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Hans India
01-08-2025
- Health
- Hans India
Pravati launches campaign to boost Anganwadi centres
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Deputy Chief Minister Pravati Parida on Wednesday launched a fortnightly campaign aimed at strengthening Anganwadi centres across the State. Parida unveiled the 'Aasa Jiba Anganwadi' campaign, which will run from August 1-15, while inaugurating a State-level capacity building workshop for Child Development Project Officers (CDPOs) here. She appealed to people to visit their nearest Anganwadi centres, assess cleanliness, infrastructure and functioning, and share the feedback for improvement in services. The campaign aligns with the World Breastfeeding Week (August 1-7) and aims to foster community ownership of early childhood development, officials said. 'The strength of our child development efforts lies in the capability of the CDPOs at the grassroots level,' Parida said. She emphasised that Odisha's vision of becoming a malnutrition-free State by 2036 depends on empowering frontline leaders, and CDPOs play a central role in this transformation. During the occasion, she also launched the 'Anganwadi Welfare and Service Oversight Monitoring Everywhere (AWESOME)' app – a digital tool designed to strengthen infrastructure monitoring and service delivery at anganwadi centres. Chief Secretary Manoj Ahuja, speaking at the event, asked the CDPOs to adopt people-centric strategies, noting the central role of health, nutrition and early childhood education in the 'Vision Odisha 2036' framework. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was also signed between the Women & Child Development Department and the National Institute of Public Cooperation & Child Development (NIPCCD) to ensure continuous training and capacity building of Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) officers and staff in Odisha.
New Indian Express
31-07-2025
- Health
- New Indian Express
Odisha launches AWESOME app to monitor anganwadis
BHUBANESWAR: Odisha's vision of becoming a malnutrition-free state by 2036 depends on empowering frontline leaders, mothers and community members, deputy chief minister Pravati Parida said on Wednesday. Addressing over 400 officers at a state-level capacity-building workshop for child development project officers (CDPOs), she said the strength of child development efforts lies in the capability of CDPOs at the grassroots, and they will play a central role in the transformation. The deputy chief minister commended their contribution in the success of the Subhadra scheme and called for stronger women-led development at the local level. She launched the 'Anganwadi Welfare and Service Oversight Monitoring Everywhere' (AWESOME) app on the occasion. This digital tool has been designed to strengthen infrastructure monitoring and service delivery at anganwadi centres. Parida also flagged off the 'Aasa Jiba Anganwadi' (Visit anganwadi centre) campaign, which will run from August 1 to 15. She urged citizens to visit their nearest anganwadi centres, assess cleanliness, infrastructure and functioning, and share their feedback to inform service improvements. The campaign aligns with World Breastfeeding Week (August 1-7) and aims at fostering community ownership of early childhood development. Chief secretary Manoj Ahuja highlighted the central role of health, nutrition and early childhood education in the Vision Odisha 2036 framework and encouraged CDPOs to adopt people-centric strategies. An MoU was also signed between the Women and Child Development department and the National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development (NIPCCD) to ensure continuous training and capacity building of ICDS officers and staff in Odisha. Additional director of NIPCCD Sanghamitra Barik said this partnership would enhance technical knowledge and professional skills at the field level. Principal secretary of Women and Child Development department Shubha Sharma, director Monisha Banerjee and senior officers were present.
Time of India
30-07-2025
- Health
- Time of India
Govt launches app, campaign to enhance child welfare services
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha govt on Wednesday launched the 'AWESOME' app and the 'Aasa Jiba Anganwadi' campaign at a state-level workshop for child development project officers (CDPOs) to strengthen grassroots-level child welfare services. The AWESOME app (Anganwadi Welfare and Service Oversight Monitoring Everywhere) is a digital platform aimed at enhancing real-time monitoring of infrastructure and service delivery at Anganwadi centres. "The strength of our child development efforts lies in the capability of CDPOs at the grassroots level," deputy chief minister Pravati Parida said. She added, "Odisha aims to become a malnutrition-free state by 2036, which depends on empowering frontline leaders and CDPOs play a major role in this transformation." The 'Aasa Jiba Anganwadi' campaign will run from August 1 to 15, during which citizens are urged to visit their nearest Anganwadi centres, assess cleanliness, infrastructure and services and share feedback. The initiative coincides with World Breastfeeding Week (August 1–7) and seeks to promote community participation in early childhood development. Chief secretary Manoj Ahuja encouraged CDPOs to adopt people-centric strategies aligned with 'Vision Odisha 2036'. A memorandum of understanding was signed with the National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development to ensure sustained capacity-building for Integrated Child Development Scheme staff.
