Concerned over the presence of lakhs of families having children with stunted and wasted growth and anaemic pregnant women, the Odisha government is toying with idea of providing kitchen garden and poultry farms so that these targeted households would have access to nutritious food.
Odisha’s Women and Child Development (WCD) Department has furnished information about 13,48,707 households having members with stunted and wasted growth, underweight children and anaemic pregnant women.
As on June 2022, as many as 4,93,941 households had children identified with stunted growth, 1,31,099 (wasted growth), 2,69,784 (underweight children) and 4,53,883 (anaemic pregnant women).
