Families with children aged under five had to have regular checkups for growth monitoring, receipt of fortified complementary food and vitamin supplements, vaccinations and deworming.
Because of evidence of bacterial growth upon receipt at the central processing facility, MoBa revised the protocol to include the addition of a preservative to urine specimens.
After 15 years of rapid economic growth, tax receipts in India are smaller, as a percentage of GDP (under 10%), than they were in the late 1980s.The big challenge facing any Indian finance minister is that, as this one put it, the country is "perilously close to the limits of fiscal prudence".
"We have seen stronger growth in receipts this month, but as today's figures show, the impact of the great recession is still being felt in our economy and the public finances," a Treasury spokesman said.
By letting the debt maturity shorten, Washington has trapped itself in a lose-lose outcome: If the economy does poorly, the debt-service costs stay low, but so do tax receipts; if growth rebounds, tax receipts jump, but so do interest costs.
"The higher levels of borrowing have been driven by weak growth in tax receipts – in particular, receipts of income tax, capital gains tax and National Insurance contributions.
A drop in prices for agricultural exports further slowed growth, lowering tax receipts.
Growth and tax receipts are lower than George Osborne had expected, prolonging his deficit-reduction programme.
More important, the government understands the danger of undermining a sector so important to jobs, growth and tax receipts.
But government officials say that growth in tax receipts over the next several months will allow them to meet the I.M.F.'s deficit target for the full year.
