Nada India Foundation News update

Your dynamic and energetic programme managed by Nada India Foundation is not only appreciated but also useful for senior citizens as community leaders and hope the same will be continue in future. Thanking you Avtar singh sejwal Lado Sarai New Delhi

We, the volunteers and senior citizens support groups, Indian Temperance Youth Federation volunteers & members of Nada India Foundation network strongly support the petition filed with Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh for scrapping a state government-sponsored policy diverting huge amount of grain to factories owned by a clutch of senior politicians of various hues for alcohol production. We also found it strange that at a time when the entire country was reeling under the impact of back-breaking food prices, induced primarily by reduction in their production, the state would pursue such a policy. We also appeal the Prime Minister to review such state policies and curb such initiatives. We also request Government to view the alcohol problem as developmental issue rather just as a disease of those who are dependent on it. According to the report published in The Economic Times on 23 February, 2010, as many as 36 factories, they had been granted licenses by the state government to m...

Sanchita Sharma, Hindustan Times New Delhi, February 09,2010 India will support a global treaty to restrict alcohol use worldwide at the World Health Organisation’s annual World Health Assembly in Geneva on May 17-22 this year. “India and Sweden have decided to work together in the forthcoming World Health Assembly for eventually instituting a framework convention on alcohol control,” said Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad. In 2008, India had requested the World Health Organisation to declare October 2 — Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday — as the World No Alcohol Day and introduce global restrictions on alcohol sale, advertising and consumption, similar to those against tobacco. As a result of the tobacco treaty, most countries have imposed bans on smoking in public and workplaces. According to the WHO, two billion people worldwide consume alcohol and 76.3 million have diagnosed alcohol-related disorders. It causes more than 60 types of disease and injury and 1.8 million deaths a year, which re...