The Madhya Pradesh government has issued an order for the appointment of committees called ‘Matru Sahyogini Samiti’ (Mothers’ Cooperation Committees), led by mothers.
Matru Sahyogini Samiti Objective
- Matru Sahyogini Samiti will ensure better monitoring of services delivered at anganwadi or day care centres across the State.
- These mothers will keep a watch on weekly ration distribution to beneficiaries as well as suggest nutritious and tasteful recipes for meals served to children at the centres.
- These committees will comprise 10 mothers at each anganwadi representing the concerns of different sets of beneficiaries under the Integrated Child Development Services, or National Nutrition Mission — children between six months to three years, children between three years and six years, adolescent girls and pregnant women and lactating mothers.
- The committees will include mothers of beneficiary children as well as be represented by pregnant women and lactating mothers who are enrolled under the scheme.
- The anganwadi scheme includes a package of six services delivered at the centres, including supplementary nutrition, health services including vaccination, early education, among others.
- The Committees will also include a woman panch, women active in the community and eager to volunteer their support to the scheme, teachers from the local school, and women heads of self-help groups (SHG).
(The Hindu)
