After the protesting Anganwadi workers suspended their protest recently and returned to their work, the Take Home Ration (THR) has been distributed after two months in many of the Anganwadi centres of the state and the remaining will be distributed by February 14. While talking to The Pioneer the Child Development Project Officer (CDPO) Anju Badola informed that in the Kalsi region, the THR of two months was distributed among the children and it has been distributed in most of the Anganwadi centres.
The centres which have not distributed THR will do it by February 14.
The CDPO Taruna Chamola also confirmed that THR has been distributed in her Anganwadi centres of Vikasnagar too but only for the month of February. The THR is distributed under Supplementary Nutrition Programme (SNP) of Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) to children, pregnant women and lactating mothers for 300 days in a year but due to the protest of Anganwadi workers about two months, no THR was distributed during this period.
Even after the suspension of the protest of Anganwadi workers, THR was not distributed in the Anganwadi centres on its due date as according to the District Programme Officer (DPO) it takes around ten days to send the ration to each centre and due to the ongoing protest.