc). The names of the beneficiaries can be taken from the hospital records, anganwadis, PHCs, CHCs (why to involve a complex process of first identification of beneficiaries through SECC, an then giving them benefits, this is the long process, often results get delayed)
2. proper surveillance measures; the beneficiaries need to be tracked, using local self govenrment institutions like Panchayats, municipalies, district collectors etc.
3. mass awarenes- through facebook, whatspp, gmail-bulk messages, instagram, linkedin etc.
4. shedding off ego- district collectors going for door to door campaign along with local legislators like wards; and to enroll themselevs in such programmes
5. learning from examples ; other countries best practices to be emulated- Brazil, african countries, fiji etc who have more thrust on such social welfare schemes
6. incentives based programmes- the institutions who will enrol maximum number of such beneficiaries will get monetary awards, permanent jobs in government organisations etc.
Basically, a comprehensive approach focussing on mass upheaval is necessary.
1. drought ( so that government initiatives are unable to show fruitful results)
2. structural deficiency (so that multiplier effect of government policies, do not come out efficiently)
We need to deploy innovative measures to solve the malnutrition problem:
1.monetary benefits , for e.g. giving Rs 6000 to pregnant lactating women; need to go beyond this; only monetary benefits to selective population- a more better strategy would be mass upheaval programme. Fund a pool of money- from actors, civil society, government, NGOs, corporates, FDI, borrowing etc., then randomly distibute this money to all who are admitted in the hospitals (who are currently undergoing treatment for malnutrition such as anameia, child stunting, wasting etc). The names of the beneficiaries can be taken from the hospital records, anganwadis, PHCs, CHCs (why to involve a complex process of first identification of beneficiaries through SECC, an then giving them benefits, this is the long process, often results get delayed)
2. proper surveillance measures; the beneficiaries need to be tracked, using local self govenrment institutions like Panchayats, municipalies, district collectors etc.
3. mass awarenes- through facebook, whatspp, gmail-bulk messages, instagram, linkedin etc.
4. shedding off ego- district collectors going for door to door campaign along with local legislators like wards; and to enroll themselevs in such programmes
5. learning from examples ; other countries best practices to be emulated- Brazil, african countries, fiji etc who have more thrust on such social welfare schemes
6. incentives based programmes- the institutions who will enrol maximum number of such beneficiaries will get monetary awards, permanent jobs in government organisations etc.
Basically, a comprehensive approach focussing on mass upheaval is necessary.
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