How the Chhattisgarh government is killing a scheme that’s saving babies -Supriya Sharma

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The fulwari programme has shown remarkable results in quickly reducing malnutrition among the state’s children, pregnant women and nursing mothers

One morning in early November, at the creche in Karli village in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar district, babies rolled on the mud floor and the cook of the day stirred a pot of vegetables, when Shanti stepped on the weighing scale and caused a minor earthquake.

"Arre, Shanti, you weigh 48 kilos!"

Ramsheela, the community health worker, was ecstatic. Not often did a woman in the village make the scales tip over the 40 kilos mark.

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