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Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition or POSHAN Phase 2.0 was implemented in 20 districts of Rajasthan in 2018. After 12 weeks of outpatient therapeutic care of children with Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM), 70.4% children were cured, 12.2% defaulted and 17.4% were non-recovered and referred to Malnutrition Treatment Centres for facility treatment. The research study attempts to (a) study the sociocultural factors at the family level responsible for varying numbers of cured, defaulted and non-recovered SAM children at different localities; (b) explore the probability of the SAM children staying healthy post successful treatment at community settings without any external intervention; and (c) explore the possible approaches beyond the emergency medical response to develop a long-term strategy to address malnutrition in children. The insights and cues gained from the phenomenology of individual experiences help us understand the structural elements that undergird a healthy living. It was observed that irrespective of socio-demographic characteristics and food basket of a family, all the SAM children had a troubled medical history and/or low birth weight. The research findings also point out that a rise in income alone does not automatically lead to increased nutritional food intake. It is also important to see the issue of malnutrition in the larger context of the agrarian crisis that has cast its shadow over the rural landscape. For sustainable and lasting solutions, it is essential to shift to and promote farming practices that facilitate indigenous, locally produced and culturally acceptable nutrition from supplementary foods. © 2021 SAGE Publications.

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Journal of Health Management

A Sociocultural Perspective on Malnutrition in Children: Evidence from POSHAN Programme, Rajasthan

The notion of the “migrant” in the current capitalist times and the world of migrants in it are explored. The source to destination streams of migrant labour is outlined, and it is then argued that reverse migration will perhaps usher in the greatest crisis in the rural landscape of India, for which we are not yet prepared. © 2020 Economic and Political Weekly. All rights reserved.

Economic and Political Weekly

Migration and reverse migration in the age of covid-19

This chapter takes into account the condition of the people in the context of rights and entitlements ceded to the state as the state strives to assert itself on commanding extractive and centralized mobilization of resources. It also examines how it paves the way for a long-term and terminal decay of the people control over their resources in the context of the Schedule V areas. The chapter, therefore, argues that the policy status is the result of the uncertainty regarding the larger framework of governance of the Panchayats Extension to Scheduled Areas Act (PESA) in the Schedule V areas that has been adopted as well as a steady decline of the engagement of the state with the ‘Adivasi’ and the terrain they occupy. It discusses the context in which we need to recognize the dynamics of deficit and terrains first before the discussion moves into the context of PESA and its understanding. The last part of the chapter addresses the nature and the consequences of the governance deficit and the resultant implications. © 2019 selection and editorial matter, Bijayalaxmi Nanda and Nupur Ray.

Discourse on Rights in India: Debates and Dilemmas

People and the terrains: PESA reconsidered

A study in two districts recording high numbers of farmer suicide-Yavatmal in Maharashtra and Sangrur in Punjab-explores the tipping point for this desperate act and finds that in addition to the shame of indebtedness, especially when borrowing from members of the family, several other factors contribute to farmer suicides. These include faulty cropping patterns, rising input costs, aspirational consumption, and the absence of non-farm sources of income.

Center for Public Affairs and Critical Theory

Lives in debt: Narratives of Agrarian distress and farmer suicides

The Maharashtra government's village forest rules seek to overturn the rights regime established in the letter of the law by the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act and the Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act 1996 in terms of both community rights, as well as the rights over minor forest produce. Moreover, the rules write away the future rights of the community over forests and their management and control over minor forest produce in perpetuity. These are also ultra vires of the rules regime agreed and enacted by an act of Parliament.

Contested spaces, democratic rights people and forests today

The case of the local people's grievance against the mining of iron ore for the Bhilai steel plant from Rowghat in the reserved forest area of Ch hat ti sga rh, a Fifth Schedule Area, is just one more example of the infringement of constitutional rights and guarantees. It also portends what is to come with the polity poised to take a decisive right-wing turn.

International Relations and Governance Studies

Democracy and its inconvenient questions

The 97th amendment to the Constitution inserts a critical point into Article 19(1)(c) by recognising the right of the people to form cooperative societies as a fundamental right. It envisages their insulation from political interference, and infusion of greater managerial skills and autonomy into their functioning. However, there is the possibility of the managerial element overriding the concerns of the members and lack of sufficient room for an effective state intervention when required.

The 97th amendment: Some concerns

Maharashtra is facing a severe drought while there are allegations of a massive scam in the execution of irrigation projects. The white paper on irrigation projects, brought out by the state government, glosses over a number of major concerns. Until there is a fundamental shift in state policy based on the willingness to look upon the right to water as being on par with the right to life, the state will continue to frequently face the spectre of drought.