The Bihar government, which faces criticism for malnutrition among children, also highlighted in the recent social audit of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES)-affected children, has now prepared a standard operating procedure (SOP) for child budgeting, with special allocation of funds for schemes related to children. Advertising Kerala and Assam are the only other states to have done a similar budgeting. With 16 state government departments, in place of the previous eight, making allocation for children, there would be devoted schemes, once the guidelines are implemented, for children facing difficult circumstances such as child labour, disabilities, those affected by calamities and conflict,...
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