ITANAGAR, Sep 30: The Department of Women and Child Development ended the month-long Rashtriya Poshan Maah celebration today at D.K. Convention Centre Itanagar. The celebration had started on September 1 to celebrate “Converging towards a healthy walk through life” under POSHAN Abhiyaan.
Various activities were conducted like community based events, home visits, poshan webinar, nutritious recipe on complimentary food & cooking competition on locally available nutritious fruits and vegetables, plantation drive in poshan vatikas (kitchen garden), essay writing etc. Total of 5, 16,500 people participated all across the state.
To conclude this month long celebration, a valedictory function was organized by the Directorate of Women and Child Development Department Itanagar to felicitate the best performing Anganwadi workers and helpers from various ICDS projects from all 25 districts who worked tirelessly and sincerely throughout the year in distribution of Supplementary Nutrition Program (SNP), Immunization of beneficiaries, monitoring the growth of pregnant mothers and children using Growth Monitoring Devices , and their efforts during Covid pandemic.
A recipe competition was held among Supervisors and Gram sevikas of all the ICDS projects in the state and best 3 winners were awarded. Based on the Jan Andolan dashboard entry, Aryoma Lowangcha, DDI Papum pare, N. K. Tangha, CDPO Bordumsa-Diyun ICDS project and  Ponung Moyong, CDPO Naharlagun ICDS project were felicitated.
In the closing programme today, Commissioner WCD Niharika Rai (IAS), lauded and encouraged the idea of practicing Yoga to stay healthy, growing your own food in PoshanVatika and using locally available food to meet the nutritional requirements.
Chief Guest of the event, Minister, Women and Child Development, Alo Libang, felicitated the best performing AWWs & AWHs from 25 districts and encouraged and motivated them to keep working diligently on POSHAN Abhiyaan to create awareness on nutrition. He also emphasized on the importance of the first 1000 days of a child's life which will ensure a healthy future generation.
Director, Women and Child Development, TP Loyi congratulated all the awardees and officials in the districts for making the POSHAN Abhiyaan a success. As POSHAN Abhiyaan is an ongoing process with the target to reduce malnutrition and prevent anemia in the state, she urged the Anganwadi workers, helpers and officials to keep working with the same enthusiasm.
Special Secretary WCD, Bhanu Prabha (IAS), gave a new meaning to WCD as “Warriors with Care and Dedication” fighting a war against malnutrition. All present pledged to make Arunachal Pradesh the first state in the country with zero malnutrition.
D.K. Thungon, SNO POSHAN Abhiyaan in his speech appreciated the effort of the field level functionaries in making POSHAN Abhiyaan a very important scheme in Arunachal at village level.
Finally, P.E. Angu, Jt. Director WCD thanked every single person involved in making Poshan Maah a huge success by working hard throughout September.
The closing ceremony was attended by all the Deputy Directors and CDPOs with Supervisors & Gramsevikas under Papumpare ICDS projects, SPMU (PA) Team and the staff of Directorate of WCD.

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