Palakkad: At existing, there are no malnutrition challenges among the the tribal inhabitants in Attapadi as the food protection programmes launched by the authorities are “working effectively” in the area, P Sathidevi, chairperson of Kerala Women’s Commission explained after a two-day pay a visit to to some of the hamlets in the tribal settlement exactly where 4 toddler fatalities were noted not long ago.
Inaugurating an awareness marketing campaign to make certain human rights to tribespeople at Kerala Institute of Area Administration (Kila) in Agali, the chairperson explained the tribespeople “are receiving more than enough food items from group kitchen and anganwadis”. “These programmes have been identified to be performing very effectively,” she reported.
“However, it is unpleasant to know that infant fatalities are still having spot in Attapadi. The commission will propose the authorities to perform a survey on health issues confronted by the tribespeople,” she said.
She reported that the fee is aiming to set up Jagratha Samithis at the ward-level to watch human legal rights violations and domestic violence.
“The tribal welfare schemes are becoming extremely correctly executed in Attapadi and there are no severe troubles right here that cannot be solved,” she claimed.
“The life-style of tribespeople really should also transform. The commission members have identified that most of them, like gals, are addicted to liquor and tobacco. They need to be brought again to agriculture to ensure source of conventional foods like millets,” she reported.
The fee chairperson was accompanied by associates MS Thara and Shahida Kamal and district panchayat president K Binumol.