Dipa Sinha

Dipa Sinha is an Assistant Professor at the School of Liberal Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi, New Delhi and a Convener of Right To Food Campaign. Quotes Despite the annual embarrassment of India scoring a poor rank on the Global Hunger Index, nutrition and hunger hardly merit a mention in the budget speeches of our finance ministers. The last time there was anything related to tackling malnutrition among women and children was in 2014-15 – the first budget of the Narendra Modi government – where Arun Jaitley announced that a national nutrition mission would be launched. [...] Notwithstanding its positioning, budget 2020 in effect fails on many counts to respond to the nutrition challenge in India. The direct programmes which address the multidimensional nature of malnutrition including the ICDS, mid-day meals, PMMVY and Poshan Abhiyan are underfunded and at the same time PDS which contributes to basic food security is sought to be undermined. The government seems to be oblivious to the situation of hunger in the country. It further seeks to create an illusion of plenty by arguing in the Economic Survey in its chapter on 'Thalinomics' that food affordability has increased in the last few years. This chapter is based on a flawed methodology where it compares food prices as a proportion of incomes of workers in organised manufacturing who comprise less than 5% workers in India and does not take into account that wages for the majority have been stagnating and unemployment is at its peak. Budget 2020 Leaves us Wanting More to be Done on Malnutrition and Hunger, 3 February 2020, The Wire External links Dipa Sinha's profile at Ambedkar University Delhi Dipa Sinha's profile at Oxfam India Dipa Sinha at Google Scholar Dipa Sinha at ResearchGate Dipa Sinha at Academia.edu Cited Mamatha T. Sarada Devireddy Child Rights: ICDS Programme 2009 Discovery Publishing House 978-81-8356-429-8 114 https://books.google.com/books?id=OiZiwsj839kC&pg=PA114 Drèze Jean Sen Amartya Amartya Sen An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions 2013 Penguin Books Limited 978-1-84614-762-3 https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=5a2xddKTWDoC&q=Dipa+Sinha#v=snippet&q=Dipa%20Sinha&f=false Lanjouw Peter Stern Nicholas Nicholas Stern How Lives Change: Palanpur, India, and Development Economics 2018 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-252907-7 https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=_BhnDwAAQBAJ&q=%22Dipa+Sinha%22#v=snippet&q=%22Dipa%20Sinha%22&f=false E-PDS could have helped migrants, but scheme still lacks the scale (March 30, 2020) by Zia Haq, Hindustan Times COVID-19: Delhi's PDS System is Failing People When Needed Most by Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar, 10 April 2020, The Wire Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana To Provide Free Rations During Coronavirus Lockdown Extended, What Does It Mean For People On The Ground? (July 14, 2020) by Barkha Mathur, edited by Sonia Bhaskar, NDTV Everything You Need To Know About E Governance Services (July 16, 2020), by Tariq Gardezi, Parle Magazine Granaries Overflowing With Food, Why States Are Unable To Provide The Needy? by Preetha Nair, 28 July 2020, Outlook Over 130 former civil servants, academicians call for withdrawal of contempt case against Prashant Bhushan, 27 July 2020, National Herald Category:Living people Category:Academics from India Category:Non-fiction authors from India Category:Educators from India Category:People from New Delhi Category:Women from India Category:Educator stubs Category:Articles with no corresponding English Wikipedia article