Unicef Regional Director Karin Hulshop has stressed the need for providing necessary training to teachers for ensuring quality education in tribal areas of the State.
During a meeting with Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik here on Tuesday, Hulshop discussed education and nutrition programmes in the tribal districts.
Additional Chief Secretary UN Behera, Women and Child Development Secretary Vishal Dev and School and Mass Education Secretary Ranjana Chopra were among those present at the meeting.
The meeting also discussed about the toilet programme, which is being undertaken in a big way in the State.
Several districts in the State, including Angul, which had taken up this program earlier seriously, earned laurels from the Union Government, said sources. The infant mortality rate (IMR) and maternal mortality rate (MMR) issues were discussed at the meeting.