Fight against malnutrition: SMC to put weighing scale in anganwadis to track children’s growth
April 18, 2013
By our correspondent, Surat, 18 April 2013
With a motive to fight malnutrition, Surat Municipal Corporation has taken a decision to put weighing machines in Anganwadi kendras.
According to Municipal Commissioner Shri MK Das, anganwadi children will be weighed at regular interval and computer connected to weighing machine will register the details of children. This data will be transferred to Municipal Corporation’s main server. It will be analyzed later, and children with weak growth will be identified separately. Later, with the help of doctors such children will be treated and their parents will be guided for achieving regular growth.
According to Das, the state government has allotted Rs 25 crore grant for construction of anganwadi buildings. Tendering process for construction of 300 anganwadis is completed. The process for construction of another 200 buildings is on.
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