Food for anganwadi kids at home for 30 days in Amritsar

Deputy Commissioner Sakshi Sawhney today held a meeting with Child Development and Protection Office and officials of the Social Security Department at Ajnala. She said that the Anganwadi centres operating in the villages and towns affected by the floods have also been closed, due to which the nutritious food requirement of infants and young children is not being met. “We, in collaboration with the officials of the department, have started providing one month's nutritious food to about 11,000 children of this affected area, who used to come to the Anganwadi centres. It will be delivered to their homes.”

Similarly, about 18,000 elderly people of the affected area, who were getting Old Age Pension, are being contacted over the phone to know their health condition.

Apart from this, Sawhney said that employees of the department, some teachers and NCC cadets are being assigned duties in field for the purpose. “Each elderly person, especially the ones, who live alone, will be contacted through phone or through the village sarpanch. Their immediate needs like medicines, reading glasses and a cane to hold for support is being sent to them through assigned officials,” said the DC.

Additionally, NCC cadets have been assigned the duty of collecting data about the needs of people on ground. The cadets will call the person and collect data about their immediate needs. The administration will then make arrangements to provide those facilities to them.