NITI Aayog Launches ‘Sampoornata Abhiyan’ Across India
NITI Aayog launched the ‘Sampoornata Abhiyan’ on Thursday, aiming to achieve 100% saturation of 12 key social sector indicators across all aspirational districts and blocks. The launch events were held in 112 Aspirational Districts and 500 Aspirational Blocks, with enthusiastic participation from district and block-level officials, frontline workers, community leaders, local artists, students, and local representatives from Jammu and Kashmir to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
The Aspirational Districts and Blocks pledged their commitment to the ‘Sampoornata Abhiyan’ by taking the ‘Sampoornata Pledge’. Camps were organized to emphasize the key indicators of the campaign in places like Ratlam and Singrauli in Madhya Pradesh, Udham Singh Nagar in Uttarakhand, and Nuh in Haryana. A health camp in Kurabalakota Mandal, Annamayya District, Andhra Pradesh, was well-received by the local populace.
Hundreds of Asha and Anganwadi workers displayed nutritional varieties of regional food for pregnant women and young children in Baansgaon Block, Gorakhpur District, Uttar Pradesh, and Nirmand Block, Kullu District, Himachal Pradesh. Sampoornata Yatras were organized to create awareness about the campaign’s goals, with school children and NCC Cadets participating in Bhamini block, Parvathipuram Manyam, Andhra Pradesh. Children also supported the program by participating in painting competitions in Block Badhra, District Charkhi Dadri, Haryana.
Other launch activities included cultural programs, nukkad natak, exhibition stalls, and distribution of soil health cards. Chowna Mein, Deputy Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh, launched the campaign at Chowkham Block, Namsai District. In Kiphire, Nagaland, MLA C Kipili Sangatam addressed the launch event. Lamka South block, Churachandpur district, Manipur, organized a free Health Camp on Diabetes and Hypertension.
Over the next three months, district and block officials, along with elected representatives, will organize awareness activities like Gram Sabhas, Nukkad Natak, Paushtik Aahar Mela, Health camps, ICDS camps, Awareness Marches and Rallies, Exhibitions, Poster making, and Poem competitions around 12 themes identified for 100% saturation across all Aspirational Blocks and Districts.
