Women and Child Development Minister Ramsheela Sahu on Wednesday launched the second phase of Orientation Workshop related to Integrated Child Development Service Scheme at conference hall of New Circuit House here.
In this workshop, the Department officials of five districts of Bilaspur Division and three districts of Surguja Division were provided training.In her address, Sahu said that as per the Millennium Development Goal, malnutrition level in Chhattisgarh has to be reduced below 30 per cent by December 2015. For which, it is necessary to pay attention towards maintaining quality of Ready-to-Eat food and other services provided by Aanganwadi centres to women and children of the State.
She said that no compromise on quality of food and services provided through these centres would be tolerated.The Women and Child Development Department is committed to improve health of children in the State, Sahu said.
She appealed to the officials and employees present in the workshop to take a pledge that they would discharge all their duties to achieve targets of schemes within the given time limit and thereby attain the Millennium Development goals on time.
In the training session, Department Secretary Dinesh Shrivastava reviewed in detail the schemes including Mukhyamantri Bal Sandarbh Yojana, Poorak Poshan Ahaar, Malnutrition Eradication Drive, MIR and MPR, and gave instructions to provide information in the context to Department’s Directorate within the next three days.
Director, Women and Child Development Department, Avinash Champavat, senior officers of Directorate, District Programme Officers, District Women and Child Development officers and Child Development Project officers from Bilaspur, Korba, Raigarh, Mungeli and Janjgir-Champa districts of Bilaspur Division and Surguja, Koriya and Surajpur districts of Surguja Division were also present in the workshop.