30th Sep 2024 10:09:PM State
Eastern Sentinel Arunachal News

Yupia, Sep 30: The Woman and Child Development Department Papum Pare announced the conclusion of the month long 7th Poshan Maah 2024 observance during an event held at DC Conference Hall, Yupia on Monday.
The Poshan Maah 2024 which was launched on September 1 last is an intensive month-long campaign dedicated to ensuring nutritional awareness and mobilisation across the country. It aims to eliminate malnutrition by improving nutritional outcomes for children, pregnant women, and lactating mothers.
This year the focus areas of the Poshan Maah were awareness activities on anaemia, growth monitoring, complementary feeding, technology for better governance, environment protection and ‘poshan bhi padhai bhi’.
On the occasion, best performing CDPOs, Supervisors, AWWs and AWHs were felicitated with certificates and cash prizes.
Joining the celebrations Papum Pare Deputy Commissioner Jiken Bomjen called for inter sectoral coordination for successful implementation of the welfare schemes under the WCD.
He lauded the efforts of the AWWs and AWHs and stated that ‘these field functionaries are the backbone of our grassroot health and nutrition programs. Their continuous engagement with communities, families and children ensures the effective delivery of services. Their roles in bridging the gap between government initiatives and the rural population make them essential to the success of schemes like the Poshan Abhiyaan.’
DD, ICDS, Jaya Taba also spoke on the occasion. 
She highlighted the month long activities under Poshan Maah which included intensified door to door awareness campaigns, tree plantation drives, cleanliness activities, walkathon etc.
The field functionaries also shared their experiences of the intensified month long awareness campaign. 
The concluding event was attended by CDPOs , Supervisors, Anganwadi workers and helpers from all the eight ICDS projects.


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