Govt sets up state task force to eliminate malnutrition and anaemia

The sixth meeting of the State Convergence Committee under Haryana’s POSHAN Abhiyaan was held under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary Sh. Anurag Rastogi. A key decision taken during the meeting was the constitution of a State Task Force to monitor and coordinate programmes aimed at eliminating malnutrition and anaemia among women and children across the state.

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The task force will include repre-sentatives from the Health, AYUSH, Education, and Women and Child Development departments and will be headed by the Additional Chief Secre-tary, Women and Child Development Department. The Task Force will meet fortnightly to ensure effective imple-mentation and monitoring of all inter-ventions.

After the meeting, the Additional Chief Secretary of the Women and Child Development and Health and Family Welfare Departments, Sh. Sudhir Rajpal stated that the Poshan Abhi-yaan is being implemented with a focus on ground-level monitoring. This in-cludes the establishment of Poshan Panchayats at the village level.