The Chhattisgarh Government will hold the ‘Child Health Mission’ in the district from November 14 to 19 as per the guidelines of the Central Government.
The programmes and competitions will be based on themes like clean toilets in all Anganbadi centres, clean home and Anganbadi centres, hygienic food, clean house and neighbourhood, personal hygiene and clean drinking water, officials said.
It is noteworthy that State Government’s Women and Child Development Department is conducting this Mission under ICDS (Integrated Child Development Services) week.
The Department officials informed on Thursday that as per the guidelines of Central Government, Child Health Mission will be conducted during ICDS week from November 14 to 19.
Officials informed that under Child Hygiene Mission, programmes and competitions will be organised on each day of the ICDS week as per the decided schedule.
They stated that on November 14 and 15, women groups will conduct activities on the theme of Anganbadi cleanliness drive, under which each Anganbadi centre and surrounding areas will be cleaned and painted with participation of local women groups.
As per the programme outline, competition on the theme of personal hygiene will be organised on November 16 whereas lactating mothers hygiene competition will be organised on November 17.
On November 18 and 19, ‘Clean Anganbadi Competition’ will be organised, under which most hygienic, well-maintained and attractive Anganbadi centre of respective sectors will be selected and workers of nominated Anganbadi centres will be honoured at project-level on November 19.