RAJSHAHI, Feb 14 (BSS): More than 4,000 slum poor and extreme poor families were brought under health and nutrition component of an anti-poverty scheme aiming at bringing them out from the vicious circle of malnutrition in Naogaon district town.
The three-year scheme is being implemented since October, 2012 at a cost of around Taka 401.19 million in order to substantial reduction of uterine physical and mental disabilities besides supplementing the national efforts to prevent maternal and infant death.
It is malnutrition, which puts the children into a state of compulsion to usually suffer from psychological impairment and different forms of mental disorders that appears as a threat to their future development.
Some of the major nutritional problems in the city like protein energy malnutrition, vitamin A deficiency, iodine deficiency disorder, iron deficiency anemia, low birth weight, over nutritional and its complication and lack of nutrition knowledge are thought to be removed with the intervention.
Enamul Haque, deputy commissioner of Naogaon, said the nutrition programme is being implemented as a part of Urban Partnership for Poverty Reduction Project (UPPRP).
Local Government Engineering Department has been implementing the UPPRP in association with UNDP and financial and technical supports from UKaid and UNHabitat with the main thrust of improving livelihood condition of around 0.2 million and 0.15 million poor and extreme poor people, especially women and girls, in the town.
4,000 poor families get nutritional privileges in Naogaon town
FE Team | Published: February 15, 2015 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00
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