New nutrition scheme for six crore young girls

New Delhi, Mar 18 (PTI) Indian Government is planning
to start a scheme for providing nutritional support to
adolescent girls that aims to benefit about two crore girls in
the first phase in next fiscal.
The scheme devised by the Women and Child Development
Ministry is likely to go before the Union Cabinet Friday for
clearance, official sources said.
The proposed scheme-- Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for
Empowerment of Adolescent Girls (RGEAG) also known as
'Sabla'-- will be expanded to cover six crore girls between 11
and 18 years of age with Rs five allocated under the head for
nutritional support for each beneficiary per day.
"The services under the scheme will include nutrition
provision worth Rs five per day per beneficiary, Iron and
Folic Acid supplementation, health check-up and referral
services, nutritional and health education, counselling on
family welfare and vocational training for girls aged 16 years
and above," official sources said.
The scheme which will get 100 per cent funding from
the central government and implemented by state governments
will also see participation of civil services groups,
anganwadi workers, self-help groups and other such ground
level resource groups, they said. PTI