Tata Trusts will set up a milk fortification project at the Aarey Dairy where milk containing vitamin A and D will be produced
Government of Maharashtra and Tata Trusts to work together to improve community developmental indicators for the state as per the multiple Memorandum of Understandings (MoU) signed last March. Tata Trusts signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) in Mumbai with the state government to initiate a milk fortification programme as per the guidelines of the Government of India. In addition, Tata Trusts will also assist the state government in curbing the menace of malnutrition in the Palghar district.
The LOI and MoU were signed in the presence of Devendra Fadnavis, CM, Maharashtra; Mahadev Jankar, Minister for Animal Husbandry, Dairy Development and Fisheries Development; Pankaja Munde, Minister for Women and Child Development; Vidya Thakur, Minister of State, Secretaries; Aabasaheb Jarhad, Vinita Singhal-Ved and R Venkataramanan, Managing Trustee, Tata Trusts.
Under the LOI, Tata Trusts, as implementing partner, will set up a milk fortification project at the Aarey Dairy in Worli, which belongs to the Ministry for Animal Husbandry, Dairy Development and Fisheries Development where milk containing vitamin A and D will be produced. The dairy produces 20,000 liters of milk and this fortified milk will be known as ‘Aarey Bhushan’. The single toned milk containing a premix of vitamin A and D will be produced under the guidelines issued by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) and will be available to consumers (middle class and people below the poverty line) through the Mumbai-based distribution chains of Aarey. Tata Trusts will also be involved in the training of Aarey Dairies staff in Mumbai and Pune.
Tata Trusts signed a MoU to strengthen and digitise the Integrated Child Development System (ICDS) to bring about real time data in the state of Maharashtra. Starting with Palghar district, a technical support group will be established at the district level and information will be analysed on the basis of data gathered. A malnutrition eradication programme created by Tata Trusts will be implemented in the district and observations will be noted at different levels.
To further empower the existing Anganwadis, Health day and Nutritional Diet Day will be celebrated monthly at the village level, to create training squads at the state and district level to percolate information regarding the nutritional diet programme. Tata Trusts will also assist in gathering social response to this initiative and in monitoring the beneficiaries of the Direct-to-Home diet scheme.
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