The Nainital district administration on Tuesday launched Take Home Ration scheme through aaganwadi centres to provide balanced and nutritious food to the children and pregnant women. launching this scheme in Nainital on Tuesday, Arvind Singh Hyanki, District Magistrate, Nainital, said that to provide nutritious and balanced food to the children is vital for their proper growth. More so, under this scheme pregnant women would be also be provided nutritious food so that new borne babies could be saved from malnutrition problem, he added.
Apart from children aged between 0 to three years and pregnant women, children who are facing malnutrition problems will also be covered under this scheme, as the officials concerned of the Nainital district administration said. In the meanwhile, the Nainital District Magistrate, also directed the officials concerned of the district administration to ensure proper implementation of this scheme across the district. He also asked the officials concerned to conduct random checking so that this scheme could be implemented properly ahead. The aforesaid scheme was launched in all aaganbari centres from Tuesday.