Nutri garden: A road map for enhancing the health status of girl children

The nutrition is a burning issue in India which leads to malnourished problem in girl children and paramount anemic patients can be seen in the rural area. There are several reasons like lack of knowledge, economic problem and lack of education with regard to balanced diet. The study was undertaken by the KVK, Ujjain in collaboration with the ICDS and allied departments. A total of six villages were selected from 6 blocks of Ujjain District. Only severe malnourished girl children were identified from these villages and thus 16 families could be identified. Vegetable seed kits were provided to these families along with the scientific layout of nutri-garden. The physical parameter age, height and weight were also calculated for enhancing the health status of the girl child in rural area. The impact of the KVK activities was assessed in terms of before and after intervention followed by the per cent change in malnutrition by calculating BMI.