According to the health department authorities, the tablets are being distributed in urban as well as rural areas of every district in the state.

Previously, the programme was implemented to curb night blindness in children, but now it has been extended to avoid complications in children having measles, pneumonia and diarrhoea, said Dr Vikas Desai, Additional Director Health and Family Welfare, Gujarat.

The tablets are distributed twice every year to children irrespective of their urban and rural status, said health authorities. Dr Desai said the figures in this regard would be

announced in the last week of March, as the distribution is still underway.

Dr Ravindra Patel, Vadodara district Reproductive and Child Health Officer, however, said there are around 2,19,200 children in the age group of one to