nChief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Friday termed malnutrition a biggest problem across the country and emphasized on feeding nutritional food at least to children, whom he called the “future of the country.”
Baghel was addressing a function at Medka Dobra stadium here after launching the ‘Suposhan’ campaign, which pledges to root out malnutrition from the state.
Dantewada and Bastar districts are initially taken under pilot project where the scheme was launched on Friday. Baghel inaugurated the pilot project against malnutrition in Dantewada district by himself serving nutritious food to children and women.
The scheme would officially be launched across the state on the occasion of 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi on October 2, 2019.
Similarly the state government is also launching mobile medical facility in ‘Haat-Bazaars’ of the far flung tribal regions of the state from October 2, he informed. Doctors and paramedical staff would provide medical facilities there, he added
The chief minister also laid foundation for development works worth Rs 125 crore on this occasion.