Dear Sir/Madam, Haryana and Maharastra top the list of states where anemia is rampant. Also as per ICMR study, 85% of indian pregnant women are anemic.... But we have not seen any of you writing open letters to CM of haryana and maharastra nor have we seen your open letter to PM and Union Health Minister???? Why this selective open letter only to CM of Gujarat?? Kindly explain.
Re: Open Letter to Dr Nadini, Trupti and Rohit
by Siul Azuosd on Sep 01, 2012 01:43 PM
because Modi made the comments and that is the reason why this selective letter.
Institute of Applied Manpower Research (IAMR) is a Central Govt. of India research institute. The above mentioned figures of malnutrition in Gujarat are taken from the report submitted by IAMR. They are not contested by the central govt. because they favour it politically.
United Nations Development Program (UNDP) is a global body. UNDP also submitted a report on national development in which mentions India's poor standing overall. However, this report is rejected by the central govt. because it does not suit them. Mr. Jayaram Ramesh said on nutrition in India that he has great doubts on the data used for malnutrition analysis. Refer to :http://www.tehelka.com/story_main50.asp?filename=Ws031111India_ranks.asp
So it is quite clear that the govt. talks in one language on IAMR report and in other on UNDP report. The WSJ question was asked to emberrass Mr. Modi to which he has given a vague answer, since the data is disputable.
Mr. Modi’s full, extended answer. “We are the first state in the country to raise the issue of malnutrition. It came to our mind that Gujarat is by and large a vegetarian state. And secondly, Gujarat is also a middle-class state. The middle class is more beauty conscious than health conscious – that is a challenge. If a mother tells her daughter to have milk, they’ll have a fight. She’ll tell her mother, ‘I won’t drink milk. I’ll get fat.’ They have money but she’s beauty conscious, she’s not health conscious. So being a middle-class state is also a problem for me. A large segment of the population in my state is middle-class. Second is vegetarianism.
“So a lot needs to be explained to both the beauty conscious and the health conscious. We have to request to them that there should be a good nutritional situation. We gave a budget of 700 crore rupees ($126 million). But these things are such that you see a sudden change in a child after the age of 13-14 years. They grow up so fast – from zero to 13 you don’t come to know how they got so big. So we are going through that stage.” “Even after a lot of improvement – we still have to measure (malnutrition), conduct surveys. Until that is done, this perception will remain. But I’m quite confident. We will try to get a drastic change in this. Just as we’ve become a model in the electricity sector, Gujarat is going to co
Re: ModiBashing cottage industry
by Nida Condomwalla on Sep 01, 2012 01:22 PM
Not Really! they don't want to drink milk... they just want to milk this non issue....
