Lucknow, Sep 19 (UNI) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday emphasised that the nutrition campaign is the foundation of a healthy and capable India and said that there was a time when the liquor mafia used to supply 'nutritious food' in the state.
Addressing the National Nutrition Month program at Lok Bhavan on Monday, Yogi said, "Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inspired the entire country to fight malnutrition by initiating a widespread campaign. In this direction, a lot of work has been done in UP over the past six years. Our government has created a new mechanism through which women self-help groups are now delivering nutritious food to Anganwadi centers."
He said that there was a time when the state used to witness around 1,200-1,500 deaths annually due to encephalitis. "Eastern UP was particularly affected by this disease. In the last 30 years from 1977 to 2017, approximately 50,000 children in the state fell prey to this disease," he said.