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Jharkhand Women and Child Development Minister Joba Manjhi on Saturday urged the Center to release pending funds and sanction more Anganwadi centers to strengthen its fight against malnutrition in the state.
Manjhi was addressing the zonal meeting of aspirational districts organized by the Ministry of Women and Child Development here.
These people took part in the program
Apart from the representatives of Jharkhand, Odisha and Chhattisgarh, Union Minister of State for Women and Child Development Dr. Munjpara Mahendrabhai also participated in the program.
Forty percent of children in Jharkhand are malnourished
Manjhi said that around 40 per cent children in Jharkhand are malnourished. He said, “Our government is fighting against it. In this regard, Chief Minister Hemant Soren has decided to provide eggs to Anganwadi centers six days a week.
‘Lack of funds a big challenge’
However, the Women and Child Development Minister further said that lack of funds is becoming a major challenge in the mission against malnutrition. An amount of Rs 254 crore has been approved for Anganwadi schemes in Jharkhand.
Let us tell you that this year, shocking figures regarding malnutrition came to the fore in Jharkhand. In the report of National Family Health Survey-5 (NFHS-5), it was told that more than three lakh children are seriously affected by it in the state.
It was told in the report that despite minor improvement, 42 percent of the 36 lakh 64 thousand children under the age of 5 years in the state i.e. more than 15 lakh children are malnourished, then in that too 9.1 percent i.e. around 3 lakh children are very seriously. are victims of malnutrition.
According to the survey report, due to severe malnutrition, a large number of children in the state are not developing properly physically and mentally. At the same time, there is also the danger of death in that the situation of malnutrition is already serious in the state and due to corona, the dangers of malnutrition have increased by about 14 percent.