Supplementary Nutrition Diet Delivery in Corona Crisis

Anganwadi workers and assistants stand on every front in the war against Corona in Gariaband district. Along with providing supplementary nutritious food from door to door, people are being made aware of corona infection and control and motivating them for vaccination. Women and Child Development Department is successfully implementing the Supplementary Nutrition Program in the district under the guidance of Collector Shri Nilesh Kumar Kshirsagar. In the second wave of corona infection by the department, the services provided in Anganwadi centers have been continued. On the basis of priority in these services, all eligible beneficiaries are being provided door-to-door nutritional supplements (ready to eat) with protein and calorie standard prescribed by the National Food Security Act 2013. 3 to 6-year-old children coming to the Anganwadi center, who are served warm cooked food through local self-help groups under normal circumstances, instead of the department keeping the Anganwadi center closed, per beneficiary per day It is being provided weekly as per the prescribed norms. Similarly, additional ready-to-eat nutritious food is being provided to expectant mothers in addition to ready-to-eat nutritious food under normal conditions instead of hot food. District Program Officer of Women and Child Development Department, Smt. Jagrani Ekka said that Anganwadi workers and assistants are providing supplementary nutritious food from door to door on the first and third Tuesday of the month to children and pregnant women. . All the 58571 normal and moderately malnourished children recorded by them from 6 months to 6 years, 750 grams of packets of ready to eat and 750 grams for all 934 seriously malnourished children, 5190 pregnant and 5622 infant mothers for 6 days per week A packet of 900 grams of ready-to-eat is being supplied with a value of 6 days per week.
Monitoring is being done by the District Program Officer, Project Officers and Supervisors of the Supplementary Nutrition Food Delivery Program being conducted in the district. In addition to monitoring work, project officers and supervisors are also providing information on the utility of ready-to-eat by providing supplementary nutritious food, door-to-door by joining step by step anganbadi worker and assistant. Apart from this, common citizens are also being aware of corona infection and encouraging vaccination.