Healthy and educated children are assets of the nation, said the Nainital district magistrate Deepak Rawat. The district magistrate said this launching the pulse polio campaign on Sunday.
Reaching the launch of the pulse polio campaign, which was organised at the Government girls inter college BanBhulpura, the district magistrate administered the polio drops to two kids named Nafisa and Imran to formally launch the pulse polio drive.
Speaking on the occasion, the Nainital district magistrate said that about 1,13,000 children will be administered the polio drops across the Nainital district as part of the pulse polio campaign.
He stressed on the need for ensuring that not a single child in need of the polio drops is left without being administered the same.
The DM also exhorted parents to bring the children eligible for the polio vaccination so that as many as possible children are administered the polio drops.
The district’s chief medical officer Dr lM Upreti, Dr Usha Jangpangi, city magistrate Harvir Singh, sub divisional magistrate Deepak Rawat and the Government inter college Banbhulpura principal lata Pant were also among the people present on the occasion.