Nutrition, Education, Sanitation Key to Realising 'Viksit Bharat 2047' Vision: Akshaya Patra CEO
मुख्य बातें
- •Integrated focus on nutrition, education, sanitation, and hygiene is vital for achieving "Viksit Bharat 2047".
- •Educating girl children has a generational impact, breaking cycles of poverty and malnutrition.
- •Nutrition plays a crucial role in school attendance and academic performance.
- •Public-private partnerships are essential to scale interventions in underserved regions.
- •India’s demographic dividend can be leveraged through quality education and health initiatives.
New Delhi, June 10 — The CEO of Akshaya Patra, Shridhar Venkat, has emphasised that a coordinated approach to nutrition, education, sanitation and hygiene is essential to achieve Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of a “Viksit Bharat” (Developed India) by 2047. Speaking at an NDTV conclave on Tuesday, Venkat highlighted how these four pillars can collectively uplift communities and accelerate national development.
Venkat drew from his organisation’s decade-long experience in providing mid-day meals to over 2 million school children across 15 states and two union territories. He stressed that when a girl child is educated, the transformation ripples across generations, breaking cycles of poverty and malnutrition. “When you educate a girl child, you transform generations,” he remarked, underscoring the multiplier effect of investing in girls' education.
