Bhoranj chosen under Nutrition Mission

r Correspondent

Hamirpur, June 25

The Central government has chosen the Bhoranj in Hamirpur disrict under its National Nutrition Mission (NNM) to eradicate anaemia and malnutrition. The other blocks under the scheme are Bangana in Una and Tissa in Chamba.

Deputy Commissioner Harikesh Meena said the project would cover over 77,600 people, living in 229 villages. The estimated project time is six months. Focus would be on children between 5-11 years, adolescent girls between 11-19, and women up to the age of 45.

For the mission, Rs 9046.17 crore was allocated. It aims at raising the nutrition levels in the country. To achieve the target, the mission comprises mapping of various schemes to address the problems.The target of the mission is to reduce the percentage of stunted growth; malnourished youth; anaemic children, women and adolescent girls. For this, 15 teams have been constituted to cover the targeted groups. The teams would provide medicines to the affected; organise 10 camps every day until the mission is accomplished; educate the youth about the problems and their cure and they will also use the empirically researched data to help find the nutrition levels among people from the selected areas.