Since last year, this paper has been exposing the problem of malnutrition and deaths due to related diseases among children. The reports had made the Bombay High Court take notice of this and ask the State Government to form a committee in order to look into the issue. However, no committee has been formed so far.

Yesterday, we had a front-page report on 15 children who died due to malnutrition in the past two months barely 150 km from Mumbai. The report stated that last year, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh labelled the problem of malnutrition as a matter of national shame. Yet, in Maharashtra itself -- in the talukas of Jawhar and Mokhada -- there are about 550 malnourished children.