Dantewada district, which is among the 115 aspirational district, has won Silver Award of Skoch for exceptional achievement in implementation of malnutrition drive.
Zila Panchayat Dantewada Chief Executive Officer Sachchidanand Alok and Aspirational Fellow Basant Kumar received the award from Economic Advisor of Prime Minister Vivek Devrai at a function held in India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel had launched the special malnutrition eradication drive on October 2, 2019 across the state.
Earlier, the drive was launched in Dantewada. In Dantewada, with the help of women groups in village panchayats the programme is being run where the children and mothers are being targeted.
Improvement is being observed and the lower weight birth of children has been declining, as the new born's average weight is nearing 3 kilograms. The women and girls are also being helped fight anemia through Chief Minister Suposhan Abhiyan. The work is being done in 124 village panchayat centres and anganbadi centres through 270 women self help groups. The centres are serving hot meals along with eggs, jiggery-gram and groundnut sweets. Before the drive baseline survey was carried out and regular checks being done to check the improvements among targeted groups.