RIGHT TO HEALTH A multi-sectoral national level nodal agency should be established for tobacco control with strong representation from legal, medical and scientific communities. The right of the people to access correct informationrelated to the effects of tobacco consumption must be promoted through programmes of information, education and communication. Such programmes should be adequately supported. Assistance for smoking cessation should be integrated into health care services. There was a need to review the provision of various incentives for tobacco industry under different Acts including the Tobacco Board Act, 1975, and for doing away with all subsidies (direct and indirect) being provided to the industry. 4) Recommendations on Nutrition: • Access to iodised salt should be made available to all sections of population, on a sustained and affordable basis. • The Infant Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles and Infant Foods (Regulation of Production Supply and Distribution) Act, 1992 should be reviewed with specific reference to violations. • The Food Corporation of India should be asked to provide a Report of losses of significant portions of food grains procured/stored by it over the last three years and the steps taken to monitor and reduce such losses. • Media guidelines should be prepared to promote best practices of nutrition. • The implementation of the recommendations of the NHRC sponsored workshop on Maternal Anaemia (April 2000) should be reviewed to evaluate the progress made and the barriers in effective implementation should be identified. • The proposed Public Health Regulatory Authorities should monitor the effective implementation of the National Nutrition Policy and the National Policies of Action on Nutrition. • An overview should be initiated by the Ministry of Law and Justice, of the ANNUAL REPORT 2001 -2002 j 61