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Demonetisation effect: Cash-starved anganwadis struggle to feed children

There is a trace of pride in Nisha Chaurasiya’s voice as she complains of how she and her co-workers in an anganwadi in Rajnandgaon district of Madhya Pradesh struggled to provide food to babies and children, and to expectant women, since demonetisation took effect on November 8. “The self-help groups borrowed money from everybody, stood in bank queues, pleaded with officials and even spent from their own meagre savings to […]