Delhi Women and Child Development Minister Rajendra Pal Gautam underlined the need of taking the utmost precaution in the distribution of nutritious items to the beneficiaries under the Anganwadi scheme at the time of Covid-19
The minister chaired a meeting with newly appointed welfare officers and supervisors in the Department of Women and Child Development on Sunday.
Gautam said that we all have to channelize our energy with a determination to achieve the goal of eradicating malnutrition from the capital. "A collective responsibility is to be realized by all stakeholders to protect the infants and mothers from malnutrition," he said.
In order to achieve the goal, all officers and employees will have to discharge their duty in a responsible manner, he said.
On this occasion, the department briefed the minister about a plan to conduct the survey of anganwadi beneficiaries. In the presentation, a questionnaire prepared for the purpose of making the anganwadi beneficiaries aware of the facilities received by the government and their responses, suggestionsand ideas related to the scheme were also shown, the ministry said in a statement. A mock drill was also conducted with the survey team regarding the questions of the survey, it said.