Campaign on malnutrition to be held from Jan 8-14

Gurgaon: As a part of national campaign on

malnutrition

, the

department

of women and

child

development will hold a special drive from January 8 to 14.

Under the campaign, the department will hold ‘healthy child competition’ to not only generate awareness on parameters to consider a child healthy but also incentivise the parents who actively cooperate with the department to address the issue of malnutrition.

In the campaign, special emphasis will be on the components like Poshan Abhiyaan convergence, ICT application, community mobilisation and capacity building to bring behavioural changes.

Giving information, district program officer of integrated child development scheme (ICDS), Sunaina Khatri, said, “ The campaign aims at generating awareness and incentivising people to address the issue of malnutrition. In this campaign, through components like Poshan Abhiyaan convergence, ICT application, community mobilisation, capacity building, incentives and rewards, we’ll aim at bringing behavioural changes and make it a mass movement.”