{"id":48701,"date":"2017-06-20T05:21:23","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T23:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=48701"},"modified":"2017-06-20T05:21:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T23:51:23","slug":"malnutrition-deaths-important-issue-farmers-bombay-hc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/malnutrition-deaths-important-issue-farmers-bombay-hc","title":{"rendered":"Malnutrition deaths as important an issue as farmers: Bombay HC"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_47353\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47353\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/Bombay-High-Court.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"47353\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/no-corruption-case-made-traffic-police-acb-hc\/bombay-high-court-18\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/Bombay-High-Court.jpg?fit=350%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"350,144\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Bombay High Court\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/Bombay-High-Court.jpg?fit=300%2C123&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/Bombay-High-Court.jpg?fit=350%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-47353 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/Bombay-High-Court.jpg?resize=300%2C123&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Malnutrition deaths as important an issue as farmers: Bombay HC\" width=\"300\" height=\"123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/Bombay-High-Court.jpg?resize=300%2C123&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/Bombay-High-Court.jpg?resize=150%2C62&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/Bombay-High-Court.jpg?w=350&amp;ssl=1 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47353\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malnutrition deaths as important an issue as farmers: Bombay HC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Bombay High Court today said that malnutrition deaths in tribal areas of Maharashtra is an issue as important as the farmers&#8217; distress which attracted loan waiver by the government to mitigate it.<\/p>\n<p>The tribal population needs an immediate attention from the government, said a division bench of justices V M Kanade and A M Badar.<\/p>\n<p>The judges directed the government to implement within two months all previous orders passed by the court to extend help to the tribal population.<\/p>\n<p>The court gave its direction while hearing a bunch of petitions on the issue of malnutrition deaths of children in tribal areas.<\/p>\n<p>As per a report by a committee headed by Dr Abhay Bang, as many as 10,000 children die of malnutrition and related illnesses each year in tribal areas of Maharashtra.<\/p>\n<p>The government has done very little to implement the past orders of the court, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>To this the judges said, &#8220;The government has been merely paying lip service&#8230; Time has come for the state to be held responsible for non-implementation of the court orders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This issue is equally, if not more, important than (that of) farmers whose loans were waived by the government,&#8221; Justice Kanade said.<\/p>\n<p>District collectors and the state&#8217;s chief secretary will be held responsible for the death of children due to malnutrition in future, the high court warned.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bombay High Court today said that malnutrition deaths in tribal areas of Maharashtra is an issue as important as the farmers&#8217; distress which attracted loan waiver by the government to mitigate it. 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