New Delhi, Sept. 25 -- When Bihar's Kurmaha village-based Lalmati Devi, a rural labourer from an impoverished background, attended sessions on health and nutrition through a self-help group she's associated with, what followed was the planting of a nutri-garden -- a key provision of the ongoing nutrition month ('Poshan Mah') to promote better nutrition -- leading her to feed homegrown nutritious food to both her family and community. 'Poshan didi', as she came to be known, became an icon of good health achieved through nutrition, at the very grassroots level where talks of community-led health initiatives are a far cry.
Leading positive nutritional change in the country's hinterland is Jeevika, the Bihar Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society...