'Poshan on Wheels' flagged off in Cachar district

SILCHAR: The inauguration of Poshan Maah 2021 at Cachar district was celebrated by Social Welfare Department with pomp and grandeur. The ceremony was inaugurated by Additional Deputy Commissioner, Social Welfare, Jessica Rose Lalsim and District Development Commissioner, Cachar, Rajib Roy along with District Social Welfare Officer, Cachar, Saswati Shom at Cachar Deputy Commissioner Office on Friday.

The inaugural ceremony was followed by a rally of Anganwadi women workers and Anganwadi Health workers along with supervisors and Poshan coordinators and assistants of the district and block.

The "Poshan on wheels" bus was flagged off from the Deputy Commissioner Office. The vehicle will move towards Banskandi, Rajabazar, Lakhipur and Binnakandi ICDS projects to mobilize the population of tea garden areas on adequate nutrition and celebration of the Poshan Maah.

This "Poshan on wheels" bus will travel across all the ICDS project of the district for the next five days and mobilize population of the district on required messages on nutrition.

While speaking on the occasion, District Development Commissioner Cachar Rajib Roy said, "On the eve of observation of Poshan month, Poshan on wheels has been inaugurated to meet up the nutritional demand of pregnant lactating women, adolescents girls etc.. The said vehicle will be moving throughout the district for 7 days covering tea garden areas and PMAGY villages."

"Different kind of activities will take place in the vehicle like growth monitoring, measurement of height and weight of SAM and MAM children and nutritional guidance by the poshan team," DDC Roy quipped.

ADC, Social Welfare Jessica Rose Lalsim also spoke on the occasion, She said, "The objective of the nutrition month campaign is to ensure proper care, providing nutrition supplements to children in the first 1000 days after birth and saving them from Diarrhoea."

Elaborating on the purpose of observing nutrition month, she said, "National nutrition mission was launched in March 2018 to improve nutritional status of children upto 6 years, adolescent girls, pregnant women and lactating mothers to achieve specific targets for reduction in low birth weight babies, under nutrition and prevalence of anaemia over the next three years," stated a press release.

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