Addressing the one-day State-level workshop organised by the Woman and Child Development Department here on Saturday, Woman and Child Development Minister Ramsheela Sahu said that the Chhattisgarh Government was committed to make children well-nourished and women empowered.
It is the responsibility of all to make the country well-nourished, along with the State, she added. The workshop, related to ISNIP project operated in the State for strengthening Integrated Child Development Projects and Betterment of Nutrition, was organised on the guidelines of Central Project Management unit of the Central Government and the World Bank.
The Minister asked the departmental employees to discharge their duty actively with truthfulness and transparency, so that the State be freed from malnutrition and achieve the objectives of all the schemes launched by the department, including women empowerment, in time. Sahu said that the Central and the State Governments have been working continuously to make women empowered and children well nourished. Taking benefit of the Nava Jatan Scheme, children could be saved fully from malnutrition, she added.
The ISNIP project has been been launched in 28,682 centres of 92 projects in 11 districts of Chhattisgarh including Mahasamund, Korba, Durg, Kabirdham, Jashpur, Uttar Bastar, Dakshin Bastar, Bijapur, Jagadalpur, Narayanpur and Raipur with a cost of Rs 192.68 crore. The first phase of the project would run up to 2015 and the second phase until 2019.