September will be celebrated as Nutrition Month this year as well in Madhya Pradesh under the National Nutrition Campaign.

Various programmes are scheduled for generating awareness and making it a mass movement at the state, district, block and anganwadi levels. The primary objective is to promote understanding in the community vis-a-vis health requirements, pregnancy test, early breastfeeding behaviour, complementary diet at the proper time and continuity, etc.

Other issues are iron intake and measures related to variety of food to overcome anaemia and monitoring of physical growth of children up to five years, adolescent education, right to nutrition, timely marriage and activities concerning cleanliness and hygiene, an official release said.