Task Force to Examine Age of Motherhood, Imperatives of lowering MMR& Improving Nutritional Levels

The Ministry for Women and Child Development (WCD) has set up a task force to look into factors that affect Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) among Indian women.

Jaya Jaitly Task Force

  • The task force, headed by Jaya Jaitly, has been mandated with inquiring into matters pertaining to age of motherhood, imperatives of lowering MMR, improvement of nutritional levels and related issues.
  • The task forcecomprises of 10 members.
  • It will examine the correlation of the age of marriage and motherhood with the health, medical wellbeing and nutritional status of the mother and her baby during pregnancy, childbirth and afterwards.
  • It ....
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