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NEW DELHI: Indira Gandhi National Open University has launched a special pilot project for training 1,000 anganwadi workers of the Vidisha district in Madhya Pradesh. The announcement was made by IGNOU Vice-Chancellor Prof. V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai in the Capital on Sunday. United Nation Children Education Fund has agreed to finance the project and provide necessary technical support. Vidisha has been selected in view of high incidence of malnutrition. The project is likely to be launched in 30 districts of the State, he added. A tripartite memorandum of understanding between IGNOU, UNICEF and the Madhya Pradesh Department of Women and Children Development was signed for imparting continuous training to improve skills of field level functionaries. IGNOU will develop the course material, printing and production of audio and video as well as teleconferencing, providing and fixing a time slot in the television and radio programmes under the channel Gyan Darshan and Gyan Vani. This project would be a pilot training programme without involving the dislocation of the functionaries from their respective areas of operations. There would be a project cell to monitor and coordinate various activities at the Bhopal Regional Centre of IGNOU. The components of the proposed training project is community health, infant care, innovative ways to combat malnutrition, nutrition during pregnancy, special needs of adolescent girls, special issues of women empowerment violence against women, immunisations and water purification among others.
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