COVER HINDI - Ministry of Women and Child Development

education and training activities, mass awareness
campaigns, empowering women, adolescent girls and the
community at large on critical issues of nutrition like infant
and young child feeding, management of malnourished
children, micronutrient malnutrition control, nutrition
monitoring and surveillance etc. Some of the initiatives
undertaken during the year (2006-07) in the areas of
Nutrition Advocacy, Infant and Young Child Feeding,
Micronutrient Malnutrition Control, Awareness
Generation on Nutrition, Development and Promotion of
Low Cost Nutritious Recipes etc are as under:
Nutrition Advocacy
5.8 The 5 th Regional Consultation Meet on Nutrition
for Central States (Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh,
Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh) was organised at Bhopal on 9-10
June, 2006. The basic objective of these Nutrition Meets
was to create awareness among the policy makers of the
key sectors about the importance of nutrition for human
resource development, productivity of the people, economic
growth and ultimately the national development with active
involvement of senior policy makers from WCD, Health,
Food & Civil Supplies, Education and Panchayati Raj and,
professional bodies, Home Science and Medical Colleges,
NGOs and international organisations.
National Nutrition Week 1-7 September 2006
5.9 The National Nutrition Week was observed
throughout the country from 1-7 September, 2006. The
Chief Secretaries were requested to mobilise the
development machinery of the State to intensify creation
of nutritional awareness among the people at different
levels. The theme selected for this year’s celebration was
‘Nutrition Literacy’. The FNB of the Ministry organised
29 State level workshops, orientation training for ICDS
personnel and special programmes during the Week for
creating nutritional awareness among the functionaries as
well as public on critical aspects of nutrition.
5.10 A Working Group on Integrating Nutrition with
Health for the XI Five Year Plan (2007-2012) was
constituted in the Ministry by the Planning Commission
under the Chairpersonship of the Secretary (WCD), the
first meeting of which was held on 14 th July, 2006. Four
Sub Groups were constituted to give concrete suggestions
on important issues covered by this Working Group. Based
on the discussions, a Draft Report of the Working Group
was prepared. The final Report of the Working Group on
Integrating Nutrition with Health for the XI Five Year Plan
(2007-2012), was submitted to the Planning Commission
on 1.11.2006.
5.11 A National Workshop on Adoption of New WHO
Child Growth Standards was organized on 8-9 February
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