Aligarh Consultation on Children’s Nutrition rights through Package food Labelling :Program schedule & other details

 








November 1, 2021

Time

Description

Facilitator

9:30 to 10 am  

Registration, tea

10:00 am to 10: 05 am

Welcome address

Raghib Ali, Vice – President, PVCHR

10: 05 to 10: 30 am

Need for Nutrition Standard and FOPL in India to address the growing obesity amongst Children

Dr. Ali Jafar Abedi,   Assistant Professor, community medicine JN Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India 

10: 30 to 10: 50

FOPL as important policy instrument for civil and consumer rights:

Importance of Nutrient Profile, Various type of Nutrient profile models and status update of FOPL regulation in India

Shri Satyapal Singh, CUTS International

10: 50 to 12: 30

Panel discussion

 

1.     Dr. Simon jude Soch, Beyond the Imagination

 

2.     Women Voice (Shruti Nagvanshi, Convenor, Savitri Bai Phule Women Forum)

 

3.     Prof. Pervez Qamar Rizvi, Ex Dean, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, and Charnan Department of Plant Protection AMU, Aligarh

 

4.    Prof. Abdul Mateen, Ex Dean Faculty of Social Science AMU, Aligarh  and visiting faculty at Department of Social Work, University of Science and Technology Meghalaya (USTM)

 

5.    Mahima Jain as Children Voice (Child line)

 

6.     Dr. Haider M Husaini, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, AMU Aligarh

 

7.     Moderated by: Lenin Raghuvanshi,     CEO, PVCHR

12: 30 pm to 12: 40 pm

Vote of Thanks 

Prof. Naseem Ahmad Khan, Assistant Professor Chairman, Department of Social Work

Lunch

 77 participants from media, CSOs from Aligarh, Badaun, Noida, Bulandshahar & Sambhal, Childline, children & youth groups, students from AMU & Madarasa and academia from AMU and  University of Science and Technology Meghalaya (USTM). PRO of AMU released our press release and USTM retweeted our event.   

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