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| How can a starving person be stress free? | | Director Health Services needs to explain | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 3: The Directorate of Health Services has issued an advertisement urging people to have a balanced diet to avoid malnutrition.
The advertisement also urges the people to avoid junk food and take rice, roti, vegetables etc.
The Director perhaps is unaware of the basic realities. The Government has already slashed down the quantity of ration available at CAPD depots.
For every ration ticket, the CAPD officials have to give 2 kilograms of sugar and around 30 kilograms of rice. This means that the people will now be getting less amount of ration. And, in such a background when the director talks about balanced diet, it does not make any sense.
The Government has to bear in mind that malnutrition cannot be fought by hollow slogans or publishing advertisements in newspapers. The section of the society for which the advertisement is meant has no access to the newspapers. It can be tackled by taking tangible measures like issuing free or subsidized ration in proper quantity.
The advertisements add insult to the injury by advising people to be stress free. How can a person who does not have enough food to feed his family be stress free? The answer to this question is to be sought in actual practice and not by fulfilling a formality in the shape of publishing an advertisement. |
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