World hunger day

India produced 291.95 Million Tonnes of food grains in 2019-20. Yet, 69% of the deaths of children under the age of 5 have been attributed to malnutrition by UNICEF in State of World’s Children report. Global Hunger Index ranked India at 102nd position out of 117, the lowest in South Asia. World Bank’s Human Capital Index scored India at 0.44. This means that today’s Indian child will only reach 44% of her potential when she becomes an adult. This was also primarily because of the state of nutrition in India.

What explains this dichotomy? While India was growing economically at an appreciable pace, the progress in eliminating hunger did not. On World Hunger Day, let’s reflect on the factors for this malaise and ways to address it, especially because COVID-19 exacerbates the hunger crisis.

Mp government introduced 'didi  vehicle  scheme'

On May 21, 2020, In the tribal-dominated Jhabua district of Madhya Pradesh (MP), the women Rural Livelihood Mission started Didi Vehicle Service for rural women for the safe delivery and other emergency services. This vehicle service is completely free.

Key Points:

i.Didi Vehicle Service: The women of Rural Livelihood Mission have started this service for 29 villages of 10 Gram Panchayats of Petlawad development block of Jhabua.

ii.The women are bearing the expenses of Didi vehicle service through the interest, they earn on their savings.

iii.At a time of COVID-19 outbreak, when vehicles are not available for free even in cities, Didi vehicle service is proving to be a lifeline for pregnant rural women in tribal areas.

iv.Sanjeevani vehicle: The Madhya Pradesh government has developed a unique vehicle named ‘Sanjeevani’ to help the health care workers in order to investigate any suspected COVID-19 patients without getting out of the vehicle.

v.This unique vehicle was designed by the Rajnagar administration of Chhatarpur district, MP.

vi.Health workers have been infected extensively by Coronavirus in Madhya Pradesh. In addition, there have been incidents of attacks on health workers that have also occurred at many places in the state and Sanjeevani vehicles are also very useful in these situations.

The Central Bureau of Investigation has sent alerts to all the States, Union Territories and the Central agencies on a malicious software threat that uses an update related to the COVID-19pandemic.

The alert related to banking Trojan and Cerberus has been sent on the basis of inputs received from the Interpol. It is primarily used to steal financial data, such as credit card numbers.

“This malicious software takes advantage of COVID-19 pandemic to impersonate and send SMS using the lure of COVID-19 related content to download the embedded malicious link. It deploys its malicious application usually spread via phishing campaigns to trick users into installing it on their smartphones,” said the agency.

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May 11, 2020 ,  9:56AM Madhya Pradesh: COVID-19 affected 39 districts, Education dept providing Radio School, Doordarshan Classroom to students  Pics In Madhya Pradesh, the number of coronavirus cases in the state rose to 3 thousand 614. Thus the number of affected districts has gone up to 39 in Madhya Pradesh. The condition of 1,480 patients is stable while that of 243 was serious. So far, 1,676 people have recovered from coronavirus infection while 215 have been died. Meanwhile, after radio school, Doordarshan classroom is starting in Madhya Pradesh from today.   The special educational program "Doordarshan Class Room" is being produced by the School Education Department in collaboration with Doordarshan. The program aims to provide study material to the students of the state's higher classes so that they can study regularly at their home during the lock-down period. This program is designed on thematic concepts for 10th and 12th classes. It will also include interesting videos on difficult concepts of the subject over a period of 1 hour.   The program will air twice a day from Monday to Friday on every week. Programs will be broadcast every day from 12 to 1 pm for class 10th and 3 to 4 pm daily for class 12th. The School Education Department is already airing the Radio School through AIR Bhopal. Apart from this, subject-wise study material on interesting topics is also being provided by the department through WhatsApp groups and local cable TV.