The women and child development department has decided to develop kitchen gardens at its 25,000 anganwadis in 16 districts across the state. Munde informed that with the renewed MoU, her department would add eight more districts and would develop 25,000 kitchen gardens which would provide fresh vegetables and fruits for the children at anganwadis. Reliance Foundation has named these gardens as Reliance Nutrition Gardens. The first phase had helped 1.65 children to avail fresh vegetables and fruits in their regular diet because of these gardens. After today's MoU districts of Beed, Jalna, Aurangabad, Ahmednagar, Solapur, Gondia, Nandurbar and Chandrapur would be included.

Source: dna March 30, 2018 01:16 UTC