Abstract
The health and nutritional status of the children is an index of the National investment in the development of its future manpower. The national policies and schemes for children have received supreme importance in national development programmes. These have laid down programmes to provide optimum conditions for balanced growth of the countrys children the highest priority being given to child health. Most of the work that has been conducted on nutritional status of children is limited to infants and preschool children only. There is dearth of information on nutritional status of school going children particularly from rural areas of Punjab. Whatever data is available on this age group is confined to one small area or location only. But none of the studies is available on inter-zonal differences in nutritional status of children (9-11 yrs.) particularly children living in different agro-climatic zones of Punjab. (excerpt)
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