Yogi Adityanath led Uttar Pradesh government is all set to demolish malnutrition from the state. Not only the government in its campaign supplying malnutrition children with nutritious food but also the government is providing a myriad of women with employment, who are associated with self help groups in the villages.

On the instructions of CM Yogi, women members of self-help groups operating under the Uttar Pradesh State Rural Livelihoods Mission are engaged in the drive to eradicate malnutrition from the state.  As many as 63,000 self-help groups of women are procuring and packaging dry ration consisting of wheat, rice, gram, pulses and edible oil from Nafed in all the development blocks of 75 districts of the state. Dry rations are being distributed from 1,64,714 Anganwadi centres to a total of 1,47,99,150 beneficiaries including children aged six months to three years and three to six-year-old, pregnant and lactating women, malnourished children and teenage girls. About 6,30,000 women have got employment through the dry ration project launched by the Government.

The State Government is also taking all necessary steps to improve the health of malnourished mothers, children and girls during the ongoing  pandemic. The Government has entrusted the Child Development Services and Nutrition Department with this important responsibility.

Anganwadi workers and members of self-help groups have been engaged in distribution of nutritious food to malnourished children and pregnant women while online monitoring of the distribution is also being done.

The UP Government is also setting up production units in altogether 204 development blocks of 43 districts of the state under ‘Recipe for best take home ration’ scheme.

Around 15 to 20 women will prepare the recipe and distribute it at Anganwadi centres. In the first phase of the scheme, a production unit was set up at Malwan, the development block of Fatehpur as well as Bighapur of Unnao. In the remaining 202 development blocks, a production unit is like to be set up soon. Each unit will employ 15 to 20 women with their number reaching 3060 and also increase their income.

The Yogi Government recently released the required funds for distributing nutritious food to malnourished children for three months amid the coronavirus pandemic. Cereals, pulses, ghee and milk powder are distributed to malnourished children and pregnant women. due to which a steep decline was seen in the number of corona cases in the malnutrition children.