The Rajmata Jijau Mother-Child Health & Nutrition Mission was constituted
by Government Resolution dated 11th March 2005 issued by the Department of Women & Child Development, Government of Maharashtra.
The Mission has as its primary objective the reduction of grade-III and grade-IV malnutrition in children in the 0-6 age group in the State
of Maharashtra.
Complementary objectives include:
ensuring provision of neo-natal care to pregnant women, new-born care and special focus on health;
nutrition and complete immunisation of children in the 0-3 age group
(in effect, focus on the entire period from the stage of conception to the time the child is three years old);
reduction of grade-I & grade-II malnutrition in the State;
assisting the Public Health Department in provision of training for implementation of the IMNCI and home-based new-born care
programmes on a pilot basis in selected primary health centres (PHCs);
focus on the education of adolescent girls to reduce the incidence of child marriages and promote spacing between children;
making efforts to bring about social transformation through participation of the community so that the responsibility for
nutrition management is transferred from the government to civil society.
20 March, 2009
Rajmata Jijau Mother-Child Health & Nutrition Mission
First Floor, "Bhaskarayan", Plot No. 7 E/1, Town Centre, CIDCO,
Aurangabad - 431 003 India
