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The government must identify districts with high prevalence of malnourishment to ensure concrete actions on the ground, a parliamentary panel report has urged.
It has also recommended establishing a ‘Malnutrition Eradication Authority’, latest by June 30, 2021.
In order to ensure that food packets and hot cooked meals under the anganwadi scheme reach the intended beneficiaries, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women and Children, Youth and Sports has mooted that the Ministry “set up a vigilant monitoring mechanism”.
The report also noted that the government is introducing a new technology to improve deliverables under the Poshan Abhiyan, called the Poshan Tracker. This will replace the previous technology being implemented by the government since 2017 with the help of a loan from World Bank.
Uttar Pradesh engages 68,000 groups to facilitate its Take Home Ration scheme
THR, executed by UPSRLM, focuses on children under six months of age, pregnant and lactating women, adolescent girls and severely malnourished children in the age group of six months to six years.
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The self-help groups procure dry ration at the village level and then supply it to around 1.5 lakh Anganwadi centres. (Photo | EPS)
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UTTAR PRADESH: A study published by Lancet Child & Adolescent Health says Uttar Pradesh is among the states with the highest malnutrition levels in the country. The state government has roped in thousands of women self-help groups (SHGs) to facilitate its Take Home Ration (THR) scheme under the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS). These women have been entrusted with providing nutritious ration to the beneficiaries in their villages and blocks.
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First 1000 Days Of Life A ‘Window Of Opportunity’
A focused, targeted approach needed to reach pregnant women and infants, who are at ‘high risk’ of undernutrition.
An undernourished mother is likely to give birth to an undernourished child, resulting in a poor start in life and setting up a life cycle of child undernutrition. Households with pregnant women and children under 24 months of age are at ‘high risk’ of undernutrition. For public health services to catch them right from conception, and regularly follow the mothers/caregivers intensively in the first 1000 days of life for nutritional interventions, is crucial to establish early patterns of positive behavioral change for prevention of maternal and child undernutrition, say India’s nutrition experts.
India’s private sector can help address nutritional gaps during Covid and beyond
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The nation’s nutritional shortfalls cannot be addressed solely by the government; public-private partnerships are pivotal for combating nutrition and food security challenges
The Global Hunger Index 2020, which measures hunger looking at the levels of undernourishment, child wasting, child stunting and child mortality, ranked India at 94 among 107 countries. Also, according to the first-phase data of National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5), India continues to exhibit a high prevalence of malnutrition among children below five.
The aforementioned data highlights the severity of the issue of malnutrition, undernutrition and anaemia in India. Malnutrition can lead to multiple adverse outcomes having wide-ranging impact. It negatively affects not only people’s physical growth, cognitive development and overall capacity, but has also has been identified as one of the principal limitations inhib
Jharkhand: Loan waiver for 9 L farmers, change in land acquisition policy among slew of cabinet decisions
The cabinet also decided to contract ‘suitable and experienced’ manufacturers to supply rations to anganwadis, instead of a government arm doing it. Updated: December 24, 2020 12:11:45 am
Hemant Soren
Loan waiver for 9.07 lakh Jharkhand farmers at a cost of Rs 2000 crore; finding ‘suitable and experienced’ manufactures for anganwadis’ Take Home Ration; shifting from land acquisition to land pooling for infrastructure development in urban areas; and replacing Prime Minister crop insurance scheme with its own – these are some of the key policy decisions approved by the Jharkhand state cabinet Wednesday.