Rajasthan's Nutrition Warrior Leads Her Village With 'Healthy Mother, Healthy Offspring' Motto
ASHA Worker Nisha Choubisa primarily looks after the health and nutrition of pregnant and lactating mothers and newborns. Her work has received multiple accolades, including a Nutrition Warrior award at the Outlook Poshan Awards, and recognition in 2018 from IPE Global, an Indian-international development consultancy.
As an ASHA worker, Ms Choubisa has been working with the Anganwadi in her village for the last five years and has been making her community aware of health and nutrition. This was of prime importance to her since the nutritional rate of pregnant women and infants in her village was very low when she became a part of the primary healthcare in 2018.
Before joining the health workforce, Ms. Choubisa, an Arts graduate, worked in a private school as a science and English teacher. She calls on a regressive mentality set among villagers as the biggest obstacle to Majawada's success in accessing healthcare facilities. She decided to call it quits and started working as an Anganwadi worker to realise the community's needs.
NDTV in partnership with Luminous has launched an awareness campaign ‘Be A Bijli Donor’ to promote the idea of ‘save power for more power’. The idea is to conserve energy today in order to get more power tomorrow.
We inherently know that saving energy results in low energy bills, but we also need to understand that a unit of energy saved today makes it available for people still living in the dark or facing regular power cuts.
Saving power or conserving energy is about knowing the sources of energy, and areas of wastage and thereby eliminating these through technology and lifestyle changes. For instance, a 100 W (Watt) incandescent (ICL) bulb can be replaced with a 9 W LED bulb offering similar performance in terms of light output, but at far lower consumption of energy.
While a 100 W ICL bulb, used for four hours a day, consumes 146 units of energy per year, a 9 W LED bulb requires only 13.5 units per year. Clearly, switching to LED is a smart choice as it provides the same output while consuming 90 per cent less energy.
The focus of the campaign is to instill the idea of ‘save power for more power’ and in order to do so, the initiative will create awareness about energy efficient products and services, smart ways to reduce power consumption, alternate sources of energy like solar energy and the need to conserve energy. The idea is to address the rising need for energy conservation in India.
As part of the campaign, we will highlight the stories of individuals and organisations who are championing the cause of energy conservation by switching to renewable sources of energy, adopting innovations to reduce energy consumption while enjoying the same output. The initiative will provide a platform for all stakeholders to share their ideas and work towards the common goal of, ‘Save power for more power’.