In a major drive to be taken up shortly by the State Government to put a check on anaemia problem among adolescent girls in Chhattisgarh’s schools and anganwadis, a tablet of Iron Folic Acid would be given to them on Tuesdays and Saturdays respectively during the coming academic session.
This is apart from distribution of medicines for prevention of worms to be distributed to the girl students twice in a year during the month of August and February.
These were some of the proposed activities which were part of a discussion in a meeting chaired by Chief Secretary Sunil Kumar at the Mantralaya here on Wednesday.
The programme on distribution of medicines would be taken up both in the rural and urban areas among girls enrolled in Standard 6th to 12th apart from girls aged 10 to 19 years who do not attend any school and those married among them who are not expecting mothers.
Presenting an Action Plan for the entire programme at the meeting, Secretary, Woman and Child Development Department Subrat Sahu said that the assistance of School Education Department, Tribal Welfare Department, Health and Family Welfare Department, Woman and Child Development Department and Rural Development Department would be sought for successful implementation of the programme.
He said that the Woman and Child Development Department had been made the ‘Nodal Agency’ for the implementation of the programme.
Sahu also provided extensive details on the availability of medicines in the district headquarters, ways to distribute the medicines, monitoring of the programme and training for the employees.
The Chief Secretary directed in the meeting to ensure proper arrangements for distribution of the medicines while stating that the Gram Sabhas also be included in the agenda for discussion.
Kumar also directed to prepare a time table for the distribution of medicines on time and register the same in the calendar.
Those who were present in the meeting today were—Additional Chief Secretary, Finance, D S Mishra, Principal Secretary, Health and Family Welfare M K Raut, Principal Secretary, Sports and Youth Welfare, R P Mandal, Secretary, School Education Dinesh Kumar Shrivastava, Secretary, Panchayat and Rural Development Devashis Das, Director, Woman and Child Development Department Dilip Wasnikar, Director, Health Services Kamalpreet Singh and representative of a social service organization from New Delhi Manpreet Kaur besides other officials.