SCHEME to prevent MAL-NUTRITION in Children,Adolescents,Pregnant Women,Lactating Mothers

The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi yesterday has approved setting up of National Nutrition Mission (NNM) with a three year budget of Rs.9046.17 crore commencing from 2017-18. 

Background:

There are a number of schemes directly/indirectly affecting the nutritional status of children 

(0-6 years age) and pregnant women and lactating mothers. Inspite of these, level of malnutrition and related problems in the country is high. There is no dearth of schemes but lack of creating synergy and linking the schemes with each other to achieve common goal. NNM through robust convergence mechanism and other components would strive to create the synergy.

Implementation strategy and targets:

Implementation strategy would be based on intense monitoring and Convergence Action Plan right upto the grass root level. NNM will be rolled out in three phases from 2017-18 to 2019-20. NNM targets to reduce stunting, undernutrition, anemia (among young children, women and adolescent girls) and reduce low birth weight by 2%, 2%, 3% and 2% per annum respectively. Although the target to reduce Stunting is atleast 2% p.a., Mission would strive to achieve reduction in Stunting from 38.4% (NFHS-4) to 25% by 2022 (Mission 25 by 2022).

Benefits & Coverage: 

More than 10 crore people will be benefitted by this programme. All the States and districts will be covered in a phased manner i.e. 315 districts in 2017-18, 235 districts in 2018-19 and remaining districts in 2019-20.

Features:

1. The NNM, as an apex body, will monitor, supervise, fix targets and guide the nutrition related interventions across the Ministries. 

2. The proposal consists of 

· mapping of various Schemes contributing towards addressing malnutrition 

· introducing a very robust convergence mechanism

 · ICT based Real Time Monitoring system 

· incentivizing States/UTs for meeting the targets 

· incentivizing Anganwadi Workers (AWWs) for using IT based tools 

· eliminating registers used by AWWs 

· introducing measurement of height of children at the Anganwadi Centres (AWCs) 

· Social Audits 

· setting-up Nutrition Resource Centres, involving masses through Jan Andolan for their participation on nutrition through various activities, among others. 

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http://poshanabhiyaan.gov.in/#/