<p class="title">Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Friday asked Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani to prepare a diet chart for pregnant women and provide it to all members for circulation in their respective constituencies.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"We should make a collective effort to end malnutrition in the country. If we can create a mass movement to end malnutrition in the country...I hope it will be eradicated by the last session of this (17th) Lok Sabha," he said during Question Hour.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He also expected that all MPs will spread mass awareness on this issue in their respective constituencies.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The minister should make a region-specific diet chart for pregnant women and circulate this to MPs and a collective effort be made in this regard," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In a reply to a question, Irani said the quality of food is more important than quantity.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"It is an illusion that malnourishment is only limited to poor families or tribal areas. It is across the country," she said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It has been reflected by the NITI Aayog data, she said, adding only 9 per cent of the population is getting the right kind of nourishing food.</p>
<p class="title">Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Friday asked Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani to prepare a diet chart for pregnant women and provide it to all members for circulation in their respective constituencies.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"We should make a collective effort to end malnutrition in the country. If we can create a mass movement to end malnutrition in the country...I hope it will be eradicated by the last session of this (17th) Lok Sabha," he said during Question Hour.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He also expected that all MPs will spread mass awareness on this issue in their respective constituencies.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The minister should make a region-specific diet chart for pregnant women and circulate this to MPs and a collective effort be made in this regard," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In a reply to a question, Irani said the quality of food is more important than quantity.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"It is an illusion that malnourishment is only limited to poor families or tribal areas. It is across the country," she said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It has been reflected by the NITI Aayog data, she said, adding only 9 per cent of the population is getting the right kind of nourishing food.</p>