Eying the upcoming lok Sabha polls in 2014, the Congress-led State Government has emphasised on the need to launch the popular Take Home Ration scheme aimed at providing quality and nutritious food to the children and pregnant women, effectively in all parts of the State.
With Nainital district administration launching this scheme from different aaganbari centres on Tuesday last, some other districts, including Udham Singh Nagar and Bageshwar, have also followed suit in the Kumaon division. launching this scheme from an aaganbari centre at Khera in Udham Singh Nagar on Friday, Pankaj Kumar Pandey, District Magistrate Udham Singh Nagar, said that this scheme is being launched by the State Government to provide balanced and nutritious food to children aged from six months to three years old, pregnant women and mothers of newly borne babies.
Emphasising on the need to implement this scheme effectively in the district, Pandey asked the official concerned to launch this scheme in all aaganbari centres across the district in a transparent and time-bound manner so that the beneficiaries could be benefitted from this scheme. As many as 104 beneficiaries including 76 children aged between six months to three years, 12 pregnant women, 13 mothers of newly borne babies and three children facing malnutrition problem were provided nutritious and balanced food kits on this occasion at the Khera aaganbari centre, said the officials concerned of the Udham Singh Nagar district administration.
Meanwhile, the Bageshwr district administration also launched this scheme from an aaganbari centre at Majiyakhet in Bageshwar on Friday. According to the official concerned of the Bageshwar district administration Chandanram Das, MlA from Bageshwar Assembly constituency, launched this scheme from the Majiyakhet aaganbari centre today. Speaking on this occasion, MlA Das expressed hope that this 'Take Home Ration' scheme would go a long way to provide balanced and nutritious food to the children and pregnant women.
At the same time he also asked the officials concerned to implement this scheme effectively in the district.