In July 2016, 19 children died in Nagada in the Sukinda block of Jajpur district of Odisha. They died of acute malnutrition and co-morbidities. The scandal didn’t just wake up the National Human Rights Commission and the state administration, it also woke up the local and state-level media.
In the national media, the plight of ambulance/hearse services and the tribal Dana Manjhi trekking with his wife’s dead-body for over 12 kilometres was a bigger story.
