According to a notice from the Ministry of Women and Child Development Assam on Monday, a total of 306 children from 33 Assam districts met all the requirements and received the award for a healthy child. Three categories—state level, Lok Sabha constituency level, and general level—are used to categorise the Award. On September 1st, at a gathering held in honour of Poshan Maah, the Assam Chief Minister presented ten kids with state-level prizes.
At the Lok Sabha constituency level, 20 more children are chosen from the Anganwadi centres to receive the honour. India has a very serious problem with malnutrition in young children, which has an impact on the children’s weight and height. In Kerala, the Mid-day Meal Scheme was first implemented as a strategy in 1984 to combat this problem, and since then, it has been successful in reducing the rate of malnutrition among children under the age of five in India.
According to recent statistics, India’s mid-day meal programme feeds 120 million young mouths each day in more than 1.2 million schools dispersed throughout the nation. One of the biggest projects of its kind ever is this one. A malnutrition-free India is a goal that Assam also holds dear.
Assam created the Healthy Child Award to further this goal and up the ante for competition so that every child in the state has access to a nutritious diet that would support their development and lead to a healthier future. Because our children are our future, receiving this honour is akin to making an investment in that future.
