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Anaemia is a global health problem which affects the health of the people as well as social & economic development. The status of anaemia among the population shows vauation as per age and sex, similarly, their is a changing pattern reported by many studies viz.(Worldwide prevalence of anaemia, 1993–2005). It can be considered as anaemia among tribal and rural adolescent girls can be attributed to poor nutrition as well as lack of awareness in this regard. UNICEF,(2012) reported that in India all around 56% of adolescent girl and 30% of adolescent boy are anaemic. This scenario is more chronic among adolescent of tribal areas which lead to conduct the present anthropological investigation to assess the prevalence of anaemia among adolescent girls aged 10-18 years of Baiga’s of Chhattisgarh, India. To full fil the objectives a total of 360 adolescent girls were purposively selected from three districts Bilaspur, Kabirdham, and Mungeli of Chhattisgarh. The finding reveals that the prevalence of anaemia among Baiga adolescent girls is 94.7% which is lower than the previously studied adolescent girls of different regional area like Jaipur, Andhra Pradesh, and Odisha whereas it was higher than the cluster of studies from Rajasthan, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, and Karnataka. Although, they are also lacking in proper nutrition and suffered many associated health problems which leads to chronical chances for poor level of haemoglobin. It is an alarming indicator and needs to be taken care of to make policies for their children.

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