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66 infant deaths in city due to malnutrition : Report

Mumbai, September 15 Last year, after malnourishment surfaced in adivasi padas in Aarey Colony, ICDS along with tribal department started anganwadis and mini anganwadis It took a week and one death of a six-month-old for the Integrated Child Development Service (ICDS) of Woman and Child Development Department to wake up to the fact that there could be malnourished children in the tribal belt of Kandivali's national park area. ICDS will soon survey 13 to 14 padas in that area to start mini anganwadis.

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