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Mumbai: BMC's door-to-door drive to trace, treat malnourished kids

Civic body’s initiative set to kick off by next week; a survey report by an NGO states Mankhurd, Govandi, Malad-Malwani are among areas of concern

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 BMC will start the drive next week. Representation pic

BMC will start the drive next week. Representation pic

Aiming to make the country's financial capital malnutrition-free, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to start a door-to-door drive to find and treat malnutrition cases in the city.

A survey report by NGO Praja, which was done just before the pandemic, highlighted disturbing trends about malnutrition and under-nutrition in the city. Mankhurd, Govandi, Malad-Malwani are few of the areas that have a notable number of malnutrition cases in the city.

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