The Department of Women and Child Development, Government of Maharashtra, currently sealed a MoU with a Jamshedji Tata Trust and UNICEF to launch a commander village plan to yield timely and peculiarity caring for exceedingly malnourished children in a genealogical district of Nandurbar, deliberate a many exposed in a state with honour to child health.
The plan is a outcome of a five-point bulletin laid down by a Honorable Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Prithviraj Chavan, and a state’s Minister for Women and Child Development, Prof. Varsha Gaikwad, to overcome a plea of gauntness in Maharashtra, with special concentration on genealogical areas.
The Nandurbar plan is a partial of a wider beginning that began in Nov 2013 as Maharashtra Alliance Against Malnutrition (MAAM). It supposing a height to move all stakeholders underneath one roof, including immature inaugurated member slicing opposite celebration lines, business houses, educational bodies and members of a media.
The MoU was sealed by Ujjwal Uke, Principal Secretary, Department of Women and Child Development, R. Venkataramanan, Executive Trustee of Tata Trust, and Ms Rajeshwari Chandrasekar, Chief of UNICEF- Maharashtra, who represented a Chief of UNICEF India- Mr. Louise Georges Arsenault. The MoU was sealed in a participation of Maharashtra’s Minister for Women and Child Development, Prof. Varsha Gaikwad.
Speaking about a miracle plan underneath CSR to be launched in a district of Nandurbar, Prof. Varsha Gaikwad, Honorable Minister for Women and Child Development, Government of Maharashtra, said “Malnutrition stays a biggest hazard to a survival, expansion and earthy mental growth of children, notwithstanding poignant swell in several amicable and mercantile indicators over a years. It poses a poignant open health plea for tellurian wealth and security. we am therefore, blissful that we have instituted this plan to tackle child gauntness in one of a misfortune influenced districts of Maharashtra. We are happy to partner with Jamshedji Tata Trust and UNICEF to move about a certain change in a lives of people in farming and genealogical areas.”
According to a Comprehensive Nutrition Survey Maharashtra 2012, a superiority of stunting in a state among children underneath dual has decreased from 39% in 2006 to 23% in 2012, a 41% drop. During a same period, a superiority of wasting has decreased from 19.9% to 16.3% and that of underweight children from 29.6% to 22.6%. According to a Survey, a occurrence of children with Severe Acute Malnutrition is 4.5% in Maharashtra.
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Quality care for malnourished children in the tribal district of Nandurbar
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