News18
30-07-2025
- Health
- News18
Odisha Deputy CM launches campaign to boost anganwadi centres
Bhubaneswar, Jul 30 (PTI) Odisha Deputy Chief Minister Pravati Parida on Wednesday launched a fortnightly campaign aimed at strengthening anganwadi centres across the state. Parida unveiled the 'Aasa Jiba Anganwadi' campaign, which will run from August 1-15, while inaugurating a state-level capacity building workshop for Child Development Project Officers (CDPOs) here. He appealed to people to visit their nearest anganwadi centres, assess cleanliness, infrastructure and functioning, and share the feedback for improvement in services. The campaign aligns with the World Breastfeeding Week (August 1-7) and aims to foster community ownership of early childhood development, officials said. 'The strength of our child development efforts lies in the capability of the CDPOs at the grassroots level," Parida said. She emphasised that Odisha's vision of becoming a malnutrition-free state by 2036 depends on empowering frontline leaders, and CDPOs play a central role in this transformation. During the occasion, she also launched the 'Anganwadi Welfare and Service Oversight Monitoring Everywhere (AWESOME)' app – a digital tool designed to strengthen infrastructure monitoring and service delivery at anganwadi centres. Chief Secretary Manoj Ahuja, speaking at the event, asked the CDPOs to adopt people-centric strategies, noting the central role of health, nutrition and early childhood education in the 'Vision Odisha 2036' framework. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was also signed between the Women & Child Development Department and the National Institute of Public Cooperation & Child Development (NIPCCD) to ensure continuous training and capacity building of Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) officers and staff in Odisha. PTI BBM RBT (This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a syndicated news agency feed - PTI) view comments First Published: July 30, 2025, 20:45 IST Disclaimer: Comments reflect users' views, not News18's. Please keep discussions respectful and constructive. Abusive, defamatory, or illegal comments will be removed. News18 may disable any comment at its discretion. By posting, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
Yahoo
07-04-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
A NASA Experiment Just Supercharged the Northern Lights in Alaska—See Photos
Just when you thought the northern lights couldn't get any more stunning, along comes NASA to crank that dial to an 11. The space agency blasted three sounding rockets above central and northern Alaska during an auroral substorm to study how these substorms impact the Earth's atmosphere. The project, catchily named Auroral Waves Excited by Substorm Onset Magnetic Events (AWESOME), was led by researchers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF). In the first display on March 25, the research team fired a 42-foot rocket over central Alaska and a 70-foot rocket over the Arctic Ocean. Both rockets released their payloads—think ion guages, magnetometers, and vapor chasers; the latter released colorful puffs of gas—during an auroral substorm. The result: a light show producing beautiful blue and purple dashes against a backdrop of green and pink auroras. A third rocket, launched on March 29, created a much different light show thanks to a faulty payload valve. Instead of dotting the sky, there was a stunning double-ring that hung in the night sky in gradients of bright white. 'That ring was spectacular. It was extremely bright and absolutely unmissable,' Mark Conde, a space physics professor at UAF, said in a release. 'Anyone who was outside at the time and looked up would have been treated to a visually, stunning and appealing display in the sky.' Despite the last rocket's beautiful error, the data gathered by the mission was deemed a success. The team will study the results to better understand the dynamics of auroral activity in the upper atmosphere and its potential impact on the orbits of satellite-based devices, like GPS. "These launches are a great accomplishment in the effort to continue to research the impact of auroras and potentially improve space weather forecasting," Aly Mendoza-Hill, a program executive at NASA, said. Read the original article on Travel & Leisure
