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Survival
Development
Protection
Participation
related to nutrition among children and women. Popular perception among the community about
AWCs being a Dalia (porridge) distribution centre has now changed. Though an appraisal of the
Mangal Diwas programmes has not been carried out but experience from the field shows that
awareness among community about childhood malnutrition has increased and there is a good
response to the programme.
8 Project Shaktiman : A special programme for tribal children was initiated in 2007-08 called
Shaktiman with the objective to reduce malnutrition among tribal children. The project covered 19
districts and benefited about 60000 children in 997 villages of 38 Blocks.
8 Implementation of use of new WHO Growth Standards : Madhya Pradesh is the first State in India
to roll out the implementation of new WHO Growth standards across the State. This has helped in
mapping the nutritional status of the children and made it easier for the Anganwadi Worker to plot
the nutrition standard of children.
8 Jagriti Shivir : Each district organizes village level women awareness camps in which local women
and community members are mobilized and sensitized about government schemes, health and
nutrition issues.
8 Home Visits : Initiatives have been taken to strengthen the home visits particularly, visits to families
of moderately and severely malnourished children discharged from NRCs and ANC and PNC of
mothers. Home visits are also organized to sensitize young mothers, there mothers-in-law and
other members of the community.
9. Rhetoric Vs Reality : Physical target and achievement
Indeed various interventions by the State Government on this crucial front indicate the fact that Govt has
taken serious note of the key issue of persistent child mortality and malnutrition in the state. However, it is
equally important to gauge the ultimate effectiveness of the programmes in terms of performance on
physical targets and achievements and financial outlays and utilization. Furthermore, tracking of field
experiences would give appropriate insights on implementation status.
S.N. Target/interventions Present Status
1. Maternal Mortality Ratio 269/100000 for 2004-06
reduced to less than 220 (Source: SRS Bulletin
per 1,00,000 live births on Maternal Mortality
by 2012 in India, June, 2011)
Remark
The said target is highly ambitious
to achieve provided state
govt is much disciplined in
implementation. Provision of
trained health staff in case of
emergency, increase awareness
levels for institutional deliveries,
provision of iron and folic acid
tablets