Growth monitoring using the Road to health card and provision of 1500 extra calories through a midday meal are important programmes. This is provided through Day Care Centers. 

Commuties are now realizing the importance of maintaining an equal ratio of men and women in a community, otherwise violence against women will increase when the sex ratio declines. Further, human rights of women will not only be violated but communities will have to seek brides in other villages. NIRPHAD won accolades at the World Health Congress for its poster on "Who determines the sex of the child?- the father". This enabled the staff to explain to the family elders that women should not be blamed if they cannot conceive a male child.