Post of WhatsApp: A tribal Girl is disqualified in police cadre based on her height. Are there any studies from Maharashtra on nutritional status of Tribals?
Undernutrition among tribal children in Palghar district, Maharashtra, India https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6392283/
Soumitra Ghosh... , to improve tribal women's overall health development state government interventions need to introduce on nutritional health in among tribal and in general population specifically needy sections. Furthermore, it is imperative to create awareness, and health care infrastructure with the delivery system should be designed effectively. To address the tribal women's nutritional health, health services must focus on tribal culture.
The present study confirms that despite several nutrition programmes, the extent of undernutrition has remained extremely high in the children living in predominantly tribal rural areas of Palghar district, Maharashtra. One of the possible reasons for having persistently high level of undernutrition among tribal children is the decline in the budgetary allocation on ICDS in recent years [20]. Our analysis of the state’s budget also reveals that the nutrition expenditure as a percentage of the state budget has drastically declined from 1.68% in 2012–13 to 0.94% in 2018–19 (S1 Fig). Moreover, Singh and Sethi [22] showed that tribal sub plan funds have been underutilised by Maharashtra, particularly in two sectors (rural development and nutrition). As the main underlying cause of undernutrition among the tribal children is the poor socioeconomic conditions of the tribal population, there is a need for a multi-pronged strategy for redressing this problem.