The state governments pilot project, Poshan Swaraj Abhiyan, launched in tribal-dominated Banswara district, has reduced the number ofmalnourishedchildren aged between 0-6 years by 43 per cent in less than 11 weeks.
Launched in August, the project is a collaboration with Banswara-based NGO Vaagdhara, which works on tribal livelihood issues. Under this campaign, children and adolescents in 750 villages of five blocks Kushalgarh, Anandpuri, Sajjangarh, Ghatol and Gangartalai were screened to identify malnourished and acutely malnourished children.
The Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) screened 16,000 children in Kushalgarh to figure out 4,045 children were malnourished and severely malnourished.