Odisha will soon launch a zero hunger challenge project in collaboration with the United Nation’s World Food Programme (WFP).
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday gave a green signal to the project proposal whose objective is to eliminate hunger in the State by ensuring access for all people to adequate food grains.
A six- member WFP team headed by Country Director Torben Due met the CM and evinced interest in implementation of the project in the State, said Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare (FSCW) Secretary Madhu Sudan Padhi.
He said that during the meeting, the team discussed threadbare about the project and the measures needed do away with food scarcity. The WFP team has chosen Odisha as the first State in to launch the pilot project for which the UN would provide all possible tools, support and technical assistance, Padhi informed.
The project focuses on 100 per cent provision of food to all people round the year and zero per cent stunted children within two years of age, Padhi said.The project also aims to ensure that all food system should be sustainable as far as production is concerned.