Hailakandi: Hailakandi deputy commissioner Adil Khan has asked people to actively participate in the Partnerships and Opportunities to Strengthen and Harmonize Actions for Nutrition (Poshan) campaign to make the district malnutrition-free by 2022.

The programme was launched in Hailakandi district on Sunday.

Flagging off a Poshan awareness rally on his office premises, Khan said the campaign aims to reduce stunting, achieve improvement in nutritional status of children till the age of six, adolescent girls, pregnant women and lactating mothers over three years, commencing from 2017-18.

Khan made a clarion call to the people of the district to actively participate in the campaign to make the district free from malnutrition by 2022. "The Poshan campaign needs to evolve as a mass movement. From being a project of the government, it has to become a project of the people. It is our social responsibility to be a part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's overarching scheme for holistic nutrition for a malnutrition-free India," he said.

Khan exuded optimism that robust convergence of various nutrition-related schemes and other components will help create the synergy to achieve the common goal of a malnutrition-free India.

Additional deputy commissioner Amalendu Roy also spoke on the occasion. Circle officers Tridip Roy, Madhumita Nath, officials of district social welfare and line departments were present.

Scores of accredited social health activists, supervisors, nurses and Anganwadi workers took part in the rally that traversed through the main thoroughfares of Hailakandi before winding up at the deputy commissioner's office complex.