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Anganwadis across Maharashtra to get gardens for fresh produce

It was with this MoU that the department has achieved setting up 7,300 nutrition gardens in select eight districts after the MoU was first signed in 2015.

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Minister Pankaja Munde at the event
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The women and child development department has decided to develop kitchen gardens at its 25,000 anganwadis in 16 districts across the state. The department, through its Rajmata Jijau Mother-Child Health Nutrition Mission, renewed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Reliance Foundation for the same. It was with this MoU that the department has achieved setting up 7,300 nutrition gardens in select eight districts after the MoU was first signed in 2015.

Minister Pankaja Munde and Reliance Foundation CEO Jagannath Kumar were present on Thursday for the MoU signing ceremony held at Sahyadri Guest House of the state government at Malabar Hill. Kumar and secretary to the department of women and child development Vinit Singal signed the MoU.

Munde informed that with the renewed MoU, her department would add eight more districts and would develop 25,000 kitchen gardens which would provide fresh vegetables and fruits for the children at anganwadis. She informed that the Reliance Foundation has designed these kitchen gardens in such a way that children can get a variety of green vegetables and fruits.

Kumar informed that Reliance is sharing its experience and training the Anganwadi workers as well as master trainers in this project. In first phase of MoU, 8 districts of Pune, Thane, Palghar, Yavatmal, Jalgaon, Parbhani, Osmanabad and Wardha were included and 7300 kitchen gardens were developed. Reliance Foundation has named these gardens as Reliance Nutrition Gardens. The first phase had helped 1.65 children to avail fresh vegetables and fruits in their regular diet because of these gardens.

After today's MoU districts of Beed, Jalna, Aurangabad, Ahmednagar, Solapur, Gondia, Nandurbar and Chandrapur would be included. It would benefit 7.5 lakh children with the help of kitchen gardens.

When asked about whether there was any statistics on malnutrition reduction in first phase of the MoU, Minister Munde said that issue of malnutrition deaths is vested with health department. She said that what she can tell is wherever kitchen gardens have been set up, nutrition for the children has increased considerably and number of malnourished children has gone down but she would not be able to given exact figures of the same.

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