Maharashtra government on Wednesday told the State Legislative Assembly that no child had died in the State due to malnutrition in the past one year.
Maharastra Tribal Welfare Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Vijaykumar Gavit said that as per information from the Women and Child and Public Health Ministry, no child has died in any Zilla (district) in Maharashtra because of malnutrition.
Mr. Gavit was responding to a query by Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Dilip Walse-Patil that despite schemes available for tribal women and children, many children are dying because of malnutrition, and authorities say they are dying as they are premature and weak. He then asked, how many children have died due to malnutrition in the State?
