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PM Narendra Modi to visit Jhunjhunu in Rajasthan on March 8

| @indiablooms | Mar 07, 2018, at 09:10 pm

New Delhi, Mar 7 (IBNS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit Jhunjhunu in Rajasthan on March 8, the International Women’s Day, to inaugurate the pan-India expansion of BetiBachaoBetiPadhao program (BBBP) up from the existing 161 districts to 640 districts all over the country.

The Prime Minister will interact with beneficiary mothers and girl children of the program.

He will distribute certificates to best performing districts under BetiBachaoBetiPadhao program,

From Jhunjhunu, he will also launch the National Nutrition Mission (NNM) nationwide .

He will launch the NNM- ICDS Common Application Software.

The mission strives to reduce under-nutrition and low birth weight, bring down anaemia among young children, women and adolescent girls and to reduce the prevalence of stunting among children, a government release said on Wednesday.

 

 

 

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