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Madhya Pradesh bags two first prizes in Poshan Abhiyaan-2019 awards

Madhya Pradesh bags two first prizes in Poshan Abhiyaan-2019 awards
BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh government has bagged first place in two categories of an award scheme for the Poshan Abhiyaan-2019.
This is a central government campaign aimed at motivating the primary stakeholders and encourage large scale citizen participation in creating awareness to combat malnutrition among children, adolescent girls and women.
Women and child development (WCD) minister Smriti Irani gave away the awards at a function in New Delhi on Friday.
The awards were given to the states, districts, blocks and anganwadi workers for their contributions in scaling up the abhiyaan and ensuring that it reaches every household in the country.
Anupam Rajan, senior IAS officer heading the MP's WCD department collected the awards.
MP received cheques worth Rs 1 crore each in two categories for 'Convergence and Behavioural Change & Community Mobilization' and ICDS-CAS implementation and a second price of Rs 75 lakh for 'Overall Excellence in Implementation' of the scheme.
This award is said to be planned to create a spirit of healthy competition among states besides improving service delivery to beneficiaries.
Addressing the award ceremony Irani said, 363 awards were given and Rs 22 crore were disbursed to the awardees. She expressed hope that with the help of all the stakeholders, the challenges of malnutrition will be addressed and the country will become malnutrition free. WCD minister further said that a month-long Poshan Abhiyaan will begin in which the government has set a target to connect 44 crore people through this campaign. She said, last year, 22 crore people added through this programme.
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