Campaign launched to stop child hunger in State.

The Campaign against Child Hunger (CACH), a network of NGOs and Civil Society members on Sunday, organised a workshop and pledged to fight child hunger and malnutrition.Notably, the situation in Orissa is drastic. Death of children in Jarigaon block of Nabarangpur district in 2004, the recent death of children in Koraput due to cholera, 18 children died in Similipal forest range in2007, highest infant mortality of 97 out of 1,000 live births, plight in malnourishment and chronic hunger in KBK districts are some of the burning examples of the issue.
This is not that non -availability of food or economic status of the family. But the child hunger deaths persists due to the denials of food rights, faulty distribution system and mass corruption are sole cause of killing of number of children , said Mahesh Purohit of the campaign.

Campaign against Child Hunger believes that if the four important schemes to fight hunger and food insecurity like ICDS, MDM, PDS and NREGA are implemented properly no doubt Orissa would save its children from acute hunger.Instead of the Supreme Court's verdict to universalize ICDS the State Government has failed to cover all the targeted children and all the settlements in the State.The scheme needs to improve the quality in its delivery system.