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- A board responsible for providing technical and logistical support for functioning of community nutrition programmes has been "officially dissolved" as part of a plan for rationalisation of government bodies.
- The Food and Nutrition Board has been shut down by the Women and Child Development (WCD) Ministry.
- It was a technical wing of the ministry headquartered at the Centre in Delhi.
- The board had a wide network of offices, including four regional offices and as many quality control laboratories in Faridabad, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai.
- The FNB was originally established under the agriculture ministry but later transferred to the WCD ministry in 1993.
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