Slew of activities mark 5th Poshan Pakhwada on Day 10

ITANAGAR, Mar 29: A slew of activities, including recipe competition, training on Poshan tracker App and ‘Haat Bazaar (Mela), marked the ongoing 5th Poshan Pakhwada on the 10th day today.

Dy Director, District ICDS Cell, Yupia organized the Poshan Pakhwada in collaboration with CDPO Urban ICDS Project at the office of CDPO, Naharlagun.

In the millet-based recipe competition, homemakers, SHGs, Anganwadi workers and helpers took part.

Training on Poshan tracker App was given to Supervisors and AWWs by Sunamoni Kar, State coordinator, NeGD, DIC from the Ministry of WCD and Shrine Nima, Consultant Poshan Abhiyan, Directorate of WCD, GoAP.

The ‘Haat Bazaar’ saw displaying locally available vegetables, home- made pickles and wooden crockery items.

DD Aroti Tayeng, while shedding light on dietary benefits of millets, exhorted the field staff to give awareness on 'Shree Anna' or millets as super food among the community, especially the mothers and adolescent girls.

CDPO Ponung Moyong advised the AWWs to upload correct data of their activities in the Poshan tracker App. (DIPRO)