Relevance: Prelims: Polity: Governance
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- Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla launched “Suposhit Maa Abhiyan” to provide nutritional support to pregnant women and adolescent girls in Kota.
About:
- Keeping newborn and pregnant women healthy is the main objective of the ‘Suposhit Maa Abhiyaan ‘.
- Under this Abhiyan, 1,000 women would be given food items for one month. At the same time, the health of the child, including medical examination, blood tests, medicines, delivery, would be covered.
- The identified women would be required to register on a website for adoption. Only one pregnant woman would be adopted from a family.
- In the first phase of the campaign, 1,000 kits of 17 kg balanced diet each were provided to 1,000 pregnant women.
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