SOCIO-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF INFRASTRUCTURE IN RURAL AREAS OF INDIA by Dillip Kumar DAS

“…In the past two decades, a large-scale development of social and economic infrastructure, such as schools, roads, water harvesting structures, community centres, and houses have been undertaken, particularly in the Community Development Blocks (administrative units for rural development) of India. …”
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Rapid Assessment for Coexistence of Vitamin B12 and Iron Deficiency Anemia among Adolescent Males and Females in Northern Himalayan State of India by Ashok Bhardwaj, Dinesh Kumar, Sunil Kumar Raina, Pardeep Bansal, Satya Bhushan, Vishav Chander

“…Total 885 (female: 60.9%) adolescents (11 to 19 completed years) were surveyed from 30-cluster village from two community development blocks of Himachal Pradesh. Serum ferritin, folic acid, and vitamin B12 were estimated among randomly selected 100 male and 100 female adolescents. …”
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Optimizing water resource management in tropical drought-prone regions through hybrid MCDM techniques: A water-stress mapping approach by Suman Mukherjee, Suman Paul, Subhasis Bhattacharya, Aznarul Islam, Sadik Mahammad, Edris Alam

“…Though the entire region experiences water-stress, the central part and some portions of the northeastern community development blocks exhibit higher intensity. Our study advances the ability of water-stress area identification, applying integrated methods and comprehensive geospatial datasets in a water-scarce region.…”
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Why India is struggling to feed their young children? A qualitative analysis for tribal communities by Sanjay Sharma, Monica Lakhanpaul, Logan Manikam, Priti Parikh, Lorna Benton, Shereen Allaham, Rajesh Khanna, Susrita Roy, Marie Lall, Virendra Kumar Vijay, Neha Santwani, Hanimi Reddy, Hemant Chaturvedi, Satya Prakash Pattanaik, Tol Singh, Pramod Pandya, Priyanka Dang

“…The ultimate goal of the Participatory Approach for Nutrition in Children: Strengthening Health Education Engineering and Environment Linkages project is to identify challenges and opportunities for improvement to subsequently develop socioculturally appropriate, tailored, innovative interventions for the successful implementation of appropriate infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices locally.Design Qualitative research method, involving five phases: (1) identification of local feeding practices; (2) identification of the local needs and opportunities for children aged 6–24 months; and (3–5) analysis of the gathered qualitative data, intervention design, review and distribution.Setting Nine villages in two community development blocks, that is, Ghatol and Kushalgarh, located in the Banswara district in Rajasthan, India.Participants 68 participants completed semistructured interviews or focus group discussions including: mothers, grandmothers, auxiliary nurse midwife, Anganwadi worker, ASHA Sahyogini, school teachers and local elected representative.Phenomenon of interest IYCF practices and the factors associated with it.Analysis Thematic analysis.Results Our results could be broadly categorised into two domains: (1) the current practices of IYCF and (2) the key drivers and challenges of IYCF. …”
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