Tags: mdm, Clinton, akshay patra

MID DAY MEAL SCHEME

– under department of school education and literacy.
– ministry of HRD
– carried on through various NGO’s like “AKSHAY PATRA” provides food to students 1.3 million children in 10500 schools in 10 states along with state governments.
– Clinton foundation under Clinton global initiative raises awareness and motivates corporate and other agencies to fund akshay patra for running MDM.
– Caterpillar foundation at $2 million to run a similar kitchen in Lucknow.

Marrakesh convention or Treaty

– Marrakesh is the capital of Morocco
– United nation convention for the disabled
– india first country to ratify it
– now india has implanted it in spirit also by taking this matter to debates with parliamentary standing committee .
– the law will amend domestic copyright act to allow conversion of books o blind friEndly formats like “Braille”.
– benefits blind and visually impaired.
– benefits include available of literature to blind in developing countries like india where 90 percent of worlds blinds reside.
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IHDI

– Inequality adjusted HDI
– tells the loss to achievements or loss in Human Development due to inequality in society.
– Calculated normally as HDI and then the inequality of population is discounted for from this index.
– IHDI = HDI when inequality is zero, i.e Gini Coefficient is ZERO or the Lorenz curve is a straight line.
– Finland has the least inequality at 5.5% while greatest is for Angola at 44%.
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MPI

Further read: http://hdr.undp.org/en/faq-page/multidimensional-poverty-index-mpi#t295n135

– Multi dimensional poverty index

– measures on same parameters that HDI is measured but the details differ.
– gauges poverty not just on income but other deprivation factors like health and education and standard of living.
– measures “acute” poverty among nations and its a measure of relative deprivation that humans face
– “extreme” poverty is measured by world bank and fixed at $1.25 per person per day.
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