More than 3.3 lakh children malnourished in 10 districts
Press Trust of India: Gandhinagar, Mar 09 2013, 10:25 IST
More than 3.3 lakh children are malnourished across 10 districts of Gujarat, while 26,871 children fall under the “extremely malnourished” category, Women and Child Development Minister Ganpat Vasava informed the state Assembly Friday.
Tribal district of Panchmahals has the highest number of 69,961 malnourished children, while Vadodara, which has a sizable tribal population, has 6,676 children in the extremely malnourished category, he said in a written reply.
To a question on steps being taken by the state government, Vasava said under the Integrated Child Development Scheme, children between six months and three years of age are provided with food while girls, pregnant women and children between three and six years of age are provided with food for 300 days a year.
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