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more-inThe Ernakulam district panchayat has launched a programme to identify nutritional deficiency in children based on scientific evidence and adopt corrective measures based on it. The district panchayat introduced the programme on realising the importance of a scientific basis for addressing the nutritional deficiencies. Twenty children were found to have serous nutritional deficiencies when the details of children from 17 grama panchayats in the district were fed into the software. It is for the first time a district panchayat is implementing such a programme in the State. District Panchayat President Asha Sanil inaugurated the programme here on Saturday..