Tamil Nadu should be proud of its legacy of its nutritional programme that was launched a century ago and has now been adopted across the country, said Ramesh Raghavan, professor at the New York University Silver School of Social Work.
He was delivering the fourth edition of the Sundaram Fasteners Lecture Series here on Monday.
Mr. Ramesh, who spoke on ‘Supporting child and adolescent mental health in the context of social disadvantage abd parental mental illness’, said the effort was a classic example of social vaccine that helped in the development of the child.