SURI, 10 APRIL: Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) officials may soon change the menu at the state's midwifery centres, because beneficiaries complained about the food.
A pilot project in Birbhum's five midwifery centres was launched from Tuesday, offering a new menu. If the beneficiaries are satisfied then the new menu will be introduced in other all centres of the state.
There are 4,796 midwifery centres in Birbhum, in which local pregnant women and children under five are provided meals with proper nutrition. At present, all the centres serve hotchpotch and boiled eggs. For a few months now, many beneficiaries have complained about the food in the centres to the ICDS officials.
The officials filed a proposal to change the food in the centres. The state government accepted the proposal and gave them permission to launch the new menu in a few centres, to start with. Five centres in Khatanga gram panchayat of Suri Block-I were chosen for the pilot project. On Tuesday, ICDS officials and ADM for development Krishna Muddy inaugurated the project.
"We will provide sooji halua twice a week, dalia with vegetables twice a week and two other items on other days," said ICDS district project officer Runa Roy Chatterjee.
"If the beneficiaries like the food, then we will send a report to the government," she said. "If the respective authority accepts the report, then the menu will be introduced in all centres."
A pilot project in Birbhum's five midwifery centres was launched from Tuesday, offering a new menu. If the beneficiaries are satisfied then the new menu will be introduced in other all centres of the state.
There are 4,796 midwifery centres in Birbhum, in which local pregnant women and children under five are provided meals with proper nutrition. At present, all the centres serve hotchpotch and boiled eggs. For a few months now, many beneficiaries have complained about the food in the centres to the ICDS officials.
The officials filed a proposal to change the food in the centres. The state government accepted the proposal and gave them permission to launch the new menu in a few centres, to start with. Five centres in Khatanga gram panchayat of Suri Block-I were chosen for the pilot project. On Tuesday, ICDS officials and ADM for development Krishna Muddy inaugurated the project.
"We will provide sooji halua twice a week, dalia with vegetables twice a week and two other items on other days," said ICDS district project officer Runa Roy Chatterjee.
"If the beneficiaries like the food, then we will send a report to the government," she said. "If the respective authority accepts the report, then the menu will be introduced in all centres."
SNS
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