2019 – Posted in: Daily News

INDIA’S CHILD WELL-BEING REPORT RELEASED

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Recently, the Child Well-Being Index has been released. The index is developed by NGOs World Vision India and IFMR LEAD.

24 indicators were selected to develop the computation of the child well-being index.
The 24 indicators are divided into three categories: healthy individual development, positive relationships and protective contexts.
The report is important considering that 40 percent of the country’s population is made of children between the ages of 1 and 18.

Child Health Index

Kerala (0.76), Tamil Nadu (0.67) and Himachal Pradesh (0.67) bagged the top three slots in the index.
State of Kerala bagged the top spot due to its exceptional performance in health, nutrition and education facilities.
Kerala performed better in addressing malnutrition and ensuring child survival and access to a healthy environment in terms of clean drinking water and sanitation facilities.
Tamil Nadu is the second-best performer in the overall category.
Meghalaya (0.53), Jharkhand (0.50) and Madhya Pradesh (0.44) featured at the bottom.
For Jharkhand, child survival, nutrition and access to water and sanitation are the key areas that need to be focused on.
More children were dropping out of school in Jharkhand.
Survival, nutrition and basic education are other aspects in which Jharkhand performed lowest among all Indian states.
Low performance in the areas of child survival, nutrition, crimes against children and juvenile crimes, brought the scores down for Madhya Pradesh.
Among the UTs, Puducherry led the way with a score of 0.77 and Dadra and Nagar Haveli featured at the other end with a score of 0.52.