Patna: UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake on Tuesday called on Chief Minister Nitish Kumar at his official residence here and assured him of the agency's commitment to work for the well being of women and children in the state.
Lake, who was accompanied by UNICEF country head Karin
Hulshof and Bihar representative Yamin Mazumdar, said UNICEF
would extend all assistance to the state for improvement of
the health and well being of women and children.
He lauded the state government's efforts towards
regular vaccination and polio immunization for children and
health schemes for women and people in rural areas.
Lake also congratulated the chief minister on his
landslide victory in the assembly polls.
PTI
First Published: Tuesday, December 07, 2010, 22:51