V. RIGHTS OF THE CHIU): PREVENllON OF CONGENITAL MENTAL DISABILITIES Serious developniental disabilities are caused to children born in this country due to inadequate attention to certain essential nutritional requirements of expectant mothers, belonging largely to disadvantaged sections of society. The number of those born with neurological disadvantages, permanently affecting their intellectual future, is alarmingly large. The Commission accordingly constituted a Core Group under the leadership of its Chairperson to seek advice in tackling this irrrportant health related human rights issue. The Core Group suggested, inter-alia, the identification of specific Blocks and Districts in the country where the problems are acute and initiation of four pilot projects. 5.1 The Commission has, in this connection, been interactingwith other national institutions 5.2 like the National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad, Pushpawati Singhania Research lnstitute for Liver, Renal arrd Digestive Diseases, New Delhi, and the Ail India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. The Commission considers the problem of nutritionalanaemia affecting the mental development of the foetus and the infant child to be an important human rights issue. It therefore desires that the Centrat and State Governments undertake systemic measures to tackle this problem effectivefy. The Commission has also been considering the possibility of encouraging a pilot project to deal with the question of nutritional anaemia, especially in respect of pregnant women. The National lnstitute of Nutrition, Hyderabad has prepared a pilot project entitled 'Operational Research on Prevention and Control of lron Deficiency Anemia - An Outline' for consideration of the Commission. This is likely to be the subject of a Seminar on Health and Human Rights, with special emphasis on lron Deficiency, to be organized by the Commission.