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Abstract
Nutritional is a determinant of Physical and mental Health status. Nutrition is a vital factor for girls who are in transformation stage of childhood to adolescent stage. Worldwide there are more than 1.2 billion adolescent; more than half of all adolescents live in Asia and India has the highest adolescent population than any other country. Adolescents face a range of health challenges; contributing to increased morbidity and mortality. Nutritional deficiencies are common in children of developing countries like India although the prevalence is reduced due to various steps taken by the Government and the health care personnel for the prevention and treatment of the same. India has the world’s highest prevalence of iron deficiency anemia among women, with 60 to 70 percent of the adolescent girls being anemic. Adolescence is considered as a nutritionally critical period of life. The pre-pregnancy nutritional status of young girls is important as it impacts on the course and the outcome of their pregnancy. Hence, the health of adolescent girls demands special attention*due to under nutrition affect physical growth of Adolescent. Therefore, it is important to have all level studies to ascertain the nutritional status of adolescents so that appropriate intervention can be taken to render their requirements by the policy makers through proper policy. Hence the researcher took girls in a higher secondary school for studying the nutritional status based on anthropometric measurements. The 67 sample respondents were taken from 13-17 age group interviews with structured interview schedule. The results reveal that the adolescent’s girls are under nutritional status and stunted in their growth. There is need to include this stage of female who are the land for future human capital in framing the Health Policy.