A civil servant must make it a point to serve the public with a smile. This was stated by Prashant Mehta, retired Additional Chief Secretary during the workshop organised on the occasion of the Civil Services Day. The topic of the workshop was to find ways to nourish the malnourished children of the district.
Speaking as the Chief Guest of the workshop, Prashant Mehta said that India has one of the world’s highest demographics of children suffering from malnutrition. He said that the civil servants must take the initiative in creating infrastructure for better nutrition of the children. In this connection he lauded the efforts of Rahul Jain, the District Collector to improve the condition of malnourished children by setting up the Atal Bal Palak Abhiyan.Giving details about the program he said that so far a total of 651 children have been made fully nourished. He added that, recently there has been a dramatic fall in the number of underweight children in the area.
Speaking as Special Guest of the workshop, Anshuman Yadav, the IG of Gwalior said that nutrition is the fundamental needs of every person, and access is even more crucial for a child. He added that, with will power and persistence the civil servants can successfully eradicate the hunger problem, and permanently end the curse of malnutrition based infant diseases and deaths.