The state social welfare and social education minister Tinku Roy on Thursday inaugurated the state level celebration of the 7th series of the Rashtriya Poshan Maah to ensure community mobilisation and bolster people's participation for addressing malnutrition amongst young children, and women and to ensure health and nutrition for everyone.
Addressing the event here at Agartala Town Hall, the minister said that the Department of Social Welfare and Social Education has taken an initiative to expand support for the Anganwadi Centres in Tripura aiming to ensure better education and proper atmosphere for the children.
There are about 10,000 Anganwadi centers in the state and it has about 4 lakh children. Initiatives have been taken to expand education, drinking water, toilets, sports, electricity system in every Anganwadi center, the minister said.
He also said that the department is working on a multifaceted plan so that the children of the state become healthy from their childhood and do not suffer from malnutrition and anaemia.
This year the 7th phase of Poshan Maah nationwide will focus on themes such as anaemia prevention, growth monitoring, effective service delivery through good governance and technology, "Poshan Bhi Padhai Bhi," and supplementary nutrition, he said.
Inaugurating the program, Minister of Social Welfare and Social Education Tinku Roy said that the primary place for the development of children is Anganwadi Center. Children's future will be bright if Anganwadi centers can be improved in all aspects, he added.
He said that 3 national and 30 state level social allowance schemes are being provided to around 4 lakh beneficiaries in the state.
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