Paper short abstract:

The aspect of child health is intimately associated with maternal health, nutritional status, age at marriage, antenatal and post natal care and medical attention during child birth. Again all such factors are also deeply co-related with the socio-economic and socio-cultural factors very much. Such a combined effect of malnutrition adversely effects on the growth and development of the children, including their learning capability and the capacity to cope with the problems of daily living.

Paper long abstract:

India is the home of about 20 percent children of the world. More than one third of the country's population, i.e. around 400 million, is below 18 years. By 2016, India's child population below 14 years of age is expected to be around 350 million. It is only by ensuring that India's children are well cared for, well protected and well supported that India can attain the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 and be counted in the league of developed nation. The health and nutrition status of children has been a major area of concern for the policy makers. However, about half of the Indian children are undernourished and the similar proportion escape full immunization. The aspect of child health is intimately associated with maternal health, nutritional status, age at marriage, antenatal and post natal care and medical attention during child birth. Again all such factors are also deeply co-related with the socio-economic and socio-cultural factors very much. Such a combined effect of malnutrition adversely effects on the growth and development of the children, including their learning capability and the capacity to cope with the problems of daily living.

These issues have been observed among the people of an unorganized occupational sector, who were displaced from their earlier settlement and are struggling for their common minimum livelihood.