Nutrition month will be celebrated from 01 to 30 September
Extensive publicity will have to be done to reduce the level of malnutrition and anemia
The campaign will run in coordination with all departments and voluntary organizations
Raipur, 25 August 2023
An inter-departmental convergence meeting was held today in the Directorate of Women and Child Development for the preparation of organizing National Nutrition Month in Chhattisgarh state. Nodal officers of all departments and voluntary organizations should be present in the meeting. All the nodal officers were informed that this year also between 01 to 30 September 2023, National Nutrition Month is to be organized in Chhattisgarh. The strategy for this financial year was decided while discussing the importance of nutrition month and the cooperation given by various departments in the past years. All the departments and voluntary organizations talked about their cooperation in making the National Nutrition Month program a success.
It is worth mentioning that in order to reduce the level of malnutrition and anemia by the Government of India, Poshan Maah is organized every year in the country in September as a public movement to increase public awareness and for widespread publicity and effective behavior change related to health, nutrition and cleanliness to the masses. is done.
Mr. Dildar Singh Maravi, Joint Director Women Child Development, Assistant Director Women Child Development, State Advisor of Nutrition Campaign and nodal officers of various departments and representative of voluntary organizations were present in the