Raipur,
January 24, 2012
Former Chief Minister and Congress
legislator Ajit Jogi has alleged that malnutrition in Chhattisgarh was due to government’s
negligent attitude and misuse of funds meant for the development of poor and
tribals. “According to latest report of Centre’s National Family Health Survey
(NFHS), Chhattisgarh stands fifth among the highly malnourished states of the
country after Madhya Pradesh (MP) Jharkhand, Bihar and Orissa. All these states
are either ruled or supported by the BJP and indicate that this forget people
after coming in power,” said Jogi.
“In
Chhattisgarh, the BJP government claims that it has developed the best public
distribution system (PDS) in the country, but ironically it failed to check
malnutrition, especially in tribal belts. This government rather misused the
funds released by the Centre to develop the tribal regions. Hence, the basic
facilities like road, water, electricity, medical, etc is missing in tribal areas,”
he said.
He
said the corrupt system had not even spared mid-day meal programme and the
children of the impoverished families going to schools were being deprived of
nourished food materials. “Similarly, female foeticide and child mortality due
to malnutrition too have increased during BJP regime,” he added.
Jogi
demanded from the government to quickly frame a work plan to effectively
implement centre’s Food Security scheme besides ensuring provision of
nutritious food to the schoolchildren under mid-day meal programme. He said the
schemes meant for pregnant women and infant children should also be implemented
strictly. He further demanded that malnourished children in remote tribal areas
should be identified and given prompt treatment including nutritious food.
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