symposium participants

• THE PROBLEM
  Posed by Vani Sethi, nutrition specialist, Unicef India, and Akanksha Dutta, public health and communications professional, Delhi

• LAYERING NUTRITION IN AGRICULTURE
  Saroj Mahapatra, Integrator, PRADAN, Raipur

• A FARMING SYSTEMS APPROACH
  Rajashree Joshi, BAIF Development Research Foundation, Pune

• FORESTS AS A FOOD PRODUCING HABITAT
  Debjeet Sarangi, Managing Trustee, Living Farms; Bichitra Biswal and Pradeep Patra, Living Farms, Bhubaneswar

• CRECHES IN TRIBAL AREAS
  Ramani Atkuri, public health physician working with marginalized communities in rural and tribal central India

• THE CHALLENGE OF DELIVERY IN EXTREMISM AFFECTED AREAS
  Abner E. Daniel, public health professional; Unicef, Raipur

• IMPROVING PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
  Pavitra Mohan, Director Health Services at Aajeevika Bureau; co-founder, Basic Health Care Services, Rajasthan, and Akanksha Dutta, public health and communications professional, Delhi

• ROLE OF NGOS
  Prasanta Tripathy, public health researcher and activist; co-founder, Ekjut, Keonjhar

• MALNUTRITION-FREE ENCLAVES
  Rohini Mukherjee, Chief Policy Officer, Naandi Foundation; J.C. Reddy and Manish Raikar, HUNGaMA Initiative, Naandi Foundation, Hyderabad

• ADDRESSING WATER SCARCITY: THE URMUL EXPERIENCE
  Arvind Ojha, Chief Executive and Secretary, Urmul Trust, Bikaner  

• A TOTAL SANITATION INITIATIVE
  Joe Madiath, Founder and Chairman, Governing Board, Gram Vikas; and Gobinda Dalai, Gram Vikas, Brahmapur, Ganjam

• IMPROVING DRINKING WATER SERVICES
  Siddharth V. Patel, Manager-Projects, WASMO, Government of Gujarat, Gandhinagar

• THE MAHARASHTRA NUTRITION MISSION
  Vandana Krishna, IAS; Director General, Rajmata Jijau Mother Child Health and Nutrition Mission, Government of Maharashtra, Mumbai

• THE 'LAGAAN' APPROACH
  Satish B. Agnihotri, IAS, former Secretary, GOI, presently Professor, Centre for Technology Alternatives in Rural Areas (CTARA), IIT Bomay

• MALNUTRITION, TRIBES AND MEDIA
  Sachin Kumar Jain, Director, Vikas Samvad and State Advisor to the Supreme Court for Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal

• AN EFFECTIVE BUREAUCRACY
  N.C. Saxena, IAS; former Secretary, GOI; presently Supreme Court Commissioner for Right to Food, Delhi

• INTERVIEW
  With Saba Mebrahtu, Chief, Child Development and Nutrition Section, Unicef India

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